HFO4/gameboy.live
🕹️ A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support observed · 2026-10-16
Health v2 · maintenance only
26/100
- Activity 8
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2740
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 555
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4897 stars · 244 forks observed · 2026-10-16
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Gameboy.Live is a Game Boy emulator written in Go that runs games in a desktop GUI or renders them as ASCII in a terminal. It can also act as a telnet 'cloud gaming' server so players can play Game Boy games remotely with no client software beyond telnet.
Use cases
- play gameboy roms on my desktop
- run a gameboy emulator from the terminal
- host a telnet gameboy server for friends
- play tetris in my terminal over ssh/telnet
- emulate gameboy games in ascii
- self-host a retro gaming server
When to choose
- you want a lightweight, single-binary Game Boy emulator in Go
- you want to share games via telnet without requiring players to install anything
- you want a fun terminal-based retro gaming demo
When to avoid
- you need high-accuracy emulation of Game Boy Color, GBA, or advanced hardware features
- you need save states, netplay, or shader/filter support found in mature emulators
- you require legally distributed ROMs - the project ships none
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
game-engine simulation gui cli gaming-tools cross-platform windows cross-platform cli gameboy emulator terminal-gaming telnet-server retro-gaming go linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/HFO4/gameboy.live · fetched 2026-10-16 · feecc589efba
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| HFO4/gameboy.live | main | 26 |
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