Re: A89: Re: porting Z80 to 68k.....possible??

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Re: A89: Re: porting Z80 to 68k.....possible??


Barring dynamic recompilation (or a true converter) the 10MHz 68000 simply isn't
fast enough to emulate a 6MHz Z80... but I welcome anyone to prove me wrong =P

 / Niklas Brunlid
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----- Original Message -----
From: <mxpxfifws@yahoo.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:02 PM
Subject: re: A89: Re: porting Z80 to 68k.....possible??


>
> Why is it crazy??  There are similar instructions on both processors, the 68k
has more
> registers so you don't have to worry about running out, and the languages are
pretty much the
> same (I've programmed in both and they are very similar).  I don't see any
difficulties except
> for the memory locations which would be easily switched between calcs.  I
dunno, maybe I'm
> just stupid and I don't know anything about this, but from my POV, it looks
like a good idea.
> Bryan Forbes
>
>
> > ** Original Subject: A89: Re: porting Z80 to 68k.....possible??
> > ** Original Sender: "h4X0r" <haxor89@netzero.net>
> > ** Original Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:51:47 -0800
>
> > ** Original Message follows...
>
> >
> > You are on crack!  z80 to 68k is the craziest idea I've ever heard :)
> >
> > This would be a very impressive programming feat, IMHO.  I like alot of the
> > "classic" z80 games as well and would like to see this as well, but
> > realistically this isn't going to happen (at least not very soon it won't).
> >
> > --h4X0r
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----From: <mxpxfifws@yahoo.com>
> > To: Assembly-89 <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 12:43 PM
> > Subject: A89: porting Z80 to 68k.....possible??
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > > I was just bummin around my tv room watchin a little football, a french
> > film (french
> > > women are fine!!!!), and playing some games on my calc when it hit me!  I
> > had this vision of
> > > porting Z80 games (from Usgard, Zshell, and other shells with tonz of
> > games) to the 68k
> > > platform.  I know you're probably thinking "this guy is crazy", but I
> > think someone out there
> > > might be able to port these games.  I mean, how hard could it be? (that's
> > a rhetorical
> > > question).  I know it would be quite tedious to figure out which RAM/ROM
> > sections
> > > correspond to the other on the calculators, but after you figure it out,
> > you could port all the
> > > classics like Orunzanoid (my personal favorite.....but I'm not sure if I
> > spelled it right), M.C.
> > > Mik 1 and 2, and all the other cool games!  If I could get some feedback
> > on this, I'd really
> > > appreciate it.
> > > Bryan Forbes
> > > P.S.  No one ever replied to my keyboard post.  Is there any possibility
> > of a keyboard for
> > > the TI-89?? J/W
> >
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