DreamEmu site updated
posted in Emulator News by dhalamar on Dec 31st, 2000The site for the as-of-yet unreleased Dreamcast emulator DreamEmu has been updated with the following:
Sorry about the lack of updates latley, there just hasnt been much happening. I didn't bother to do much coding over Christmas. I am re-writing the CPU to use a jump table instead of the switch statement to see if I can squeeze some more speed out of Dreamemu. I'm also going to redo the memory system aswell. I tweaked the emulation system a bit since last release and its going a bit faster now, prehaps 10%. I want the jump table to give me another 10% at least, but I'm not sure if I will get this. I'll try other optimizations also. And I want to say that Dreamemu is not as slow as it looks. The CPU is slow anyway, and I hope to speed it up a bit, but the real bottle-neck is the graphics. However, I am drawing the frame after every instruction which is incorrect. In comparison, the N64 draws only every ~60,000 instructions. I'm not sure how often you have to update the screen but I will find out soon. Thats pretty much it. Later...
Head on over to the DreamEmu site for more information on thsi emulator, and to see some WIP screenshots and such. Thanks to Martin of Emulation 64 for the news. :)