I honestly doubt I am playing "50-100 most popular titles", precisely one of the beauties of SNES is the incredibly good software that never left Japan or was too obscure to hit cult status, or software never released in Europe.
Out of the games I play often, I think the only ones having speedhacks are Terranigma and Illusion of Time/Gaia, I guess Earthbound. I can assert without any doubt that stuff like Great Battle V, Nightmare Busters, Wild Guns, Ninja Warriors Again, Thunder Spirits (sort of like the SNES port of the arcade port of Mega Drive's Thunder Force III), Paladin's Quest (it's kind of lame but there's something about it I like, maybe the HP=MP mechanics), Arcana, Alcahest...those are pretty obscure and still work exactly as the console version that I did try beforehand, and there isn't really any glitch on any of the 3 emulators I played them with. The few games I know that glitch, already did in the cartridge version (Lufia 2 US).
So yeah, I guess it's a bit of luck. Or maybe those games happen to not use specific hacks and/or enhancement chips that might cause glitches in this situation.
Yeah you got me. I saw the news in the RSS feed and posted without having my morning coffee. Now I did, read the article, and wondered why Slashdot doesn't have a delete comment option.
Either way, seems I am pretty lucky, because I never got such misbehavior when playing emulators. Much less a crash, even under PSP or other homebrew+lowend emulators. At most I notice some sound effects sounding different than in TV, and I recently saw someone playing Doom in an emulator and it had rounding errors in the rendering (causing a strange mishmash of pixels, but considering the math involved, it's surprising it even works), but yeah, been lucky.
I admit I didn't RTFA, although I never experimented such issues...for whatever reason. Although you happen to mention games I only played on real hardware...never really tried emulating them. But I will take your word for it.
I played a lot of SNES games when I was a kid. Then I played those games when I was older in an emulator (it's easier than dusting off the console).
Any difference is pretty much minor detail. Your memory won't really tell you stuff you see in a modern emulator is wrong, because most people doesn't memorize the amount of time a triforce takes to spin around, and probably doesn't care as long as it shows OK.
I think you only need emulation that faithful when you are actually writing software for the SNES using an emulator. (Hey, it happened for the NES, why not?)
We are already at 4.2... Wow, GL moves fast, but who cares, when you need to force your users to update their drivers so you can have the bare minimum "new" features.
Seriously, what's the rate of adoption? Perhaps it was never labeled properly but don't all default installs of GL support like 1.x? What drivers and cards provide support for GL 2.0+? And most importantly why should I bother developing in a newer version of GL, if I don't know if the user will be able to update to the right version to run a game of mine? Better stick with the lower standards... I find GL worse than trying to develop multiplatform with C99...
Feels actually very very early. After 4.6 being almost identical to 4.5 regarding workflow, bugs left unpatched, and all the little issues KDE4 still has, moving to 5? Is there a new, breaking release of Qt to catch up with like with KDE4?
Damn, just thought of this after posting. How would damage affect the output of such a brain. Will the number 12 still be the number 12 after something external alters the layout of the bio-brain? How will a possible bacterial infection alter the metrics for that CPU, rendering the system defective or useless? (since this is organic, any change might alter the registers or precision, maybe 12-12 won't be 0 as expected). How will it fare when it starts to expire?
With this I am not saying a scifi scenario of rampart biobots attacking humanity. I mean actual changes in actual output that can lead to crashes, wrong arithmetic or other glitches, or just rendering the software unusable.
I always wondered if biomechanical stuff is actually better than "pure" mechanical stuff. Aren't the organic components less durable than inorganic ones by definition? If you had a robot (cyborg rather) whose organic brain expires, replacing the organic brain will keep the same functionality? Otherwise, will the metal/plastic parts work perfectly but the machine will remain an empty, useless shell? (Will patents and other tricks of "real life science" meddle on this? History dictates they will.)
I don't know, maybe I am just a "metal purist", but I am not sure about having materials that can rot, into machines that might need to move in too-harsh enviroments or last long. I don't want such components to expire or rot because of one overheating (something a classic CPU can resist fine unless it's fire-inducing hot).
Don't make a mistake. Politicians and "the powerful" aren't "human". Biologically speaking they are, but those people have forgotten what it is to be human. Just look at the stuff they have made humanity do since our beginnings.
I laugh whenever I see the cliched movie of the day say stuff like "humans are so hungry for war" or similar. No, the average soldier is a pawn, the ones that create wars are the ones with power, and drag everyone else with them. That's what politicians and powerful people have made to mankind. They aren't human, they just share our biology.
Well, natural solutions aren't the miracle they tend to sell, but if coffee can give you an edge, why not some herbs? They are full of chemicals that are released with heat (cooking chemistry 101). I need to take a combination of both raw, pharmacy chemicals and herb infusions to treat a esophagus/stomach affliction. Both on prescription by a certified medic. All we eat is as well a mass of chemicals after all. That of course doesn't bar actual "all natural" placebos being sold, but it happens on the other side of medicine as well.
At this time and age, being passionate about something can be labeled as fanboyism. Sure there are bona-fide fanbois out there, but people passionate about something is being labelled fanboy by anyone who disagrees. It's like if every positive quality of mankind was being diluted until it's reduced to a set of memes.
Hmm. I once ran in trouble because a firefox command line (to start profile manager) outranked firefox (regular launcher). But then I found there is a little option to "forget about" the item you don't want, so you can balance it out. I just needed to use it twice though.
Well, yes it does, but look at this: http://i.imgur.com/WrYNa.png There's nothing else, CPU is barely a blip on the radar when it's working, and it indexes on background, but you won't notice it even when the system is under load. It's really well optimized.
This is with almost all plugins enabled, several 1000+ file folders indexed for quick access, firefox bookmarks and opensearch plugins, gmail contacts, clipboard manager, recent file indexing, a few homebrew plugins for controlling zim and editing text (using a yad wrapper), some playlists, several favorites, etc. I also delegated all my hotkeys to kupfer so I can change DEs anytime and keep them. Also you can do some minor automation with kupfer, such as automatically translating any text in any program, or pass such text though any script or tool you'd like, via one simple key combo. Oh, and it also looks quite good, IMO. And you can also choose a cute ASCII icon theme.
Other launchers use more memory and CPU and offer less plugins that I can use, or require compiling code to write plugins on your own, which is doable but nowhere as convenient. That's why I choose Kupfer.
I absolutely love to use zim (http://zim-wiki.org/) and kupfer (http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/). The former is a local wiki/notetaking app. I find it very useful to collect stuff and write technical stuff and manage simple TODO lists. I know there are many similar apps (cherrytree) but I am most comfortable with zim. Kupfer is a quicksilver-like launcher that is extremely fast and uses no RAM or CPU whatsoever. Out of all the ones I tried (including Do) it's the best for my needs, and being written/expandable by python, it's easy to write a plugin for a specific task or program. There's also iLua (https://github.com/ilua/ilua) which is a powered Lua shell with some built-in helpers such as table serializers and such. Unfortunately it's not compatible with 5.2 (yet?).
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I honestly doubt I am playing "50-100 most popular titles", precisely one of the beauties of SNES is the incredibly good software that never left Japan or was too obscure to hit cult status, or software never released in Europe.
Out of the games I play often, I think the only ones having speedhacks are Terranigma and Illusion of Time/Gaia, I guess Earthbound. I can assert without any doubt that stuff like Great Battle V, Nightmare Busters, Wild Guns, Ninja Warriors Again, Thunder Spirits (sort of like the SNES port of the arcade port of Mega Drive's Thunder Force III), Paladin's Quest (it's kind of lame but there's something about it I like, maybe the HP=MP mechanics), Arcana, Alcahest...those are pretty obscure and still work exactly as the console version that I did try beforehand, and there isn't really any glitch on any of the 3 emulators I played them with.
The few games I know that glitch, already did in the cartridge version (Lufia 2 US).
So yeah, I guess it's a bit of luck. Or maybe those games happen to not use specific hacks and/or enhancement chips that might cause glitches in this situation.
Yeah you got me. I saw the news in the RSS feed and posted without having my morning coffee. Now I did, read the article, and wondered why Slashdot doesn't have a delete comment option.
Either way, seems I am pretty lucky, because I never got such misbehavior when playing emulators. Much less a crash, even under PSP or other homebrew+lowend emulators.
At most I notice some sound effects sounding different than in TV, and I recently saw someone playing Doom in an emulator and it had rounding errors in the rendering (causing a strange mishmash of pixels, but considering the math involved, it's surprising it even works), but yeah, been lucky.
I admit I didn't RTFA, although I never experimented such issues...for whatever reason.
Although you happen to mention games I only played on real hardware...never really tried emulating them. But I will take your word for it.
I played a lot of SNES games when I was a kid. Then I played those games when I was older in an emulator (it's easier than dusting off the console).
Any difference is pretty much minor detail. Your memory won't really tell you stuff you see in a modern emulator is wrong, because most people doesn't memorize the amount of time a triforce takes to spin around, and probably doesn't care as long as it shows OK.
I think you only need emulation that faithful when you are actually writing software for the SNES using an emulator. (Hey, it happened for the NES, why not?)
What happened to demos, shareware, and all that fancy stuff that made PC games popular?
We are already at 4.2...
Wow, GL moves fast, but who cares, when you need to force your users to update their drivers so you can have the bare minimum "new" features.
Seriously, what's the rate of adoption? Perhaps it was never labeled properly but don't all default installs of GL support like 1.x? What drivers and cards provide support for GL 2.0+?
And most importantly why should I bother developing in a newer version of GL, if I don't know if the user will be able to update to the right version to run a game of mine? Better stick with the lower standards...
I find GL worse than trying to develop multiplatform with C99...
Oh, that's a relief, sorry for misunderstanding.
Not everyone using Linux works in IT.
Just to note, I know they are being "planned". Just makes me wonder how much brainpower will be left for KDE4.
Feels actually very very early. After 4.6 being almost identical to 4.5 regarding workflow, bugs left unpatched, and all the little issues KDE4 still has, moving to 5?
Is there a new, breaking release of Qt to catch up with like with KDE4?
They actually made a good number of releases already. It seems like a very healthy project from the outside.
It's working for LibreOffice so why not.
C strings are an instrument for the devil, just saying.
Seriously, why move the star/bookmark icon out of the address bar where it's been all this time?
Stop making Firefox to be Chrome. Firefox is not Chrome. It shouldn't be.
Damn, just thought of this after posting.
How would damage affect the output of such a brain. Will the number 12 still be the number 12 after something external alters the layout of the bio-brain? How will a possible bacterial infection alter the metrics for that CPU, rendering the system defective or useless? (since this is organic, any change might alter the registers or precision, maybe 12-12 won't be 0 as expected). How will it fare when it starts to expire?
With this I am not saying a scifi scenario of rampart biobots attacking humanity. I mean actual changes in actual output that can lead to crashes, wrong arithmetic or other glitches, or just rendering the software unusable.
I always wondered if biomechanical stuff is actually better than "pure" mechanical stuff.
Aren't the organic components less durable than inorganic ones by definition? If you had a robot (cyborg rather) whose organic brain expires, replacing the organic brain will keep the same functionality? Otherwise, will the metal/plastic parts work perfectly but the machine will remain an empty, useless shell?
(Will patents and other tricks of "real life science" meddle on this? History dictates they will.)
I don't know, maybe I am just a "metal purist", but I am not sure about having materials that can rot, into machines that might need to move in too-harsh enviroments or last long. I don't want such components to expire or rot because of one overheating (something a classic CPU can resist fine unless it's fire-inducing hot).
He's neither, he's quoting something from The Simpsons.
Don't make a mistake. Politicians and "the powerful" aren't "human". Biologically speaking they are, but those people have forgotten what it is to be human. Just look at the stuff they have made humanity do since our beginnings.
I laugh whenever I see the cliched movie of the day say stuff like "humans are so hungry for war" or similar. No, the average soldier is a pawn, the ones that create wars are the ones with power, and drag everyone else with them.
That's what politicians and powerful people have made to mankind. They aren't human, they just share our biology.
I used to share your opinion after I moved to Ubuntu from Gentoo. Specially developing games, Pulse caused a lot of lag and made coding sound effects terribly hard. My first install task was to remove pulse and set SDL to use ALSA. /dev/shm, a directory I use often, and doesn't cause lag in my tracker or my games anymore. That's enough for me, saves the trouble of having to excise it.
However, one or two Ubuntu releases ago, it started to just work© and haven't had a complaint about it since then (except for the huge pipes (?) stored in
Well, natural solutions aren't the miracle they tend to sell, but if coffee can give you an edge, why not some herbs? They are full of chemicals that are released with heat (cooking chemistry 101).
I need to take a combination of both raw, pharmacy chemicals and herb infusions to treat a esophagus/stomach affliction. Both on prescription by a certified medic.
All we eat is as well a mass of chemicals after all.
That of course doesn't bar actual "all natural" placebos being sold, but it happens on the other side of medicine as well.
At this time and age, being passionate about something can be labeled as fanboyism. Sure there are bona-fide fanbois out there, but people passionate about something is being labelled fanboy by anyone who disagrees.
It's like if every positive quality of mankind was being diluted until it's reduced to a set of memes.
Yes, at times it takes a minute or two but does appear. I have bookmark html dump enabled in Firefox if that makes a difference.
Hmm. I once ran in trouble because a firefox command line (to start profile manager) outranked firefox (regular launcher). But then I found there is a little option to "forget about" the item you don't want, so you can balance it out. I just needed to use it twice though.
Well, yes it does, but look at this: http://i.imgur.com/WrYNa.png
There's nothing else, CPU is barely a blip on the radar when it's working, and it indexes on background, but you won't notice it even when the system is under load. It's really well optimized.
This is with almost all plugins enabled, several 1000+ file folders indexed for quick access, firefox bookmarks and opensearch plugins, gmail contacts, clipboard manager, recent file indexing, a few homebrew plugins for controlling zim and editing text (using a yad wrapper), some playlists, several favorites, etc. I also delegated all my hotkeys to kupfer so I can change DEs anytime and keep them.
Also you can do some minor automation with kupfer, such as automatically translating any text in any program, or pass such text though any script or tool you'd like, via one simple key combo.
Oh, and it also looks quite good, IMO. And you can also choose a cute ASCII icon theme.
Other launchers use more memory and CPU and offer less plugins that I can use, or require compiling code to write plugins on your own, which is doable but nowhere as convenient. That's why I choose Kupfer.
I absolutely love to use zim (http://zim-wiki.org/) and kupfer (http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/).
The former is a local wiki/notetaking app. I find it very useful to collect stuff and write technical stuff and manage simple TODO lists. I know there are many similar apps (cherrytree) but I am most comfortable with zim.
Kupfer is a quicksilver-like launcher that is extremely fast and uses no RAM or CPU whatsoever. Out of all the ones I tried (including Do) it's the best for my needs, and being written/expandable by python, it's easy to write a plugin for a specific task or program.
There's also iLua (https://github.com/ilua/ilua) which is a powered Lua shell with some built-in helpers such as table serializers and such. Unfortunately it's not compatible with 5.2 (yet?).