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Calculator Community => Casio Calculators => Topic started by: Spenceboy98 on February 26, 2012, 05:50:16 pm
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Is anyone working on a gameboy/gameboy color emulator for the PRIZM? How about GBA? I'm just wondering because it is a cool idea for someone to try.
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Sadly not at the moment, but it would be very possible, since it was done on both the TI-84 Plus and the TI-Nspire. GBA would be impossible, though, since the much more powerful TI-Nspire could barely handle GBA emulation. It would most likely be GB and GBC.
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Although finding the ROMS that work is not very fun :( and sometimes illegal depending on the game. I'm more into simple porting the games directly
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yes, technically, one of the things I'm looking into while disassembling the OS is the ability to have a GBA emulator.
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Although finding the ROMS that work is not very fun :( and sometimes illegal depending on the game. I'm more into simple porting the games directly
Yeah usually we can't ourselves provide links for legal reasons, and figuring out which game is legal to share is hard. Usually Google nowadays does a pretty good job, though, compared to a few years ago, else there's file sharing sites.
But yeah for GBA I'm curious if it would even be possible at all, because the Nspire Clickpad ran at 150 MHz max and could barely handle GBA emulation (only one mapper at once was supported, IIRC), so now imagine on a 116 MHz processor.
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Although finding the ROMS that work is not very fun :( and sometimes illegal depending on the game. I'm more into simple porting the games directly
Yeah usually we can't ourselves provide links for legal reasons, and figuring out which game is legal to share is hard. Usually Google nowadays does a pretty good job, though, compared to a few years ago, else there's file sharing sites.
But yeah for GBA I'm curious if it would even be possible at all, because the Nspire Clickpad ran at 150 MHz max and could barely handle GBA emulation (only one mapper at once was supported, IIRC), so now imagine on a 116 MHz processor.
More like only one mapper was supported because I only implemented one of them :P
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I don't even remember that. Was it just a tech demo? Did you ever even post it in a topic? O_o
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I think that a Gameboy Color emulator on the Prizm would work.
Game Boy Classic:
CPU: 4 mHz, 8-bit CPU, a 160 x 144 dot matrix monochrome LCD display
;kind of sounds like a Ti-84 :P
Gameboy Color
CPU:Sharp Corporation LR35902 running at 4.19 MHz.
The Gameboy advance
CPU: 16.8 MHz 32-bit ARM7TDMI with embedded memory.
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Gameboy and gameboy color are definitely feasible. GBA... probably not.
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Well remember we don't just take the RAM and CPU into account though, but the graphic card or video capabilities as well, which, I think, calculator lacks (on top of that the PRIZM display is capped at 20 FPS or something)
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Also, if we can support GBA on Prizm, doesn't it also mean that we can make sound come out of the calculator without any earphones?
So, my guess is, probably not :P
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I think a gameboy emulator would already be a massively outstanding achievement, let alone GBA.
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Well since GBC emulator is possible on the Nspire, shouldn't it be not very hard to do on a Prizm?
Or is it a whole different level?
[side note]
leafy u need 120 more posts
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What language is it in on the Nspire?
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ARM ASM if I'm not mistaken.
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Well I am assuming that it will have to be in C though on the Prizm
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Well since GBC emulator is possible on the Nspire, shouldn't it be not very hard to do on a Prizm?
Or is it a whole different level?
[side note]
leafy u need 120 more posts
nspire use arm9 processor, prizm use sh3 processor
there are some pocket pcs (old pdas) that use this processor (sh3)
if is possible port windowsCE to prizm we have emulators, games, office, etc...
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if is possible port windowsCE to prizm we have emulators, games, office, etc...
It may be possible, but you would have to solder additional RAM chip into your Prizm :-)
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From what I heard we cannot port Window$CE to prizm. Don't quote me on that though (pun intended) ;)
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Well since GBC emulator is possible on the Nspire, shouldn't it be not very hard to do on a Prizm?
Or is it a whole different level?
[side note]
leafy u need 120 more posts
Yes it would be rather easy I guess. Due to hardware limitations it would run at 21 FPS but it would be so fast that you could even allow the user to disable speed throttling.
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Well I am assuming that it will have to be in C though on the Prizm
Or it could be written in SH3 ASM.
Well since GBC emulator is possible on the Nspire, shouldn't it be not very hard to do on a Prizm?
Or is it a whole different level?
[side note]
leafy u need 120 more posts
nspire use arm9 processor, prizm use sh3 processor
there are some pocket pcs (old pdas) that use this processor (sh3)
if is possible port windowsCE to prizm we have emulators, games, office, etc...
The problems I see with that would be:
1. Copyright- I'm sure WindowsCE is copyrighted..
2. Size- I don't know how large WindowsCE is, but the Prizm has limited space.
3. Hardware- I don't know how similar or dissimilar the devices running WindowsCE are compared to the Prizm.