I don't think I'd *ever* discourage somebody from trying to do a 2600 emu
from scratch. Who knows, these days enough is known about the 2600 that
maybe it would be pretty easy. ;-) In fact sometimes *I* think about doing
a 2600 emu from scratch for Windows. Every time I look at the mountain of
assembly code that is z26 I find myself wishing that it were written in C.
I don't think 500 frames per second on an 800 MHz machine is really
necessary these days...
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piero Cavina" <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [stella] new VCS2600-programming tool in works
> At 13.58 17/03/01 +0100, Eckhard Stolberg wrote:
>
> >And for developing a VCS emulator from scratch: I don't want to
> >discourage you, but you'll be facing a LOT of work. I know what
> >a long way the current emulators have come to get where they are
> >now, and none of them is anywhere near perfect. They do fine on
> >emulating finished games, but for an emulator that is mainly meant
> >as a development tool you need be as acurate as possible.
>
> That's a very good point: now the best thing to do would be to collaborate
> with the author of one of the best 2600 emulators available, so that it
can
> be integrated within the developement environement to support advanced
> features like single-step debugging etc.
>
>
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>
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