Acorn Archimedes emu, anyone?


Tobriand

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This might be something to have a look at - 8MHz ARM2 cpu core, which ought to make things a little easier. Although I suspect it does have a gfx co-processor; I haven't been able to find a comprehensive list of specs.

Only had 2-4 megs of ram, which is a god thing - and a floppy drive which is even better (since that was slow reading, makes sense to be able to load individual files from the disk image rather than the whole "rom" at once). Who knows? I'll leave it up to someone else to post specs.
 
At our school a few years ago we had them computers :D hehe.. Their was a cool game called "Bouncy" that you were this ball that had to change the colour of blocks, it was Great Fun hehe...
 
Yeah when I was a kid my friend won the Royal Mail letter writing competition and won this computer for our school. I used it for playing Fireball II which was an arkanoid clone with soundbites from Guns & Roses! I was amazed :) Also there was a 3d flying game, never remembered to name perhps "lander"?

I hope somone does have the time to write this emulator for gp32 :)
 
The demo was called Lander, the full game was Zarch (and called Virus on the amiga and st). One of the greatest games of all time :)
 
arcem runs on top of armulator i think, if that could be removed and run natively on top of the arm9 it would run perfectly, apparently it doesn't run too bad on a strongarm, so an arm9 would be alright at 133 mhz.
 
Nice to see some interest in this as an idea... now just to see if any coders get any fits of compiling madness to try this out in the nearish future...

Hears to hoping!
 
Arkanoids was great, and i remember fireball 2!.

Classic games, our schools had them comps but years later they got replaced with modern pc's ( damn them to hell! ) :lol:
 
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