Incidentally, I wondered about the cycle-accuracy of the emulation. Could
we have accurare emulation of ARM2/250/3 level performance even if we can't
emulate the hardware of the Archimedes at this point?

On 3 March 2018 at 22:46, J Percival <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's strange that Acorn were...at least in some people's opinion - big on
> backwards compatibility - but compared to the PC world, they didn't seem to
> do it very well.
> Regarding Arculator/RPCEmu, I don't know, but looking at
> http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/ V0.1 of Arculator came out before
> V0.1 (or any version) of RPCEmu.
>
> On 3 March 2018 at 21:36, Peter Howkins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:20:58PM +0000, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
>> > Probably a stupid question, but, I’ve been thinking recently, how
>> difficult
>> > would it be to extend the RPCemu emulation to emulate the ARM2, ARM250,
>> > and ARM3 processors in order to run Arthur, RISC OS 2 and RISC OS 3 in
>> > (and, effectively, emulate an Archimedes)?
>>
>> It's a large amount of work for archimedes support, of which the ARM is
>> the relatively easy bit.
>>
>> I've considered it, but it's a long long way from happening anytime soon.
>>
>> > Didn’t RPCemu evolve from Arculator, originally?
>>
>> I think it might have been the other way round, though I'm not sure. They
>> both shared a large chunk of code.
>>
>> In general, stick to Arculator, if it does what you want it too.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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