Emulators: where you get bug reports that say "some users can't play the game online since the last update" and then spend 12h tracking it down to L1 ICache expiry semantics differences with the real hardware (after being sidetracked with SSL issues). https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11455#note-46 …
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Replying to @delroth_
And it's buggy game (patch) code that happens to work by accident. This is the kind of stuff that doesn't fly on modern consoles any more. CPUs get upgraded without preserving identical microarchitectural semantics. Good riddance.
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Replying to @marcan42
Dunno. I'm a bit sad at the loss of all the black magic you could find in video games running in kernel mode with full hardware control :( It's just not the same with syscalls and clean interfaces.
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Replying to @delroth_
It's okay, we have enough retro stuff to analyze and preserve to remain entertained for a while ;-)
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