Re: Apple ][ emulator for iPhone

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 11:00 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 6:57 am, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The problem I see is... emulating an Apple II in JavaScript is going
> > to be *EXTREMELY* slow...
>
> Actually on a modern browser, it shouldn't be too bad, at least for
> text modes and lores. i can't see a way to do to hires quickly.
>
> The bytecode compilers in the current browser generation should result
> in cpu emulation speeds considerably better than 1Mhz, even on an
> iPhone, but you'd have to wait for the firmware that integrates the
> Safari 4 WebKit
>
> Matt

I guess I was wrong about modern CPUs and JavaScript interpreters...
with JavaScript being the native programming language of the Palm Pre,
so...