Reply 20 of 38, by ih8registrations
Alright, not your cup of tea. That's fine, I'm not going to try to persuade you anymore, but to answer your post, I can say I'm interested in the idea of it, and I'm not unfamiliar with porting code and coding sound card emulation. It's a short jump from the 2151, the only difference is the 2164 has a noise generator on one the channels. It's not a top priority, but without the ROM, there will definitely never be an emulation of it. Not expecting it to be mapped to system address space, which is why the talk about readers and dumping without a reader by hotswapping or using a NIC. I think Trixter might have an IMFC, and desoldering and dumping may be more up his alley. There actually is/was an FB-01 emulator for Linux by some asian guy. I seem to remember running across it at sourceforge or freshmeat, and he had an asian language site for a homepage, but it's not listed anymore and I haven't been able to find it again. There's also MSX emulators like bluemsx to port from, though its patchset would fall well short of an imfc. The biggest difference between the MSX version, fb-01, and IMFC is the patch set, the IMFC having the largest.