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From: dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Nintendo Emulator?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 17:56:45 GMT
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In article <22722@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
>
>   If you see a few versions of this message running around the net please
>excuse them as pws.bull.com seems to have vaporized the two I sent to comp.
>sys.amiga.emulations. Anyway, I thought I'd try it again here...
>
> The story: A friend of mine just picked up a 500 for small business and
>game use. The Nintendo goes into storage. He'd like to continue playing his
>Nintendo games that he has a lot of time invested in. Anyway, after I
>explained the obvious to him about the problems this brings up, I ran upon an
>interesting idea: Is there anybody working on a Nintendo emulator for the
>Amiga? My knowledge of the inner workings of the Nintendo are limited so I'd
>like to hear from somebody who knows what is consists of. How hard would it
>be to rig up a board to download the carts onto disk for future loading? Of
>course this is only half the battle. Anybody know how complex a Nintendo's
>hardware is? I would assume it's an 8 bit running something like a 6502 and
>not much beyond that. I would also venture that it's an easier system to
>emulate because of it's limited IO versus something like the 64. I'd like to
>hear more about the Nintendo's hardware and answers to the following
>questions that come to mind: What does the motherboard consist of? How much
>RAM does the system have and what kind of "expasion" can a cartridge add to
>this? What, if any, built-in OS (software functions) does the system contain
>and what kind of tricks does it use to get by (IE: bank switching, etc). Very
>interested in hearing more on all of these points.
>
>   Tom
>
>--
>       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
>    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and
> __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales 
> \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. Only the Amiga! DEVO Anyone?

  It is probably possible to use an A2000 to emulate the Nintendo, if the
A2000 has a Bridgeboard. There IS an IBM Nintendo emulator board, so 
theoretically it could be used in an IBM slot of an A2000. Most of the
Nintendo development is done on IBMs. One of my friends did a Big Bird
program which has digiized voices of Big Bird for the Nintendo, and it was
written in assembly.


-- 
David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  
  -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

  -- Looking to buy a used 68000 CPU and 1.3 Kickstart