Mastodawn

Today in project ideas I wish I'd get rid of:

An #rgbds (#gameboy / SM83 assembler) linker that turns the object file into ELF, allowing it to be linked into a linux program (and resolve symbols in doing so), coupled with a minimal CPU emulator with a few syscalls to be able to perform C calls/linux syscalls outside of the emulator.

...and then use that to implement the x11 or wayland protocol in SM83 #assembly and display things.

(I've been looking for excuses to learn these protocols)

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mid_kid

As a tangential follow-up to this idea, one could port the gen1 and gen2 pokemon disassemblies to PC by linking to libSDL and invoking its functions from within the assembly code.

Not incredibly useful, would require a *lot* of code modifications, but when the alternatives tend to go the route of "preprocess the assembly code to C", I think it could be neat.