Palm Gameboy EMU Update
Maven is leaning towards releasing the emulator as it stands - ready to run Tetris. He will also release a DOS utility (which he is currently writing - the main reason why it's not quite ready for release) which will convert a Tetris ROM to a PDB file for the Palm. The emulator will NOT run on any Palm before OS 3.0, due to the fact that the earlier versions had less than the 46kb of Dynamic Memory available to an application which Gambit requires. The Gambit.prc is actually pretty small - currently under 20kb! A release date hasn't been set, but we will have it here as soon as it is announced. See this article for more on Gambit, as always leave any comments below.
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RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
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i assume your "46Kb" limitation is due to the
fact that you must load the application into
memory? Have you tried mapping a memory location
to the file actually stored on the palms?
You should really be streaming the data from
the ROM images - and this would remove the limitation.
RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
I'm reading the ROM directly from a file, but I also require 32kB for the Gameboys RAM and of course there's the memory for the greyscale screen (double-buffered)
RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
I'm reading the ROM directly from a file, but I also require 32kB for the Gameboys RAM and of course there's the memory for the greyscale screen (double-buffered)
RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
RE: Palm Pilot Compatability
ouch... :) - it is a pity that you have to load
the ram.. surely you can create a memory mapped
file to do this tho? (instead of using the heap)?
its cool
sorry folks...absolutely no sound though...but still cool...
RE: its cool
Do you need to over-clock the palm III? I hope that maven can emulate the sound that would be awsome.
Maven, have you looked at emulating the savegame? For example,
Zelda - Links Awakening and Metroid II are two of my fave games and they require you to save
your progress (cause the games are so long). Does Gambit ONLY run Tetris?
GameboyEmu available, but not Gambit.
I today saw on Palmgear that there is GameboyEMU 0.001 by Konstantin Klyatskin. Well, I think that's an alternative project we all didn't know from. I couldn't test it yet, but he says it's way to slow, and doesn't include a file to convert into pdb either. Another limitation is that you need OS 3.1+.
So I think we'll better wait for Mavens emu. Sounds more interesting.
RE: GameboyEmu available, but not Gambit.
Maven
RE: GameboyEmu available, but not Gambit.
BUT I simply didn't get through it. Because of the several warnings I tried it on my PC Palm Emulator not to crash my Palm IIIx and what is it.
I can only guess: It looks like a meteor or something like that going down very very very slowly.
I mean where's the game? Did something exiciting happened when you tried the Gameboy. Is it some kind of game or what.
But there's still some hope .... Maven
RE: GameboyEmu available, but not Gambit.
Visor
RE: Visor
Overclocking the PalmPilot for Gambit
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Chris Brazier (chris@brazier1.screaming.net)