u/MorganPG1

I'm 15, made this mostly over a few days even though I technically started about 2 weeks ago. Here's the code https://github.com/MorganPG1/py-dmg-emu Yes I know it's a terrible emulator, I'm still kinda proud because I made it but i feel like I should be more proud than I am but I also hate when people say I'm good at stuff because I always feel bad at it for some reason so I think I'm just hard to please (ignore this random vent mb). It's not fully fleshed out, I've still gotta make an APU and finish off the PPU, and add SRAM and all the other MBCs, the list of unfinished stuff goes on and on.. I'm not sure if I'll do all those things, adding audio will probably make it even slower. But it works, it runs pokemon, so im happy.

I'm currently rewriting it in C (cpu is done but not much else), has anyone got some ideas of other emulation projects I can do, should I go backwards and write a chip 8 emulator for the fun of it, should I write a gameboy emulator in as many languages as possible, are there any other somewhat simple projects I can make that are harder but not too much difficult?

Anyway, it was really fun to make and that's all that matters imo.

I like making friends, I have some programming friends and I'm in an instagram group chat someone posted recently but I like meeting more people.

If you are near the same age as me (15), preferably also in a similar timezone to me (GMT+0, or technically GMT+1 currently because it's summer) and you want to chat feel free to add me on discord (@morganpgyt) or comment any alternatives you prefer.

My github account is: https://github.com/MorganPG1 if you want to check out some of my projects. A lot of my code is either in private repos or on my hard drive and a lot of it has gone missing over the years (i started "coding" when i was 7 even though it was just terrible batch scripts, i first properly started coding when i was 8/9 (i dont remember which) in lua and when i was 10 in python, so you can imagine a lot of that has been lost since then.) So you can only really see a glimpse of my actual code, but the code that's public is the code i'm proud of most. Feel free to roast it or whatever idk (i know the code in gb-dmg-emu is messy af i still need to clean it up but im currently working on a rewrite of it in C so i'm focusing on that more).

Hello, i recently obtained this laptop for fairly cheap, the only issue I've found is that I cannot get the internal speakers to make any sound, i can get sound through the external port but not the internal speakers. I measured both speakers and got 8 ohm so i think they are fine but I can't figure out how to force the audio to go through the internal speakers rather than the external ones

This is the first working xp laptop I've found (i have been gifted a broken dell from same era previously but the part that was broken was discontinued and incredibly expensive and would have cost me way too much to fix).

I love old laptops since unlike most newer laptops, they all have their own unique designs. I also have an Acer laptop which did originally run vista but is currently running Linux mint because I was experimenting with the builtin ir sensor, I can't be bothered to get it out right now though.

This one seems to work (mostly) fine, I'm still trying to get sound to work, i might need Sony proprietary software for it to work but I'm not quite sure, I've already downloaded the drivers for it but it seems the speakers are meant to be controlled with the fn keys which don't do anything so I think i need to reinstall from the factory image which I think I've been able to find (i also dumped the hdd before I reinstalled the os in case I needed drivers from it).

I paid about £10 for this which is quite a good deal, it's hard to find laptops from this age for cheap outside of charity shops and bootfairs since people on ebay just think old/retro means rare and sell them for upwards of 50 quid when, if we are being honest, these are pretty much junk outside of people like me and probably others here who like collecting them.

Bought this thing for £20 at a boot fair (idk what that's called in other countries but pretty much place where a bunch of people sell random stuff, it's usually in a field). Not sure if that's the best deal or not but it came with controllers (have to fix one when I get time because battery leaked and rusted contacts 😑) and the power brick so i thought it was worth it. I already modded it and I've been playing it for like a few days now and it's so great, i havent played on a wii since I was like 7. I also helped my mate mod his wii u so we could play Mario kart multiplayer which has been a blast.

Any suggestions for other cool stuff I can do with this would be appreciated.