Re: It has been done before

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:31:59 GMT
"Dunny" <paul.dunn4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:We've already written a couple
:of emulators, and don't feel that the work involved in translating z80 to
:x86 is worth the end result.

Although I agree with your decision about the Sinclair games, I feel
obliged to point out that the issue has little to do with translating z80
to x86, which is fairly trivial.

The issues of screen display, sound, timing, and OS APIs are Sinclair vs
Wintel problems, which transcend both mcpu architecture and assembly
language vs high level language considerations.

In addition, such problems are not overcome by an x86 emulator, but
require a full Sinclair emulator -- a much more difficult task.

-- Chuck
.

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