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Started by Witchcraven Jul 17, 2003 at 12:03 AM 11 replies 450+ views
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Witchcraven
Witchcraven
Does anyone know of a moder high performance CPU that has a really great instruction set for manual coding on (no x86).
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nate0326
nate0326
how about x85

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Witchcraven
Witchcraven
I already know x86.
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Mithrandir
Mithrandir
MIPS is really cool.


Or if you get bored of existing architectures, you can make up your own and create a virtual machine for it, like I did.
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mikael_j
mikael_j
Sander: RISC isn''t a CPU..

I''d say Alpha if it wasn''t dead, MIPS is pretty cool though..

/Mikael
rhesus
rhesus
what about the chinese processor? i want such a thing
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acw83
acw83
MIPS, you can get an emulator called "SPIM" (MIPS backwards) for free, just google it.
Pouya
Pouya
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dave j
dave j
I found ARMs to be really nice to code for. They are not really high performance compared to today''s desktop processors but, since most new PDA''s and mobile phones seem to use them, you could usefully write games for it.

dave j
jdhardy
jdhardy
quote:
Original post by dave j
I found ARMs to be really nice to code for. They are not really high performance compared to today''s desktop processors but, since most new PDA''s and mobile phones seem to use them, you could usefully write games for it.


No kidding, since the GBA uses an ARM. GBA programming reminds me of Mode 13, with lower res. Most of the same tricks still apply.


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dave j
dave j
quote:
Original post by ze_jackal
quote:
Original post by dave j
I found ARMs to be really nice to code for. They are not really high performance compared to today''s desktop processors but, since most new PDA''s and mobile phones seem to use them, you could usefully write games for it.


No kidding, since the GBA uses an ARM. GBA programming reminds me of Mode 13, with lower res. Most of the same tricks still apply.


Oops. I forgot about that. I did all my ARM programming on an Acorn Archimedes [1] - which only had a 33 MHz processor (after I''d upgraded it!)

dave j

1. See http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=75

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