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by kevman
Mon May 12, 2008 6:08 pm
Forum: bsnes General Discussion
Topic: Report bsnes audio results on your free OS
Replies: 7
Views: 19029

Gentoo Linux 2.6.23. Pentium IV 2.8Ghz, Sound Blaster Audigy 1. ALSA. ao - smooth as silk as long as my CPU could keep the framerate up, high latency, though. Alsa - smooth as silk as long as my CPU could keep the framerate up. VERY high latency. openal - occasional choppiness, CPU usage seems highe...
by kevman
Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:34 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Buying a car but...
Replies: 36
Views: 30350

Why wouldn't it pass inspection with NOS? Oh, no reason. That's right. NOS without the button pushed is like no NOS at all. You can even take it out if you want; just put plugs in the nozzle inputs on the intake manifold. If you're worried about emissions, they don't run the NOS when doing an emissi...
by kevman
Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:11 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: TV Tuner cards
Replies: 11
Views: 4881

There is no difference between a US PC and a European PC except the power plug. I could take every PC (including my laptops) I own in the US, ship it over to England, and you could take your power cords, plug in, and go. Some cheapo power supplies have a 120v/220v switch, but that's pretty rare. Int...
by kevman
Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:50 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Are laptops designed to break?
Replies: 12
Views: 5448

The newer ones don't really need the fans much when on battery. You have to be gaming on battery on mine to get the fan to come on at all. What I do when I have it on my lap is favor the leftside with my legs, which leaves enough on the right for the air to get through the fan. If you have one of th...
by kevman
Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:52 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Creative to DanielK: stop fixing our drivers or else!
Replies: 36
Views: 16366

Yeah, when I had Vista on my machine, by Audigy drivers were a bit of a mess. I couldn't control ANYTHING, and I had to sift through the control panel for 10 minutes to find the mixer controls (the ones in the taskbar controlled individual application volumes, not the hardware mixers). Come to think...
by kevman
Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:05 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Kind of scary
Replies: 31
Views: 18722

Really?

Rolling on the floor Laughing out loud.

Was that so hard?
by kevman
Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:11 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Kind of scary
Replies: 31
Views: 18722

Boy, I hope that's a joke.
by kevman
Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:35 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: can't remember where to find this one cartoon
Replies: 22
Views: 9027

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdDldH9IHco&feature=related

Is another 11:00 minute production of his. It seems different than the rest of his style, though. Not as good compared to Pirate Baby and King of Power, that's for sure.

It actually has friggin' voiceovers.
by kevman
Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:36 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: SPC players
Replies: 7
Views: 5360

Hm, I guess you're right about the FF6. Its so short...
by kevman
Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:10 am
Forum: Bug Reports/Feature Requests
Topic: Problem with zsnes and Linux Ubuntu
Replies: 40
Views: 21636

To see what the error is that is causing Zsnes to crash, you have to run it from a terminal. Open up a terminal and type Zsnes. Post the result here.
by kevman
Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:46 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: SPC players
Replies: 7
Views: 5360

Dude, the third one is from Castlevania 4, the stage before the clocktower. Indeed you are right. Its called "Bloody Tears" in the snesmusic.org SPC set. Thanks. I edited yours and Clement's entries. I didn't verify Killer Instinct or Tetris Attack, I've never played them. Kinda embarrass...
by kevman
Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:15 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: SPC players
Replies: 7
Views: 5360

SPC players

http://nova.polymtl.ca/~jevalb/ This guy built an FPGA-based SPC emulator. I'm curious how much of the hardware is emulated at the hardware level and how much is just software. Anyway, the third SPC in the song is from a game I've never heard before. It goes: 1. DKC 2. FF6 3. Castlevania 4 4. FF6 Bo...
by kevman
Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:28 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: <blitzkrieg> testing, testing, 1 2
Replies: 128
Views: 55984

The reason why Sata drives (may) work in XP out of the box is becuase the BIOS has legacy Sata support; if the OS isn't Sata aware, the BIOS makes it look like a standard IDE. You can boot the XP install disc out of a USB CD-ROM drive if you want, too. On my laptop, I can boot a DOS disc (like the W...
by kevman
Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:14 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: Can I bind quicksave and quickload to my gamepad?
Replies: 6
Views: 3583

I use a playstation controller so I just map forward and back to R2 and L2. Really nice, but the rewind can go beserk if you hold it down and rewind the whole way.

Its cheating to the maxx so sometimes I unmap it.
by kevman
Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:10 pm
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: Virginia Tech shootings
Replies: 66
Views: 34343

I had to walk through a metal detector every single stinking day when I was in 9th grade. I grew up in a bad area. They poked through your backpack just like an airport. Annoying.

But in a college campus environment, that's pretty much impossible, what with people driving in cars and all.
by kevman
Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:36 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Hyperthreading on northwood?
Replies: 23
Views: 16019

Becuase the Conroe is currently the fastest, most efficient x86 CPU currently in mass production.

The P4s, however, weren't.
by kevman
Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:49 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Hyperthreading on northwood?
Replies: 23
Views: 16019

TRACTORBOX ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.70GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 3076.830 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp ...
by kevman
Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:21 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: HP dishonors warranty if you load Linux
Replies: 15
Views: 10965

Me, I just use my BIOS's Boot Menu feature to load Linux if I should ever install it on my other drive, bootmenu and all. Yep, you read right, I especially install the bootmenu on the OTHER drive's MBR, I'm not stupid enough to taint the factory HD! :P That's exactly what I did with my PC, but its ...
by kevman
Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:09 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I want linux
Replies: 21
Views: 13804

Yeah, into a text-mode interface that's pretty much DOS. I wonder why they fail to boot on your system. I've placed those CDs into the most cockeyed systems you have ever seen and they boot right up. I've also only ever used two pieces of hardware that don't have Linux support; my laptop's webcam an...
by kevman
Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:38 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: I want linux
Replies: 21
Views: 13804

There aren't many distros that come with all those video codecs and stuff. Its kind of, you know, illegal.

Maybe you want an HD install of Knoppix. It has all that and a bag of chips, and the HD install ain't as bad as it sounds.
by kevman
Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:28 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Debut
Replies: 12
Views: 7294

The best part about DVI is that the resolution changes are much faster and your monitor doesn't have to fiddle with the image. The video card (not the LCD) will also handle the stretching for non-native Rez, and I believe will even allow you to turn it off.
by kevman
Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:36 am
Forum: Insane Chatter
Topic: something i've noticed at school
Replies: 48
Views: 26375

Carnegie Mellon has these huge iMac computer labs around, too. We used them when I was at a programming competition there. I go to Robert Morris, who does not support running any OS other than Windows XP in its residence halls, which really blows, and they only have a couple of Macs laying around in...
by kevman
Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:53 am
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: which rpg
Replies: 46
Views: 24157

I second that. Great game, THG.

And amazingly awesome music.
by kevman
Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:16 am
Forum: Gaming Discussion
Topic: Looking for a fun FPS with lots of multiplayer mod games
Replies: 3
Views: 3322

UT2004.

Its fun and modded to hell and back. (It comes with a map editor on the DVD).
by kevman
Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:09 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: New computer won't load bios.
Replies: 27
Views: 21769

I agree. And without RAM, or even a CPU, the computer should still beep (You DID hook up the speaker correctly, RIGHT?).