NESpire general discussion thread

[ztrumpet]

This would be epic!  I hope it gets made someday.

[squidgetx]

wow, could be amazing.

ofc this is assuming that ndless will eventually overcome the new os issue

[SirCmpwn]

calc84maniac, sad day

* SirCmpwn was planning on running TIOS from a flash drive in KOS <.<

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ouch, I wish it was faster. Dual-booting from a flash drive would have been nice too... oh well.

[SirCmpwn]

Dual-booting an OS based on the KnightKernel will be possible, as will booting from a flash drive.

[calc84maniac]

Ouch, I wish it was faster. Dual-booting from a flash drive would have been nice too... oh well.

It's because the OS is too big to be loaded into RAM, unlike on the TI-Nspire where this is not the case. Code can certainly not run directly from a flash drive, an emulation layer like Emu8x would be required (but even slower because it has to read from a flash drive, which is much slower than reading from the flash memory built-in to the calc)

[willrandship]

Well, what's wrong with copying it to ram, then running? Don't all the shells do something similar to this?

(I'm talking ROMs btw, not OSes)

BTW the Nspire will almost certainly never emulate anything with 3d. This includes superFX snes games (starfox) and N64 games. The Nspire doesn't have a 3D GPU, so it would be like playing a game with software-rendered Direct3D (it sucks for those who don't know )

NES/SNES would be awesome. NES would be much easier than SNES though.

I think it will be a little easier to make than SNEmulDS though, the DS was significantly weaker (and weirder ) hardware, only about 2/3 of the Nspire's speed.

[bwang]

But the DS has a GPU.

[calc84maniac]

Well, what's wrong with copying it to ram, then running? Don't all the shells do something similar to this?

(I'm talking ROMs btw, not OSes)

BTW the Nspire will almost certainly never emulate anything with 3d. This includes superFX snes games (starfox) and N64 games. The Nspire doesn't have a 3D GPU, so it would be like playing a game with software-rendered Direct3D (it sucks for those who don't know )

NES/SNES would be awesome. NES would be much easier than SNES though.

I think it will be a little easier to make than SNEmulDS though, the DS was significantly weaker (and weirder ) hardware, only about 2/3 of the Nspire's speed.

ROMs are also far too big to load into RAM on the TI-84+. Link's Awakening, for example, is 512KB. Metroid II is 128KB. Tetris might be small enough at 32KB (but certainly not on the new calcs with 48KB of RAM)

[DJ Omnimaga]

That reminds me...
 
Several years ago there was a NES emu project for 68K calcs called TI-NESulator. It was discussed on yAronet starting in 2003, but I don't know whatever happened to the project. The topic had 500+ pages:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyaronet.com%2Fposts.php%3Fs%3D23390%26p%3D1

EDIT: Wow did yAronet ban Google Language? http://yaronet.com/posts.php?s=23390&p=1

[Goplat]

So I thought I'd try my hand at making one... here's a screenshot of what I have so far:

[Silver Shadow]

Nice! I like the way how Mario is sometimes split in two...

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ok this is fucking win. Nice job Goplat! I hope this gets finished or that someone makes one. On the real calc, does it runs at very fast speed?

[bwang]

Incredible!!!

[DJ Omnimaga]

This went on front page right away (in the 1 million hit news I added the screenshot.)