ZSNES board

It's hard because nobody knows. It's easy to keep track of a company's material posessions like trucks or machines or factory buildings, because you can count them and other people are interested in buying them, and you write up receipts saying "thing X with serial number Y sold to person Z&quo...

He was talking about all the shaders in the .zip he'd uploaded (which were derived from GPL-licenced shaders from the XBMC project, I believe), not all shaders everywhere, so nothing to worry about. Out of curiosity, which shaders in my archive are you responsible for? I believe I misunderstood the ...

No, I mean. float4 thingy = float4(x, y, 1.0/x, 1.0/y); OK, now I'm confused. Here's what the spec says now: All parameters of type float4 must store the inverse of the values in their .xy property in their .zw property, like this: variable.z = 1.0 / variable.x; variable.w = 1.0 / variable.y; ...wh...

No, I meant inverse x should be in w and inverse y in z. Oh, you mean like this: float4 thingy = float4(x, y, 1.0/y, 1.0/x); I'm curious, what's the advantage to this layout? Wait....we are meant to dumb down the render path to how it is now in OpenGL? Shucks. :? Elaborate on your approach then. ie...

Sorry to take so long responding, work's been surprisingly busy. I've still got the Cg docs open in a browser tab; I'll try to start chewing through it soon. You need to: A) get rid of the ruby* uniform names Unfortunately, there's existing HLSL shaders (well, one , but people might have shaders the...

I take it the shaders are written to be implementation independant? That way, they are not tied to specific framebuffer sizes. Last time I checked some shaders, some made some assumptions to do with the SNES, but that was a a while back. Well, it depends on the shader, of course - in the thread on ...

1) Does it really matter if we use FBOs? Why not plain textures in use being accessed directly in the shaders? Plus, from that, you get full NPOT textures. Not sure if you run into the same issues with NPOT FBOs. Current DLL uses full screen-size framebuffer textures to capture backbuffer content. ...

I'm "Screwtape" on byuu's forum, and I've been editing the XML Shader Format spec you're talking about. As I've mentioned in the original thread on that board, the spec now describes features from bsnes' original XML shader format (as implemented in bsnes, snes9x, and Themaister's SSNES), ...

Looks like you replied while I was editing. My apologies; the actual latest version works quite nicely.

I tried to build Gambatte today, based on the latest source in the SVN repository (Mon Oct 27 23:41:57 2008, "silly ifdef typo") on Ubuntu 10.10 with GCC 4.4.4. I couldn't (immediately) get the Qt version to build, but I got the SDL one going after applying this patch . Is there a more up-...

mudlord88 wrote:

Even in emulation, probably over 90% of the code you write is not even remotely performance-sensitive.

So a dynamic recompiler is not performance sensitive?

Ah, so you *are* trolling.

paulguy wrote:Might be some CD emulation software you could use.

Last time I used Mac OS X (admittedly some years ago) Roxio Toast Titanium had that feature. It was enough to fool PCSX, anyway.

Which is to say, that Bannister guy . If you bought a recent Macbook you should have no problems running Bannister's BSNES port, but if you do there's an official Snes9x port. I think there's a half-decent port of some other SNES emulator starting with 'Z' too, can't remember the name, though. Oh, a...

OK, so VirtualBox has "OS/2 Warp" in a drop-down list. The question is, does it actually work?

I've had friends who claimed to get OS/2 running under VMware, although I haven't seen it myself. Apparently the problem is that most popular operating systems these days were designed to be at least slightly portable, and hence only use the sensible, common features of the x86 protection system (ba...

byuu wrote:And yeah, a database of screenshots is not only difficult to create, but quite a feat to distribute.

And yet, people have done it (SNES images here). Of course, the game -> ID mapping requires a database.

All because Microsoft can't do a damn thing the same way anyone else does it. Well, that's not entirely true - back in the early days of Unicode, nobody would have agreed to anything as space-wasteful as UTF-32, and everybody thought that for sure if they just squooshed together various redundant H...

If I correctly recall the few times I got to play with an original Gameboy, when you turned it on the BIOS would play the chime and display the Nintendo logo stored in the cart, then boot the game. I assume Gambatte doesn't bother with the BIOS anti-pirate-cart enforcement and just jumps straight in...

Assembly language is what computers run on at the very lowest levels, therefore it's the simplest and most long-winded kind of programming. You say you're "very computer inclined", but there's a world of difference between "I can remember what all the Windows control panels do" (...

Sant nok, men unn deg tid til bading og kos! Kan liksom ikke bare være inne når om varmen steker ute, vettu. What Google says: Sant NOK, but except the time to dip and enjoy! Can not just be like when the heat is beating down on the outside, y'know. But except the time to dip and enjoy, couldn't ha...

it would be fun to do some high level emulation, like filtering the audio better than it originally was. I love high level emulation, it's more applicable to 3D systems where you can raise the resolution, NullDC's "extra geometry" feature, etc. but there are still some intriguing possibil...

The reason nobody's set up a PPA for bsnes yet is not that nobody's thought of it, but because it contravenes the PPA Terms of Use ; specifically, bsnes's licence is not on their list of pre-approved licences. The Terms of use says "If you want to upload source under a license not covered by th...

* The very concept of antivirus software is fundamentally flawed. There can provably be no algorithm to determine whether a given piece of software has some formally stated property like termination or malicious behaviour. *facepalm* It should be pretty obvious that statement is like saying "t...

I think a professional would disagree with you guys. The prior font was too rounded and plump for the sleek jaggedness behind it. Another way of looking at it is that the smooth curves of the text nicely contrasted with the random splatter-shapes behind. It looks too much like a toothpaste brand. S...

Gleasonator wrote:

As a vote for my favourite logo so far, I've made a quick-and-dirty SVG version. I may very well not have the SNES circle-bits right, but I believe there's a more authoritative SVG version of those somewhere in this thread anyway.