On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:19:28PM +0100, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Can someone please confirm (or hopefully otherwise) that any attempt to > build RPCEmu to run under Android would be pointless!
It is unlikely that a practical port of RPCEmu could be made for Android. Bolting RISC OS's keyboard and 3 button mouse interface into a touchscreen world would likely be unpleasant. It would require a port of the allegro gfx lib for android, or moving rpcemu away from allegro (both are a lot of work). It's performance would be sub ARM2 speed on all current and pobably the next few years worth of ARM cores. This is way under the ARM6 speed that would make it a practical RPC emulator. "But what about Dynarec?", a very large chunk of work for an ARM on ARM dynarec would offer performance that might just about be acceptable on the highest end devices. Whilst it might not be impossible to create a practical Android port, you may be massively underestimating the effort it would require. Peter -- Peter Howkins [email protected] _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
