Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:16:53 -0000
From: "Martin Whitaker" <e3hacking@whitakernet.com>
Subject: [E3-hacking] An E3 which thinks it's a Spectrum!
To: "Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software"
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I've been playing with the E3 some more and couldn't resist compiling
libspectrum and Fuse for it (from
http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/fuse.php).

It runs it at about original speed, however it's going flat-out doing that
and increasing the emulation speed above 100% seems to make little
difference.

A couple of screen-shots are at:

http://www.whitakernet.com/e3/spectrum_on_e3_1.jpg
http://www.whitakernet.com/e3/spectrum_on_e3_2.jpg

I had to make a few simple changes to Fuse to get it to work with the
strange resolution framebuffer of the e3. If anyone wants to build Fuse
themselves let me know and I'll post the patches here.

All of this is totally pointless, of course, but it bought back memories
typing single-keystroke commands using a rubber keyboard!!!

Could I have the patches you applied for this, I would like to try it out. [:

Also, how did you compile it, i can't find a cross-compiler for ARM9 that actually compiles ?

tuxish,