Hardest port?

[bronxbomber92]

Hey, I was just wondering what your hardest emulator was to port and why? Acourse besides gba

[Video_freak]

There are probably a bunch of console emulators that cannot be ported, so we can't classify them as "hardest".

[bronxbomber92]

No, I mean the hardest personal port for zx-81 himself

[zx-81]

No, I mean the hardest personal port for zx-81 himself

The hardest was caprice 32, mainly because :

1 - i've ported it using the GTA eloader (so no debug env)
2 - it was my first real emulator port on PSP, and i didn't know
very well the PSP / SDK etc ...
3 - there were many no portable C code, mainly endianess
problems, memory alignement isue etc...
4 - there were many bugs in the original source code, that i
had to fix on the linux version and then fix them in the PSP
version.
5 - I had no User interface source template
(all other emu i've ported use the caprice 32 user
interface i've developped for pspcap32)
6 - same for the virtual keyboard stuff etc ...

Pspcap32 was the hardest, but it's also the one i like better
(i spent so many hours on it when i was a child, to develop maths software and games ).

I hope it answers your question

[bronxbomber92]

Yeah, totally does! Thanks... *Goes downloads it and looks at source code*

I only wondered as I you have been pumping out releases like crazy. Would you say its harder then the gba?

[zx-81]

Yeah, totally does! Thanks... *Goes downloads it and looks at source code*

I only wondered as I you have been pumping out releases like crazy. Would you say its harder then the gba?

pspvba was a nightmare

[bronxbomber92]

LOL... Probably would of been easier to start from stratch

[zx-81]

LOL... Probably would of been easier to start from stratch

lol may be yes

[bronxbomber92]

Doesn't matter now though

Besides, I already played pokemon ALL the way through using one of your earlier slower version
lol

[Shadowblind]

Hey Zx-

Have you ever been asked ny Sony to make games for them?