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by whicker
Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:00 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Help with some basic Java
Replies: 26
Views: 8539

This is beyond hope at this point.
Learn boolean math, and general orders of operations, then come back.

That, or only have one comparison per if statement, and nest deeply.
This reality, of course, is contrary to your idea that you can somehow reduce the amount of lines this takes.
by whicker
Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: How to create an an ai to play tetris attack
Replies: 6
Views: 2219

It's not the DMA you're looking for.

I got caught up thinking DMA = Direct Memory Access as well.
by whicker
Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:38 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: SNES reverse engineering through schematics
Replies: 15
Views: 17539

I am just saying that I am going to start entering it into WinQCad, if after all these years the editor for PCB123 doesn't suck. The only reason I picked either of these is that it is so easy to get and license legally. If you think I am lying, try to purchase the latest software package formally kn...
by whicker
Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:56 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Presidental Poll
Replies: 34
Views: 17361

who I want to win is not necessarily who I am voting for.
Therefore, I pick nader. but it's almost too serious of a thing to even joke about at this point.
by whicker
Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:49 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Show us your desktop!
Replies: 59
Views: 32659

I'm a little desktop whore, got new monitors, $99 a piece. Just in time, you almost ran out of space for your desktop icons. I kid. At least with phonymike's screenshot you can get a feeling for what he's been working on and his current state of mind, not just a pretty picture and a nice feeling. A...
by whicker
Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:18 am
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: Might be interesting to emulator writers and all.
Replies: 19
Views: 5859

don't hold your collective breath: Of course, we are only at the second release of Silverlight and there are important missing features for people developing games or emulators. No raster bitmap support, no dynamic sound generation means you need to find some tricks (use images and transparent image...
by whicker
Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:36 pm
Forum: Verified Bugs
Topic: Super Mario RPG freezing
Replies: 127
Views: 351353

Man this really pissed me off. First of all, I was aware of this bug in the newest version of zsnes so I took the advice of everyone and used an older version (1.36). Everything worked fine until today, when I was about 3/4 finished with the game, 15+ hours in, zsnes randomly reverted my save file ...
by whicker
Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:06 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Vote
Replies: 19
Views: 7161

In Canada, the elections act allows you 3 paid hours to go out and vote. Considering it only takes a few minutes to vote, it is ample (personally, I went to vote after work, and it only took a minute or two). I have not seen a workplace in the US, where if one actually asked at least a day ahead of...
by whicker
Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:21 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Laptop not getting online, but it's online
Replies: 8
Views: 3051

turn ON windows firewall for that connection?
(If it was XP, i'd rightly say turn it off, but Vista is screwy).
by whicker
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:26 am
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: Name of some NES and Atari games
Replies: 25
Views: 8792

Gil_Hamilton wrote:I grew up on a 99/4a, replaced by a 486. :P
From that comment and your recent post history, I still think you, and not Miyomei, ate JB.

Don't fret it if you don't get it...
by whicker
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:15 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: (KB 8955011) Won't install. . .
Replies: 4
Views: 2237

Google search reveals you should uninstall silverlight.
Whether or not you install it again, is entirely another matter.
by whicker
Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:59 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: ZH's software thread
Replies: 224
Views: 83217

sigh. yay. post a code snippet. watch everyone tear it to pieces with their "better" way of doing it. Of course, beginners aren't allowed to make mistakes on their own isolated system. Write your code as if it were to run alongside a nuke plant monitoring system. Be perfect or don't do it ...
by whicker
Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:33 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: Saving Files to Desktop When Opening
Replies: 6
Views: 2694

or gee, create, I dunno, a EMULATOR\ZSNES folder, or put a ZSNES folder in with Program Files like all the other installed programs.
by whicker
Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:15 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: ROM hacking/disassembling
Replies: 5
Views: 3615

well. I suppose to get you started, on a higher level, the data could be seen to be organized by pages. At then end of a page, the data is usually padded with FF's. It helps to use a headerless image so the addresses are easier to calculate from the offset. Unless the developers were cramped, a page...
by whicker
Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:09 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Viewing DVD image galleries on a computer
Replies: 20
Views: 6728

as anything,
it's just a matter of software and time.
there is no reason why it cannot work.
by whicker
Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:19 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Intel Developer's Manuals
Replies: 3
Views: 2232

of course they're useful, if you like twiddling bits, making circuit boards, or writing memory management code.
by whicker
Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:07 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: HLSL Guides?
Replies: 3
Views: 2409

because "float 4" is a collection of 4 different variables. and your 0.2 and 0.9 are only a single dimension variable. the second example splits it off into its component parts (.r, .g, .b). But even then the second example is still a bit fishy, but hey, it compiles, right? that's not to s...
by whicker
Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:13 am
Forum: Controller Help
Topic: Multipad in parallel port
Replies: 1
Views: 1976

as far as I know, the implementation shares the power, clock and enable pins, and the data lines are brought in on their own different pins. it's not worth it to lop off 5 controller ends, and it still isn't worth it to wreck a relatively rare multitap. What I'm saying is, the multitap won't work li...
by whicker
Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:08 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: LHC Collider...
Replies: 29
Views: 21492

meh, I'd think earth would look more fashionable with a big crater where europe once was.
by whicker
Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:16 pm
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: State of the snes homebrew scene
Replies: 68
Views: 23602

again, you can dev for the snes, even if for the sheer "oh I love the snes and want it to have my children" factor, but you mine as well be halfway cool and dev for a system that isn't over a decade old like the GBA or DS, because again, they do the same shit. you can program them in C or...
by whicker
Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:35 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: How to force PAL games into 60 fps! (Little Tutorial)
Replies: 2
Views: 4769

step 4: offer your personally hacked romz0rs for download on the internet, and have yet another corrupt game floating around for people to complain about it glitching in weird ways, ala Super Mario Kart "I can't pick up coins".
by whicker
Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:23 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: THIS IS A TOPIC
Replies: 83
Views: 29006

SKURK?

Sim Kitty Urban Renewal Kit?
by whicker
Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:18 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: Sound Problem!
Replies: 7
Views: 2716

I'm sure then, you or somebody else were in there messing with the sound settings like enabling "surround sound" and changing the sample rate from the default 32000, setting the interpolation to something other than gaussian, and turning on a low-pass filter instead of leaving it at none.
by whicker
Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:55 am
Forum: Controller Help
Topic: Xbox 360 controller problems
Replies: 22
Views: 22487

intermittent keys and messed up sound has little or nothing to do with your Xbox 360 controller that you apparently got working.
by whicker
Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:51 am
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: Favorite tetris version...
Replies: 40
Views: 11690

not so much my favorite versions, but there are hidden versions of tetris in an HP 54600B Oscilloscope, and in uTorrent (just press 't' in the about dialog box).