Menuet oddly quiet http://menuet.2.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=469
:?:
I really don't know what's up there, I followed menuet for 2 years, there has never been a pause like that from the admins.
Dex- 03-01-2005
May be they are so busy programming, they do not have time to post ?.
I do not think, that the people who are left, have the programming skill to add much, i was at one time going to program for menuet, but the way, it's set up its more a demo.
PS: @tonyMac i really like your new site lay out 8).
PPS: As we are going to use, a call table for functions, we could use the int 40h as a simple MenuetOS emulator.
crc- 03-01-2005
Keep in mind that there's a new person in charge of Menuet. It takes time to learn a codebase, especially one like Menuet's :wink:
bubach- 03-02-2005
But for how long has he been in charge? Most new stuff for Menuet (that I have seen over a year or two) is basicly some utils from users, not any big kernel changes (except for some fat32 bugs)...
tonyMac- 03-02-2005
I really don't know how menuet does it's thing, all the code is... confusing, few labels, it seems that mostly the memory locations for structures are written down on a napkin somewhere and then the numbers put in straight. :( It could make it very difficult to emulate.
Dex- 03-02-2005
I would not spend any time on it, as i do not see anything on menuet that is worth emulating, or that could not be programed for Dex4u much easier and better.
But if someone want to make a emulator for menuet it would be easier to use Dex4u than Dos.
PS: I think that a emulator for a Gameboy advance, would not only good, but also not that hard to do on Dex4u :wink:.
DennisCGc- 03-03-2005
PS: I think that a emulator for a Gameboy advance, would not only good, but also not that hard to do on Dex4u :wink:.
Why do you think so ?
tonyMac- 03-03-2005
If I remember correctly, the GBA uses a 32-bit CPU. I know other gameboys used a z80-like chip, so it's possible the GBA uses z380 style chip (32-bit zilog z80), I'll check it out. If that's the case, the architecture of the chip will be similar enough to that of the x86 to make emulation more like a translation, without any of the really difficult parts to it. I must say, though, a c/c++ compiler is nice where emulators are concerned...
OK, I was wrong about the CPU, they changed up to an ARM processor, one project is reporting it to be the ARM7TDMI. This means no FPU to emulate. I found info at
http://tbhl.theonering.net/petegunter/projresearch.shtml
ummm... at http://www.arm.com , I found documentation on the processor... it has 31 General-purpose 32-bit registers, and 6 status registers. I don't know what I would do with all those registers, maybe throw a party... :lol:
