Emulate the Turbo-Duo in Linux. Castlevania, Bonk and Blazing Lazers await.
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Here is a guide for how to get going with Turbo-Duo games on your Ubuntu setup. Finally, play import classics like Rondo of Blood!
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Once upon a time, there was a processor architecture that was everywhere. Consider the ubiquity of ARM in mobile phones and tablets. In the 80?s and 90?s there was a parallel to this. The 68k series from Motorola. This guy was everywhere! In your Amiga or your Atari ST. Your Sega Genesis and your NEO-GEO. Your Mac.
An HuC6280A in it's natural habitat.
It’s hard to imagine a world where Intel processors are marginalized primarily to desktops and laptops, though it shouldn’t be because that’s sort of the way things are now… What does that have to do with this post?
Mednafen emulates many of those machines, but one machine stood far away from the pack. That machine was the Turbo-Grafx 16.
The TG-16 used the HuC6280, a custom 8-bit processor designed by Hudson Soft. Between the PC-Engine, Turbo-grafx 16, Turbo-Duo and Turbo-Express, there were some really special gems developed. Bonk, Blazing Lazers, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Akumaj? Dracula X: Chi no Rondo), the first CD-Rom version of John Madden Football, and many others. Full Story |
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