Be afraid! Be very afraid! WedNESday is back!
After a period of about nine months I have decided to return to the NES scene. The reason... (blargg! stop swearing!) ...that I was away was my old computer crashed and I lost everything on it. Which was fantastic! Because it needed totally rewriting. Anyway...
I'm back, and i'm here to make your lives a misery...
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Seriously now. I am back and I am nicer than ever. I am determined to make WedNESday work this time and get rid of all of the things that made it pants in the first place. Peace and love to all of you (esp. blargg). Nice to be back. Hopefully I'm gonna get a new job as well soon.
My old PC was a P4 2.2Ghz 1Gb Ram. I now have a Dual P 3.2Ghz 1Gb RAM (faster of course). So I am very interested in Playstation emulation, which I will focus on as well. From NES to Playstation in one leap. Have I gone mad?
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My old PC was a P4 2.2Ghz 1Gb Ram.
Do you REALLY call this an old PC ? I've a brand new Athlon64 1.8GHz 512Mb RAM (however speed in Athlon CPUs cannot be compared with Pentium CPUs).
I've tried Playstation emulation, but this slows down A LOT. I think even trough I've a new PC, I still have a pretty old video card (GeForce 2), so this may be why it is so slow. Also incompatibility with emulator is big, with the game I tried, Final Fantasy VII. The special effect in battle are abscent, screen transparency effects seems badly emulated, and animation is corny. Also, most noisy sound effects sound different, just like in old SNES emulators.
lmao
When I said old, I meant the previous computer. It was from early 2002. The PC I have now was only £650. 17" Moniter, ATI Radeon x600, 1GB RAM, SB Audigy, Dual P 3.2Ghz. It runs sweetly (although the graphics card is quite cheap). As for Playstation emulation, yes it is not as easy or well researched as NES/SNES/Game Boy but it is a lot of fun and some of the emulators simply kick arse.
PSX emulation does not need high end PC's... I used to play it in my old (after that I had a 1.7 GHz P4 and now I have an Athlon 64 3200) K6II 533 MHz with 128Mb of RAM and 4 Mb video card pretty well. Of course, not with the fancy stuff PSX emulators have today (high resolution, texture smoothing, etc), but with the old Connectix emulator. It almost didn't slow down, and many many games were playable. I don't know how that PC would do with modern PSX emulators though. I may still try, since it is still working, primarily as a DOS/WIN98 games box.
WedNESday wrote:
My old PC was a P4 2.2Ghz 1Gb Ram.
You call that old? Why, I'm still using a 1000MHz P3 with only 768MB RAM! (kids these days, whipper-snappers, etc. etc.)
tokumaru wrote:
but with the old Connectix emulator. It almost didn't slow down, and many many games were playable.
heh. I remember playing some PSX games with both VGS and Bleem! on my parents P3 500mhz with 128MB RAM and a Voodoo3 and I think it run pretty decent.
My newest computer has an 8Mhz m68K with 4MB of RAM. 720kB floppy drive, no HD. It's an Atari ST.
OK, so I'm not exactly giving up my PC for it though, heheh.
But anyways, welcome back WedNESday.
Quietust wrote:
You call that old? Why, I'm still using a 1000MHz P3 with only 768MB RAM! (kids these days, whipper-snappers, etc. etc.)
Again, I didn't mean old I meant the last one. And Waddya mean 'kids these days'? I am 24!
Up until 6 months ago my fastest PC was a 450Mhz PIII
Worked great as long as I stayed away from windows.
WedNESday wrote:
Quietust wrote:
You call that old? Why, I'm still using a 1000MHz P3 with only 768MB RAM! (kids these days, whipper-snappers, etc. etc.)
Again, I didn't mean old I meant the last one. And Waddya mean 'kids these days'? I am 24!
So am I - it's just an expression of annoyance with the fact that some people aren't satisfied with 2 year-old technology while I'm still using 5 year-old stuff.
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My newest computer has an 8Mhz m68K with 4MB of RAM. 720kB floppy drive, no HD. It's an Atari ST. Smile
Are you serious ?? How could you even connect it to the internet ? How could you even run NES emulators on it (yes, I know you probably use a lot of devcards and squeedo unlike me, but still).
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My newest computer has an 8Mhz m68K with 4MB of RAM. 720kB floppy drive, no HD. It's an Atari ST. Smile
Are you serious ?? How could you even connect it to the internet ? How could you even run NES emulators on it (yes, I know you probably use a lot of devcards and squeedo unlike me, but still).
Like I said, I'm not giving up my PC, heh.
I'd probably have to buy something to get it on the net, so I won't do that. Dial-up would suck anyways. I got it as a gift. I might try controlling Squeedo through it's RS232, just for fun and to see it work (not for serious development, all the good tools are on PC anyways). I mostly wanted one for music stuff, writing chiptunes with it's YM2149 (a lot like the AY-8910, but weirder) and since it has real MIDI ports I'll be sure to try using it to control my MIDINES cart.
If by "newest" you mean the last you got, I undestand.
I mean you said that like if you were saying the more recent you had.
Yeah, I meant newest to me. The ST is from 1985, only 4 years younger than me.
Just to continue the PC specs trend, my main machine is an Athlon XP 2100, 1GB of RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro. And I don't plan on upgrading until long after it's absolutely necessary, heheh. I wish I could've kept using my Voodoo3 card. Damn drivers and shaders.
Every one seems to have 1GB of RAM today. I'm the last old one with 512MB. However, my computer doesn't suffer from lack of RAM at all.
I don't know if it would change anything to upgrade it to 1GB.
I also use 512MB. Though I bought 2 sets of 512MB when I assembled my PC, it always crashed randomly when using both sticks. Beeing the lazy person I am, instead of messing with the memory settings, I simply put the other stick away. It's been almost a year and I still didn't decide to mess with the memory settings. One of these days I'll give it another try...
Don't worry Bregalad, I have 512MB of RAM as well. I think having more than that is pretty much good for the new wave of PC games that are/will come out. I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon either.
Bregalad wrote:
Every one seems to have 1GB of RAM today. I'm the last old one with 512MB. However, my computer doesn't suffer from lack of RAM at all.
Depending on what you do with it of course. I play FarCry a lot and the main loading screen is about 10 seconds long but the saves are instant and the reloads only take about 3 seconds. As for Half Life 2 though, I definitely needed another 256MB, as there was some stuttering in live action scenes. NES emulators aren't very demanding, unless there are very, very crappy of course.
Oh my god... I remember when my brother was given a laptop by his friend because he didn't need it anymore. It was SO old. I seem to recall it having like 64k of RAM or something like that. I could be mistaking, I mean, that's REALLY low. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing that, though. The only cool thing about it was that it had Qbasic. Didn't do jack, otherwise...
The Commodore 64 has 64kB of RAM, I had it until not so long ago. It can only run basic programms and quite old games (older than NES).
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Dude, nobody can beat the system I use for all my programming needs: 500 Mhz Celeron 192 MB RAM 4 MB video memory. Actually, never mind that. Just upgraded to a 3000+ AMD 64 with 1 GB RAM etc, etc. It feels kinda weird now using something that is actually fast...