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March 23rd, 2008, 01:58 Posted By: JKKDARK
New update of the front end for PC.
Changelog:
- For registered users GameEx now features a fully functional search feature. Allowing searching of all games and media. The search feature works with remotes, game pads and arcade controls.
- The media library now allows access to ebooks and Karaoke
- The paging arrows are now more inuiitive and display based on the state of the list. They also animate slightly when first shown
- The displaying of the amount of items in the list is now slightly animated when switching between lists
- The number of items is now shown for an emulator or emulator group before accessing the list item
- GameEx will retain the window state after an update instead of being forced into full screen
- Fixes snap videos not being displayed when navigating from most played or favorites
- New setting to lock down GameEx to only work with a single emulator or emulator group. All other menus are disabled
- Fixes emulator music playlist folder when only one file in folder
- Happy Easter
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March 23rd, 2008, 01:57 Posted By: JKKDARK
New release of the Commodore Plus/4 and C-16 emulator for PC.
Info and changelog:
The second new release this year brings you a couple of improvements over the previous version. Gamers will appreciate the long outstanding joystick setup dialog features, while SID-card addicts may like the increased accuracy of the engine.
- new joystick setup dialog
- SID emulation improvements
- gamma correction fixes
- minor bugfixes
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March 21st, 2008, 22:25 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the Windows API emulator for Unix.
Changelog:
- The default version is now Windows XP.
- Many Richedit improvements.
- Beginning of jscript dll support.
- Shell folders now respect XDG directory configuration.
- Many translation updates.
- Lots of bug fixes.
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March 21st, 2008, 13:21 Posted By: JKKDARK
New release of the rom manager for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Info and changelog:
What brings this version? Your last selected game detail and page on list is stored. The status of the areas navigation, search and details (hidden, visible, size) is now also restored automaticly on startup. The storage of the selected view modes (eg. bookmarks, last played) can be be activated in the configuration!
Changelog for emuControlCenter WIP 12
- implemented show last selected game on startup
- implemented select last selected page on startup
- gui settings
-- current state of the navigation/search/detail area is now saved by default.
-- "Save View-Mode settings" store the current selected mode like "roms with metadata"
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March 21st, 2008, 00:45 Posted By: JKKDARK
It is an integration of Mame Plus!, MisfitMAME, Neht-build, Ash-build - and a few extras!
Information:
Hey hey all, the new version of Mame Plus Multi JET is out, updated with the last sources 123u6 of mame plus, more more changes for this version, a lot of neogeo games added, more games are promoted from not working status on snes driver, because i had a problem with headers of roms, now works fine. Somes icons are modified, and i work on genesis hacks for re-integration and now its ok!, now the changes:
Games added:
NEOGEO
All Earlier dumps
All MGD2 dumps
Snk vs Capcom (Hack by Ethen.H 21/01/08 (EGHT))
The King of Fighters '96 (Chinese v1.0)
The King of Fighters '96 (Chinese version)
The King of Fighters '96 (Evolution old)
The King of Fighters '96 (Remix Kof98 moves 25/07/03)
The King of Fighters '96 (Remix Kof98 moves 10/07/03)
The King of Fighters '97 (26a-c and 623a-c red flame special effect)
The King of Fighters '97 (Kill red flame special effect)
The King of Fighters '97 (Ice edition)
The King of Fighters '97 (Perfect edition)
The King of Fighters '97 (Xbt edition)
The King of Fighters '98 (Ice edition)
The King of Fighters '98 (Asamiya athena '99 style hack by Ivex (EGHT))
The King of Fighters '99 (Happy birthday to Iori special)
The King of Fighters 2002 (Kai version)
The King of Fighters 2002 (Plus hack by Jason/K3 and Wesker)
The King of Fighters 2002 (Remix ultra fully decrypted)
The King of Fighters 2002 (Remix ultra v3.5 (Jason/FCHT))
The King of Fighters 2002 (Remix v1.3 (FCHT))
The King of Fighters 2002 (Chinese translation hack by FoxUU, Zuojie 15/03/08)
The King of Fighters 2003 (Bootleg boss hack)
The King of Fighters 2003 (Boss hack remixed by ZKW japan jamma pcb)
The King of Fighters 2003 (Evolution v1.4 (EGCG/FGCH))
The King of Fighters 2003 (Ryu IoriYagami hack)
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March 20th, 2008, 21:03 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
Keep eyes peeled over the Easter weekend for extensive coverage of Funcom's MMO Age of Conan on CVG, but in the meantime as a taster we're serving up two exclusive screenshots.
The screenshots come from Sanctum of the Burning Souls, one of the game's non-instanced dungeons aimed at mid level-30s characters. It's not a particularly pleasant place to spend an afternoon as you can see, but offers a classic dungeon crawl that culminates in a showdown with the Acheronian Warlord, a massive humanoid boss.
We'll be running an exclusive gameplay trailer showing Sanctum of the Burning Souls in the next couple of days, so stay alert and keep your sword sharp.
Screenshots
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March 20th, 2008, 13:37 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the multi-system emulator for Windows, MorphOS and Amiga.
It emulates the Emerson Arcadia 2001 (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) and Interton VC 4000 (Acetronic, Fountain, Interton, Prinztronic, Rowtron, Voltmace, Waddington, etc.) console families, and the Elektor TV Games Computer.
Changelog:
. Elektor (expanded version): support for Rapid Loading Games enhancement.
. "Log|Subroutine calls/returns?" option.
. Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
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March 19th, 2008, 23:19 Posted By: JKKDARK
New release of the front end for PC.
Changelog:
1.8.8
* Fixed: context menu doesn't include the snap and rename items if viewed from right clicking either the status bar, or the listview's non item area.
1.8.7
* Fixed: picture files that match set names e.g. flyers, can no longer be renamed.
* Fixed: if ".png" is removed in the input box when renaming snaps, the file will still save with the file extension.
* Fixed: renaming snaps now requires the filename to be 4 digits.
* Fixed crash when reading snaps from a folder with a space in the name.
* Fixed wrong naming of driver ini files when using notepad and not the interface.
* Added a toolbar icon for Paths/Directories.
* Added: Delete menu to the context menu.
* Fixed: Delete *.dif Files now works.
* Fixed crash when clicking "Delete" and then "Change" on "." for INI Files (Paths/Directories).
* Changed: "." is now hidden for INI Files, as it's an essential path (Paths/Directories).
* Fixed: "." can now be changed for Fonts (Paths/Directories).
* Added: "Record Sound/Video..." menu item, which records both sound and video. It's quite laggy for some games on my althon64 3000+.
* Changed Common dialog from XP to NT style.
* Added Vector Options to the Options menu and to the non contextual right click menu.
* Added a small help label to the options dialog for all the different ini types. This can be turned off in preferences.
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March 19th, 2008, 21:01 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
Alright Avian Securities, looks like you might have some explaining to do. Dell claims that the 20 to 30% failure and return rates for SSD laptops cited by Avian's report "don't even vaguely resemble what's happening in our business." Dell says it wasn't contacted in the study, and that "global reliability data shows that SSD drives are equal to or better than traditional hard disk drives we've shipped."
The company says that return rates are "are in line with our expectations for new technology," and an "order of magnitude" better than what is being reported. To be fair to Avian, the original report cited an unnamed "large computer manufacturer," which some in the press assumed meant Dell, thought it was never said explicitly. It looks like we're going to need some more hard facts from both sides to get the true picture of SSD reliability and customer satisfaction, but for now let's nobody panic.
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March 19th, 2008, 20:43 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
Sure, you've been able to score a four-platter 1TB hard drive for over a year now, but the cooler, quieter, economical and speedy two-platter hard drive has always been a bit of a sweet spot for storage, and Western Digital has finally hit that mark with its new WD Caviar SE16 640GB SATA drive. The 3.5-inch disks hold two 320GB platters, boast 3GB-per-second transfer rates, and are available now for $140 [about £70].
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March 19th, 2008, 20:36 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
Alright folks, it's been a whole day with Vista SP1, and like any OS release, reaction is mixed -- although we're certain the people with problems are being more vocal than the rest. As you'd expect, major complaints seem to center around driver issues, that perpetual thorn in Vista's side -- sound cards seem to be the major problem, although there are also reports that NVIDIA drivers are also being finicky.
For what it's worth, Windows Update won't offer SP1 to anyone running what Microsoft calls "problematic drivers," until they're updated, but that includes several machines sold with Vista pre-installed, which is causing some confusion. In addition, older versions of security software like BitDefender AV and Zone Alarm are flat-out blocked from running on SP1, but updates are apparently available.
Obviously that's a lot of chatter, so we figured we'd ask the experts -- how'd it go? Any speed-ups or slow-downs to report? All your drivers and apps still working? Let us know in comments!
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March 19th, 2008, 20:24 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
EA has officially lifted the lid on The Sims 3, announcing it'll be released sometime next year.
The star attractions will include a seamless neighbourhood to wander around plus full character and object customisation.
You will also be able to assign your Sims five traits from the Realistic Personality System. I might be handsome, witty, charming, committed and caring, for example.
EA reckons there are around 700 million possible combinations.
"In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighbourhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system," said Rod Humble, boss of the Sims Studio.
"It is this type of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy long-term gameplay."
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March 19th, 2008, 16:18 Posted By: JKKDARK
New update of the multiple arcade machine emulator for Windows.
Changelog:
MAMETesters Bugs Fixed
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- 01520: [DIP/Input] wilytowr, atomboy: dipswitch info
- 01236: [DIP/Input] psurge: Power Surge isn't coining up.
- 01521: [Gameplay] ar_sdwr: Game hangs on title screen
- 01477: [Gameplay] metamrph, metamrpj, metamrpu: Game doesn't start
- 01452: [Misc.] boobhack: Crashes
- 01474: [Sound] ninjakd2, ninjak2a, ninjak2b, rdaction: Ninja-Kid II sound problem
- 01461: [Misc.] mazinger: reset caused by the watchedog message
- 01440: [Speed] mazingar, agallet: Terrible slow down in some scenes.
- 01087: [Misc.] spbactn, spbactnj: Crash in debug build. Corrupted graphics in normal build.
- 00223: [Graphics] splndrbt: On the first level when you pass the asteroid belt the star road should be light blue instead of black like mame
- 00220: [Graphics] splndrbt: Concerning the gfx, on the pcb the background is not linear as shown in mame.
- 00217: [Graphics] splndrbt: On boot the pcb displays a clean light blue screen while in mame there is a black road.
- 01531: [Misc.] polygon-based drivers: winwork.c memory leak
- 00150: [Misc.] alpinr2b, alpinesa : Assertion with -debug
- 01462: [Save/Restore] atarimo_render-based drivers: Crash when loading an autosave save state
- 01538: [Core] -verifysamples: Inconsistent handling of missing sample sets
- 01491: [Interface] switchres causes Exception at EIP=009413BF: ACCESS VIOLATION
- 01529: [Misc.] AICA memory leak
- 01511: [Save/Restore] batman: Fails to load autosave state
- 01536: [Misc.] uballoon: Access Violation with -debug
- 01535: [Misc.] usclssic: Access Violation with -debug
- 01465: [Misc.] topgunnr: Crashes
- 01534: [Misc.] ajax, ajaxj, typhoon: Access Violation with -debug
- 01019: [Sound] Various Drivers: List of drivers with sound clipping
- 01499: [Multisession] Various Drivers: Launching games from in-game [TAB] menu 2-3 times in a row throws access violation.
- 01453: [Misc.] troangel, newtangl: Crashes
- 01463: [Misc.] connect4, mpu4met0, mpu4tst2, mpu4utst, bctvidbs: Assertion
- 01475: [Misc.] Screenless systems are broken because of a vblank callback
- 01486: [Gameplay] meritm.c: access violation for all games
- 01530: [Misc.] Various Drivers: bitmap memory leaks
- 01508: [Misc.] most vector-based drivers: Assertions
- 01527: [Misc.] all meritm.c drivers: Assertion
- 01528: [Misc.] pzlestar, sexyboom: Assertion
- 01522: [Misc.] all ddragon.c drivers: Assertion
- 01523: [Misc.] nkdodge, nkdodgeb, spdodgeb: Assertion
- 01524: [Misc.] btoads: Assertion
- 01526: [Misc.] futflash, laserbas, laserbsa: Assertion
- 01507: [Misc.] all naomi.c drivers: Assertion
- 01503: [Misc.] sidearjp, sidearmr, sidearms: Assertion
- 01509: [Misc.] backfire, backfira: Assertion
- 01501: [Misc.] all m107.c drivers: assertion
- 01504: [Misc.] all leland.c drivers: Assertion
- 01506: [Misc.] all ataxx.c drivers: Assertion
- 01500: [Misc.] all astrocde.c drivers: assertion
- 01514: [Misc.] all cyberbal.c drivers: Assertion
- 01515: [Misc.] all atarig42.c drivers: Assertion
- 01516: [Misc.] all atarigx2.c drivers: Assertion
- 01517: [Misc.] all atarigt.c drivers: Assertion
- 01505: [Misc.] all vicdual.c drivers: Assertion
- 01512: [Misc.] beathead: Assertion
- 01496: [Misc.] all segae.c drivers: Crashing with Access Violation
- 01498: [Gameplay] otwalls: Hangs before the game starts.
Source Changes
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Added a new device type for timers. Where applicable, added a parallel set of timer functions that take a device_config instead of an emu_timer. Added MDRV_TIMER_* macros to define the timers in the machine driver. Implemented both periodic and scanline-based timer variants. Modified Space Encounters and Centipede to make use of this feature. Going forward, this is the preferred way of creating periodic timers. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Renamed *_vbl_cb to *_vblank_callback. [Aaron Giles]
Magicfly updates: [Roberto Fresca]
- Completed the component list & PCB layout.
- Added technical references to register $63 (magicfly).
- Switched crystal to new predefined format.
Funworld updates: [Roberto Fresca]
- Added proper inputs to jolyc980.
- Added temporary patch to allow bypass the "code" screen in jolyc980.
- Updated technical notes.
Changed exidy440_sound_command back to "UINT8." Since it's used by both 8-bit and 16-bit systems, the automatic allocation is not worth it if you need an ugly UINT16 ** cast. Removed deprecat.h from some of the exidy files. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Fixed Air Buster bootleg from reseting because of the watchdog. [Zsolt Vasvari]
The on-screen "Reset by watchdog" message only appears in debug builds now. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Fixed the top screen in the megatech games. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Added internal artwork for Gorf. [Mr. Do!]
Fixed memory leak in clifront.c. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Added a crosshair_set_screen() to allow drivers to control which screen(s) on which crosshairs are displayed. [Nathan Woods]
Made it a fatalerror to registr save state callbacks at the wrong time if the current driver claims to support save states. [Aaron Giles]
Fixed chicken and egg problem with device_start callbacks: [Aaron Giles]
- Added DEVINFO_INT_TOKEN_BYTES, which is queried before device startup. It should return the size of the structure that will be hung off of device->token. It must not return 0.
- Changed the core device interface to allocate and zero a block of memory the size of DEVINFO_INT_TOKEN_BYTES before calling device_start. The pointer to this memory is already attached to device->token at the time device_start is called.
- The primary motivation for this is to allow the device_start function to make internal calls and pass the device_config * around as if the object were fully constructed. Since the token is used to indicate whether or not a device is live, this makes the device "live" at the time device_start is called rather than after it completes.
Moved per-screen initialization into DEVICE_START and per-screen cleanup into DEVICE_STOP in the core video implementation. [Aaron Giles]
Fixed render_target_get_minimum_size() to return nominal values if no screens are found. [Aaron Giles]
Alpha Denshi major update: [Nicola Salmoria]
- Fixed Alpha 8201/830x MCU simulation.
- all hacks from the equites driver removed
- fixed equites restart position after going underground
- fixed hvolume, splndrbt 2 players
- removed hacks from exctsccr2
- fixed CPU gameplay in shougi
- added dump of Alpha 8201 MCU to games that use it (the ROM isn't used yet, HMCS44 CPU core needs to be written first)
- major cleanup of the mess in equites.c:
- many thanks to Corrado Tomaselli for precious hardware info.
- implemented bg perspective scrolling using PROMs
- fixed sprite flip & disable
- fixed bg color
- converted bg to tilemaps
- fixed fg banking
- fixed screen flip
- removed meaningless banking of player inputs
- added UI adjuster for MSM5232 frequency
- MSM5232 volume control
- fixed MSM5232 noise LFSR formula (done by Jarek Burczynski; thanks to Corrado Tomaselli for samples)
- changed MSM5232 emulator to output channels separately
- added output of SOLO channels to MSM5232 emulator.
- fixed champbas inputs
- merged talbot with champbas, some driver clenaup
- fixed shougi inputs
- switched exctsccb to use the correct gfx ROMs (matches screenshot found in 01058 exctsccb: Exciting soccer bootleg should be placed in champbas.c.)
- fixed sprite bpp in exctscrr, removed the horrible hacks that were used to fix colors and transparency.
- fixed sound clipping in exctsccr
- added percussions to the equites.c games using samples; sound board emulation is still not complete. Cymbal hit and hi-hat are missing; bassline is incorrect, and DAC output should be filtered
Fixed crash in spbactn. [Zsolt Vasvari]
In drawgfx, removed unneeded pen lookups. Did some code formatting clean-up. [Zsolt Vasvari]
Fixed ninjakd2 PCM sample rate to match pcb measurement. [Nicola Salmoria]
Fixed chdman -extract to a physical drive on Windows. [Aaron Giles]
Added return value to video_screen_update_partial() indicating whether or not the VIDEO_UPDATE was called as a result. [Aaron Giles]
Fixed typo in pitnrun frequency. [Corrado Tomaselli]
DIP switch improvements: [RansAckeR]
1945kiii.c, 88games.c and 40love.c: Made use of PORT_DIPUNKNOWN_DIPLOC
40love.c: Made use of PORT_INCLUDE
8080bw.c: Added more dip locations; Made use of PORT_INCLUDE
wilytowr.c: Added dip locations for atomboy/wilytowr; Fixed coin modes
battlane.c, battlera.c, battlnts.c, bbusters.c: added dip locations
battlnts.c: made use of PORT_INCLUDE; fixed unknown dip switch
bbusters.c: added note regarding correct gun calibration
bionicc.c: Added dip locations
bladestl.c: Added dip locations, made use of PORT_INCLUDE
blockade.c: made use of PORT_INCLUDE
beezer.c: Added dip locations
bfm_sc2.c: dip switch improvements, made use of PORT_INCLUDE
Converted the MPU4 driver to use an HD6845, as the Hitachi part was on the PCB, while also using it to generate the VBLANK, rather than hardcoding a value. Added the pulldown resistor to the network, and added all the conditional inputs. Please note that on the later Cabinet Types (Ready Steady Go-1 onwards), the 10p slot is locked out (location of the true register for this is unknown), but the input setting is correct - you have to use Coin 2 or higher to get money in. [James Wallace]
Fixed "garbage" (newlines) in the debugger window when debugging the SH-4 CPU. [Oliver Stoenberg]
New games added or promoted from NOT_WORKING status
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Gekisou [Nicola Salmoria]
Pot Game (italian) [Roberto Fresca]
New clones added
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Pitfall II (315-5093, Flicky Conversion) [Corrado Tomaselli]
Thunder Dragon (4th Jun. 1991) [Corrado Tomaselli]
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March 19th, 2008, 10:51 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for PC.
Changelog:
The code name is 'Se'.It's just consider as a rebuild versin of v1.78 std.
1)Rename Gens32 Antialiasing I ~ IV to Gens32 Filter I~IV.
2)Update Gens32 Filter III;
3)Fixed Some bugs in display and audio stuff.
4)Added a new filter called Gens32 Filter IV,720P output supported now.But,it quite slow at the moment...
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March 19th, 2008, 10:49 Posted By: JKKDARK
Xfire got a new update.
Changelog:
- Increased the screenshot limit of uploaded images from 15MB to 150MB.
- *beta* Added the ability to upload game videos to your profile page. Read more in the FAQ.
- Fixed bug with xfcodec.dll causing other AVI files to load improperly.
- Fixed CPU load issue with chat rooms with lots of people in them.
- Reworked voice chat internals to work much better on certain poorly-performing sound devices.
- Fixed Shadow skin display bug with non-default text size.
- Added buttons to the chat, screenshot, and video tabs on Shadow skin.
Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse to the following games: Action Unreal Tournament 2004 Conflict: Denied Ops Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna Emperor: Battle for Dune
FIFA Manager 06 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone James Bond 007 Nightfire Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Quake 4 Demo Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood Urban Terror
New games supported: Impossible Creatures Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Theme Hospital Flysis
RuneScape Penumbra: Black Plague Hello Kitty Cutie World Beyond Good & Evil
The Club Europa 1400: The Guild (Gold) Red Stone Frontlines: Fuel of War
Grand Chase (Asia) Grand Chase The Sims 2 FreeTime Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Lost: Via Domus Phun SpaceForce Captains NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
Darkeden The Experiment FairyLand Fritz 8
Bots Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come Cal Ripken's Real Baseball
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March 18th, 2008, 17:31 Posted By: Shrygue
via Gizmodo
Nvidia's headlining GeForce 9 series card, the monstrous 9800 GX2, officially launched today. It pulls an old trick out of Nvidia's hat—melding two GPUs onto a single board—so you can actually go quad-SLI for a mere $1200. It completely crushes ATI's top-of-the-line dual-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2. But is two times the GPU necessarily two times the awesome?
It's running the same GPU series as the 9600 GT, 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512MB (not be confused w/ the regular 8800 GTS). Actually when you look closely at the number of shader and stream processors and their clock speeds, it turns out the 9800 GX2 is basically two slightly underclocked 8800 GTS 512MB GPUs strapped together, and this plays out in the virtually indistinguishable benchmarks too.
Here's the rub: The 9800 GX2 is over 600 smackers. You can run two 8800 GT cards in SLI at $200 a pop and get almost the exact same performance for $200 less. So the real conclusion is that the 8800 GT is still the best card out there for the money.
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March 18th, 2008, 17:29 Posted By: Shrygue
via Engadget
Looks like all those rumors yesterday were true -- Microsoft has just posted up the official standalone version of Vista SP1. Sure, you've been able to get it in one way or another for a while now, but if you're into silly things like "legit OS upgrades," the wow (SP1) is now.
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March 18th, 2008, 11:13 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the Atari ST and STE emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.
Changelog:
- The user's configuration files are now located in the directory ~/.hatari/ instead of the $HOME directory itself.
- Improved VDI resolution mode (resolution can now be change in small steps).
- The 'Frame Skip 8' option can now be correctly selected, too.
- Fixed some bugs/problems in the GEMDOS HD emulation (with Fopen & Fcreate).
- Keyboard shortcuts for saving and restoring memory snapshots.
- Hatari can now be compiled with CeGCC, too.
- Fixed some problems with the FPU emulation. NeoN Grafix renders now right.
- Writing to floppy disk images works now also with TOS 4.0x.
- A lot of source code clean-up and beautification.
- Monochrome mode now runs in 71 Hz, and 60 Hz color mode now also really runs with 60 Hz refresh rate.
- Fixed memory snapshot files (some important data has not been saved before).
- It is now possible to automatically load/save memory snapshots at start/exit.
- Fixed some bugs in the file selection dialog.
- Some minor improvements in the GUI: Improved text edit fields, "Cancel" buttons can now be activated by pressing the ESC key, and Hatari asks the user before resetting and quitting the emulator.
- The Hatari executable is now relocatable (so the RPM can be relocated, too).
- It's now possible to enable special trace output with the "--trace" option.
- The size of the borders can now be specified in the hatari.cfg file.
- Fixed Spec512 screen plotting on big endian machines.
- Native screen conversion functions for 32 bpp host display mode.
- Reworked the command line options.
- Added missing read for "clr" in 68000 CPU mode.
- Cycle correct MULU/MULS/DIVU/DIVS in 68000 CPU mode.
- Support for 68000 instructions pairing
- Better emulation of exception stack frame (bus/address error), used in some protections.
- Don't change illegal 68000 opcodes $8, $a and $c if no cartridge is inserted.
- Ensure ACIA has consistent values when reset.
- More precise interrupt handling, allowing to mix CPU cycles and MFP cycles with greater precision.
- Various improvements in MFP emulation (stop/start timer without writing to data register, reading data register, handle pending cycles when timer "wraps" (i.e. data register reaches 0), ...). Supports programs using some very "fast" timers (Overscan Demos, ULM Demos) and requiring nearly cycle exact synchronisation with the 68000.
- Mostly correct wait states when accessing sound registers (add wait state for $ff8801/ff8803 when needed).
- Correct values of cycle counters read & write accesses for the most common cases used for fullscreen/hardscroll.
- Correct values for Video_CalculateAddress, taking into account frequency and left/right borders' state, needed for correct synchronisation between video and cpu.
- Improve top/bottom border removal, including 60 Hz bottom border, as well as "short" 50 Hz screen (171 lines)
- Support for all left/right border removal, including 0 byte lines.
- Support for hardscroll on STF, including the most recent ones using 4/5 lines.
- Support for 4 pixels horizontal hardscroll on STF (ST Connexion in Punish Your Machine)
- Small adjustements in cycle precise color handling (spec512.c)
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March 18th, 2008, 11:11 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the arcade emulator for PC.
Changelog:
• misc: added another seeking step to find fixable missing roms
• fixed: game tags manufacturer/year didn't follow the dtd rules when exporting
• fixed: xml datfile detection randomly doesn't work in profiler
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March 18th, 2008, 04:28 Posted By: mavsman4457
As we see the upcoming release of the Pandora, an open handheld console, we may also see the release in the future of an Acer home console that is also open. Not much is said about it but here's the article. If this is reasonably priced, and it can emulate, then they've got my money.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Acer...ine/1205406937
Right now, the Acer brand name is still equated with PC notebooks only, despite Acer's acquisition of Gateway. But in an interview with BetaNews at its press event on Wednesday, Acer's senior vice president, James T. Wong, said that his company has a game machine in mind, and that it will be based on "open standards."
"If you look at most of the other game machines that are out there right now -- Nintendo's, the Xbox -- they are 'closed' and proprietary systems," he told BetaNews.
Wong said that, beyond "openness," all of the Acer-branded systems being eyed right now, including the game machine, are envisioned as offering new and innovative form factors and applications.
In addition to its future Acer-branded desktop PCs, however, Acer will also provide desktop systems under the Gateway name, as well as under the eMachines and Packard Bell brands inherited through the Gateway buyout, according to the senior VP. The Acer, Gateway, eMachines, and Packard Bell desktop systems will each incorporate two separate line-ups, one for consumers and the other for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses), he said.
During a press conference attended by BetaNews earlier on Wednesday, which focused mainly on Acer's notebook PC products and strategy, officials cited Gateway's expertise in desktop systems as a big reason for buying that company.
But Wong told BetaNews that Acer had already been making desktop PCs for other vendors, anyway, with desktop systems constituting some 30 percent of Acer's huge OEM business.
Acer, though, will not be offering either desktop or notebook PCs geared to enterprise use, at least for now, according to the executive.
"You need different kinds of resources for [enterprise systems], and we don't have those kinds of resources right now," he told BetaNews.
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