Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Binary translation" in English language version.
This article presents original research regarding the possibility of statically disassembling and recompiling Nintendo Entertainment System games into native executables.
For example, the instruction repertoire of Series 200 processors is similar enough to those of several other processing systcms, viz., the IBM 1400 series, to allow automated, one-time translation of programs written for these competitive systems to a form suitable for execution on higher-performance Series 200 systems.
but then the idea of somehow using the original x86 machine code presented itself. However, for our open server, we need to support x86-64 as well, and in that case, we absolutely need emulation or recompilation. […] Static recompilation to assembler seemed like a much better option, but to keep it portable, we would need to write backends for x86, x86-64, and possibly ARM/PowerPC.
The "no source, no port" rule is not completely true, you can get something similar (but not the same) as a port through static recompilation. Similar stuff was done several times by M-HT for some DOS games. The game was also converted for Android with somewhat similar approach.
[…] Ironically, many of the techniques Gary pioneered are being rediscovered now, ten years later. Apple and DEC are touting binary recompilation as a "new" technology for porting existing software to the PowerPC or Alpha architecture. Actually, DRI introduced an 8080-to-8086 binary recompiler in the early 1980s. […]
[…] Ironically, many of the techniques Gary pioneered are being rediscovered now, ten years later. Apple and DEC are touting binary recompilation as a "new" technology for porting existing software to the PowerPC or Alpha architecture. Actually, DRI introduced an 8080-to-8086 binary recompiler in the early 1980s. […]
