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Does anyone used any software based Intellivision emulators with SP0256-AL2 support? Thanks, Ken www.speechchips.com...
Ken
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May 20, 2004
1:26 am
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Ken, No Intellivision emulators directly emulate the SP0256-AL2, because that is not the chip used in the Intellivoice. In principle, they could emulate the...
Joe Zbiciak
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May 20, 2004
4:39 am
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Yes, Bliss emulates the SP0256. I have source for both Java and C++ if you want it....
kyle-davis@...
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May 20, 2004
4:21 pm
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Nostalgia does not support IVoice at all, yet. It's one of those things I'm getting around to. I'd like to do it from scratch as a learning experience. Lots...
Joe Fisher
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Hey, guys. I have some pretty exciting news. Well...exciting to me, anyway. Take a look at the first few shots of my latest Intellivision emulation project,...
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kyledavis25
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May 20, 2004
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WOW! I for one am very impressed to see this! Out of curiosity, what kind of hardware do these kind of things have as compared to the desktop computers we use...
Ryan Kinnen
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May 20, 2004
11:14 pm
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Kyle, nice work. I know nothing about developing for cellphones, however. Care to give us some specs, such as processor speed, language used, etc.? What...
lardlad48081
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May 20, 2004
11:23 pm
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... Atari 2600!...
Tricky
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May 20, 2004
11:59 pm
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Sweet! Looks great, Kyle. I just got an iPAQ, and was wondering to myself how hard it'd be to port to Pocket Windows 2003... I agree with the others, let's...
Joe Fisher
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May 21, 2004
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Pretty sweet! Good job dude! ... From: kyle-davis@... To: intvprog@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: [intvprog] New...
Evil
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May 21, 2004
2:46 am
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Thanks! The phone is a Motorola V600 running the emulation in a Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) virtual machine. Most of these new cell phones support J2ME, and ...
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May 21, 2004
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It's written in Java. There's no native language that I can use that will be cross-platform (excluding a small number of Symbian-enabled cell phones). I'm...
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May 21, 2004
3:06 pm
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I can think of many ways to greatly improve the performance of your emulator. First of all, if you haven't yet, check out my Intellivision for Game Boy...
lardlad48081
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May 22, 2004
2:21 am
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Carl, Very good suggestions indeed, although not all apply to a Java based emulator. The biggest suggestions that'll help Kyle are: -- Losing the cycle...
Joe Zbiciak
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May 23, 2004
3:02 am
3643
Kyle, This looks very nice. Great job! Now about the possible optimizations, I think the following questions have some importance: - What is the most expensive...
a_chevallier
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May 24, 2004
11:01 am
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All, Speaking of emulators on underpowered hardware ... I'm working from time to time on an Intellivision emulator for the Atari ST. This project is however...
Arnauld Chevallier
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Jun 1, 2004
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... For the EXEC, you could always have a predecoded image of what EXEC loads into RAM, since it's fixed. In general, if you wanted to support self-modifying...
Joe Zbiciak
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Jun 1, 2004
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... Yes, that's more or less what I'm planning to do. ... Agreed. But that would have a slight CPU cost, anyway. So, I'm not sure it's worth doing that. As far...
a_chevallier
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Jun 1, 2004
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... I'm sure you knew you were going to hear from me, Arnold. :-) Of Course, I think you can definitely do it. If I can get an emulator to function at full...
lardlad48081
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Jun 2, 2004
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... Sure! As a side note, "Arnauld" is pronounced "Arno" in French, not "Arnold". Not that I really care about the way you write it or pronounce it, anyway....
a_chevallier
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Jun 2, 2004
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All, Assuming that opcodes are pre-decoded before execution, it's possible to create some specialized routines. I think I'm going to try that. Some existing...
a_chevallier
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Jun 2, 2004
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... I had this same idea, and after some testing, found that it was not a worthwhile optimization. Basically, specific combinations do not occur frequently...
lardlad48081
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Jun 3, 2004
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... Ok. That makes sense. ... Yes, that's also what I'm doing. However, I could go a step further and precompute immediate values on 16 bits (see below) rather...
a_chevallier
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Jun 3, 2004
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... Yes, I'm taking advantage of that situation too (and many others). Here's the code for MVII with SDBD: MVII_16:: ; MoVe In...
lardlad48081
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Jun 4, 2004
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Is there a document out there that explains the EXEC calls? I looked in the DeReIntellivision but it is minimal. I could not find anything in the SDK docs. ...
David Harley
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Jun 4, 2004
2:39 am
3654
... There are two things you need: -- Your Friend the EXEC. This document describes the programming model for the EXEC. -- A list of entry points. YFTE...
Joe Zbiciak
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Jun 4, 2004
2:59 am
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All, Something I've been meaning to post for awhile... Below is a disassembly of the Intellivoice's ROM. This might be useful to anyone wanting to emulate the...
Joe Zbiciak
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Jun 4, 2004
4:18 am
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David... I agree that the EXEC documentation is very minimal. The best source of information I have come across is a document which contains the disassembled...
Ryan Kinnen
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Jun 7, 2004
4:35 pm
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... The package can be found in the 'Files' section of this list. Just look for 'dsm1600.zip' here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intvprog/files/ -- Arnauld...
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Jun 7, 2004
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