Starting up

A week ago I got a strange urge. I had cleaned up some in my computer collection room and when I was looking at some of my computers I realized that it probably would be very fun to write a computer emulator from scratch. This blog will all be about that.

My first computer, which I got when I was about 8 years old, was an Oric 1. It is a small computer from the company Tangerine Computer Systems. What computer could be a better target for an emulator than my first computer? The goal with this project is to once again play Scuba Diver and Hunchback, like I did 25 years ago. I know that there already are several emulators for this machine, for example Euphoric, but that doesn't matter. I want to do this all for the joy of doing it!

In this blog I will summarize what I learn on the road. I will write about ideas, problems, solutions and tricks that I find. I hope that it might be of some value for other people that get the strange idea that it would be fun to write an emulator.