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by DataPath
Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:22 pm
Forum: Bug Reports/Feature Requests
Topic: Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X etc sound
Replies: 135
Views: 191363

Here's the current situation besides custom implementations such as libao2 which wraps around everything except libao, whatever junk we throw in emulators, and newer stuff like Phonon. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/linuxaudio.png See: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_j...
by DataPath
Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:36 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 389612

I've had success compiling with -Os. And you probably used close to a GB of RAM in the process. It compiled quickly and simply on a machine with 512MB of RAM. Using -O2, or even -O1, it would go crazy, take forever, and thrash. -O0 worked for me sometimes, -Os worked every time. You're using an old...
by DataPath
Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:01 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 389612

Nach wrote:
DataPath wrote: I've had success compiling with -Os.
And you probably used close to a GB of RAM in the process.
It compiled quickly and simply on a machine with 512MB of RAM. Using -O2, or even -O1, it would go crazy, take forever, and thrash. -O0 worked for me sometimes, -Os worked every time.
by DataPath
Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:51 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: VBA-M
Replies: 629
Views: 389612

Nach wrote:And we have lift off:
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Speed is fine. It can probably run faster though if GBA.cpp didn't use up all the memory in a system and take 8 days to compile when optimizations are on.
I've had success compiling with -Os.
by DataPath
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:43 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

DancemasterGlenn wrote:
DataPath wrote:GB and GBC games have worked fine for me thus far.
I wasn't aware that this emulator handled GBA at all? From what I gathered it only should support GB/GBC games...
Ah - well, that explains it, then. My mistake.
by DataPath
Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:50 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

I really love this emulator :D Same here, but it's been really hit-and-miss with me - more than half my gba games it refuses to load, and the remainder I get a blank white screen from which it never progresses. GB and GBC games have worked fine for me thus far. I'm using r102, been getting this, wo...
by DataPath
Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:09 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

gambatte_sdl compiles, and theoretically runs on, the Nokia N800 internet tablet. I just installed the toolchain and built it - it builds without any changes. What works: gameboy games scaling What doesn't: graphics filters Unsure: performance - I ran it in an emulator sound - no sound hardware emul...
by DataPath
Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:31 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

Panzer88 wrote:where is the syncFunc function located?
There's a copy of syncFunc.cpp with the sdl front end.
sinamas wrote:It's waiting until a frame's worth of time has passed since the last time it was called. More equal display time of each frame -> smoother video.
Okey dokey - that makes things easier.
by DataPath
Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:01 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

What is SyncFunc?

Sinamas: I'm trying to figure out the purpose of syncFunc, but I'm having a hard time following what it's doing. Could you enlighten me?
by DataPath
Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:16 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Firefox Myths?
Replies: 60
Views: 28269

You think people don't get that from Opera evangelizers or IE evangelizers? I don't like evangelizers and fanboys - they support something because it makes them feel superior, and so they feel threatened by the weaknesses in the thing they idolize. I think there's a pretty healthy browser market rig...
by DataPath
Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:32 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Firefox Myths?
Replies: 60
Views: 28269

The page has rants about the Fx fanboys, but the author comes off as a fanboy himself, selectively interpreting the data to favor his preferences.
by DataPath
Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:45 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Current Status FAQ
Replies: 119
Views: 216733

Why don't you consider something like libao or portaudio (or OpenAL)? I think the devs are quite familiar with the different audio toolkits. There've been many discussions about them, and about the ways in which they all suck. And rethink your choice of Qt for the GUI. In my opinion a lighter GUI t...
by DataPath
Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:14 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: To anyone in the states studying law.
Replies: 14
Views: 5409

Anything he can do over SSL should be "casually secure". If you look, you can probably find free web proxies with SSL you can use that basically give you a secured link at least to their proxy. Doesn't mean there isn't some secret room in an AT&T data center where they might be watchin...
by DataPath
Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:06 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Gambatte 0.5.0-wip2 released
Replies: 478
Views: 356937

I'm not very familiar with the GDI API, but can you have it render/draw to a buffer or surface that you could composite yourself over the emulation to produce the same result without having to mess with the other stuff?
by DataPath
Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:31 pm
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: Final Fantasy
Replies: 34
Views: 11586

black belt
black belt
thief
white mage

black belts are simpering little girls until about lvl 14, then they kick mad butt without any weapons. After that point, money should never be a problem for you.
by DataPath
Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:14 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: worthless code?
Replies: 10
Views: 9466

Actually, you need full control of time. You will need a Time Machine (preferably one that can fly), a Clone of yourself, and an Egg.
Well played, good sir. Well played.
by DataPath
Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:44 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: What's going on with kode54's VBA builds?
Replies: 13
Views: 9088

Speaking of Kode54's VBA builds

Does anyone have trouble with sound stuttering on VBA linux? ZSNES works alright, but VBA is giving me stuttering. If I throttle the sound between 100% and 200%, then it's a lot better, but unthrottled, it's really bad. I've been looking through the sound code, and there's not a lot of it. All I can...
by DataPath
Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:39 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: For those buying Vista: Which Edition would you buy and why?
Replies: 25
Views: 14120

Is there some important difference between OEM and retail, besides the obvious "must buy with hardware, and costs less"?
by DataPath
Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Apple iPhone
Replies: 50
Views: 26709

You incorrectly assume that "linux guys" are the only ones who develop devices with linux. Motorola yesterday at CES, it announced its first actual MotoFone model, the MotoRizr Z6 slider-style Linux/Java music phone, expected to ship in the first half of 2007. Linksys has routers with linu...
by DataPath
Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:56 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Vista is out
Replies: 110
Views: 47419

Remeber, the RC and Betas are of Vista Ultimate, which is the most expensive version. So you do have to pay a premium for the exact same functionality, whenever it hits stores. From what I've seen and read, the betas and RCs of Vista Ultimate actually weren't Ultimate - they were missing the add-on...
by DataPath
Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:09 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES for Intel Mac ready for consumption!
Replies: 151
Views: 290791

UNIX is a registered trademark of the X/Open corporation (also known as "The Open Group"). From the wikipedia article on UNIX: By decree of The Open Group, the term "UNIX" refers more to a class of operating systems than to a specific implementation of an operating system; those ...
by DataPath
Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:08 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Progress on reducing HQ2x to fit in L1 cache
Replies: 95
Views: 71177

can take between 1/2 and 1/4 of a cycle per. that part at your end.... isnt there meant to be a word after the word per? Um... for the third time, no. The entire sentence is discussing how long most instructions take in clock cycles. Including that part. It's valid english, I've checked with two bo...
by DataPath
Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:16 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: So which text editor do you use ?
Replies: 48
Views: 30493

Never trust an editor with a built-in psychiatrist.
by DataPath
Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:39 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: So which text editor do you use ?
Replies: 48
Views: 30493

vim for great justice. Hex editing mode, regular expressions search and replace, builtin grep, syntax highlighting, spell checking, man page lookup for the word under the cursor, plus all kinds of neat features for code editing; I recently discovered the ability to jump to the definition of the symb...
by DataPath
Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:32 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: Do you believe in this stretch technology?
Replies: 26
Views: 11606

raster vectorizers are hardly well-suited to real-time performance. Two slightly different scenes could take wildly different amounts of time to vectorize. And they're just plain slow. You have to do a multipass approach, re-processing the image maybe 50 times to get the scaling in the example image...