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by DataPath
Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:30 pm
Forum: bsnes Dev Talk
Topic: New website layout; long, ranty political reflections
Replies: 113
Views: 171403

I see the whole marriage argument as being part of a larger whole. A society, any society, exists based upon assumptions and rules that smoother the interactions between people. These assumptions and rules are what make it possible for the notion of property to exist, for currency to have meaning, a...
by DataPath
Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:11 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Presidental Poll
Replies: 34
Views: 17366

Plus, from what I've gathered, McCain is too old-fashioned in more ways than one. Are you kidding? This guy flies his prostitutes in. By airplane. To houseboat parties. Doesn't sound that old-fashioned to me. Oh yeah, and he married a beer heiress. Talk about mixing business with pleasure. Seriousl...
by DataPath
Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:58 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: It's official: I have lost all faith in the human race
Replies: 20
Views: 7437

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Education employees are the upper class now?
Superintendents can make >$250,000 per year.

Don't know how much school administrators get, though.
by DataPath
Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:57 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 390162

Maybe this is a bug, and maybe it's just a missing feature, but VBA-M on linux appears to only be able to open gz archives and not zip archives.

Is this expected behavior?
by DataPath
Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:34 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 390162

NOT that I've played any pokemon game... ever... but I think the save memory size detection fails on that game, and it needs to be manually set to one size or the other.

Or so I've heard.
by DataPath
Wed May 28, 2008 2:36 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 390162

odditude wrote:lynx?

i almost miss when a plain text browser actually worked for the majority of sites...
I *do* miss when a plain text browser actually worked for *all* sites.
by DataPath
Tue May 20, 2008 11:42 pm
Forum: bsnes Dev Talk
Topic: bsnes v0.031 released
Replies: 242
Views: 98850

"Autoriser/ignorer les entrées" ("allow/ignore inputs") could be more clear imo. "Entrées" is more general in French than "Inputs" is in English. So perhaps specify what kind of "entries" are we talking about. Perhaps base the translation off the wo...
by DataPath
Fri May 16, 2008 2:28 pm
Forum: Bug Reports/Feature Requests
Topic: ZSNES OSS/libao sound issues with pulseaudio
Replies: 24
Views: 13112

Wow man alive, you post a link to a fix, and the next posts are more Ubuntu idiots who don't even read the post above them. And it happens in multiple threads too! Gotta love a distro which attracts people who are too stupid to own a computer. Now, now, Nach. Windows users who are too cheap to keep...
by DataPath
Wed May 14, 2008 10:56 pm
Forum: Bug Reports/Feature Requests
Topic: ZSNES OSS/libao sound issues with pulseaudio
Replies: 24
Views: 13112

Is that back up again?

I used to use a couple things from your repo, but it went down for a long while, and I gave up and pulled it from the list.
by DataPath
Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:48 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Over-accuracy debate
Replies: 110
Views: 55937

Sure, there's a lot of people vocal here. Why? Because the people reading the developer threads and posting here care . They care about the hardware itself. The people who just want to play games aren't participating in these conversations. They're just playing games. Byuu got it exactly right ther...
by DataPath
Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:13 pm
Forum: bsnes Dev Talk
Topic: What I've been up to the past week ...
Replies: 60
Views: 31835

My guess is that byuu has given up on operating system compatibility and portability for bsnes, and thus is expanding bsnes to be a bootable OS, and this is to add the reboot/shutdown capability to it.

bsnesos - the choice of a retro generation.
by DataPath
Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:57 pm
Forum: bsnes Dev Talk
Topic: bsnes v030 released
Replies: 150
Views: 63149

That's my hunch as well. I haven't done much win32 development (more of a .NET guy myself), but my debugging sense is tingling, saying something is going funny with input focus. It just feels too deterministic and consistent to be random buffer filling. And just to clarify, the behavior happens aft...
by DataPath
Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:52 pm
Forum: bsnes Dev Talk
Topic: bsnes v030 released
Replies: 150
Views: 63149

It looks like you've found a fix for the keyboard beeping issue, but I just thought I'd jump in with an observation I made in 0.30, as this is the issue that caused me to search the forums in the first place. At first I thought it was odd that it seemed to start happening at a random time after hav...
by DataPath
Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:07 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Taking dynarecs one step further: Just-in-time assembly?
Replies: 99
Views: 50495

a cascading sequence of if/else if/else is a O(n) operation, while a switch statement is a O(1) operation. A switch statement, when an option, is 99.9% of the time faster and (when dealing with more than 3 alternatives) more readable than cascading if/else statements. If you really do plan on writin...
by DataPath
Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:46 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Taking dynarecs one step further: Just-in-time assembly?
Replies: 99
Views: 50495

Hey, tcaudilllg2, maybe you should take this discussion to email or #zsnes, rather than using the forums as a dumping ground for thinking "out loud".
by DataPath
Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:33 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Taking dynarecs one step further: Just-in-time assembly?
Replies: 99
Views: 50495

Actually...

Actually, I think the core for Intel and AMD processors, at least, are hybrid RISC/CISC/VLIW.

The x86 ISA can be translated down to microops, or translated up in macro-op fusion. Or executed as-is. Both Intel and AMD do things like this.

And SIMD instructions (SSE#) are, IIRC, all VLIW.
by DataPath
Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:00 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: LCD help
Replies: 11
Views: 4063

Set your PC up so the vidcard does the scaling if you must scale something. This also gives you aspect ratio correction. QFT nVidia's driver-based resolution scaling on Windows is AWESOME. I wish they had something similar on Linux - allow any resolution and scale it in hardware to the monitor's na...
by DataPath
Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:01 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: LCD help
Replies: 11
Views: 4063

I'm rather fond of the 22" Samsungs. Then again, lately I've found a lot of Samsung equipment to be quite sexy.
by DataPath
Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:19 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: <blitzkrieg> testing, testing, 1 2
Replies: 128
Views: 60244

Oh, and to make use of 4GB of RAM your OS is going to have to be 64 bit. That's not exactly true. You didn't read what I wrote in my last post. PAE doesn't work properly in 32 bit OSes. Anyway, look it up if you don't want to take my word for it. Or give it a shot, install 4GB of RAM in 32 bit Wind...
by DataPath
Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:52 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: <blitzkrieg> testing, testing, 1 2
Replies: 128
Views: 60244

Oh, and to make use of 4GB of RAM your OS is going to have to be 64 bit. That's not exactly true. With 32-bits, you can address a full 4GB of memory. But normally, Windows maps device addresses into the top ~256MB of of the 4GB memory range. If you have 3GB of RAM or less, this isn't a problem. But...
by DataPath
Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:12 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 357493

I will have to send hit men after you DataPath. For every app that uses a built in GTK file dialog, a dozen computer users commit suicide (or 500 kittens get killed, or whatever metaphor you like). Do not be part of the problem. Actually, the Nokia Internet Tablets use the Hildon UI, which builds o...
by DataPath
Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:19 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 357493

Gambatte has been ported to Maemo (Nokia Internet Tablets). The current setup uses gambatte_sdl, and a python frontend. I'm writing a GTK UI to make it integrate better with the whole system. Just thought I'd say I think it's really cool if you're able to make it run well on something like that. I'...
by DataPath
Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:04 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 357493

Should it be pretty safe to write our own UI's for it? Why would you want to? Gambatte has been ported to Maemo (Nokia Internet Tablets). The current setup uses gambatte_sdl, and a python frontend. I'm writing a GTK UI to make it integrate better with the whole system. No big deal if it changes a l...
by DataPath
Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:30 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 357493

Sinamas, how stable is the libgambatte API? Should it be pretty safe to write our own UI's for it?

I see you've been writing a lot of tests lately, which bodes well for compatibility. Any other areas that you plan on improving in gambatte?
by DataPath
Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:11 pm
Forum: Bug Reports/Feature Requests
Topic: Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X etc sound
Replies: 135
Views: 191771

FreeBSD will always be supported as linux doesn't run properly with my system config. As well as I am getting fed up with GNU people and probably will propose we change our license soon. Good to hear for FreeBSD support, and good luck changing your license. They'll fork it the second you try, and t...