Emulation Modules?


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I had an idea- How about Emulation Modules for the GP2X? They would plug into the EXT port (interface via USB) and have the hardest-to-eumulate chips of the console in them. Emulators would have to be designed to accomodate them, and device drivers would have to be written, but is this even feasible?
 
No I mean like, who's going to make the chips themselves. The ones that are going to "help" the emulation process.

Plus I don't think the throughput on the EXT port is too high.
 
You would have to buy the chipos that were actually used, or use equivalent substitutes. And doesn't the EXT port have USB 2.0 host mode? Even if it doesn't, I doubt that SNES emu;latiopn would need more than 12 mb/s of thouroughput.
 
I had an idea earlier, about integrating a M68000-based chip to a handheld, for a secondary chip. Being very wide spread, it could be used as is for multiple emulators, from MAC to MD to Amiga. I think it was Squidge, who pointed out, that those old chips are huge, and take power like mad, power consuming sheep. :eek:

There have been similar things done, I seem to recall a PC-module for A500... (PC, as in PC, XT, AT... Not a powerhorse... :p )

And there was something for PC, to ISA or PCI-slot, C=64 perhaps...
 
Putting other chips on an EXT port dongle would not suffer from bandwidth limitations, it would be far faster than the BUS in most old consoles. The problem would be latency, up to hundreds of times greater than what you would need to use the various cool chips in SNES and N64 cartridges.
 
Eh...what I'm doing right now is trying to make my gp2x into a uber ds. Why? Because I can.

Note...ds as in...DS ds..
 
no touchscreen will make for a crappy ds emulator. if youre going to do ds, do it on a pda with a touch screen.
 
I had an idea earlier, about integrating a M68000-based chip to a handheld, for a secondary chip. Being very wide spread, it could be used as is for multiple emulators, from MAC to MD to Amiga. I think it was Squidge, who pointed out, that those old chips are huge, and take power like mad, power consuming sheep. :eek:

There have been similar things done, I seem to recall a PC-module for A500... (PC, as in PC, XT, AT... Not a powerhorse... :p )

And there was something for PC, to ISA or PCI-slot, C=64 perhaps...

Perhaps you're thinking of the 3DO blaster? That thing would be awesome if it was asn Xbox 360 :p
 
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Emulation of old cpu's in hardware? One could use a programmable chip like Jeri Ellsworth is using in het c64 in a stick. She has succesfully implemented z80 and 6510 cpu emulation with her logical design. Emulation of older consoles and home computer systems on a programmable chip that actually is behaving partly like one of the old cpu's with extra hardware logic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

There are also initiatives of creating a msx2 system on a chip etc.

It would be a great idea to have some sort of ultimate hardware-emulation-system that has svga output and stereo sound output and programmable in-ports including game controls that specializes in emulation of the old computers and consoles through programmable hardware that can actually partly act as the old chips. Fascinating stuff the combined 'hardware'/software approach to emulating old devices.
 
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