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Vice on the DS?
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- Pedro Lambrini
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Vice on the DS?
Is it possible to port Vice to the DS? I'd really love a portable version and the DS seems perfect. Top screen for display and keyboard on bottom display. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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- Kweepa
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I would love a version of VICE for the DS.
I contemplated writing it after JarVIC... I'm not sure if the DS is powerful enough to run a VICE port at full speed. It's a 67MHz ARM 9, so it's probably pretty close. There's a C64 emulator out there (based on Frodo rather than VICE) which looks nice (the keyboard is lovely) so possible? Yes.![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
I contemplated writing it after JarVIC... I'm not sure if the DS is powerful enough to run a VICE port at full speed. It's a 67MHz ARM 9, so it's probably pretty close. There's a C64 emulator out there (based on Frodo rather than VICE) which looks nice (the keyboard is lovely) so possible? Yes.
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- Diddl
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Someone with all the right bits and pieces could try running the vic emulator from compute's gazette inside the commodore 64 emultor on the DS - not the best way to do it, but all of the components are alredy developed and ready to go.Kweepa wrote:There's a C64 emulator out there (based on Frodo rather than VICE) which looks nice (the keyboard is lovely) so possible? Yes.
Android Tablet running Frodo 64 emulator running VIC 20 emulator....
- Mike
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I know of a line-based emulation of the C64, which ran at roughly 100% speed on a 40 MHz ARM7 on an Acorn Archimedes. However, for more complex games and demos, a cycle-accurate emulation would be required which would consequently require more power, but ...
... in any case, the DS has only a resolution of 256x192 pixels. While this is on the edge displaying a VIC-20 screen of normal pixel count (the non-square aspect ratio set aside), a C64 screen of 320x200 pixels doesn't fit at all.
I'd rather like to have an emulation of my Casio fx-7500G for my DS instead:![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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... in any case, the DS has only a resolution of 256x192 pixels. While this is on the edge displaying a VIC-20 screen of normal pixel count (the non-square aspect ratio set aside), a C64 screen of 320x200 pixels doesn't fit at all.
I'd rather like to have an emulation of my Casio fx-7500G for my DS instead:
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