leileilol wrote:What's next for MESS anyway? PowerVR? (Would be necessary to do it for the Dreamcast emulation anyway - and PCX2 could be backward'd from the DC code they have now)
Next for MESS is to get a decent PCI emulation system in its PC drivers - currently, it's pretty much ISA-only.
Next (I hope) will be x86 CPU emulation acceleration - they won't do virtualization but there will probably be a dynarec core. Currently, I believe there's only a interpretive x86 core.
After that, perhaps we'll see Voodoo added formally as an option to the PC drivers. It's been emulated for years for arcade games in MAME, so it should be easy.
Dreamcast is PowerVR Series 2, not PCX2 (Series 1) IIRC so closest PC card to Dreamcast is Neon 250. I mentioned Neon 250 to the current Dreamcast dev (Kale), he was intrigued. Looks like we'd need to get our hands on a VBIOS dump and drivers minimum, though. We had someone come forward asking to help with Series 1 emulation but I've lost track of who that was now.
Anyhow, that's all mostly conjecture.
The current shiny people are playing with is a GUI improvement via a integrated web server built into MESS, which is a weird toy. Still, the (eventual) ability to change floppy disks in a PC emulation - by using your netbook, tablet or cellphone - without leaving "full keyboard emulation" mode on your host PC is a neat trick.
Anyhow, we're starting to get off-topic. Maybe someday we'll start a MESS thread over here. 😀
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