I like your idea. I had a couple of thoughts.... "The main processor is a 400MHz+ XScale CPU running embbedded Windows CE. This allows many emulator writers to take advantage of their current skills in Win32 development systems. This CPU would also be powerful enough to emulate most, if not all, 8-bit and 16-bit machines."
How would this compare, roughly, to an x86 processor in terms of processing power? To emulate an OCS / ECS Amiga takes some serious CPU cycles while AGA is still sluggish without some seriously powerful PC hardware even now. The custom ICs takes some conversion time due to it's use of planer gfx and not chunky-RGB. This would be nice to emulate PlayStation 1 and N64 stuff. I like the use of SD. Maybe Compact Flash might be a possible alternative as well if necessary. (See M/B below). If CPU power wasn't hugely important, you could probably build a slightly larger, but still silent version, using the ITX boards from VIA, like this one.... http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_5475.html Rgs, Andy Saturday, February 12, 2005, 2:13:22 PM, you wrote: Jason> Hi guys, Jason> I have been putting down some of my (admittedly random) thoughts on how to Jason> get the best possible emulation experience and I have weeded out some of the Jason> best at Jason> http://www.koriel.net/EmulatorIdea.htm Jason> I would really appreciate it if some of you would deign to look at the page Jason> and even (Shock! Horror!) give me some ideas for how this may be improved in Jason> some way. Who knows, maybe somebody with the skills to build these things Jason> (i.e. not me!) may even take some of them on board! Jason> Thanks, Jason> Jason
