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Generator is an open source emulator designed to emulate the Sega
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Genesis / Mega Drive console, a popular games machine produced in the
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early 1990s. It is a portable program written in C and has been
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ported to the Amiga, Macintosh, Windows and even pocket PCs such as
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the iPAQ and Cassiopeia. Natively it compiles under unix for X
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Windows with either tcl/tk or gtk/SDL, for svgalib and even
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cross-compiles to DOS with djgpp/allegro.
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Generator uses its own custom 68000 processor emulation which is
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designed for dynamic recompilation, and uses techniques from this such
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as block-marking, flag calculation removal, operand pre-calculation,
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endian pre-conversion etc. There are approximately 1600 C routines
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generated by the first stage of compilation to cope with the 67
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instruction families. These routines are used as a 'backup' when
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dynamic recompilation isn't supported on your platform or the
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recompiler doesn't support a particular instruction. The CPU engine
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is by all accounts very fast, whatever the mode.
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There is a 'test' recompiler written for the ARM processor, but it is
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no longer supported. If someone with assembler knowledge wants to put
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the effort into writing a recompiling back-end for a processor (and it
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really is major effort), let me know - particularly if you know i386.
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