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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2011, 02:07:13 am »
@Qwerty.55: Yeah, but if the processor is underclocked, it means we can set it back to its original speed without causing any trouble to the calc, no ?! But even in that case, DS emulation seems very unlikely...
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2011, 02:09:31 am »
It can only overclock to 116 MHz, as far as we know, which probably isn't fast enough for an emulation layer to not be noticeable.
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2011, 04:19:11 pm »
The DS has two CPUs of a different architecture. A real-time interpreter is definitely impossible, and a recompiler is unlikely. The GBA has only one CPU, an ARM at 16 MHz, so GBA emulation may be possible.
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2011, 12:04:29 am »
We have to take in account the fact these handhelds also got video memory or even video cards that requires to be emulated too, right?
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2011, 01:28:14 am »
As far as I know, emulating a dual cpu device with only a single cpu is near impossible even if the clock speed for the device is three times higher than the emulated one. Reason being is that you have to incorporate multi-tasking on a single threaded device which is hell on any programmer.
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2011, 08:54:19 am »
DS emulation is next to impossible, because there is two CPUs, and a gpu to emulate. Not to mention how awkward playing a game that uses the touchscreen would be on a calc.
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Re: 3rd-party PRIZM apps officially possible
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2011, 03:19:06 am »
Indeed. I think we should stick to other handhelds and older consoles like the NES, SNES, GB/C/A, Sega Megadrive/Genesis, etc.
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