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Corrections, clarifications

I realized my description from the last post wasn’t entirely correct, the emulator isn’t actually new per se, it’s just new vis-a-vis those that I’ve already released. Most everyone guessed correctly that it was a Commodore 64 emulator – it’s VICE, to be exact. I realize a port of VICE already exists (called PSPVICE), but as I mentioned before, I port software because I enjoy doing it, not necessarily because it’s needed :)

To answer some of the questions that are already coming in, yes it will have a virtual keyboard (it’d be pretty stupid to have a computer emulator without some form of one), and yes, it does support CRT files. VICE PSP is based on the latest version of VICE, 2.1.

The amusing part of this is that VICE PSP would have probably been released half a year ago, if it wasn’t for a misinterpretation of its performance, on my part. Due to a variety of factors, I was getting what seemed like surprisingly poor performance from the emulator; work on it was shelved for months, until I decided to take another look.

I still don’t have a definite release date, but work is progressing well, and a release shouldn’t be that far off.

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4 Responses to “Corrections, clarifications”

  1. ewgf says:
    April 25, 2009 at 10:57

    This is going to be great!

    Two things, though – firstly, please use the same kind of virtual keyboad that you used in FUSE PSP (which it looks like you are doing, thankfully), so that, instead of using the analogue stick to move pixel by pixel (as in PSPVICE), you instead use the DPAD to move directly from key to key, which makes usage of the virtual keyboard so much quicker.

    Secondly, please could you add both a menu option, and a definable PSP control option, that swaps the emulated joystick port on the C64, as some games used a joystick in port one, whilst others used port two.

    Thanks.

  2. 240-185 says:
    April 26, 2009 at 00:01

    Yes! A decent C64 emulator :D Keep up the good work!
    Playing some games or watching some demos on PSPVICE is quite tedious sometimes: it looks like a slide show… :(

    • Akop says:
      April 27, 2009 at 08:24

      I can’t promise the demos will be much faster, as at least one demo (Romeo) is still like watching slideshows. VICE PSP draws to the VRAM buffer directly, however, which might make a difference.