GBA support??and new key mapping design

[frostymoon]

Menchi, thank you for your reply - it had seemed like no one was ever going to post in this thread! I had found a site that showed some reverse engineering but it was extremely difficult! Ah well, I never really own or wanted one. I just thought it would be a nice palm emu that could incorporate the touch screen! By the way, Excel Saga is awesome!

[Menchi]

That's nothing, tht's what we're here for, right

BTW, I love anime ^-^ ''!! uh,but I don't like english or spanish translations too much... japanese is more understeble for me.

em said:

For that matter, I know a cat that browses the internet by sitting on/batting the keyboard and mouse. I think the cat's around 2.

Nooo! we can't loose!!!. *brings a 5 months old mouse and put it on the keyboard* ... come on little friend!!! goooooo!!! XD

*test failed* mice are just too light to push a key-_-u

But wait! if I press his head a bit.... ;D ;D ;D
eh? no, I... I wasn't cheating, he posted this whole by his own

[linum]

Gamecom... that brings back old memories.

I never owned one but, I actually bought one for an ex-girlfriends mom. It was cool but it had its bad things to.

It was cool because I think it incorporated a modem to hook it up to and play the game with other gamecom users online (but I could be wrong so, somebody please correct me if I am). It also was a PDA. It came with a stylus and it had basic applications for Contacts, Calculator, and more (which I can't remember the others).

The bad things... It was monocrome (grayscale). It came with no games, so that ment you had to buy one along with the unit.

Yep, I ended up buying Jeoperdy (because my ex-girlfriend's mom loved the show), and -I kid you not- she playd it every day and never got bored of that game.


Well, theres my two cents for the Gamecom.



linum

[Menchi]

*writen by menchi's mouse while she's far, far away *

linum said:

It was cool because I think it incorporated a modem to hook it up to and play the game with other gamecom users online (but I could be wrong so, somebody please correct me if I am).

The bad things... It was monocrome (grayscale). It came with no games, so that ment you had to buy one along with the unit.

Yes, that was a modem dechu!... menchi told 14400 bps modem dechu.

The main problem was that it ran on external batteries, so all the info you had was lost easily-so it was not a very useful PDA dechu-

Also, had very slow screen update rate, and, because it's SDK was difficult to find, it had too few games.

But it was cheap, and thing like modem and touch screen were two great features dechu. In my opinion, it was a great console, but maybe it came before its time.... ...dechu. ;D

lol...

[mattx2]

Yes, MORE THAN ANYTHING else I would love to see ljp playing GBA. There is absolutely NO emulator working for a stadard palm os5+ device at this time (8/11/06) of any normal degree of use, including firestorm. I own a T650 and a few more palm os devices and I am an expert with palm and know about every single memory and cpu hack/enhancer out there. I know for sure if you can be the first to make a emulator capable of playing GBA roms, then your donations will go way up and make Ljp the absolute best of pda game emulation. I know is possible, SNES will run perfectly with the right settings/hacks GBA res is not much different.

[_Em]

I'm sorry? You know it's possible because the screen resolutions of two devices is similar? So is the screen resolution of a Videocassette Recorder. Emulation, however, would be problematic.

Firestorm shows you that emulation is possible, but slow. With enough hand tooled fine tuning in ARM ASM, this could probably be improved... I suggest you go learn some, and then you can speed up the development

Personally, I think it'd be great if LJR was written in such a way that people could write, compile and drop in their own emulator modules -- all that would need to change for this would be 1) to add a header that contained the platform name, the emulator name, the version, and the front end features it made use of, and 2) seperate out the interface code from the emulator core, so that the emulators could call a unified library. I doubt it would actually be used much, but hey... with such a setup, I might actually try to backport a modern version of SNES9x

For comparison, this is essentially what Richard Bannister has done with emulators for the Mac OS -- he has one central library, and he is able to drop in new emulation core code to emulate a new system, while leaving most of the interface the same. Of course, he compiles his UI library seperately for each emulator, and keeps things closed source -- but he also does something else: he has hooks in the core library that enables him to also create an enhancement library which he sells as shareware. Such a thing could also work for LJR Make the launcher and core interface an application platform people can develop on top of

[neko68k]

What would be really neat is a ARM foundation library. Say, LJP and others are using parts of the YAHM api, giving Palm API access using stubs instead of PACE. If you were to build on top of this code for fast blitting(word move, etc) and/or raw access to framebuffer space(no more endian conversion) and/or sound buffer. Compile and distribute as a static library w/source.

This would be potentially useful as a base for all further palm porting initiatives.

For instance we already have LibPalmFilters which contains Eagle and 2xSaI, etc. We have palmboot.a and that other one that come with YAHM.

[wired]

em said:

For that matter, I know a cat that browses the internet by sitting on/batting the keyboard and mouse. I think the cat's around 2.

haha, reminds me of this past year my youngest cat (1 years old) just can't get enough of my laptop. Especially when I'm watching the news off the net. They aren't allowed to touch my pda's though