This web site exists to document my adventures in writing software emulators for old computer hardware. So far, I have completed (sort of) a Commodore PET emulation and am working on a Sinclair Spectrum emulation.
Recent Posts
Swiftvolution – Candidate Factories
More on the Generational Evolution Engine The generational evolution engine is a simple evolution engine that evolves things in generations. The basic algorithm is as follows: Create initial population Evaluate initial population while termination condition not met select parents of next generation evolve children from parents evaluate children The basics of the generational evolution engine … Continue reading Swiftvolution – Candidate Factories
Swiftvolution
I had an idea, which is that it might be interesting to develop an evolution model for bots that can play pong. I imagined that the strategy would be evolved and eventually, you would get a more or less perfect player. Leaving aside the fact that this requires me to develop or reuse a pong … Continue reading Swiftvolution
Data Structures and Data Caches – part 1
I came across a presentation on Youtube by Bjarne Soustrup in which he claimed that linked lists are usually the wrong data structure. As an example he used the following You have a random stream of N integers You have to insert each one in turn in the right place in a list to make … Continue reading Data Structures and Data Caches – part 1
Synchronising the Screen
At the end of my previous post, the spectrum was at the point where it would boot up and display the Sinclair copyright statement on the screen. Nothing else would happen and, indeed, you had to manually force the screen to refresh to get anything at all to display. Since then, it has now been … Continue reading Synchronising the Screen
