Acorn Arcade forums: Games: PC card floating point emulator
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PC card floating point emulator |
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andrew (02:07 10/4/2007)
Phlamethrower (08:20 10/4/2007)
andrew (08:24 10/4/2007)
arawnsley (11:02 10/4/2007)
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Andrew |
Message #101202, posted by andrew at 02:07, 10/4/2007 |
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Did anybody ever consider exploiting this for Games etc?
Is it still available? |
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #101205, posted by Phlamethrower at 08:20, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101202 |
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Did anybody ever consider exploiting this for Games etc? Probably
Is it still available? You can probably pick up cheap cards on ebay, but I doubt they're being made anymore.
I think the last time we talked about this, someone said that using the PC card for floating point didn't work very well because (with a StrongARM) it didn't provide any speed boost.
Of course if you were to write a program that uses the PC card as a proper second processor (rather than a simple FPU) then you'd get much better performance. |
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Andrew |
Message #101206, posted by andrew at 08:24, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101205 |
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I should have said "co-processor" rather than emulator. It's at the bottom of this:
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/oldsite/AcornProd/Software/3rdparty.html |
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Andrew Rawnsley |
Message #101212, posted by arawnsley at 11:02, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101202 |
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As Jeffrey says, on a StrongArm, the overheads in calling the card were such that the normal FPEmulator was faster. However, there is SuperFPEm which is a different software FP emulator which is supposed to be faster. |
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