Following on from the thread about using a Commy Sid in the A8 and using non Atari hardware in an A8 (like VBXE which uses a TI gfx chip unless i am mistaken)
It brings my to asking a question to those that program or create software based emulators (like atari800win, atari++, altirra, steem, saint, stella, virtual jaguar etc etc)
Since all the hardware that the emulator uses is now represented as 'code' (be it assember/c/vb/java etc etc), would it be feasable or possible to using emulated hardware chip sets from a non atari platform (i.e c64, amiga, st,7800 etc) in an atari 8bit emulator, or conversely using an atari 8bit HCS's in non atari 8bit emulators
OK so you'd have to reprogram the hardware registers (to reflect the hardware registers to the new hardware being emulated) and you'd also need to reprogram specific parts of the emulated machines OS to seeing/recognising the new hardware as well as modifying the relevant 'memory maps' for that emulated machine, if that could be done though I am guessing that the principle should work
If this is possible/feasable i am guessing that the possibilities would be endless since this could apply to any form of HCS that is being emulated but hasn't been used in say popular computers or games systems (i.e OTS based hardware and coin op hardware)
OTS=Off the shelf
It brings my to asking a question to those that program or create software based emulators (like atari800win, atari++, altirra, steem, saint, stella, virtual jaguar etc etc)
Since all the hardware that the emulator uses is now represented as 'code' (be it assember/c/vb/java etc etc), would it be feasable or possible to using emulated hardware chip sets from a non atari platform (i.e c64, amiga, st,7800 etc) in an atari 8bit emulator, or conversely using an atari 8bit HCS's in non atari 8bit emulators
OK so you'd have to reprogram the hardware registers (to reflect the hardware registers to the new hardware being emulated) and you'd also need to reprogram specific parts of the emulated machines OS to seeing/recognising the new hardware as well as modifying the relevant 'memory maps' for that emulated machine, if that could be done though I am guessing that the principle should work
If this is possible/feasable i am guessing that the possibilities would be endless since this could apply to any form of HCS that is being emulated but hasn't been used in say popular computers or games systems (i.e OTS based hardware and coin op hardware)
OTS=Off the shelf