The Frob #Atari2600 #GameDev system for #Apple2 now Emulated in MAME!
32Not only has the Frob #Atari2600 #Gamedev System for #Apple2 been #reveng, Golden Child from #MAMEDEV has emulated it in MAME!
Wow, two surprises this month! Not only were Bradley Bell, and Curt J. Sampson able to reverse engineer the Frob PCB hardware, Golden Child from #MAMEDEV emulated it in MAME, and it all works, EVEN THE AMON/FMON DEBUGGER!
It's implemented by turning the #Atari2600 into an #Apple2 expansion, alongside the #Frob, and the Frob and embedded Atari2600 are connected via a virtual cartridge adapter.
This will vastly improve my upcoming deep-dive video by not requiring me to do so much extensive video capture to show output from two different computers at the same time.
This will go into MAME's master branch at some point, but in the mean time, you can grab it here:
https://github.com/goldnchild/mame/tree/frob
#retrocomputing #retrogaming