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Spectrum Emulator 4 WinCE HELP PLEASE!

MichelleMichelle
edited October 2001 in Emulators
I have the spectrum emulator v1.1 on my casio e-100 and it works fine and loads the games fine, but one big problem I have is that there is no real keyboard for it, so it really is hard to use some programs..I use palm keys to change the hardware buttons to letters, but it's a pain...DOES ANYONE know where I can find a spectrum keyboard that will work on my Palm-size pc with Windows CE? Any help w/this would be MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!
Thanks a million!!!!
Michelle
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  • AnonymousAnonymous
    edited October 2001
    Well I think it is a "simple" recompile to get my PocketPC emulator to run on the older devices (I do think there is a performance penalty though). The emulator uses a graphic framework called EasyCE that should work with both PocketPC and WinCE 2.x devices (which I think is the version you have in your e-100). I am currently developing release 2 (that will include sound, tape support etc) and when that is released (in a couple of weeks) I can try to make a WinCE 2.x compilation. No guarantees that it will work, but it is better than nothing;-) Yeah, and by the way it has a virtual keyboard.

    You could of course try to recompile it yourself, the sourcecode is available and the development environment can be downloaded from Microsoft.

    /Anders

    www.angelfire.com/retro/pocketclive
  • MichelleMichelle
    edited October 2001
    Thanks for the information ANDERS....I don't know much about working with source codes and know to change them to fit the format you need...I don't know how easy/hard it might be, but I guess some info on how to do it would be helpful..And I downloaded the MIPS version of PocketClive v.1B and v.1A and neither were compatible with my cassiopeia running win ce 2.11. And 1 last thing.. =) Were you meaning the spectrum emulator has a vitual joypad or that the PocketClive program did? Cause if it's for the SE then I can't find it...!

    If you would reply to this message that would be great!!! =) THX

    Michelle
  • AnonymousAnonymous
    edited October 2001
    I meant that PocketClive has a virtual joypad! The spectrum emulator is a very nice program but the way it treats the keyboard is really stupid (or at least annoying since you have to reconfigure it each time).

    The current MIPS implementation of PocketClive does not support WinCE 2.x, it is a PocketPC product only. What I or someone needs to do is to download to source to PocketClive and to move the source code to a PalmSized project (instead of a PocketPC project) and to recompile the code. I can try it when I release the next version (actually I could even run it since I have an old Casio E-11 somewhere), but it won't be for another couple of weeks.

    This can work because EasyCE (the graphical framework) contains a lot of #ifdef's for different versions of WinCE and a recompile in the "right" environment should be enough.

    /Anders
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