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Alexander Dickson

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Alexander Dickson's personal blog at blog.alexanderdickson.com covers programming and games. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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Why HN links it

Linked in comments as posts on writing JavaScript emulators: a NES emulator, a Chip-8 emulator (one more hand-holding, one less), and a planned part 2. The comments do not judge the writing.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. I recently posted about emulating the NES with JavaScript. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-nes-emulator-par... Part 2 will be posted when it's done. :) If you want to get something done much quicker, have a go at emulating the Chip-8 VM. I also have a post, but it's less hand-holding than the first. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-8-emulator Good luck!

    Comment linking /javascript-chip-8-emulator

    on “Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript”
  2. Submitted Moving to Germany as an Australian (2016) as a story · 105 points

    HN discussion
  3. I wrote a post about creating a Chip-8 emulator in JavaScript, if JS is your thing. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-eight-emula...

    Comment linking /javascript-chip-eight-emulator

    on “Fergulator - NES emulator, written in Go”
  4. Submitted How To Write an NES Emulator in Javascript. Part 1 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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