:o
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amstrad-CPC-464-/160602872326?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2564ad5a06#ht_500wt_1040 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amstrad-CPC-464-/160602872326?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item2564ad5a06#ht_500wt_1040)
:o
the book must be unrelates to the CPC. ::)
Also the multijoystick interface looks strange... is it a Spectrum one ?
I mean, on a CPC you only need an Y cable spliter... not such elaborated card...
Now you can run an emulator inside an emulator :o
(http://static.tumblr.com/aps5bvh/hO3lj5fk7/inception_title1.png)
I started my career in the mobile industry back in 2000s ;
For security reasons we wrote the games in Java (because you can have control on calls made through the virtual machine).
We did not use the Java API but only the language itself ;
When you compile a .java file you obtain a .class file (result of compilation) which is an extremely compact file (a serie of opcodes for the VM..)
And the VM, also extremely compact, was about 40Kb in memory !
So... yes, technically, Java could be possible on any computer.
But the VM itself, written in C, was licensed and sold at high price to manufacturers..