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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #45 on: September 25, 2010, 08:44:11 am »
This is simply beautiful, Goplat!  Excellent job! :)


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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #46 on: September 25, 2010, 09:30:18 am »
Wonderful!  I can't wait to see what else can be done! ;D

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #47 on: September 25, 2010, 10:06:24 am »
HOLY SHIT!

I must be dreaming!!
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #48 on: September 25, 2010, 10:14:29 am »
0.0 ZOMG!!!1!111!!!
This is epic.  Pure win.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #49 on: September 25, 2010, 10:31:16 am »
what?!!
how'd the crapz did you do that?!!

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #50 on: September 25, 2010, 11:18:14 am »
Nice! :D
Far from complete, definitely, but keep up the good work! :)
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2010, 02:02:25 pm »
Goplat, if you see this, could you tell us how many times faster the emulator will run if you get rid of speed throttling? I wonder if it's the same speed as a GBC?

Now I wonder... it would be awesome if there was a Sega Master System, Game Gear and SNES emulator, although for SNES I assume only games not using special chips in cartridges would be emulated, right?

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #52 on: September 25, 2010, 02:21:09 pm »
That's very impressive, Goplat.

We need an x86 emulator...
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #53 on: September 25, 2010, 02:25:32 pm »
I often hear x86 out there. Would x86 emulation pretty much be emulating a computer or were there consoles using that processor?

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #54 on: September 25, 2010, 02:27:14 pm »
I often hear x86 out there. Would x86 emulation pretty much be emulating a computer or were there consoles using that processor?
The original Xbox is the only console I know of that uses x86, the 360, Wii, and PS3 all use PPC.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #55 on: September 25, 2010, 02:28:11 pm »
x86 is computer, yea.

I was thinking of something like dosbox, just so we could run old DOS games.
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #56 on: September 25, 2010, 02:48:15 pm »
Ah ok, and yeah Dosbox would be cool, assuming we can convert the game data to Nspire format (I wonder if all we had to do was adding a .tns extension like with gbc4nspire? One concern I have, though, is if a game had over 200 files, would it be harder to emulate?)

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #57 on: September 25, 2010, 03:27:33 pm »
probably

though, Doom for the nspire would be awsome

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #58 on: September 25, 2010, 03:28:39 pm »
We are nearly at the point where we can port Doom.
Only a few missing standard library functions stand in the way...

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on nSpire?
« Reply #59 on: September 25, 2010, 09:55:49 pm »
And to answer the topic title: epic yes. That is awesome.

A few more months and the Nspire's gonna be a >9000! in one game sys... :D