Vice on the DS?

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Pedro Lambrini
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Vice on the DS?

Post by Pedro Lambrini »

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. :)
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Post by CurtisP »

If there is a GCC for the DS it should be possible. I'm considering trying to port Vice to the Nintendo GameCube. One of the Atari 800 emulators has been ported to the GameCube, already.
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Post by Kweepa »

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. :P
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Post by Diddl »

There was a vice port for NDS, but it was too slow. NDS has two processors: 66 MHz Arm9 and a 33 MHz Arm 7


But vice runs very fine on my WIZ (Arm9 with 500MHz).
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Post by ravenxau »

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. :P
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.
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Post by Mike »

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: ;)

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Try the GP2x or the Pandora !
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