Re: A82: PROPOSAL: TI-82 "Enhancement" Project


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Re: A82: PROPOSAL: TI-82 "Enhancement" Project




The same with NESA...thats why iNES chokes on a 486 50 and NESA flys on a
386 16...
>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
>
>
>>
>>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,
>>
>>