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[telengard]

I'll be working on porting the atari800 emulator to the Pandora. I have a Beagle Board now, so it should be a fairly trivial process. The interesting question is what sort of optimizations we can make handheld wise, for the Pandora.

I wonder if we'll have a unified framework for SDL. i.e. SDL with Pandora extensions, such as automatically scaling 'full screen' to the 800x480 screen with or without letterboxing. It would be neat if we had a global configuration parameter for that, that all the emulators would read from.

Excellent news. I'm following the Pandora stuff (been out of the loop for a while). I'd like to start developing again (porting gp2xmess). Economy isn't cooperating though.

~telengard

[MiniSinisterMinister]

I bought a used GP2X two weeks ago. And it has good emulators for most 8/16 bit systems. Are they going to be ported to the Pandora? I do not see DrPocketSNES and Gnuboy in the list.

Edited by MiniSinisterMinister, 07 December 2008 - 09:46 AM.

[joshwaan2k]

I bought a used GP2X two weeks ago. And it has good emulators for most 8/16 bit systems. Are they going to be ported to the Pandora? I do not see DrPocketSNES and Gnuboy in the list.

The Snes emulator is covered not sure about Gnuboy. But with a community like this it should be attempted.

[CandidStan]

Don't mind me saying, but I noticed no one is working on a Sinclair QL Emulator.

Here is the source code. Source Code

Edited by CandidStan, 09 December 2008 - 06:12 AM.

[scottm]

Has no one picked up n64 emulation :-( This would convince me (and I'm sure a few others) to buy a pandora. To be able to play Banjo Kazooie on the move would be great.

Is n64 emulation doable at decent fps on the pandora?

[CandidStan]

Has no one picked up n64 emulation :-( This would convince me (and I'm sure a few others) to buy a pandora. To be able to play Banjo Kazooie on the move would be great.

Is n64 emulation doable at decent fps on the pandora?

+1,000,000,000,000

[Patrick R Ludvigsen]

Has no one picked up n64 emulation :-( This would convince me (and I'm sure a few others) to buy a pandora. To be able to play Banjo Kazooie on the move would be great.

Is n64 emulation doable at decent fps on the pandora?

Hell, I think decent fps Dreamcast emulation is possible

(disclaimer: i do not have any technical experience with programming emulators and am speaking out of my uninformed opinion)

[Pleng]

Has no one picked up n64 emulation...

...Is n64 emulation doable at decent fps on the pandora?

To be honest, I'm suprised nobody has thought to ask this before

To be a bit more helpful, opinion is divided but more people seem to think yes than no.
Have a little search around to find out more...

[mali]

To be honest, I'm suprised nobody has thought to ask this before

To be a bit more helpful, opinion is divided but more people seem to think yes than no.
Have a little search around to find out more...

It has been asked before
There has been an intensive discussion on the other forum, too.

[Chip]

To be honest, I'm suprised nobody has thought to ask this before

You're kidding. There have been two dozen threads on the subject.

The only accurate answer you're going to find is "probably". It is probably possible for the Pandora to emulate a Nintendo64 at playable speeds.

But just to keep things in perspective, it is also probably possible to stick satellites in orbit cheaply and efficiently using a space elevator. Just because something is theoretically possible, doesn't mean it's definitely going to happen any time soon.

[Bramrash]

Udetectable Sarcasm Alert.....

[mali]

Squidge!



/sarcasm

Edited by mali, 09 December 2008 - 08:24 PM.

[MDave]

If my PC back in 1998 could do N64 emulation decently (mario 64 and mario kart 64 full speed, goldeneye struggle a bit), and run Q3 full quality at 60fps with the following specs:

PIII 450mhz
128MB ram
16MB Riva TNT 128
Win98SE

Then I'm sure the pandora can do the same with double the specs of that pc at the very LEAST It's graphics chip blows the TNT out of the water anyway.

[mali]

This might cause sleepless nights so it's best to not klick this link:
http://www.gp32x.com...showtopic=45475

[CandidStan]

To be honest, I'm suprised nobody has thought to ask this before

You're kidding. There have been two dozen threads on the subject.

The only accurate answer you're going to find is "probably". It is probably possible for the Pandora to emulate a Nintendo64 at playable speeds.

But just to keep things in perspective, it is also probably possible to stick satellites in orbit cheaply and efficiently using a space elevator. Just because something is theoretically possible, doesn't mean it's definitely going to happen any time soon.

That negativity is really out there. Why couldn't n64 emulation be possible? The PS1 has already been shown working at near if not full speed.

Edited by CandidStan, 10 December 2008 - 02:16 AM.