[Coco] coco for android.

[Aaron Wolfe]

About a year ago Brad Grier, author of the Mocha coco emulator, had
made a lot of progress in writing an Android coco emulator.
Not sure whatever happened, but it was close to working, i.e.:

http://members.cox.net/javacoco/images/P1020011.jpg

Anybody know what happened?
-Aaron


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, John Musbach <johnmusbach1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>> On 10/02/2011 02:42 PM, Richard Ivey wrote:
>>>
>>> has anyone created a coco emulator for Android?  I would love that.
>>>
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>> Not as far as I know.  But from what little I have read about the Android
>> OS, it is meant to be programmed in Java, though it doesn't run Java
>> bytecode.  So any existing Java code would at a minimum have to be
>> re-compiled.  I believe there is, or has been, a CoCo emulator written in
>> Java.  It might be possible to adapt that (if source code were available) to
>> run on Android...  Pure speculation.
>
> Also remember that in addition to recompilation, screen real-estate
> and the change from a mouse and keyboard to a touchscreen interface
> also have to be taken into account. So porting applications, while
> possible and done before (e.g. Doom for iPhone), require additions and
> modifications to the code in addition to recompilation.
>
>
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>
> John Musbach
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