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gba support in rockboy?
ZeRøB:
But I don't think that ROCKbox wants to go the way iPodLinux goes, release a lot of semi working emulators that are slow, crash all the tie or just use half of the screen...
travishayes89:
yeah, ive used ipl, and iboy, even though it works, its slow, buggy, and does only use a quarter of the screen.
lareneg:
I have an idea:
Buy a gameboy!
They're real cheap second hand now in gameshops. The games are rare, but you can get them
Jillorious:
--- Quote from: Llorean on August 16, 2006, 02:10:27 AM ---The iPod is a 75mhz arm core. Fixed point math only.
--- End quote ---
but if you people 'll find a way to put the broadcom chip into doing something useful, wouldn't that increase the units' power?
(based on my ignorant knowledge of this chip - in my minds eye it is simply like adding more CPU power. Correct me if i'm wrong).
Llorean:
Adding another processor doesn't really speed things up.
For example, imagine reading a book. Two people can't read one book twice as fast. Two people can read *two* books twice as fast though. With a lot of tasks, you're constrained to only applying one processor to it, due to the nature of the task. Even when you can apply two processors, having the communications between them work is incredibly complex. Imagine cutting the book apart into chapters, and dividing the chapters between the two, but only one of them gets the chapter numbers, and has to tell the other one which chapter to read next, and get the summarized updates from him as to what has happened before he can continue reading his own chapters.
Right now, with the two-core processors Rockbox is likely to either keep everything on one-core, or handle everything *but* audio on one, and audio on the other. For video playback, the idea is to split video on one core and audio on the other. If the broadcom chip is ever enabled it'll probably be used to offload video to, since it's pretty much designed for this purpose and may not even be terribly useful for anything else.
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