NES Emulator: Day 1 - 4

It's time to start writing an NES emulator! I have decided to use Visual Studio 2008 as my environment, libSDL for graphics/input/sound, and C++ as the programming language. I am very comfortable with all 3 of these, and will help ease development time and difficulty.

I have also found the following documents, and will be using them exclusively (unless later noted) to develop this emulator:

http://nesdev.parodius.com/NESDoc.pdf (General complied NES info)

http://www.obelisk.demon.co.uk/6502/reference.html#TSX (6502 processor datasheet)

http://web.textfiles.com/games/nestech.txt (More specific NES info)

I have decided for the time being that I will not impliment a plugin interface. However, I will componentize the code into classes that can be accessed easily. This means that input, sound, and video will be done inside classes, and the outer program can get/send data as needed in a generic way.

I will not worry about a pretty GUI for now -- those things are obvious and can be done after all the other work is finished.