Dev emulates Motorola 6502 directly on Jev, running short programs in real time
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-19
Quoting a thread on the Jev hype: a developer skips the middleman and makes Jev itself act as the "computer," emulating a Motorola 6502 and running whole (very) short programs in real time.
- Took hill-climbing to figure out instruction phrasing and the data shape
- Still gets it wrong occasionally versus a programmatic emulator reference, and suspects that would be a problem on longer-running programs
- Video is unsped-up, real-time inference
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