Mar
8
2009
I have been working for a week in a project for iPhone and iPod Touch.
I ported the Chip-8 Emulator I already did for J2ME enabled cell phones to the Apple handhelds.
Chip-8 is an interpreted programming language used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s.
I decided to release the emulator completely free, bundled with several public domain games!! Get it from here.

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Jul
18
2008
One of my current projects consists in building and old arcade cabinet entirely from scratch.
This would be a long process. I am planning to buy wood panels and cut them off to form the cabinet based on the blueprints I am finishing off.
I have the controls already ordered at Ultimarc, and I am currently preparing the computer I’m going to bundle inside the cabinet.
I have also a 21” CRT TV happily waiting to be dismantled and connected to the cabinet
For running roms I’m using Mame, of course, apart of some other good emulators for Sega and Nintendo game consoles.
Paired with Mame I’m using Mamewah, which is a Mame front-end that let you browse your rom list with the arcade controls, rather than with a keyboard and a mouse. It let you use other emulators as well, so we can select any rom, from any emulator we have installed, without leaving Mamewah.
In the following posts I will be explaining each step of the construction of the cabinet.
Wish me luck

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