A game console doesn't "emulate" anything. It's a commercial product on its
own.
There are other news groups devoted to emulation and hardware emulation, and
this discussion will DEFINITELY craete a huge amount of discussion not
connected in any way to Sam Coupe.
But Sim Coupe itself is a Sam Coupe clone, so I can hardly see any (even a
very small) reason of not including it here. Sam or Sim... that's pretty the
same if you can see the merit. "Ideal emulation" isn't like SimCoupe.
[This is my last comment to this topic.]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Thacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: RE: Ideas for the ultimate emulator :)
I take you also think that games consoles don't have a place, after all
they
only "emulate" what is already available in the arcade.
This idea behind this was to allow us the fond memories of lying on our
stomachs in front of the TV playing those old favourites, as for buying a
new version of (for example) a Sam Coupé, have you seen how rarely they
come
up on e-bay? Most of the people who would want a Sam will probably never
be
able to get one, as the originals are either in the bin or a treasured
part
of somebodies collection.
As for having nothing to do with the Sam Coupe, there is already a healthy
discussion on SimCoupe running on this list, so why not look at other
possible ways in which a Sam, or any other machine for that matter, may be
emulated? SimCoupe may be (and is) a great emulator, but I am sure that
there would be room out there for other options.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aley Keprt
Sent: 12 February 2005 16:04
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Ideas for the ultimate emulator :)
I think you should discuss it off the list. It has nothing to do with Sam
Coupe. (And surely there is a usenet group usable for this discussion.)
And,
I personally don't like the idea of creating a new hardware nonsense to
"emulate" something you can either emulate on a standard computer (PC), or
buy an original hardware at eBay.
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Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley) [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** www.keprt.cz
*** ICQ: 82357182 Dept. of Computer Science, VSB Technical University
Ostrava, CZ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.cs.vsb.cz
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Thacker" <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: Ideas for the ultimate emulator :)
I like your idea. I had a couple of thoughts....
"The main processor is a 400MHz+ XScale CPU running embbedded Windows CE.
This allows many emulator writers to take advantage of their current
skills in Win32 development systems.
This CPU would also be powerful enough to emulate most, if not all,
8-bit and 16-bit machines."
How would this compare, roughly, to an x86 processor in terms of
processing power? To emulate an OCS / ECS Amiga takes some serious CPU
cycles while AGA is still sluggish without some seriously powerful PC
hardware even now. The custom ICs takes some conversion time due to it's
use
of planer gfx and not chunky-RGB.
This would be nice to emulate PlayStation 1 and N64 stuff. I like the
use of SD. Maybe Compact Flash might be a possible alternative as well
if necessary. (See M/B below).
If CPU power wasn't hugely important, you could probably build a
slightly larger, but still silent version, using the ITX boards from
VIA, like this one....
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_5475.html
Rgs,
Andy
Saturday, February 12, 2005, 2:13:22 PM, you wrote:
Jason> Hi guys,
Jason> I have been putting down some of my (admittedly random) thoughts
on
how to
Jason> get the best possible emulation experience and I have weeded out
some of the
Jason> best at
Jason> http://www.koriel.net/EmulatorIdea.htm
Jason> I would really appreciate it if some of you would deign to look at
the page
Jason> and even (Shock! Horror!) give me some ideas for how this may be
improved in
Jason> some way. Who knows, maybe somebody with the skills to build these
things
Jason> (i.e. not me!) may even take some of them on board!
Jason> Thanks,
Jason> Jason
