Working on a little 3D racing game called Trackminia

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

IIRC it is a simple as having to choose where to invest the limited development resources.

It was thought the chasing accuracy in Simulator (which is not an emulator) may not the best use of dev time.

One or more third party developers were working on actual emulation but not heard anything in a while.

Cranked - A very early Playdate emulator that can load and run native or Lua programs

I've been working on this project for a couple months and finally got it to a state where all of the API functions are mapped/stubbed out and it can run basic graphical programs. A large amount of functionality isn't present at all yet such as sprites and audio, but most of the underlying structure has been created. It loads Playdate hardware compatible PDX directories, whether developed using the Lua API or the C API, and executes them as if on actual hardware. A virtual address space was crea…

How to Emulate Playdate (Arm) with QEMU

This will be useful to you if you're testing Arm-specific code (like assembly, or a JIT), and you would like a proper debugger. (If you only code in Lua, then this likely isn't relevant to you.) I did this on Linux, but QEMU is cross platform, so it should work anywhere, as long as you're using an x86 or x86_64 machine (I don't know about M1). Please note that this guide is still WIP, and I haven't even completed the final step myself (though for many purposes, the first N-1 steps ought to suff…