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 JSBoy - The gameboy color emulator for javascript
 Bryon Vandiver (unicdk@gmail.com)
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 Introduction
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 This was my first attempt at writing an HTML5 (canvas) javascript application.
 Currently, it is self contained and only requires that it be initialized with a
 2d context, preferably 160x144px in size or greater.  This is done by passing 
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 Technical Features
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 This emulator features a number of performance optimizations in order to keep
 performance at a maximum;  this includes interrupt prediction and the use of
 memory i/o delegates for fast memory accesses.
 
 Usage
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 Due to laziness on my part, I will not be documenting the internal structure
 of jsboy immediately.  This also gives me flexibility to change inner-workings
 for speed considerations.  Consult index.html for current implementation details
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 so you may need to run a lightweight http server to run locally.
 
 Bugs
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