by geedubb
28. March 2009 09:49
Pete Brown has just released a C64 emulator in Silverlight 3 Beta. It brings back many happy memories from the 80's:
http://silverlightc64.codeplex.com/
It's really at an early prototype stage but shows off some of the new bitmap level manipulation properties available in Silverlight 3. At the moment is is far from optimised and requires a fat CPU to run properly. Cunningly it actually generates video using the new (in SL3) enhanced MediaStreamSource, which can also be used to generate audio at runtime. Plenty of scope for browser (or out of browser!) based applications for software synths etc. In fact that gives me an idea: rebirth or fruity loops as a browser app anyone?
You can watch a demo of the emulator over at Channel 9:
http://tinyurl.com/c93aso
I'm already looking forward to an Amiga version ;)
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