Overview

After restarting the development, the architecture of the emulator has changed a bit.

Now all the main components (like processor, debugger, etc.) use multithreading.

Also, all components are divided into Visual Studio projects, which are a dependency for the main Dolwin.exe project.

Visual Studio solution upgraded to VS2019. There should not be a problem with the build.

Both X86 and X64 targets are supported.

Dolwin Architecture

Key components are shown in the diagram:

Emulator development has become more Agile. Basic milestones can be viewed on Github (https://github.com/ogamespec/dolwin/milestones)
The source code began to contain more c++, but without fanaticism (limited to namespaces and simple container classes)

All solution projects are independent components (or try to be like that).

Currently, work is underway to encapsulate components in their namespaces, but the legacy code from version 0.10 does not make it so simple.

Currently, the following namespaces are quietly formed:

Debug: for debugging functionality
Gekko: for the core of the Gekko CPU
Flipper: for various internal Flipper hardware modules (AI, VI, EXI, etc.)
DSP: for GameCube DSP
DVD: for a DVD unit (now the functionality is limited to reading images of ISO discs)
GX: for the Flipper GPU

The user interface will most likely be rewritten as a Managed C# application. In the meantime, it's just like a piece of code from version 0.10.

All documentation is now stored in a separate repository: https://github.com/ogamespec/dolwin-docs

For experimental and outdated code, an RnD folder was created.