@> I read in the Turbo Grafx game encyclopedia that the TG uses a modified
@>Motorola 6502, the same processesor as a nintendo. Would there be some
way to
@>get a NES rom to work on a PCE emulator, and then later put onto a CD-r
to run
@>it on a Duo? It's probably a stupid question. I was just wonderin'.
Well, I'm not so sure that Motorola was ever responsible for the 6502...
It's a variant of the Rockwell version of the 65C02 (which isn't so far
from the original 6502).
It is technically possible to get a NES ROM to work on a PCE, although it
would take some knowledge of both platforms, since graphics and sound (both
data and programming) would undoubtedly require some changes. It is also
technically possible to take such a game and put it on a CD-R to run on a
Duo, providing that it doesn't take more memory than the Duo has available
(about 256KB, or 2 megabits). It probably wouldn't be worth it to try to
figure out how to page-load a ROM that's larger than that.
However, the amount of effort required to do this isn't trivial. It would
have to be a darn good game.
On the other hand, there was a bootleg game out for the PCE, which
contained several NES games in a 5-in-1 cart. It was apparently created by
a firm which called itself "IMAGE" in Finland around 1992.
Let's move technical discussions over to the tghack-list...