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    Is there an x86 emulator for the gba?
    I want to play some old dos games on the go
    crystal caves was one of my favorites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xcliber
    Is there an x86 emulator for the gba?
    I want to play some old dos games on the go
    crystal caves was one of my favorites.
    I have never seen anything like that, but that would be hella cool

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    i'ld do it my self if i had any clue how to make an emulator for the gba
    let alone, if i had any coding skills what-so-ever. don't really know much about programming and emulators.
    other than how to use the emus. (epsxe rocks)

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    How fast is the GBA's processor again...
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodman
    How fast is the GBA's processor again...
    http://www.nintendo.com/techspecgba

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    Prolly not possible with a 16MHz processor...

    If someone ever manages to pull that rabbit out of their hat, I'll be the first one in line..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xcliber
    Is there an x86 emulator for the gba?
    I want to play some old dos games on the go
    crystal caves was one of my favorites.
    Not for the GBA, but i believe there was a project to port Bochs to the DS. Anyone know if its still being developed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodman
    Prolly not possible with a 16MHz processor...

    If someone ever manages to pull that rabbit out of their hat, I'll be the first one in line..
    It's an ARM processor, so i guess it could be alright. Hell, you can play King's Quest on your GBA.
    http://www.bripro.com/gbagi/index.php

    Ok i guess that's not such a great example.

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    I think I remember hearing of a crude x86 emulator for PSP. It was used to boot up Windows 95 on the PSP.

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    Wasn't it Bochs?

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    it shouldnt be too hard to at least emulate an old IBM pc it had an 8bit 8088 running at something like 4.5 or 5 mhz it would probably run dos slow as hell though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Josh
    I think I remember hearing of a crude x86 emulator for PSP. It was used to boot up Windows 95 on the PSP.
    Phhhttt you booting Win 95 thats so last week, The XP shell can be installed if you want Info PM me, As for the DOS games i was just in Kmart aka walmart over there and there was a CD with all the old DOS games on it, might be a torrent of it somewhere

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    The closest at the mo is the (old computer) Sharp X1 emu (runs badly) for the GBA

    There may be a MSX emu though, I know Flubba has done some CPU and GFX work on MSX1 emulation on the GBA (Nothing released as of yet he does far too much)

    King's Quest is not ran through emulation at all, it's Ported/Interpreted and thats something different (emultion is all about hardware, Interpretation is all about reading software files running them on different harware/OS and does not need to emulate hardware (most the time there is the odd time the 2 get mixed together))

    There are a few text advanture Interpreters aswell
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    Hence the GBAGI name.

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    So the fact you can play kings quest on a GBA does not indicate x86 emulation in the slightest, so your example wasn't just not great it had no relevance at all, you might aswell of said well there is a GBA game that runs perfectly on a GBA

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