- 'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core).
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/cpu/...
by throwaway_2494
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- Rapid development of a cycle accurate Intellivision emulator, much of it unsupervised. (four part series)
https://keanw.com/2026/03/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/04/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/04/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
https://keanw.com/2026/05/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-...
- some vague hint about what the article is about before clicking on it would be.. nice.
by throw0101a
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- For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day
- I thought it was about Renaud' song _Laisse béton_
https://genius.com/Renaud-laisse-beton-lyrics
- The blog mentions a Graphing Calculator. Not sure if it shares code, but macOS still ships with an app to draw graphs, Grapher.app
- I am doing a very similar thing right now, which is adding a JIT to both Basilisk and SheepShaver: https://github.com/rcarmo/macemu - on the PPC side, we're still poking at some hardware registers that the Quadra ROMs like to noodle in.
by sourcecodeplz
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- 403 forbidden
- A perfect example of a coding agent guided by a human with domain knowledge.
- "I does not boot and it makes me sad"
I actually write prompts like that when I'm not under pressure. Claude will sometimes completely ignore your feelings, and sometimes give a little comment, which I just find refreshing in the middle of otherwise often boring sessions. And it does not have an effect on the actual result.
- you forgot to say 'please'
- It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.
- Asta la vista baby
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