Re: [Tuxnes-devel] SDL audio player

[Jim U. <ji...@3e...>]

At 04:06pm on 2002 May 02, Mike Melanson did write:
> > I understand that the dynamic recompiling technique requires assembly and
> > adding a C-based alternative would take a bit of work.  It would be nice
> > to have TuxNES run on all the (sane) platforms supported by Linux, though.
> > Would anyone be interested in this if I started it?
> 	No need for you to start it. Jim Ursetto has already got a working
> port for the Sega Dreamcast.

Yes, it's interpreted (not dynamic), based off Matt Conte's
nosefart/nofrendo C core.  It needs cleaning up, and I believe it would
take some vigorous thinking to integrate it properly back into TuxNES.  

You don't have to fully understand the dyn-rec to implement an interpreted
C core (although a good understanding helps), but you -do- have to
understand how the dyn-rec interfaces with the rest of the code, and
reimplement this interface in C.  That's the tricky part.  There are also
calculations and variable assignments done in assembly (not technically
part of the dyn-rec engine) that need to be converted.  I've already done
this, and for this reason it's a good starting point.

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