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Post by scarface350 on Feb 14, 2009 7:33:43 GMT 1
Is there ever going to be a (good) GBA emulator for the palm? I want to play Golden Sun again someday...  |
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Post by coder12 on Feb 14, 2009 17:24:29 GMT 1
Well, firestorm is good, if you have a 1-2ghz processor.  Eventually, there may be a GBA emulator, but lets face it, it's hard to say whats going to happen with Palm os when the Pre gets released. |
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Post by _Em on Feb 14, 2009 22:34:08 GMT 1
Currently, the options are:
Firestorm (to run GBA games a 1-2FPS)
DmitryGBARM (not released/stable/user friendly -- only useful if your name is Dmitry Grinberg)
MysteryARMGBAEmu (mostly finished generic ARM code for GBA emulator -- needs to be ported to a PalmOS interface to be useful)
I think that about sums up your options currently -- which is to say, if you want a playable GBA emulator on PalmOS, you're going to have to either spend a LOT of money or do a LOT of coding.
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Post by scarface350 on Feb 16, 2009 21:26:06 GMT 1
So what's going on with LJP/LJX then? Hasn't updated in some time. Dev must be busy.
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Post by coder12 on Feb 17, 2009 4:32:49 GMT 1
So what's going on with LJP/LJX then? Hasn't updated in some time. Dev must be busy. If you read around you'd know that Tinnus was abducted by aliens. Actually he's been busy with life lately. . . . ;D |
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Post by countbuggula on Feb 17, 2009 18:24:00 GMT 1
PalmOS is officially dead (and Palm has said so themselves). There will be no new devices released ever using the PalmOS as we currently know it, so there's not a whole lot of incentive for developers to program anything for this platform.
The same goes for our list of Port requests - I've given up on any of them hitting the light of day. I figure I'll get a Pre, hope we get hardware-level programming access to it someday, and then wait for the ports to flood in.
I'm fairly happy with what I've got on my 755, and just have to acknowledge that it isn't ever gonna get any better on this hardware.
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 20, 2009 15:50:55 GMT 1
That's pretty much it. It's hard to get the will to do anything for PalmOS nowadays. I know I've not used any of my PalmOS devices for a long time, and that was only for testing LJX.
Pretty much I'm always too busy and not interested in PalmOS too much anymore--not that I'm not interested in LJX though. Most of the framework there works great, it "only" needs a UI. One of these days I get it "done" for some platform (likely the Pandora) and anyone can be free to fix the PalmOS backend (which is there, just buggy as you know since I have relreased (I think) builds of NES and SMS modules).
I thought about porting gpSP, but getting that to work with its dynarec wold be a royal PITA thanks to PalmOS too.
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Post by coder12 on Feb 21, 2009 0:31:15 GMT 1
Couldn't you use some of the code from ppsx's dynarec? Or was that never completed?
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 21, 2009 14:35:43 GMT 1
That was never completed. Also, there's already support for ARM in gpSP's dynarec because of the GP2X version. The problem is that PalmOS doesn't like you messing with low-level stuff too much (some registers can't be used and stuff like that).
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Post by scarface350 on Feb 22, 2009 4:03:25 GMT 1
So Tinnus, any chance on LJP/X making it's way to the Pre?
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Post by coder12 on Feb 22, 2009 23:04:38 GMT 1
So Tinnus, any chance on LJP/X making it's way to the Pre? I think that the first question with that will be can we jailbrake the pre?  |
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Post by _Em on Feb 22, 2009 23:26:17 GMT 1
So Tinnus, any chance on LJP/X making it's way to the Pre? I think that the first question with that will be can we jailbrake the pre? Let me fix that for you... I think that the first question with that will be when can we jailbrake the pre? |
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Post by countbuggula on Feb 24, 2009 7:10:25 GMT 1
The whole reason I want a Pre is to run native code on it. I mean the feature set is nice, but only if we can get our grubby little hands on the fleshy undervelly of the beast.
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Post by Tinnus on Feb 25, 2009 4:12:30 GMT 1
Yeah, but it seems likely that Palm doesn't want us to. Well, unfortunately for you, I'm not getting any smartphones anytime soon. As much nontrendy as it seems, I don't like the idea of a smartphone at all, although I do like cameraphones and that's why I have a SE k790  It's not a semi-pro camera as I wanted (sometimes you just *need* manual focus control and optical zoom) but it gets the job done for those "I need a photo of that!" moments on the road Back to the point, I'd rather have something like my current phone that does calls + photos + FM radio (I don't use it for anything else 99% of the time), and have some other kind of handheld/gaming/micropc device I can carry around when I know in advance I'll want/need it (say in boring family reunions ). That's why I like so much the idea of the Pandora (not to mention being able to pair it via BT to the phone to have a decent web experience anywhere). So, sorry, even if the Pre gets jailbroken, very likely I won't be doing anything especially for it. But anything I do (any homebrew of course) will be open source, so Metaview can get it and do a Pre version |
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Post by countbuggula on Feb 25, 2009 17:42:17 GMT 1
That is, of course assuming Metaview decides to go with the Pre as well. I haven't heard anything from him about it lately - Henk, what are your thoughts? Are you going to get your hands on one (I hear they will be available in Europe) or will you wait to see what others can do with it first? Or are you not even remotely interested?
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Post by scarface350 on Feb 26, 2009 8:56:06 GMT 1
Is the Pandora out in the US?
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Post by coder12 on Feb 26, 2009 23:08:03 GMT 1
That is, of course assuming Metaview decides to go with the Pre as well. I haven't heard anything from him about it lately - Henk, what are your thoughts? Are you going to get your hands on one (I hear they will be available in Europe) or will you wait to see what others can do with it first? Or are you not even remotely interested? Iirc metaview has a GSM phone, and Sprint is CDMA, so he'd have to switch carriers if he wanted one.  |
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Post by countbuggula on Feb 26, 2009 23:39:28 GMT 1
That is, of course assuming Metaview decides to go with the Pre as well. I haven't heard anything from him about it lately - Henk, what are your thoughts? Are you going to get your hands on one (I hear they will be available in Europe) or will you wait to see what others can do with it first? Or are you not even remotely interested? Iirc metaview has a GSM phone, and Sprint is CDMA, so he'd have to switch carriers if he wanted one. He's not in the US - the Sprint exclusive is only for the US. Palm will be rolling out a GSM Pre in Europe and worldwide just for Metaview. |
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It's not a semi-pro camera as I wanted (sometimes you just *need* manual focus control and optical zoom) but it gets the job done for those "I need a photo of that!" moments on the road 