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[blkman45]

what is an emulation board, and how does it works

[Zhakrin]

The only use for something like that than can be discussed here is a card to let you play your old VIC-20 games on your new 3ghz pc with a top end ATI graphics card.

GO GORF!!!!!

[CocaCola]

Originally posted by blkman45
what is an emulation board, and how does it works

My guess is that you are asking in regards to smart card emulation boards...

An emulation board (or more properly termed an emulation wedge), generally is a PC Board that contains some sort of line level and possibly timing correction hardware/software onboard that allows your computers serial ports to interface with other types of protocols... This board when hooked up to the serial ports of your computer and then slid into a smart card terminal, and with the proper software, will allow your computer to emulate the functions of a smart card, or simply send commands to the smart card terminal, it can also be used to log data transfer between the terminal and card...

A device like this is very handy and helpfull in the development of smart card software as you don't need to constantly program and reprogram a smart card with your changes it can all be done on a virtual card on your develpment computer... This saves time and makes debugging your code much easier, as the computer can generally also be set up to log all sent and received data, so you can see what is causing the issues and if everything is working correctly... And if your code goes into a loop, your not stuck with a locked up smart card, it's much easier to recover from a small code error in the virtual emulation world...

[CocaCola]

Originally posted by Zhakrin
The only use for something like that than can be discussed here is a card to let you play your old VIC-20 games on your new 3ghz pc with a top end ATI graphics card.

Actually VIC-20 emulation can be done 100% in software with a DOS 486/33 PC with just a normal video card of the time, no external hardware is needed... And if you want to do it on a Windows based PC most pentium class PCs will do it just fine in Win 95...

[Zhakrin]

Actually VIC-20 emulation can be done 100% in software with a DOS 486/33 PC with just a normal video card of the time, no external hardware is needed... And if you want to do it on a Windows based PC most pentium class PCs will do it just fine in Win 95...


I was going for sarcasm there ;)

[Salty Jizm]

Originally posted by Zhakrin
I was going for sarcasm there ;)

That is one of the problems with being a highly respected legal figure here. Nobody is going to let you use sarcasm or be off base even a tad on a technical issue. Oh well... Get used to it! :)

[HotRodTodd]

Salty, i think you have Zharkin confused with Zakarian. The 2nd one is the legal expert.:)

[CocaCola]

Originally posted by Zhakrin
I was going for sarcasm there ;)

I know, I just felt like adding to it and razzing it on a little... :D

The truth is for most of the older game systems the Xbox makes an excellent platform, alomost all of the popular emulation programs have been ported to the Xbox now... And for under $200 you can't beat the price, bang for buck, of the system...

[Zhakrin]

As i said, Go GORF.

Gotta love the classics because most new stuff, while prettier, useually sucks.

[jameson71]

coca-cola: is it possible to have the xbox emulator on the hard drive, yet play the ROMs off of a DVD yet? Last time i checked it was not possible.

[CocaCola]

Originally posted by jameson71
coca-cola: is it possible to have the xbox emulator on the hard drive, yet play the ROMs off of a DVD yet? Last time i checked it was not possible.

You know I don't know :D probably not worth the coding involved as most of them are just reported versions of existing emulators to Xbox. With most of the older ROMs being so small having a local copy on the Xbox hard drive isn't an issue for me... The complete usable Xbox MAME set, and most 8/16/32 bit computer/game system ROM sets is what, a gig maybe a little more? That's less then one Xbox DVD dump :D And with a computer networked to the Xbox swapping ROMs around at any given time isn't bad either...