Re: This is a another question

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>howard clark <ampman@castle.net> wrote:
>
>>Yeah. Years ago i found a message on this newsgroup named Gameboy GS
>>emulator there was a replay it was yes where can i find this gameboy gs
>>emulator please tell me
>
>I'm still waiting for Dr. Tom to announce the release of the half done
>version, since he reported some time ago that he got a hold of the
>author.

    Just to add to that, Mike Searl is the author who was behind
that project (in addition to another one, involving a QuickTime
movie player and a PhotoCD viewer for the Second Sight board).
When I last spoke with him, at least a few years back, he claimed
that sound support hadn't been done yet, and it still required
more optimizing to get it running at a decent speed.

    I lost contact with Mike, but last I heard he abandoned work
on all three projects and no longer uses his IIgs.

>As Mitch Spector and I discussed in an email exchange,
>I'd rather see something released than sitting in the author's closet.

    Another work I'd like to see released is the Sword of Sodan
alpha version (the two people I know who have a copy refuse to
release it due to a non-disclosure agreement they signed with a
company that no longer exists).

>If you think the idea of a Gameboy emulator for the IIGS is neat,
>you should see this:
>
>http://www.d.umn.edu/~lscharen
>
>The goal is to make a Super Nintendo SNES emulator!

    From what I read, it sounds more like he is trying to *port*
several Nintendo games over to the IIgs. That is much different
from writing an emulator.

    It would be pretty much near impossible to write a Nintendo
emulator, let alone a SuperNintendo emulator. I tried running
a popular and well optimized Nintendo emulator on my 386DX-25
machine for fun, it ran glacial.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca