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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2013, 01:15:26 pm »
I had a dream that you could shrink the screen down to a 1:1 pixel ratio and use the rest of the screen as a debugger and memory viewer.
That would be amazing. Graphics would be tiny though...




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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2013, 01:45:55 pm »
At first it was 2x2 but it was already too tiny.

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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2013, 01:51:32 pm »
Well I mean it would be okayif it were too tiny, honestly. You're not going to be 100% concerned with whats on the screen. 2x2 is normal to me, because I'm not super picky about actual size... 1x1 would work for a debugger. I think there should be three focuses:
1: Get as close to authentic emulation as possible.
2: Make a feature that overdrives the 8x calc you are using so people have more flexibility in case they want a SUPER 84+ or 83+. for example, an 83+ with TONs of memory and storage, or an 84+ at 500% speed. lol just a thought.
3: Somewhat pander the emulator towards developers, not just classroom users. Developers are probably the only people who want to use it anyways, as a student I'd ask "Why use an 84+ when I have an NSPIRE RIGHT HERE!"

Also, allow for overclocking or underclocking. Maybe do a check and ask "Do you want to run it at this speed?" or add a utility in the options bar to over/underclock the calc during emulation as you see fit. :) I have ideas, lots of 'em lol

Mostly because I was going to write a similar project, for the Prizm.
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2013, 01:57:00 pm »
Just so you know, there is absolutely no speed throttling yet, so the current speed is about as fast as it gets.  I also had to remove address-specific breakpoint features in order to reach a reasonable speed, so debugging would be quite slow.

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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2013, 01:58:29 pm »
Then pause on debug would be the way to go, as Wabbit does?
Well I'm sure optimizations are in store for us :)
jacobly, I eagerly await a newer updated release with new features :)
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2013, 03:03:36 pm »
Yeah right now we can still downgrade to 3.1 from 3.2, but who knows what will happen with 3.4 (I recall 3.3 being 3.2 but with arabic language and layout support, right?)
As far as I know, 3.2 == current at this time, 3.3 == arabic, 3.4 == iPad Tablets, 3.5 == Android Tablets (still has to be released, but we know they are working on it...), 3.6 == probably the next major (codename "Luna")
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2013, 03:48:35 pm »
(codename "Luna")
Must say, that's a bit ironic :)
Well, it was one of the "logic" follow-ups to their list, since it's alphabetical and often deals with space things :P
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2013, 07:06:12 pm »
Yeah right now we can still downgrade to 3.1 from 3.2, but who knows what will happen with 3.4 (I recall 3.3 being 3.2 but with arabic language and layout support, right?)
As far as I know, 3.2 == current at this time, 3.3 == arabic, 3.4 == iPad Tablets, 3.5 == Android Tablets (still has to be released, but we know they are working on it...), 3.6 == probably the next major (codename "Luna")
Ah this looks like they're following a similar pattern as the modified 84+ OS on Nspires. For example, OS 2.53-55 MP on the real calc, OS 2.54-56 MP on the Nspire Touch/Clickpad. Just with larger number increases. I guess afterward we will have 3.6, 3.10, 3.14, etc :P (or maybe 4.0 but then it might be confused with the 84+CSE OS)
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #24 on: March 26, 2013, 08:55:00 am »
This is awesome! Nice job!

Hope to see a 68K emu soon.
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2013, 11:07:39 am »
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2013, 12:45:33 pm »
Any documentation coming soon?

Such as key mapping

How to use it

Such and such...

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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2013, 02:08:28 pm »
What could be done too is a key that would pause emulation and display a keymap, if people suddenly forget what the key was for that special key ;)
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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #28 on: March 26, 2013, 02:29:23 pm »
Any documentation coming soon?

Such as key mapping

How to use it

Such and such...
Nope. He wants you to figure out by yourself. :P

But seriously from what I heard the key mapping might change often until the final version, which is why he didn't write any instruction yet. It might be nice to include some extra info in his posts, though, such as how deleting save.tns can fix issues.

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Re: Z80 emulation arrives on the TI-Nspire CX
« Reply #29 on: March 26, 2013, 02:35:10 pm »
Also, how do I install things(e.g. portal, as seen in the video)?