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Originally Posted by jdog320
Does he still know how everything works?
I would like to see a modern amithlon restart even if it doesn't include the os or roms, which it should've been in the first place, though times are different.....
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I'm sure he does, though he has no interest in re-doing Amithlon. He has mentioned a few small bits of info on how he'd do things differently since hardware has drastically changed since then, but not really anything you could use to build Amithlon II without a much deeper knowledge of how he did things initially. A lot of it was hacking the 2.4 kernel to make things work. Some of those things are now handled in the kernel and some of those things aren't possible to hack into the kernel now.
I still like Amithlon's approach with direct access to the hardware without an emulation layer (things like keyboard/mouse interrupts, HD/CD controllers, Video, etc...) and then only needing an emulation layer for the OS/Software. These are the primary reasons Amithlon has a more "real" feel than pure emulation.