"I decided to write NES496 after taking CSE 412 -- a microcomputer laboratory course at Penn State University. This course gave me a new found interest in computer architecture.

"So, after surfing the web, I found several documents regarding the internals of the NES. With the information I collected, I decided to write my first emulator. I wrote NES496 for my independent studies course, CSE 496. (Hence the name, NES496!)

"Now that CSE 496 is over, I decided it was finally time to release this emulator to the general public.

"Currently, NES496 is far from being complete. There are still many bugs I would like to fix, and features I would like to implement. "

What you need:

• 133mhz+ Pentium
• Windows 95/98
• 640x480+ 16bit Display
• DirectX 5.0+
• 2 megabytes of HD space
• 1 4-button joystick

• iNES Mappers 0, 1, 2, and 3
• 2 NES Joypad support [no keyboard support]
• Scanline based graphics engine
• Custom C++ version of Neil Bradley's 6502 CPU core
• PPU/CPU register information
• ROM/CPU/PPU/SPRITE memory information
• Horizontal/Vertical mirroring

• more iNES Mappers
• full screen display
• sound support
• improved mirroring
• single screen mirroring
• keyboard support
• NES Satellite support
• NES Zapper support
• NES Robie support (somehow)
• IO-56 support

• NES496 v0.11