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Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« on: November 04, 2010, 03:48:11 pm »
Is it? I mean, we have a NES emu and the NES was much more complicated, so I wouldnt expect this to be that hard  ::)

Discuss (oh and think we should start with the 2600 and found over here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600)
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 03:59:43 pm »
Well, according to the wikipedia page you linked, that system is not easy to emulate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600#Emulation

It might be possible to port an existing open-source emulator that already has a high level of compatibility to save most of that trouble, though.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 04:03:17 pm »
Yeah, it would help if it was written in C a whole lot :D
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 04:04:26 pm »
Ha ha ha...that would make it easier for sure
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2010, 04:47:55 pm »
What makes it harder to emulate, though? ???

That said it would be cool if it was done, although I think the game selection was rather small, right?
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 04:50:04 pm »
Yeah. a port of Stella shouldn't be too hard.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 04:51:33 pm »
well, there were some really cool games for it though DJ (pitfall, empire strikes back, adventure) and if it could be emulated to play those excellent game that would be beast :D
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 04:52:08 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2010, 04:47:55 pm
What makes it harder to emulate, though? ???

That said it would be cool if it was done, although I think the game selection was rather small, right?
It has a lot of bugs and such the many games tend to take advantage of x.x it complicates things
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2010, 04:53:49 pm »
Hmm I hadn't seen Stella before...I wish I had an nSpire. I definitely think it would be possible to make a Stella port for the nSpire.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2010, 04:54:50 pm »
Quote from: ASHBAD_ALVIN on November 04, 2010, 04:51:33 pm
well, there were some really cool games for it though DJ (pitfall, empire strikes back, adventure) and if it could be emulated to play those excellent game that would be beast :D
Ah yeah. I guess maybe it did not appeal to me as much because the calc clones of most games looked better than the original and as a fan of RPGs I did not have much choice on the Atari. :(

Quote from: qazz42 on November 04, 2010, 04:52:08 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2010, 04:47:55 pm
What makes it harder to emulate, though? ???

That said it would be cool if it was done, although I think the game selection was rather small, right?
It has a lot of bugs and such the many games tend to take advantage of x.x it complicates things
Ah I see X.x
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2010, 04:57:44 pm »
Yeah, but if we can find a solid, easy to port emulator, perhaps things wouldn't be so bad :D

(starting bets that someone will jump in with an atari emulator they they just wrote, I say 10 dollars)
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2010, 05:10:06 pm »
Ya, also if I read that correctly you also have to emulate the "TV" it runs off of along with the system, but I don't know if I'm right.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2010, 08:14:22 pm »
well, hmm, that sucks, if this is too hard, then what about the 5200?
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2010, 09:04:01 pm »
yes, yes, very much I assume, nice find :)
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