Date   : Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:04:04 +0100
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:24:50 +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote:

>On 4 Mar 2006, at 16:04, David Hunt wrote:
>> In theory (I believe) if we could extract the BIOS ROM from the
>> 6502/Z80/32016/80186/80286/68000 2nd Processors we could use a C/C++
>> emulation library for the corresponding processor and implement the  
>> Tube
>> interface and then run it on Sprow's ARM 2nd Processor. I just wish  
>> it had
>> some more RAM, 64Mb would be nice, although not essential.
>
>If you were going to do that you would probably also want to make the  
>emulation layer portable so it could be used by various BBC emulators  
>on their respective platforms.

Hardly worth it, since all the ARM 2p needs is a processor
emulator and while not trivial, it's hardly the largest part
of a full blown platform emulator, and most will already have
one to start with. There's close to no other hardware to emulate
in a 2p. That's the beauty of it. Not even an interrupt in sight.


John Kortink

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