FOSDEM Emulator Development Room

Previous FOSDEM's


How do you write an emulator anyway ?	Anisse Astier
Panda3DS: Climbing the tree of 3DS emulation	Paris Oplopoios
Breathing Life into Legacy: An Open-Source Emulator of Legacy Apple Devices	Martijn de Vos
CONFEDSS: Concolic execution and the puzzling practice of peripheral emulation	Jeffrey Rongen & Luke Serné
Arm64EC: Microsoft's emulation Frankenstein	Peter Cawley


Learn 8-bit machine language with the Toy CPU emulator An emulator in the style of the Altair 8880 or IMSAI 8080	Jim Hall
7 things I learned about old computers, via emulation (p.s. it's not about games)	Steven Goodwin
Pushing the PSP Emulating Dreamcast and DS on PSP	Daniel Welch
An introduction into AMD/Xilinx libsystemctlm-soc	Francisco Iglesias
Emulator development in Java	Neil Coffey
OpenCSD, simple and intuitive computational storage emulation with QEMU and eBPF After all, why not turn your computer into a distributed system?	Corne Lukken
Understanding the Bull GAMMA 3 first generation computer through emulation	Christophe Ponsard
I made a GameBoy emulator to learn about computers. And now I work with them... A brief personal journey in emulator development (with a sprinkle of Rust and WebAssembly)	German Gomez


Testing Macromedia director in ScummVM	Roland van Laar
Z80: the last secrets Microarchitectural leaks, 45 years later	Anisse Astier
CANCELLED Debugging Strategies for Emulator Developers Are bugs a form of artificial life?	Stefanos Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis
PlayStation 3 Emulation (Re)implementing the impossible	Alexandro Sanchez Bach
Fuzzing, or How I Generated 1,000,000 New Processor Test Cases in an Afternoon Fill your boots. Then fill somebody else's.	Thomas Harte
SquirrelJME, Java Flip Phone Emulation Preserving the history of obsolete cellular devices	Stephanie Gawroriski
Static and Dynamic Analysis for Automatic Emulator Configuration Or: Not asking the user so many damn questions.	Thomas Harte
A Venix/86 emulator A step in recreating Venix/86 Sources	Warner Losh
FEX-Emu: Fast(-er) x86 emulation for AArch64 How we're creating a better gaming experience on ARM	Ryan Houdek


Dragging MAME into the 21st century Practicalities of a large project with two decades of history	Vasantha Crabb
The PlayStation 2: From Emotion to Emulation Celebrating 20 Years of Reverse Engineering	Gauvain Roussel-Tarbouriech
Emulation 101: How anyone can do it	Steven Goodwin
Do you even emulate, (Super Mario) bro? How emulating a system can inspire you to improve as an engineer (no 3-wolf-moon shirt necessary)	Panayiotis Talianos
Emulating the full NTSC stack Creating objective video artefacts	Thomas Harte
libretro: One API to Bring Them All An overview of RetroArch, libretro, and the modularization it brings to the table	Rob Loach
The Ides of RISC-V A vectorized Caesar cipher written in RISC-V assembler and tested in an emulator	Will Hawkins
'Cycle-perfect' is an imperfect marketing term All about buses	Thomas Harte
Compute Express Link in QEMU Driver Development for Fashionably Late Hardware	Ben Widawsky
Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 1/3 Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 2/3 Best Little Emulator Ever Made! - part 3/3 + Live Q&A	Randal Linden