![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Mon 2002-07-22 03:42 |
What, you mean your lot aren't depressingly obsessed with 3D games which I'd find terribly boring? :-)
I don't know how hard it would be to port a Speccy emulator: it probably depends on the emulator. If there's one that runs over SDL and already uses the SDL calls to access video, audio and joysticks, then it might very well be a near-trivial matter of fiddling with the precise screen resolution and making sure the controller buttons are mapped in some sensible manner. If they all use different libraries to get at the various I/O facilities, though, it'd be harder to get something useful working.
Someone's already ported MAME to PS2 Linux, which is a good start; but I never managed to get a great deal of decent stuff to run under that, and most of my early gaming history was on the Spectrum rather than arcade machines, so I'd prefer a Spectrum emulator. An Amiga one would be kinda nice too, though perhaps harder to get running at a decent speed, particularly given the ludicrous custom graphics hardware which would be orders of magnitude slower to emulate on a less insanely designed machine... |
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