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Would there ever be a gameboy emulator for Hp 50g ?
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Calculusk
Apr 10, 2012, 3:25:41 PM4/10/12
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Hi guys this is my first post in this forum . i recently bought a hp
50g and im in love with rpn. i have a few games installed of which
including tetris, super mario, cyclo and some others . ive owned a ti
84 SE of which i used tiboy to play gameboy roms . my question is
would there ever be a gameboy emulator like ti ?
50g and im in love with rpn. i have a few games installed of which
including tetris, super mario, cyclo and some others . ive owned a ti
84 SE of which i used tiboy to play gameboy roms . my question is
would there ever be a gameboy emulator like ti ?
Calculusk
Apr 10, 2012, 3:25:08 PM4/10/12
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Han
Apr 11, 2012, 12:52:24 PM4/11/12
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gameboy and the calculator both use the same CPU. Therefore, it is
relatively easy to create a program on the TI calculators that are
capable of handling the ROM files properly.
The HP calculators use a completely different CPU, and therefore it
would be highly unlikely that that there would be a gameboy emulator
on the HP calculators since it would require actually creating an
emulator for the CPU used in the gameboy.
If you think of the ROM file as a regular light bulb, and the gameboy
and TI calculator as two different lamps that can use the same light
bulb, then the HP would be like a fluorescent lamp that uses long
fluorescent tubes and hence would not be able to accept the regular
bulb (ROM file) without some adapter (emulation).
George
Apr 13, 2012, 8:49:36 AM4/13/12
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Travis Evans
Apr 13, 2012, 3:13:49 PM4/13/12
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:52:24 -0700 (PDT), Han <handuo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
extremely close. But I'm nitpicking.
That said, there has been at least one Game Boy emulator written in C
for the TI-89, TI-92+, and Voyage 200 calculators, which use a totally
different Motorola 68000 processor. If a ~12 MHz 68000 can do Game Boy
emulation, I don't see why an even faster ARM processor couldn't also do
it.
The CPU is only half of the problem. Even on the Z80 TIs, emulating the
Game Boy's hardware is no trivial task, and is probably even more
challenging than emulating the CPU itself.
--
Travis
wrote:
> On Apr 10, 3:25 pm, Calculusk <khalilhussai...@gmx.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys this is my first post in this forum . i recently bought a hp
>> 50g and im in love with rpn. i have a few games installed of which
>> including tetris, super mario, cyclo and some others . ive owned a ti
>> 84 SE of which i used tiboy to play gameboy roms . my question is
>> would there ever be a gameboy emulator like ti ?
>
> The reason the gameboy ROMs work on the TI calculators is because the
> gameboy and the calculator both use the same CPU. Therefore, it is
> relatively easy to create a program on the TI calculators that are
> capable of handling the ROM files properly.
>
> The HP calculators use a completely different CPU, and therefore it
> would be highly unlikely that that there would be a gameboy emulator
> on the HP calculators since it would require actually creating an
> emulator for the CPU used in the gameboy.
Technically, the Game Boy's CPU is slightly different from the Z80, but
>> Hi guys this is my first post in this forum . i recently bought a hp
>> 50g and im in love with rpn. i have a few games installed of which
>> including tetris, super mario, cyclo and some others . ive owned a ti
>> 84 SE of which i used tiboy to play gameboy roms . my question is
>> would there ever be a gameboy emulator like ti ?
>
> The reason the gameboy ROMs work on the TI calculators is because the
> gameboy and the calculator both use the same CPU. Therefore, it is
> relatively easy to create a program on the TI calculators that are
> capable of handling the ROM files properly.
>
> The HP calculators use a completely different CPU, and therefore it
> would be highly unlikely that that there would be a gameboy emulator
> on the HP calculators since it would require actually creating an
> emulator for the CPU used in the gameboy.
extremely close. But I'm nitpicking.
That said, there has been at least one Game Boy emulator written in C
for the TI-89, TI-92+, and Voyage 200 calculators, which use a totally
different Motorola 68000 processor. If a ~12 MHz 68000 can do Game Boy
emulation, I don't see why an even faster ARM processor couldn't also do
it.
The CPU is only half of the problem. Even on the Z80 TIs, emulating the
Game Boy's hardware is no trivial task, and is probably even more
challenging than emulating the CPU itself.
--
Travis
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