My semi-lucid ramblings which get shouted into the void (ie. a somewhat monthly journal).
But Why?#
Well… why not?
The less sarcastic answer is that I’m human, and have a tendency to forget things that happen to me.
I want to create a memory palace so that I have something to look back on once I’m older. These writings serve that purpose.
These journal entries also serve the dual purpose of letting me document longer running projects of mine. Hopefully, having an imminent deadline of writing a substantial monthly post motivates me to stop procrastinating.
The good news: I managed to make progress on some of the goals I set for myself last month.
The bad news: I didn’t get as far along as I thought I would since I got… distracted.
Here are the things that I made progress on:
GBA Emulator: I did neither the ARM CPU implementation nor the PPU. What I did do was
finish up the address space mapping (ie. I transcribed the register masks from GBATek into C++ source) setting up the memory access system of the emulator (each piece of hardware gets an ID, and each address in memory grants read/write access to only certain IDs) integrating the desktop GUI framework (imgui) and refactoring the codebase to separate the core emulator functionality from the UI (this allows me to build for both desktop via imgui and the web via emscripten) Maybe this time, I’ll actually implement the CPU instruction set and PPU like I said I would?...