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Challenge accepted. I had been looking for my next emulation target

Hot damn, I love your enthusiasm.

I don't know whether you'd want to work from scratch, to do things entirely your own way, or whether you'd look to extend an existing project. Either is of course reasonable.

If the latter, I get the impression AXPbox is currently the best maintained Alpha emulator. There have been a LOT of Alpha emulators over the years: http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html

I usually do it myself from scratch. This is partly because I like to learn all the details of how something works, but also because I have a perverse habit of putting emulators of large machines unto microcontrollers, and most existing emulators are not targeted to a world with only a few K of RAM and limited cycles. eg:

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=25.%20VMU%20Hacking

Going off thread, I discovered the uJ project from those links, looks quite cool.

I wonder if you may consider emulating PowerPC NT as well?

Dang, I didn't realise NT for PowerPC can't be emulated. That's also a shame.

Without wanting to sound entitled, my preference is NT for Alpha. That's because Visual Basic 6.0 for Alpha exists, but not for PowerPC. Of course, as a retro computing enthusiast, I'll gladly take any.

As of now there is only MIPS.

https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/11/10/revisiting-windows-nt-4-...

The OpenGL is more 1.0 than 1.1... so it makes for interesting ports. I need to touch on that one too. so much to do..

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