Getting Started

• Overview: https://stackoverflow.com/a/448689
• Introduction: http://emulator101.com/
• Docs for various systems: https://github.com/Emu-Docs/Emu-Docs (combine with resources below)
• Books (not necessary): http://www.noxa.org/blog/2011/08/21/emulation-books & https://goo.gl/hFDYsh
• Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EmuDev
• Building a computer from scratch: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
• Emulation blog: http://emudev.de/

Definitions for some terms you might come across:

HLE vs LLE (High Level Emulation vs Low Level Emulation)

• https://alexaltea.github.io/blog/posts/2018-04-18-lle-vs-hle
• http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/High/Low_level_emulation

CPU emulation & JITs (Just-In-Time compilers)

• Wikipedia: Just-in-time compilation (just for an overview of what it is)
• How to Write a JIT Compiler
• The Joy of Simple JITs
• 1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation
• Adventures in NES JIT Compilation
• Xbox 360 Code Translation Techniques

Virtualization

• Virtualization Internals Part 1 - Intro to Virtualization
• Virtualization Internals Part 2 - VMWare and Virtualization using Binary Translation
• Virtualization Internals Part 3 - Xen and Paravirtualization
• Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes (book)
• 7 Days to Virtualization: A Series on Hypervisor Development

FPGAs

• https://zipcpu.com/
• https://www.walknsqualk.com/post/014-tiny-fpga-bx/