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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Hmm, I think I said that emulation is also heavily based on juggling all those calls to different chips the console makers put in there, and it wasn't me, then it probably was Moxie with that puzzle box analogy. And PS1 isn't more powerful than DS ;) . If it's how JFR says it is with PSP (each...
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    Post Your Dosbox Successes Here

    Five thousand cycles? Kinda lousy, I had to run some games (Syndicate and/or XCOM) faster than that, though I'll have to check again.
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    Post Your Dosbox Successes Here

    How fast can Pandora emulate a DOS PC (on average)? There are various figures given here - do games really vary that much in performance?
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Well, you did a good job trying to understand what I had in mind, but I have a habit of thinking sideways sometimes and thinking faster than I talk even more often. "It's more complicated than it looks" - it looks simplistic (I'm not that good with English, really!), I get the basics of the...
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    Suggestions For Great But Legitimate Gaming On The Pandora?

    My favorites would be FreeCol and Battle for Wesnoth (not sure if FreeCol was ported to Pandora, but FreeCiv surely was).
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    Post Your Dosbox Successes Here

    Quick question: does Pandora have any frontend for the DosBox, like DBFE or DosShell?
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    I read that one and that's why I'm confused as all the data I quoted come from there. The guys are apparently too busy talking about bunnies. ;)
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Good! That's an answer! As for "what emulation is", logic suggests that it all boils down to translating the data written for a different system in a way that Pandora can properly respond to it. Simple? Well, as far as I don't know jack about it, not at all. As someone (WizardStan or Moxie)...
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    First: I didn't expect Pandora to be able to emulate Gamecube after some research and I even stated that before. GC's main processor is very fast, nearly as fast as Pandora, and if you add other bits and bobs that make GC run, it'll most probably overwhelm our little black box. But, emulating...
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Now I'm confused. There are two possibilities coming from your posts: 1. Pandora is utter shit that isn't good for anything above emulating ZX Spectrum. 2. You're lazy, whiny and firmly believe that if nobody tried it yet, it's "completely impossible". Considering people made things like...
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    You might be right, as IIRC there's a Jaguar emulator for Pandora, and Jaguar was the first 64-bit console. As for the required horsepower, I'm suspecting that with the current capabilities, Pandora would be able to emulate the functions of EE, but as WizardStan said, there's still the rest of...
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Told ya, I'm stupid, bear with me. Also - the processors I had in mind are Gekko (486 MHz), Emotion Engine (300 MHz) and that 333MHz thing they put in PSP. I'm guessing that emulating PS2 would be very hard if not impossible due to EE being a 64-bit processor (you can't squeeze a 64-bit...
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    OK, one more stupid question, I hope you can put up with me: how complicated would emulating one machine with a RISC processor on a different machine with a (faster) RISC processor be? Both in coding difficulty and performance.
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Everyone says "NEVER", but nobody says WHY. So, any reason it's impossible?
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    What Can You Do With Pandora?

    Okay, so to clarify: 2. There's no GC, PS2 or PSP emulator available for Pandora YET. Which, of course, doesn't mean there won't be one in the foreseeable future. Okay, maybe GC emulation would be a wee bit problematic, considering the lovely "CPU: The fastest you can find." remark in the list...
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