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Yes because doing an interpreter would be close to impossible for such complicated game. There are lots excellent PC DOS games and... no higher perfomance emulator for them. Is really the x86 hardware that hard to emulate? VGA thought had some capabilities it was used by most time as dumb...

Definitely Vroom on Amiga or ST. And the Lotus series were also very good. And CrazyCars too.

Via DOSBOX it should run albeit slowly. If there are sources available then a port should be possible.

You are talking about the Jazelle technology. And none of GP2x's cores have it, so bad luck. (MMSP2 chipset has 920T and 940T both without this tech) For Java hardware acceleration you would have the ARM926EJ-S for an example. The GP2x ARM stands somewhere in a middle of ARM processors (they...

That is very important to have gains from dynarec - to reuse translated code as long as possible. Translation is relatively expensive but execution of translated code much quicker than interpreting. (except selfmodifying code) It might be done on a demand or offline and then resulting binary...

Actually there some (and very nasty) eye related diseases what will "paint eyes" for real. I know it very well myself as I got the iris inflammation many times up to now. My eye was (fortunately only one!) blood red then with reshaped pupil. I could scare people with it but it was a sore fun...

But it does flush Linux completely? If so then it's not a disadvantage.

Selfmodifying code is very rare now. If the emu is using normal interpreter (not dynarec) selfmodifing code should not affect its perfomance. Dynarec will be affected thought and possibly to great degree by such code. (it must check for such situation, then retranslate, then again check...

Heh... For me this "BF" is a normal name for a kind of algorithm what prefers spending vast computional power over a more fine aproach. So in a sense it's slamming tons of cycles into a CPU (or a GPU) to achieve its goals. Your imagination isn't so strange then.

I'm not sure if it's executed a single cycle thought? Immediate operand has as whole 12 bits but 8 are for the value and 4 for the position. It's enough but sometimes a constant must be computed or orred by more opcodes. It'd be very nice to have an instruction what could load a full 32 bit...

I have to disagree here - hardware alphablending and Z-buffer would be very usefull for SNES emulator. It'd allow to do a bruteforce aproach rendering of SNES playfields and sprites. Of course if GPU perfomance would be up to the task. I'm most interested in C/Arm assembler coding as it can...

Orr should work as you wrote. I'm clueless why it couldn't?? EDIT: YES and there is possibility to add conditional flag and S flag as well. Arm opcodes are very powerfull. (sorry for my dumb mistake by not reading last sentence - I thought you asked about two instruction - it's just one Arm...

Doing custom chipset would need a whole team of enginers and lots of $$$. There some portable GPUs from Ati, Nvidia and PowerVR (and probably other companies as well). We don't know yet how XGP will perform in 3D. So far what I could see the XGP didn't impress me in 3D. But until it ships for...

It wasn't a bad idea and what XGP do you have in a mind? There are 3 very different (screen, control and size wise) XGP models. We don't know how XGP will develop. From technical standpoints the GP2x has a possible an advantage having second ARM core. XGP has an advantage in 3D thanks to its 3d...

Given how quickly current firmware can boot an option to use some other os/firmware (by something like GRUB boot manager) would be comfortable. After all GP2x is rather single task machine from users' viewpoints. With so small footprint (150KB!) I can see benefits doing so just for some extra...

Yes of course. The main issue is that the options got reversed. I'm getting the AI when with "multi" options instead of a "single". The game itself is looking as it's preferring domination at edges. It's similar to some other game... :) I like hexs and I'm impressed. There could be some...

I think we will get them. :)

You want me only to finish my 2D lib and lets others to use it. I'm not that good at doing whole projects - I'm good at doing single tasks but at very high efficiency. And my lib is (and demo was too) a pure software - no hardware tricks were used at all. The Squidge latest MMU hack has...

30-35$ for the whole kit. (it was discussed in known thread too) This project is finished design wise. The rest (actual shipping) is on its way. Asks about it (anything you want) in its thread please. I was here refering to my other projects - the software ones. My "lazy ass" is about Arm...

I'm constantly in awe when reading about such achievements. And I'm starting to be a... bit jealous? Yeah - I'm starting to be sure to kick my lazy *ss to do more myself. And I'm have some ancient books about... (good I didn't sell them - I can have sometimes a good sense)