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It's possible a port of VBA for MorphOS?
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 979 from 2003/6/28
    Since there are OS4 version of VBA, it's factible a MorphOS version?

    Source code HERE
  • »26.03.05 - 10:58
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    marcik
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/12
    From: Kielce/Krakow,...
    VBA is slooow so I see no point in doing a port (I did my own years ago but didn't released it, because it just wasn't usable).
  • »26.03.05 - 11:12
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 979 from 2003/6/28
    Yes, but Nicolas Mendoza (nicomen) seems that he speed up the port as he said in ANN.lu ;-)

    He said that now runs better, and some people say that runs fast with games...


    And anonymous said:
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    it means you "compiled" it? ;) I doubth it runs in any useful/ playable speed on current A1 hardware anyway. Not even Pegasos2 with G4/1GHz is fast enough for it.


    And Nicolas Mendoza (aka nicomen) said:

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    That's part of the porting process too. Maybe you think too high of the term porting? Actually it wouldn't compile out of the box, so it had to be modified slightly for use on a different platform. Oh wait.. look at this: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=port tr.v. port·ed, port·ing, ports Computer Science. To modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform. It plays quite ok here btw. but I only have some broken Amigas running Photoshop OS 4.0. Some nice roms at http://pdroms.de



    Link of the ANN.lu unmoderated news HERE

    [ Edited by timofonic on 2005/3/26 14:55 ]
  • »26.03.05 - 11:51
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  • jah
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    Posts: 69 from 2003/3/24
    it makes more than one year that i have seen the first morphos version
    here's a quick&dirty configure&make of it
    http://jahjah.free.fr/sdl/VisualBoyAdvance-cvs260205-re.lha
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 979 from 2003/6/28
    Quote:


    jah wrote:
    it makes more than one year that i have seen the first morphos version
    here's a quick&dirty configure&make of it
    http://jahjah.free.fr/sdl/VisualBoyAdvance-cvs260205-re.lha


    Yes, but this OS4 port seems a lot faster by some reason, my idea is... It's possible port the OS4 port to MOS and benefit of the optimizations? ;-)

    I think Nicolas Mendoza can be ok with this and help some, he isn't a mos-hater...
  • »26.03.05 - 12:09
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  • jah
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    Posts: 69 from 2003/3/24
    how do "you" measure it ?

    at first look there is no amiga specific code at all into the src of
    the os4 port


    [ Edited by jah on 2005/3/26 14:57 ]
  • »26.03.05 - 12:15
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 979 from 2003/6/28
    @jah

    the author and some os4 users said that, I didn't probed it...
  • »26.03.05 - 12:26
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    brotheris
    Posts: 142 from 2003/2/24
    From: Vilnius, Lithu...
    Looks like tokai made a port too
    http://www.christianrosentreter.com/download/ports/visualboyadvance-1.7.2-morphos.lha
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  • »26.03.05 - 13:11
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    tokai
    Posts: 1289 from 2003/2/25
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    its not a port, just a compile. fixing a few compile problems is not what i call porting. I looked to the os4 version source too, it's just fixing some OS4 include mess/incompatibility obviously. So, just a recompile too.

    Persoanly I think VBA is just hell slow, when playing GBA stuff... maybe its just me. Others meant it works well.

    It works nice for gameboy colour roms at least.




    anyway, if you search the morphzone forum you will notice there exists for a long time VBA ports on MorphOS. Fab did one, I did one, stefkos did one too i think, etc. But noone of us cared for a release when the port was done as VBA just didn't had 'the thing' to get actually released and make user really happy (aka: why release slow crap?).

    I just released my compile now to shut up all the lamers who scream "whaa.. OS4 has a port. It must great. Why noone cares to port it to MorphOS... whaaawhaaa whaa" and have no guts to start "configure && make" self.

    regards,
    tokai

    [ Edited by tokai on 2005/3/26 17:54 ]
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Posts: 1933 from 2003/10/19
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    Boycott is much faster. I think if you email the author he will send the source for porting to other machines.

    http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.com/
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  • »27.03.05 - 01:55
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