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[mali]

GINGE - Ginge Is Not a GP2X Emulator

edit:

Well I'll just quote part of readme:

GINGE - Ginge Is Not GP2X Emulator

About
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Ginge is an application that can run many GP2X F100/F200 games on other ARM
Linux platforms, which currently includes Wiz. It is not a full hardware
emulator like MAME, PicoDrive or similar, it does not emulate the CPU. It can
be considered as compatibility layer similar to Wine on PC Linux, however it
does emulate small portion of MMSP2 system-on-chip. It operates by hooking
certain system calls and using realtime patching of code that accesses memory
mapped hardware directly.

 

[SomeGuy99]

GINGE - Ginge Is Not a GP2X Emulator

Here in the UK, Ginge is slang for 'someone with ginger hair'.



http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ginge

It also has some meanings I didn't know of. :lol:

 

[quadomatic]

I wonder if emulators and games (like Cave Story, which had frame rate drops, and never ran as smooth as it does on my computer) can have better performance on the Pandora than they did on the GP2X...

I'm guessing a lot of emulators won't work since they may have used the second core...or did they? Did PocketSNES?

 

[EvilDragon]

I wonder if emulators and games (like Cave Story, which had frame rate drops, and never ran as smooth as it does on my computer) can have better performance on the Pandora than they did on the GP2X...

Sure, if they run, they will run smoother. It's not emulated (except for some functions), it's being run natively, so there's more horsepower.
I'm hoping for Zelda Classic which ran on the gp2x, but too slow

 

[SomeGuy99]

I wonder if emulators and games (like Cave Story, which had frame rate drops, and never ran as smooth as it does on my computer) can have better performance on the Pandora than they did on the GP2X...

Sure, if they run, they will run smoother. It's not emulated (except for some functions), it's being run natively, so there's more horsepower.
I'm hoping for Zelda Classic which ran on the gp2x, but too slow

Wait... will some stuff run too fast? I guess we'll have to clock the Pandora down?

Did we determine if clocking down saves battery yet?

 

[Phawx]

I wonder if emulators and games (like Cave Story, which had frame rate drops, and never ran as smooth as it does on my computer) can have better performance on the Pandora than they did on the GP2X...

Sure, if they run, they will run smoother. It's not emulated (except for some functions), it's being run natively, so there's more horsepower.
I'm hoping for Zelda Classic which ran on the gp2x, but too slow

Wait... will some stuff run too fast? I guess we'll have to clock the Pandora down?

Did we determine if clocking down saves battery yet?

I haven't been here in quite awhile, started to lose interest a bit as I've been messing around with emulators on my Galaxy S, but GINGE just renewed my interest in Pandora big time. I haven't been following Pandora news, I was in the 700-800 pile for GBAX, what does that equate to in time? Can anyone give a guess?

 

[Blue Ion]

Wait... will some stuff run too fast? I guess we'll have to clock the Pandora down?

Did we determine if clocking down saves battery yet?

Unless the downclocking comes with a downvolting of the cpu, it won't save a single electron. Note how Hotfix 4 from ED will actually remove the downclocking to 14 mhz as it caused problems (namely speed not resetting to the previous one, or taking too much to do so) and the benefits are still to be proven.

Besides, unless the games relied on exactly how much a cycle took to execute, they won't mind a vastly superior cpu. I mean, the GP2X could be overclocked, right? Those games or programs that relied on such timing would speed up when overclocked.

Then again, I barely know of the GP2X scene, so I might be wrong on how many games went so deep to the hardware.

But having such well aged repository of programs is good fresh air to the pandora, wiz and in the future the caanoo.

I like consoles with good backwards compatibility as it helps mitigate the initial lack of software with the best of the previous generation.

 

[EvilDragon]

I wonder if emulators and games (like Cave Story, which had frame rate drops, and never ran as smooth as it does on my computer) can have better performance on the Pandora than they did on the GP2X...

Sure, if they run, they will run smoother. It's not emulated (except for some functions), it's being run natively, so there's more horsepower.
I'm hoping for Zelda Classic which ran on the gp2x, but too slow

Wait... will some stuff run too fast? I guess we'll have to clock the Pandora down?

Only if badly coded - usually, games should run at a certain speed (e.g. 60fps).
Once they reach it, they won't go faster.
But it might be that they could only achieve for example 30fps on the GP2X.
Then they should work faster and smoother on WIZ and Pandora.

Did we determine if clocking down saves battery yet?

Unless the downclocking comes with a downvolting of the cpu, it won't save a single electron. Note how Hotfix 4 from ED will actually remove the downclocking to 14 mhz as it caused problems (namely speed not resetting to the previous one, or taking too much to do so) and the benefits are still to be proven.

It's back in - since I changed the scripts a bit and tested it and never had any problem with speed not going back.
I guess that problem mostly occured when you opened the lid while in low-power mode, as that triggered the lid script but not the Power-saving script.

 

[WizardStan]

It's back in - since I changed the scripts a bit and tested it and never had any problem with speed not going back.
I guess that problem mostly occured when you opened the lid while in low-power mode, as that triggered the lid script but not the Power-saving script.

I'm pretty sure there are other problems with downclocking so low. There are people reporting that they lose several minutes/hours on their clock which seems to only be happening when it's in low power mode (or so I've been able to glean from assorted descriptions of the problem).
Regardless, clocking it down so low doesn't really help unless it is accompanied by a reduction to OPP1, as Blue Ion mentioned. I think it was tsh that proved that with his new kernel tests.

 

[gruso]

Very low quality vid, I might update it with a better version when I figure out how to computer.

Pandora running Cubase in Hatari, driving a Commodore 64 with MSSIAH cart, via USB MIDI. You can't see my face in the video but trust me, it was grinning big.

 

[skeezix]

Gruso -- You are a giant among nerds! I was waiting for someone to try that, so awesome

jeff

 

[SomeGuy99]

great, Gruso, with a few beats on it, we'll throw a house music party, thanks

Nice. Sounds so raw on the real thing. I like it. B)

 

[Trip]

Anybody seen this video yet? Nice tech video of a new desktop in progress that has some cracking effects in use. Just come across it and it looks pretty damn interesting.

WARNING: Does show a woman with her baps out, so get the kids out of the room first

 

[SomeGuy99]

Anybody seen this video yet? Nice tech video of a new desktop in progress that has some cracking effects in use. Just come across it and it looks pretty damn interesting.

WARNING: Does show a woman with her baps out, so get the kids out of the room first

It looks awesome. Any more info?

Nice use of Michael Jackson too.

 

[Trip]

It looks awesome. Any more info?

Not at the moment. Just his YouTube page here!
Hopefully he'll pop by and let us know some more details soon

Yeah Michael Jackson was good but I personally prefer the desktop strippers that used to be popular :lol:

 

[shillbert]

The creator already posted on the board about it here:

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/55729-easeenhanced-automated-software-environment-any-interest/

 

[Trip]

The creator already posted on the board about it here:

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/55729-easeenhanced-automated-software-environment-any-interest/

Ah missed that. The trouble with not having an Internet connection at home

 

[Michoko]

Hi,

Anyone interested in making a video of Ginge in action? I'd love to see how Pcsx4All and Mame4All are running...

Thanks!

 

[shillbert]

EvilDragon already posted a video, can't find the thread at the moment but there is the video:

[media]http://www.youtube.c...h?v=PAhzBNJE3pI[/media]

 

[Wolfsclaw]

yeah but it doesn't show pcsx4all =/