> http://www.jrok.com/frames/emu_frame.html
>
>
> After seeing the PATHETIC effort Namco made in emulating Mappy for the PC, running
> under winslows'95 it was terrible. I decided it was about time someone wrote a decent
> Namco emulation ( for purely educational uses by owners of the original game boards
> ). Having already learned 6809 assembly programming, through another project, I
> figured that writing a simulator in x86 assembler wouldn't be a big deal, well the
> 6809's hardly got any registers and only a small number of instructions ( I think
> it's like 79 total).
>
> So after a little coding, and a lot of debuggering, the 6809 simulator lived, a few
> days after that 'hey presto' the Mappy emulator was born! Unlike the official Namco
> release, which when run on a Pentium Pro @233MHz ( yes I overclock ) only manages 96%
> original game speed ( or only 31% if the screen is maximized ), mine achieves 100%
> speed of the original, even on an old Pentium 90 !!
>
> The emulator was coded over a period of about 6 weeks, during the months of May to
> June. I was looking for something else to do rather than actually complete PC*Bert.
> The first release of the emulator was at the San Diego Classic Arcade party, have a
> look at some pictures from that event here
> http://www.spies.com/arcade/photos/index4.html
>
> After getting the first version out, which were stand alone programs, I decided it'd
> be a good idea to merge them into one program. The core program can support multiple
> games, the specifics of each game are handled by a custom 'driver' to emulate the
> particular hardware. All emulated game share the 'core' routines which handle things
> like 6809 emulation, sound generation, sprite and text drawing.
If you want to go back even further, CAESAR lists "Phoenix Arcade Machine Emulator" at a release date of 01/13/1996 as the first free single machine arcade emulator based on release date. http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=single
And "Phoenix Emulator", at 11/25/1996, as the first multi arcade machine emulator based on release date.
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=multi
But it's not true, because CAESAR did not track the previous versions and updated versions and release date when new versions came out.
Um, some of the history of the scene is getting lost, guys. I don't know any website that tracks it. 
- Stiletto
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