I don't really pretend to understand much of what I'm seeing, but I've recorded a short video of it running and uploaded it to my server [0].

From what I can tell, this 3-minute video shows the process of generating 2 and a bit frames.

[0] http://topazgryphon.org/metalNES.mp4

go lil' electron beam, go!

9000 cycles/s / 1.79 MHz = 0.5% of realtime. The only time you ever see rendering a line at a time is single stepping through an emulator.

I wonder if this is how FPGA developers working in VHDL/Verilog see the world? https://www.patreon.com/posts/37038491 here's a short clip of the VRAM of a PSX rendering about half of a completed frame of Final Fantasy 7's battle screen.

~9000 cycles/sec (displayed in the video), wow! For comparison, the NES ran at 1.8 MHz, or about 200x faster. From the number of frames drawn and time, I'm guessing this simulator is actually averaging much lower than 9 kHz.

Super curious about your personal server setup, mostly how you're serving content directly to the open web?

I mean you can always use a server on digital ocean or something. That’s how I serve web sites. It’s still just a Linux machine and you can throw whatever content you want on it.

That it would. I don't have access to a Mac or time to get it building elsewhere, so a video would be great.