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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2010, 11:32:01 pm »
I think the focus here is gaming console emulation, though.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2010, 12:48:45 am »
The general rule for emulating another platform is that you need about 10x the CPU processing power. The Atari 2600 has a 1.19MHz processor, so the NSPire should have no trouble being capable of emulating the 2600.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2010, 01:02:24 am »
Quote from: Ranman on November 05, 2010, 12:48:45 am
The general rule for emulating another platform is that you need about 10x the CPU processing power.

So, if we used WFRNG, we could get the Nspire to emulate the Roadrunner?
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2010, 04:22:54 pm »
Heh, I think that the nspire can handle it, the problem is writing the emu X.x
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2010, 08:21:03 pm »
Quote from: Ranman on November 05, 2010, 12:48:45 am
The general rule for emulating another platform is that you need about 10x the CPU processing power. The Atari 2600 has a 1.19MHz processor, so the NSPire should have no trouble being capable of emulating the 2600.
Wow I am surprised its processor is even in the MHz range, considering in the '90s, there were still 20 MHz computers and that the 2600 dates back in 1977.
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Re: Atari emulator on the nspire, is it possible?
« Reply #20 on: November 05, 2010, 08:32:12 pm »
Quote from: qazz42 on November 05, 2010, 04:22:54 pm
Heh, I think that the nspire can handle it, the problem is writing the emu X.x

True. I'm not sure how the Nspire would handle the whole parallel processing thing.
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