Re: Future of ELKS

Stefan de Konink
2004-05-21T01:04:24Z

> [...]
> > Hey, someone know if a 8086 is fast enough run emulators for those old
> > 8-bit game consoles? 8)
>
> Nah. A 4.77MHz 8086 does not get a lot of work done. Say you want to
> emulate a 2MHz 6502, such as the BBC Micro... this means you have about
> two and a half cycles to emulate each 6502 cycle. Just not possible.

Totally offtopic but I would like to know it. What if an entiere program
gets preprocessed, lets say optimized to run on a 8086. So a program reads
binary, disassembles, rewrites to 8086 code, reassembles and run.
Or am I talking garbage :S (I thought emulators did a JIT thing...)

Btw. If a mirror of the hacked elks code is needed, please give a shout.

Stefan