"The Grinch Project" to bring Playstion 2 Emulation to MacOS X Portables with Hardware Add-on"
Lees de rest hierDavid Allouch, a French native is better known by his hacker alias "Jimbo". Author of the network security product Netect, Allouch is now working on bringing blockbuster games to the Mac with a product that promises to play Playstation 2 games and possibly even XBox games in the future.
Shane: So tell us a little about how the emu works.
David: First the data is read from the dvd/cd/media/disc image then it is analysed from what is call the "Risc emulator/Dispatcher" which is in charge of deciding which module to pass the information to. There are two kind of modules, hardware and memory. Memory call are pure memory stuffs... loading in memory data etc, hardware calls are commands to the joystick, network, graphic card... each on a module getting the commands... the big problem in an emulation is to know what call corresponds to what and to get the performances on the modules. There is some tricks we did in the code that could only be done on OSX... that make the emu faster than it would ever be on PC... We are looking at Windows or XBox emulation possibly. the most important thing for us right now is to get the full support we need from Sony. So we will stay on this track for now...
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