Lots of changes in this release.
Read more about it, and download the new version, at www.nemulator.com
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I’ve been using FL Studio since version 8 and, thanks to free lifetime upgrades, just installed version 10. I’ve used several DAWs: REAPER, Ableton Live, Studio One, etc. but always come back to FL Studio. Why? FL Studio just doesn’t get in the way. No other software allows me to translate ideas into music as easily as FL Studio does. Version 10, much like past releases, includes a bunch of incremental improvements. For me, support for 64-bit VSTs is probably the most important. Read more about it at the FL Studio website. I hardly knew ye… http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133043 This news makes me wonder about the future of the OpenSolaris server that I just deployed today. There’s nothing else out there that can deal with the 70TB of storage it has like ZFS can. Happy Friday the 13th A recent post on the nesdev boards asked why The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles didn’t work on any NES emulator without displaying graphical glitches in portions of the game. After some debugging, I came up with a theory and ultimately discovered some previous unknown behavior of the NES’s PPU. nemulator can now run this game without any glitches; it’s the first emulator to do so! Check it out at http://nemulator.com. Well, my aforementioned drive problems returned within a couple of days after installing the refurbs that Seagate sent. After noticing that the replacement drives, which were working ok, were running CC34 firmware (as opposed to the CC32 firmware on the rest of my drives), a little googling led me to this link to CC35 firmware. I pulled the refurbs (which report a generic model number and can’t be upgraded), popped in my “bad” drives, and upgraded everything to CC35. After the last false positive, I’m a little hesitant to call it completely fixed, but it’s been running for 2 weeks now without problems. It’s April, and there’s no sign of OpenSolaris 2010.03. I ran into a couple of CIFS authentication issues with snv134 and was hoping to test with 2010.03. Hopefully we’ll see OpenSolaris 2010.04, but the Oracle acquisition has me a bit worried… On a semi-related note, the limited S.M.A.R.T. monitoring support in OpenSolaris is frustrating. I recently had an issue with a couple of drives in my file server: occasionally, I’d see delays of a few seconds while reading from disk (which, annoyingly, translates to a pause in whatever Blu-ray movie I might be watching at the time). When the delays occurred, iostat would show the failing drive doing nothing, but sitting at 100% busy. This was accompanied by a rapid seeking noise coming from the drive — a great clue had I been within earshot of the server. I replaced the drives and everything is back to normal. I’ve seen this type of issue in the past, but was able to diagnose/alert on it based on S.M.A.R.T. error messages/counts. Can’t do this with OpenSolaris… Maybe this will improve in the future, but my current solution, for this specific problem, is to simply watch for it with the following command:
I’ve released nemulator 2.1.3, which has been compiled using profile-guided optimization (PGO). Very cool stuff; just a few clicks and all of the sudden, nemulator is running a whopping 25% faster. Accurate mode now runs at full speed (in single-game mode) on my 1.06GHz Core 2 Duo laptop. Read about the other changes, and download it, at http://nemulator.com. Fixed a bug that, in some cases, prevented SRAM from being saved to disk. It’s been a long time coming, but nemulator finally has cycle-accurate PPU emulation. What does this mean? In short, games that either wouldn’t run, or would run with graphical glitches, are working perfectly now. Oh, and I dropped the beta designation because, frankly, looking back on the past ~7 years of working on this, it’ll probably never be anything but a beta. Get it here: http://nemulator.com p.s. — just discovered Ufouria. Very cool game; kind of like Super Mario Bros. 2 meets Metroid.
Yes, he is climbing a drool ‘rope’. I’m on a roll… get it at http://nemulator.com. |
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