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Panayiotis Talianos
Type devroom
How emulating a system can inspire you to improve as an engineer (no 3-wolf-moon shirt necessary)
Starts on day 1 (2021-02-06) at 13:30 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Emulator (duration 00:30)
Matrix room #emulator:fosdem.org
Even to this day, there's something utterly captivating about bringing to life a piece of software effectively frozen in time, designed to run on what was originally a black box, by means of a device that one uses to check up on cat facts. Adding to this, it can even be enhanced and possibly perform better than its developers ever hoped for.
If you also got to play around with your first computer in the early 2000s, chances are that console emulators were amongst the first pieces of software you've ever run on a computer. Submitting this talk was an endeavour to explore this unexplainable (
It will also highlight how emulation development is more accessible today compared to the early days of the likes of PSEmu Pro, Project64 and NO$GMB - thanks, in no small part, to the FOSS community.