r u calling me?? for what?? oh....ZX?
not my vege. dive.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Android Challenge" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:08 PM Subject: [android-challenge] Re: Our submission: speccydroid > > > Holy cow... this is serious retro stuff. I didn't know there were > still ZX enthusiast out there. > The good ole days... > > Joa > > On Apr 16, 6:41 pm, Izard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello dear colleagues, > > > > Our submission is ZX Spectrum emulator for Android. My wife did QA, > > Android GUI code and design, and I've ported my old emulator from C to > > Java, did profiling and some fancy optimizations I'll describe below. > > > > ZX Spectrum used to be one of the 8-bit platforms popular in 80s, and > > it's legal to emulate as OS rights owner (Amstrad) had permitted to > > include it's ROM(OS) with emulators, and a lot of games were released > > as freeware by authors and publishers since. Most of the games > > available back then were ported to ZX Spectrum, and there are few > > marvels designed especially for the platform, including first RTS ever > > and very good turn-based strategies. > > > > For decent speed I had to drop some emulation accuracy, extend the set > > of Z80 assembly commands to use with dynamic profiling+JIT, and static > > recompilation for freeware games examples included. Making games > > playable on emulator was quite an engineering challenge! > > > > P.S. I wish Dalvik will have JIT when h/w is released! > > P.P.S. Can post a link to binary if someone is interested, will > > release it later as a freeware any way. > > > > Alexander > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
