News to me. denhac has grown from 500 members to 600 in the last year since I joined. The space is constantly evolving and they'll be moving to a another larger location (again).
There are firmware updates that improve picture quality, address compatibility issues that are discovered after release, and even increase the lifetime of the TV.
> Writing a CPU emulator is, in my opinion, the best way to REALLY understand how a CPU works.
The 68k disassembler we wrote in college was such a Neo “I know kung fu” moment for me. It was the missing link that let me reason about code from high-level language down to transistors and back. I can only imagine writing a full emulator is an order of magnitude more effective. Great article!
I would say writing an ISA emulator is actually not helpful for understanding how a modern superscalar CPU works, because almost all of it is optimizations that are hidden from you.
