Re: [stella] 2600 emu for GBA

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:30 AM 6/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> So is my interpretation of what Otaku's emu does off base? That is, is
> it an emulator that tries to "interpret" the code and do the right thing
> instead of actually emulating each chip of the original hardware? (As in
> the N64 emu example.) Or does it do something else?

This is a tried and true method of increasing emulation speed on slower 
hardware.

Not only that, with "ports" like what were on Arcade Party Pak, they took 
the original assembly sourcecode and re-assembled it to analogous MIPS 
assembly (with the appropriate changes to the audio/video routines of 
course).  I still consider those games emulated rather than ported because 
the only real difference is whether each line is emulated at runtime or 
not.  An emulator does most of the same sort of work, but at runtime.



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