The Commodore 64 Emulator is a Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 project Istarted during the Silverlight 2 pre-release timeframe, andcontinually updated since then. The latest version, which targets Silverlight 4, and possibly WPF4 and Windows Phone 7 supports many games, sound and display using the MediaStreamSource API an on-screen multi-touch keyboard, and better Windows integration when run in out-of-browser mode. The code is based primarily on the Frodo C/C++ emulator code, ported to C#.
Why Silverlight?
When I started the emulator, I did it just to prove that
Silverlight was powerful enough to handle pretty unusual
applications. Throughout the development process, I've been able to
use the emulator to drive features, like the addition of a
MediaStreamSource property to control the sound buffer size, and to
make MSS friendlier to dynamically-generated sound. Without
something as "out there" as this, we probably wouldn't have useful
things like that.
Why WPF?
The WPF port is in-progress, and incomplete at the moment. That
said, I decided to add a WPF port in to show code sharing between
Silverlight and WPF, while taking advantage of different approaches
for video and sound generation in WPF.
More information on architecture and features coming.
(The source on codeplex is an older version without
sound or WPF/WP7 integration. New version coming very
soon)
