Guest yatpeak Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 If someone created a PPC emulator and registered it, couldn't they play PPC games on it? This is just a thought, I won't be surprised if it can't be done, but if it could, well, people could do almost anything on the phone. Good luck if someone tries it! :D
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Pocket PC emulator... might be a bit processor heavy for the SPV... but an amstrad emulator so you can play cheesy old games.... now that would rock
Guest ajb3000 Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 I'm hoping for a Game Boy emulator like the 7650 has
Guest Emad Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Gameboy emulator would be no problem on the SPV - getting the damn thing signed would be the hiccup :D
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 A J2ME environment would make me very happy... But can't see it happening in the foreseeable future! :D P
Guest DJHope Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Yeh emulators are going to be an issue, unless someone talks to nintendo and does it properly, nintendo could make lots o cash.
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 It's legal to make an emulator as long as it doesn't contain any ROM or otherwise copyrighted code off the original device. Many emulators already exist so porting them to the SPV shouldn't be too hard (although I'm not quite hardcore enough of a programmer myself). Then people can load the legal emulator and if they own a genuine device and genuine games they can by various mechanisms published all over the web copy their own games (fair use) to their PC and transfer them to the phone to use with the emulator. Not necessarily much use to nintendo because their game cards won't work directly and they haven't shown the slightest interest in the emulation community in the past. But then the emulation community in general is known for pirating the roms and games that they should own...
Guest DJHope Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 my thinking was yourd have to get someone to sign it first and companies dont like emulators for some reason legal or not.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 I'm with paul tbh, a j2me emulator would be a lot more use than any game emulators, i dont think the spv would be up to the task really, maybe the samsung smartphone, assuming it ships with the 200mhz cpu quoted, but not on our 132mhz-ish phone also i can write a little java, so i'd be able to make crappy little applet games and whack them on a website :D
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 java applets built into webpages would get around digital signatures too :D
Guest HelloDave Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Hmm, M$ and Java...don't think they'll be falling over themselves to release a J2ME VM anytime soon! Plus it would be very slow on the SPV methinks - it's bad enough with native code, never mind semi-interpreted Java!
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 i'd heard there was at least one in development, may just be rumour though
Guest Emad Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 A Java emulator would be glacial on the smartphone, even J2ME. The Smartphone as is isn't that hard to program for (at least from what I've seen of the SDK) and if you learn to program in the native environment you can make much whizzier apps. There was an amiga emulator on the Sendo phone if I recall, but that was official I think.. Also, the best emulator for PalmOS, Liberty, is made by a company and actually costs money, so you can obviously sell the tech (Nintendo don't seem to have any problems either - their main probs were over the N64 emulators). Hmm, actually I think I'm going to try to build a gameboy emulator as of next week. Then when Orange come up with some sort of reasonable signing process for freeware we won't have to wait around for one :D
Guest Gorskar Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Good luck with that, a gameboy/gameboy colour emulator would be an amazing app for the smartphone.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 A Java emulator would be glacial on the smartphone, even J2ME. The Smartphone as is isn't that hard to program for (at least from what I've seen of the SDK) and if you learn to program in the native environment you can make much whizzier apps. i have looked at the smartphone sdk, although as i'm not particulary fluent in most programing languages i havent done much with it. my point with the java applets was that if you can find somewhere to host them you can avoid all digital signature problems. i guess we'll just have to wait and see how certification goes over the next 12months
Guest agent.m Posted January 11, 2003 Report Posted January 11, 2003 Dont know if you`ve heard of MAME but its an arcade emulator. Think of games like spy hunter, gauntlet, streetfighter 1&2, 1942. there is a power pc version. so it shouldn`t be hard. Also I have a siemens sl45i and there are lots of programs like firstaid manual, note pad, I`ve about 50 games n my mmc card as well so if we could get java it would mean bye! bye! to by baby :cry: just found the link to the emulator mamece. it takes .cab files so should it work???? if not it shouldnt be hard to adapt it. http://www.arcadeathome.com/gate.phtml?htt...ld.net/mamece3/
Guest Paul H Posted January 11, 2003 Report Posted January 11, 2003 Have a look at this Press Release re Amiga content on Smartphone. http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/news/article...martphone.shtml
Guest PsychoDave Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Hi All I've just been lookin at the smartphone newsgroup and one of their threads is about the j2me client for the smartphone. Its being developed for the sendo but it should work on any smartphone, so we might see it. :? Theres an article about it here: http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2231.html Apologies if you already knew this.
Guest rcraswell Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Heh heh, pretty unlikely that Sendo is going to be developing anything for Smartphone given the current lawsuit with Microsoft. --ron
Guest Emad Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Ahh, but if Sendo goes down, doesn't Microsoft get all their IP? Cunning ppl..
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Yeah MS do. Sendo "didnt think they'd go out of business", microsfot was "doing the same as always"....
Guest Emad Posted January 13, 2003 Report Posted January 13, 2003 Well, would you think you'd go out of business if you had microsoft, with all their oooodles of cash behind you and a member of their team on your board? :D Still, if they don't release it, someone else probably will..
Guest Bazz Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 It's says Insignia developed it not Sendo.
Guest agent.m Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Dont know if you`ve heard of MAME but its an arcade emulator. Think of games like spy hunter, gauntlet, streetfighter 1&2, 1942. there is a power pc version. so it shouldn`t be hard. Also I have a siemens sl45i and there are lots of programs like firstaid manual, note pad, I`ve about 50 games n my mmc card as well so if we could get java it would mean bye! bye! to by baby :cry: just realized i bought the wrong phone :D check this out http://www.yipton.net/
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