On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 21.12.2010, at 02:24, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 21.12.2010 um 01:10 schrieb Alexander Graf: >> >>> On 21.12.2010, at 01:06, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> >>>> Am 20.12.2010 um 23:45 schrieb Alexander Graf: >>>> >>>>> On 31.05.2009, at 17:20, Stuart Brady wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Here's an update of the Z80 system emulator, which currently emulates >>>>>> the ZX Spectrum only. [...] >>>>> >>>>> [...] do you think it's a valuable target to have in upstream qemu? >>>> >>>> The z80 was also used in the more modern TI-83 Plus programmable >>>> calculator [1], for instance >>> >>> The general I/O framework is heavily geared towards server and desktop use. >>> The main use case of the Z80 that I'm aware of is the GameBoy. Not sure >>> that one fits in there too well :). >>> >>> The Spectrum however does fit the desktop case, so it certainly has my >>> blessings. >> >> Knowing the ZX Spectrum only from the attic, I agree that emulating game >> consoles is not the primary purpose or strength of QEMU. >> (Although I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to contribute a PS3 machine for >> Cell B.E. emulation!) >> >> Fwiw mips, arm, m68k, cris, microblaze seem to form a growing third category >> of QEMU targets though, embedded systems. > > Oh, sure. I'd count in embedded systems here too. My main point was that we > don't have frameworks to deal with Joysticks, 3D or other stuff real game > system emulation would need.
With the emulation of the ancient machine based game platform it is even more complicated: games expect some certain timings from the CPU, graphic and sound cards. So, I'm not sure if TCG can be used for it. > To be honest, maybe creating a library out of the CPU emulation code that > projects like MAME could then use might prove more beneficial. I've thought > about this for plenty other projects too. GBA emulation could use ARM TCG, > Dolphin could use PPC TCG, etc. But none of these actually require our device > model - they already have their own. > > > Alex > > > -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/
