I've used MESS for years. I even have a port of it on my modded Xbox. This paper even mentions MESS.
Look, my original comment was to the AC that searched for MAME as a keyword, and then complained when it turned up no results. He missed the complete point of the paper. It wasn't a study on emulation in general, but focused on home machines. He mentions MESS a few times in the paper, so I'm not sure why he should focus on MAME when it really doesn't have anything to do with the topic he focused on.
Using a marketing slogan like "it just works" doesn't describe anything about the new features Gnome 3 has... What is it with Mac users and their eagerness to repeat ad slogans over and over again?
Perhaps you should try reading the paper instead of just searching for keywords. Then you'd know that the focus of the paper is on home gaming systems, and not arcade systems... It's not a study on emulation...
Not trying to troll at all, and I concede your point. I know Valve has even stated that the reason Source isn't on the PS3 (it will be for portal 2) was because of the cell processor in the PS3. It wasn't because of OpenGL. I stand corrected on this point.
Have you ever tried playing modern games in Wine? It's a crap-shoot on weather or not they look correct. OpenGL is still very relevant for Linux and Mac gaming. Besides, how do you think Wine accelerates games? It's still using OpenGL even if it's a Direct X game.
And yet the 360 is still dominating the living room.
The Xbox is the most evil thing MS has ever done. They snuck Direct X into everyone's living room, and now we're stuck with it.
But they've ported it to Mac, and that version does use Open GL. Same for WoW, but Blizzard actually let's you enable OpenGL in windows by a config file. Although the last time I tried it, it didn't seem as stable as the DX client.
Now if we could only convince some of the top development studios to believe this. It's pretty sad that Linux had more support from companies back when it wasn't quite ready for prime time. These days Linux kicks ass, and yet we see less games being released for it. Even companies that used to release Linux ports aren't doing it anymore (epic i'm looking at you).
Open GL is definitely still relevent, but you can't ignore the 800lb gorilla in the room. (Xbox360)... That's where the money is, and that's why game developers have migrated to DirectX.
I only wish OpenGL had kept up with DX in those critical years when the 360 was gaining steam. Even if OpenGL surpassess DX in this cycle, it won't meanmuch to mainstream game development.
Is this modded troll because someone doesn't like the truth? What he stated here is a fact. Xbox360's success has ensured that most mainstream developers are using DirectX. You and I may not like it, but it's a fact.
Bioshock 2. The first one had no multiplayer and was a fairly solid single player game. For the sequel they decided it needed multiplayer, even though not many people were asking for it. The result? A watered down single player campaign, and a watered down multiplayer game that a tiny amount of people play online.
You can dress up pseudoscience with a bunch of equations, but tell me how this is based on any type of actual science. If this is science, then Deepak Chopra must be an actual genius...
I'm not an expert but it does seem like a lot of physicists are just lost in their own little worlds. I realize science is a process, but spending valuable time "researching" time travel, before we can even explain what time or even gravity is, seems like skipping over the hard work to spend time on "fun stuff".
I'm willing to bet that the people posting in this thread about always having 20+ tabs open, with things like java weather trackers running in them, are the same ones that complain about Firefox's "bloated" use of memory.
It might be fun, but you do lead a very sad, small life if you use something like this to stick it to Microsoft. People died, and an ecosystem was destroyed. I guess anything to score points for Linux or Mac or whatever sociopathic cause gives you great fun...
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Wow that thing is neat! I want one!
I've used MESS for years. I even have a port of it on my modded Xbox. This paper even mentions MESS.
Look, my original comment was to the AC that searched for MAME as a keyword, and then complained when it turned up no results. He missed the complete point of the paper. It wasn't a study on emulation in general, but focused on home machines. He mentions MESS a few times in the paper, so I'm not sure why he should focus on MAME when it really doesn't have anything to do with the topic he focused on.
Using a marketing slogan like "it just works" doesn't describe anything about the new features Gnome 3 has... What is it with Mac users and their eagerness to repeat ad slogans over and over again?
That's what I was thinking. No need to rush it out. If they feel it needs more time in the oven, then so be it.
Yeah well the point remains that the paper is focused on home console games, not arcade games...
http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/index.php?sec=emus&eid=rdragon http://www.goliathindustries.com/vb/index.html Two emulators running Virtual Boy games. They aren't perfect, but it shows the games aren't "impossible" to emulate, and they won't vanish.
Perhaps you should try reading the paper instead of just searching for keywords. Then you'd know that the focus of the paper is on home gaming systems, and not arcade systems... It's not a study on emulation...
Was posting as an AC your backup plan to not earn a Troll mod?
What about games sales? Just because Nintendo moved more machines than MS doesn't mean people are actually playing it more.
Not trying to troll at all, and I concede your point. I know Valve has even stated that the reason Source isn't on the PS3 (it will be for portal 2) was because of the cell processor in the PS3. It wasn't because of OpenGL. I stand corrected on this point.
Yeah I hadn't thought about the Pulse Audio debacle... I'm happily running Arch Linux atm and didn't even bother putting Pulse on this machine.
Have you ever tried playing modern games in Wine? It's a crap-shoot on weather or not they look correct. OpenGL is still very relevant for Linux and Mac gaming. Besides, how do you think Wine accelerates games? It's still using OpenGL even if it's a Direct X game.
And yet the 360 is still dominating the living room. The Xbox is the most evil thing MS has ever done. They snuck Direct X into everyone's living room, and now we're stuck with it.
And if you've followed gaming much at all you'd know that a lot of studios don't put out PS3 versions of their games for this very reason.
But they've ported it to Mac, and that version does use Open GL. Same for WoW, but Blizzard actually let's you enable OpenGL in windows by a config file. Although the last time I tried it, it didn't seem as stable as the DX client.
Not totally true. Hardware tessellation is pretty sweet if you have a machine powerful enough to do it properly.
Now if we could only convince some of the top development studios to believe this. It's pretty sad that Linux had more support from companies back when it wasn't quite ready for prime time. These days Linux kicks ass, and yet we see less games being released for it. Even companies that used to release Linux ports aren't doing it anymore (epic i'm looking at you).
Open GL is definitely still relevent, but you can't ignore the 800lb gorilla in the room. (Xbox360)... That's where the money is, and that's why game developers have migrated to DirectX. I only wish OpenGL had kept up with DX in those critical years when the 360 was gaining steam. Even if OpenGL surpassess DX in this cycle, it won't meanmuch to mainstream game development.
Is this modded troll because someone doesn't like the truth? What he stated here is a fact. Xbox360's success has ensured that most mainstream developers are using DirectX. You and I may not like it, but it's a fact.
Bioshock 2. The first one had no multiplayer and was a fairly solid single player game. For the sequel they decided it needed multiplayer, even though not many people were asking for it. The result? A watered down single player campaign, and a watered down multiplayer game that a tiny amount of people play online.
Will do! How many more decades should we give them on string theory?
You can dress up pseudoscience with a bunch of equations, but tell me how this is based on any type of actual science. If this is science, then Deepak Chopra must be an actual genius...
I'm not an expert but it does seem like a lot of physicists are just lost in their own little worlds. I realize science is a process, but spending valuable time "researching" time travel, before we can even explain what time or even gravity is, seems like skipping over the hard work to spend time on "fun stuff".
I'm willing to bet that the people posting in this thread about always having 20+ tabs open, with things like java weather trackers running in them, are the same ones that complain about Firefox's "bloated" use of memory.
It might be fun, but you do lead a very sad, small life if you use something like this to stick it to Microsoft. People died, and an ecosystem was destroyed. I guess anything to score points for Linux or Mac or whatever sociopathic cause gives you great fun...
Insert 10 year outdated cheap shot against Microsoft here.