NES Emulator for iPhone Emerges 111
An anonymous reader writes "The first emulator for iPhone, iPhoneNES has been released. It run very slow, and has no sound, but hacker NerveGas has managed to modify the source to release an optimized version that is playable. " My favorite bit is that your controller is a clickable picture of the NES controller. Not exactly the ideal UI but still an amazing accomplishment.
The IPhone has: 600MHZ CPU. Why slow? (Score:1, Insightful)
My Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has a CPU half the speed (320MHZ) and manages to do things at a reasonable speed.
Re:How is this newsworthy? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Poor programming, undoubtedly. (Score:1, Insightful)
Can't say I've ever programmed an emulator, but from what I can tell, there's either a good number of people out there who don't know what they're doing, or it's very easy to bork something and cause horrible performance.
I disagree (Score:3, Insightful)
The iPhone is a rectangular 115 x 61 x 11.6 mm touch sensitive screen, WiFi, 8 GB of memory a reasonable amount of processing power on a fairly common OS. The truth is you can use it for whatever is applicable. It also supports USB so you can plug almost anything into it. Steve Jobs isn't stupid he has a platform that can be adaptable for many things.
Video, Audio, Data Sharing, Communication, Interactivity the list goes on.
Shoot My palm I use as a web browser, video game console, organizer, music player flashlight when i need it, data drive you name it.
Re:Eh... (Score:3, Insightful)
It amazes me how the only people who are voiciferously negative about the iphone are the ones who haven't actually used one... As for myself, having used one extensively, I can absolutely see the potential for expansion into areas not built in to the device as shipped.
Re:How is this newsworthy? (Score:3, Insightful)
Simple:
- Sony = bad
- Apple = good
- */Linux = extra good
Re:Why not iPhoNES (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Nice accomplishment but who would want to play (Score:3, Insightful)
It seems that, for any device that comes out these days, we first see the NES emulator, then other emulators. This is then followed by ports of Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and maybe Duke3D. This is then followed by Linux, Quake, and Descent. It's only after all that do we see actual new things being made for a platform.
I swear, some people have nothing better to do but port old games to every platform imaginable.
Re:Nice accomplishment but who would want to play (Score:3, Insightful)
Getting an emulator up and running requires a lot of things to be solved: dealing with the filesystem to load ROMs, getting things to run on a regular schedule, updating the screen, taking input and using it, talking to the audio hardware... by using a pre-existing emulator that you know works, or something like Doom, you can concentrate on these sorts of tasks with an end result that's actually a decent-sized project, instead of a tiny little toy app that bounces your coder-art logo around the screen and goes 'thrummmmmm'.