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  1. 5th-August-2011, 17:34 #3
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    Well, according to their SourceForge.net profiles:

    VisualBoyAdvance is written in Assembly and C++
    ZSNES is written in Assembly and C
    ScummVM is written in C++
    AdvanceMAME is written in Assembly, C, and C++
    Nestopia is written in C++
    DOSBox is written in C and C++

    I don't think that C or C++ are better suited for emulators, it's just that C is usually credited with being the most well-known language in the world, and it would appear that many of the people graciously making us emulators follow one of the basic formulas: Write the base in C, then use another language to perform more complicated tasks and speed things up.

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