Re: A82: PROPOSAL: TI-82 "Enhancement" Project
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Re: A82: PROPOSAL: TI-82 "Enhancement" Project
Some emulators do dynamic recompilation of the source into native cpu
intructions, this gives A GREAT speed increase, the author of the N64
emulator is using it... But this is a 82 list, so I'll shut up.
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: A82: PROPOSAL: TI-82 "Enhancement" Project
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>You're kinda correct...
>
>An emulator makes a table of the system calls/instructions and then runs
>each instruction in machine code of the file. If the file says "jp", then
>the emulator refrences its CPU table and figures out what to do next...
>
>>In the intrest of understanding this entire mailing thread.. how exactly
does
>>an emulator work? I have assummed that it just reads the source code and
runs
>>it directly, but I know that is wrong, how do you make one?
>>
>>In a message dated 98-02-21 16:48:43 EST, you write:
>>
>>> Grant Stockly wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I had about 25% of a unix OS ported, but stopped when the LCD came...
>>>
>>> Unix? That would RULE! *grin* But, WHAT Unix? And how did you manage
>>> to test it? TI or other Z80 emulator?
>>>
>>> And, yeah, in terms of LCD, that would probably be the most difficult
>>> piece of TI hardware to interface with (next to possibly the keyboard)
>>> as we have no specs on it, and I really doubt TI would release any.
>>> *sigh* Another problem...
>>>
>>> Well, still, I'm not giving up hope yet. :-)
>>>
>>> TTFN,
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