[HN Gopher] Sprites mods - A tiny Pinball Fantasies table
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       Sprites mods - A tiny Pinball Fantasies table
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 74 points
       Date   : 2022-07-22 07:35 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spritesmods.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spritesmods.com)
        
       | jdright wrote:
       | Ok, where can I buy this?
        
       | tipoftheiceberg wrote:
       | Big pinball fan and collector. This is the coolest thing I've
       | seen in a while
        
       | kaoD wrote:
       | Sprite_tm has been my all-time favorite hardware hacker, and he
       | inspired me to pursue a hobby on electronics after witnessing
       | years of superb hacks on SpritesMods.
       | 
       | Make sure to check out the rest of his site, you will not be
       | disappointed!
        
       | blamazon wrote:
       | Really cool project, I didn't know x86 emulation was possible on
       | the Espressif platform. I had a chuckle at this from page 2
       | regarding an earlier attempt to piece wise translate the x86
       | assembly to C:
       | 
       | > "Unfortunately, it turns out this is not that easy. First of
       | all, while impressive, the code is a product of who wrote it and
       | the standards at that time: it's a mess of global variables,
       | macros, comments in Swedish, English and some German, labels that
       | are in-jokes rather than descriptive... Don't get me wrong, this
       | is not a dig at the good people from TSP; most of it was pretty
       | standard at that time and as a demo group I can imagine them
       | wanting to have some fun with it. Nevertheless, all that makes it
       | a pretty complicated job to translate part-wise to C."
       | 
       | Sprite_tm is one of my favorite electronic hacker-bloggers, I
       | recommend to check out the other pages on their site if you like
       | this.
        
         | MisterTea wrote:
         | > I didn't know x86 emulation was possible on the Espressif
         | platform.
         | 
         | It's probably possible on any platform given enough ram to fit
         | the code. Years ago someone emulated Arm on a propeller chip
         | and booted ubuntu (web log or private page so might be lost to
         | time). Took something like 15 or 30 minutes to get to a prompt
         | as the emulation was slow.
        
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