Show HN: My friend and his AI homies wrote SGI Indy emulator in Rust

Category: other

Tags: emulator, rust, jit-compiler

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 7, Utility: 4)

IRIS is an SGI Indy emulator written in Rust with AI assistance, capable of booting IRIX 6.5 and 5.3 with networking, X11 graphics, and a Cranelift-based JIT compiler for both MIPS and graphics. It is interesting for its ambitious scope, innovative use of AI in development, and novel feature like a copy-on-write disk overlay.

Target audience: retro-computing enthusiasts, systems programmers, emulator developers

Repository: https://github.com/techomancer/iris · Rust · BSD-3-Clause · 29 stars

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