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The Icon Bar: Games: PC card floating point emulator
 
  PC card floating point emulator
  andrew (01:07 10/4/2007)
  Phlamethrower (07:20 10/4/2007)
    andrew (07:24 10/4/2007)
  arawnsley (10:02 10/4/2007)
 
Andrew Message #101202, posted by andrew at 01:07, 10/4/2007
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Posts: 3439 		Did anybody ever consider exploiting this for Games etc?

Is it still available?
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Jeffrey Lee Message #101205, posted by Phlamethrower at 07:20, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101202
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Did anybody ever consider exploiting this for Games etc?
Probably

Is it still available?
You can probably pick up cheap cards on ebay, but I doubt they're being made anymore.

I think the last time we talked about this, someone said that using the PC card for floating point didn't work very well because (with a StrongARM) it didn't provide any speed boost.

Of course if you were to write a program that uses the PC card as a proper second processor (rather than a simple FPU) then you'd get much better performance.
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Andrew Message #101206, posted by andrew at 07:24, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101205
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Posts: 3439 		I should have said "co-processor" rather than emulator. It's at the bottom of this:

http://www.aleph1.co.uk/oldsite/AcornProd/Software/3rdparty.html
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Andrew Rawnsley Message #101212, posted by arawnsley at 10:02, 10/4/2007, in reply to message #101202
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Posts: 600 		As Jeffrey says, on a StrongArm, the overheads in calling the card were such that the normal FPEmulator was faster. However, there is SuperFPEm which is a different software FP emulator which is supposed to be faster.
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The Icon Bar: Games: PC card floating point emulator