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Sim2600
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gregjames / Sim2600

Sim2600

Visual6502.org transistor-level simulation of the Atari 2600 game console

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
175GitHub stars
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Visual6502.org transistor-level simulation of the Atari 2600 game console

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Observed mentions: 2015-05-17 19:01:07 UTC to 2018-05-24 01:27:05 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Still has lots of edge cases, but the documentation and reverse engineering work is far ahead of the Game Boy. ...to the point where there are transistor-level simulations of the CPU and PPU: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/ https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Visual_2C02 The only other game console I'm aware of a public transistor-level simulation for is the much more limited Atari 2600: https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600
In Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/nmosFet.py , https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/circuitSimu... It looks like they're only working with logic levels, rather than "actual" device simulation. It's reasonably common in the digital IC crowd to call this "transistor-level", but indeed, it's not what most EEs usually call a transistor-level simulation (where one would actually expect the behaviour to be modelled down to the behaviour of a transistor). If we insist on jargon, this is actually a switch-level simulation.
In Transistor-level simulation of the Atari 2600 (2014)

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