Author: FatRakoon (host213-1-69-5.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: 02-21-2002 00:40
Well, I have been trying to re-write the main chunk of GEMulator code to do such a thing.
If indeed you are asking whether we can use a whole PC, and say the GEMulator card for the TOS ROMS, and I have next to no luck in all honesty, but what I have been trying to do mostly, is actually get GEMulator to do the basics first, which are what darek claims it does, but as many of us know, is utter bullshit, and then to use the Magic Kernal, and have some simple basic things such as any resolutions that are not just bloody ST ones!
I have been working on acually trying to get 256 colours running, and I have had some success, but I think that there is a major problem with having more than 16 colours to be honest, and I doubt its someone with my skills that can acheive it.
Also I have been toying with the idea of completely removing the need for DOS altogether, but this will never happen by me... I have tons of info regarding BIOS level access and indeed, I have been trying out a few little experiments, such as trying to get it to boot up into TOS, but the best I have managed so far, is absolutely sod all!
This is not impossible of course, but then again, the x86 is such a different processor as the 68k that it really should be a hardware project not a software one! ( Not quite true )
Oh, I dont know. I have bee ndoing a lot of things in this area, but in all honesty, I have not got all that far at all, which is a shame, because I am sure I am hitting something good, but never quite getting anything done, this irritates me.
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Ok, the most successful system I have managed to get sorted out so far, is to use GEMulator on a 586/DX133 with 32MB, its running MSDOS ONLY, and using Virtual Drives, but the bonuses are that I have 100% reliable software working.
CuBase can play midi files through the Serial Port for example, and the YM Sound actually plays as it should, which is somethign that Darek never could acheive apparently?
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Ok, so to go back to your original post:-
Yes, I agree, maybe a hardware hack that will work on a PC, that will give us a better clone instead of a dedicated re-build of one, is certainly worth looking into a lot better than it has been perhaps?
If nothing else, surely it should know the price down a little?
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