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| MSX Emulator for PALM OS 5 ?
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Maggoo
msx professional
Posts: 591 |  Posted: March 16 2004, 22:40 |
Can't seem to find any decent MSX emulator running on Palm OS 5, is there any ?
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cax
msx master
Posts: 1031 | Posted: March 17 2004, 10:23 |
I talked with Marat Fayzullin, the author of fMSX.
He said he wanted to create his own port, but after struggling with the PalmOS limitations, he gave up.
Anybody else want to do the job ?
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pitpan
msx master
Posts: 1390 | Posted: March 17 2004, 12:21 |
The problem is not the OS but the CPU speed. fMSX port to Palm OS did not succeed because of limited CPU power (Palm III time). With the newest Palms, that have a rather decent clock speed, I am pretty sure that a port can be done.
If my tiny m105 is able to run the Gameboy emulator at full speed, I think that those Tungsten-monsters could easily emulate any 8 bit system.
Regards,
Ed Robsy
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cax
msx master
Posts: 1031 | Posted: March 17 2004, 16:51 |
Ed Robsy, I talked about porting to Palm OS 5 devices that have fast CPUs
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Maggoo
msx professional
Posts: 591 | Posted: March 17 2004, 18:17 |
Well I've played with a NES and an Atari ST emulator on my Tungsten C (400mhz CPU), and the speed was pretty decent so I doubt that nowaday CPU power would be an issue. Of course that wouldn't be the case for older Palm with 16 or 33mhz processor but they don't even support OS5 anyway...
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pitpan
msx master
Posts: 1390 | Posted: March 18 2004, 07:25 |
That is what I said in the previous post: newer Palms could easily handle a decent MSX emulator at full-speed. Perhaps we should insist a bit to Marat. Anyone? Once I tried to compile programs for PalmOS, but I wasn't able to make the full SDK work.
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4992 | Posted: March 18 2004, 16:03 |
I'm not sure if Marat is the right person to port fMSX to Palm, looking at the huge improvements people other than Marat have been making to fMSX on several platforms. Maybe someone reading this is willing to have a go at it?  |
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