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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: steuben on August 17, 2004, 08:02:32 pm

Title: intel emus
Post by: steuben on August 17, 2004, 08:02:32 pm

here\'s an interesting exercise. build a pentium iii emu for a 286. or if you are feeling particularly ambitious a p4 emu for an 086.

there doesn\'t appear to be any pratical problems, or at least i can\'t see any.

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Post by: Yarulion on August 17, 2004, 08:26:49 pm

Huh? o.O

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Post by: steuben on August 17, 2004, 08:43:08 pm

the instruction sets are backwards compadible. but, they aren\'t forewards compadible.

so basically i\'m floating the idea of an emu.

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Post by: Yarulion on August 17, 2004, 08:53:45 pm

OK, in this instance I meant \"Huh?\" like \"Wtf is this dude talking about? Sounds like a bunch of technical gibberish... I know what a pentium III is...\" rather than \"Huh?\" meaning \"Hmm, I really wish he would tell me more, in a similarly complicated manner, about why this is so interesting.\"

So, to clarify...
...are you talking about this kind of emu?
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Post by: steuben on August 17, 2004, 09:32:47 pm

emu: abreviation of emulator.
example: psx emu; a program to run pxs games on an unrelated processor and equipment.

as to why it is interesting? well, probably like climbing mountins because they are there.

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Post by: karakth on August 17, 2004, 09:48:26 pm

Hmm but wouldn\'t it be extremely slow?

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Post by: dfryer on August 18, 2004, 07:51:33 pm

It would be fantastically, retardedly slow.  Slower than.. well, whatever processor you were using to do the emulation :)

It is, however, quite possible;  I would guess that an open-source emulator like bochs could be targeted for 386 instead of pentium.