The Seven wrote: > Philip Peng schrieb: >> Concerning the GBA emulator, as far as I know, I was the last to work >> on igpSP for the iPodLinux project and still have the the last GPL'd >> source code fresh for modification in my SVN repos. Having not >> followed the Rockbox project much, I'm unsure if any >> practical/universal plugin was ever developed. Either way, assuming >> the ports for the newer generation iPods are in working enough state >> to support emulators such as gpSP and there is someone willing to >> guide me through the Rockbox plugin porting basics, I can probably >> work on an initial port of igpSP to Rockbox (or at least the current >> experimental branch) if there's enough interest. Assuming that most of >> the hardware access problems have been overcome, I wouldn't see >> anything preventing the newer generation iPods from being able to run >> a GBA emulator and decent speeds, especially considering the better >> hardware. > > IIRC, they already tried making a GBA emulator, but a 200MHz ARM seems > to be still too slow to emulate those at a reasonable speed. Looking at > the specs of that thing I can't really see why, but i heard even Rockboy > is lagging badly with some games.
Sorry for the late reply. The main reason Rockboy is so slow is simply that no-one has spent any time working on it, since it's initial implementation about 4 or 5 years ago. Philip - I'm sure you would get lots of encouragement and help from the developers in #rockbox IRC channel (and probably even more encouragement from excited users) if you wanted to work on either Rockboy (e.g. porting a lot of the optimisations from iBoy) or on a new GBA emulator. Regards, Dave. _______________________________________________ Linux4nano-dev mailing list Linux4nano-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/linux4nano-dev http://www.linux4nano.org
