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The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
BiscuitBadger 15 hours ago [-]
https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

Similar project, gate level emulation of NES CPU+PPU by the Nesticle author Icer Addis.

An entire world in a scanline

flohofwoe 8 hours ago [-]
Shameless plug: I wrote a 'remix' a couple of years ago over a Christmas break using WASM+WebGL+DearImGui with better rendering performance, integrated assembler and a couple visualization tools (using the visual6502 team's original reverse engineered netlist data, and https://github.com/mist64/perfect6502 as simulation loop):

- 6502: https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/

- Z80: https://floooh.github.io/visualz80remix/

- 2A03 (this was contributed): https://floooh.github.io/visual2a03remix/

- source code: https://github.com/floooh/v6502r

(the simulation generally runs throttled to 1 half-clock-cycle per frame, so don't use it as any sort of benchmark)

ColdStream 15 hours ago [-]
It is a fun way to benchmark your system. I managed to get 4.1hz on my 13th gen i5 work laptop.

Let's see an M-series chip blow that out of the water. ;)

EDIT - It was 4.1Hz in advance mode. Actually runs at between 22Hz and 44hz depending on each time I run it. Odd to have such a wide performance variation. I will just blame Windows and some power management setting/thermal throttling.

flenserboy 12 hours ago [-]
M4 Max, Brave — 93Hz highest, usually around 90Hz. On Advanced it started at 22Hz & steadily dropped from there into the single digits as it ran. Safari held around 62.xHz. On Advanced it started at 40Hz & also kept dropping.
jandrese 15 hours ago [-]
My very old i5-3570K on Firefox 153 is running this at 17.5Hz. I'm not sure why a much newer chip would be dramatically slower.
AnnikaL 14 hours ago [-]
I got 22-33Hz on an AMD Ryzen 7640U on power-save mode and 50-55Hz on performance mode.
djmips 15 hours ago [-]
I'm seeing 34 Hz on a Ryzen 7 3600X 3.6 Ghz with Chrome. 47 Hz in Firefox.
wvenable 15 hours ago [-]
70hz to 75hz on 12th Gen Core i7-12700

Get about 10 more hz in Firefox than in Chrome which was unexpected.

ErroneousBosh 3 hours ago [-]
Linux, Core i7-8700, Firefox, GTX1650, nothing special, and I'm getting 45-55Hz out of it.

So you're probably not far off. I can't imagine more modern chips than mine would run it significantly faster, none of the "tweaks" would help here.

va3ndf 15 hours ago [-]
88Hz on the M4 Pro
andrehacker 14 hours ago [-]
I concur with that number for Chrome, then 70 Hz with Firefox 62 Hz with Safari
ColdStream 14 hours ago [-]
There it is, about 4 times faster than my machine. The single core performance of the M-series is something special.
andrehacker 12 hours ago [-]
So, yeah, this is wonderful since the ARM architecture (Acorn Risc Machine) is arguably derived from the 6502 by Sophie Wilkins and Steve Furber at Acorn Computers.
ThrowawayTestr 13 hours ago [-]
60Hz on my phone
elzbardico 14 hours ago [-]
85Hz M3 Max
phoghed 14 hours ago [-]
62Hz on an iPhone 15 Pro
esikich 13 hours ago [-]
Pixel 6 - 40-50Hz
p808 12 hours ago [-]
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phs318u 9 hours ago [-]
High 60's to 70 on a Firefox|Fedora|Ryzen AI 9 HX.
timmg 14 hours ago [-]
I wish these guys would have released this amazing looking 6502 in circuits: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2016/6502/
SomeHacker44 12 hours ago [-]
Agree. I would pay for it.
jagged-chisel 12 hours ago [-]
I haven’t followed progress, but they did say it would likely cost $2k-$4k if they ever produced them to sell.
malkia 14 hours ago [-]
Well I've played the 6502 simulator as a kind on my 6502 Apple ][ clone :) :) :)

youtube.com/watch?si=XuNgnVc4rf86nIgA&t=42

it should'be available here to play online too (but haven't tried it)

https://archive.org/details/257_Educational_Software_The_650...

wang_li 13 hours ago [-]
The emulator on that page gets an error when booting, but I think the content is the same as this:

https://archive.org/details/riag_004_051_-_MECC_Assembly_Lan...

Which was awesome as a kid to finally see what was "going on" inside there.

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