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    Pandora Emulator Features ?

    Rewind gets very tricky on 16-bit home computers and post-SNES consoles. You've got megabytes of RAM in there, and you can't copy that around in an instant. (Which isn't to say it's not possible, but it rapidly starts to be complex and a drag on performance, just as the machines are starting to...
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    Any Jaguar Fans In The House?

    I still haven't managed to get a drop of the full thing to Firefox, but the emulation has improved quite a bit. AvP is now just about playable, although there's some odd hitches.
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    Pandora's Emulators - What Will Work And What Won't

    Emu (the multisystem emulator I'll be passing to Firefox for porting) has pretty good support. 48K only at the moment but the compatibility seems fine (no compat bugs filed against it at the moment).
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    Pandora's Emulators - What Will Work And What Won't

    I've had some kind of emulation wiki in mind for a long time, but I never seem to find the time to look at setting it up...
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    Theoretically Speaking, Is The Pandora At Least Capable Of Dreamcast E

    Glad to be of service :). Yes, the memory controller does control the page access and doesn't close a page until it gets a request to a new one. If you have the 68000 spinning on a DRAM location that's going to completely bugger up the whole memory system. ROM accesses and SRAM accesses (the...
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    Theoretically Speaking, Is The Pandora At Least Capable Of Dreamcast E

    Yes, the Jaguar is a particularly fascinating case of this. The 't2k only' unthrottled emulator dodges the problem entirely; the DSP is replaced by a native code routine and the GPU basically runs to completion so the 68000 never spins (which we can get away with because T2K is pretty much...
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    Pandora's Emulators - What Will Work And What Won't

    Oh, I agree completely that underclocking isn't a strong solution, but it's at least as valid as frameskip. (Although anything timed by vblank interrupt works fine with underclocking, of course, as long as there's enough cycles to service the interrupt with plenty of headroom). I've found an...
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    Carmack, Iphone, Pandora And Midori

    There's one thing I definitely know about JC and that's that he's an incredibly busy man.
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    Keyboard Layout And Durability

    I'd have thought backspace was one of the most important keys. Or do you never make any mistakes...? :) One other point to possibly bear in mind, albeit one that makes things a huge pain in the backside: function keys are very often used with CTRL and ALT to do useful things. Ctrl modifiers on...
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    Pandora's Emulators - What Will Work And What Won't

    The other trick you can do - particularly for 3D games - is to underclock the emulations of the various chips in the system. This doesn't work well for many 2D games, which are generally targeted at a single fixed rate, but 3D stuff is usually dynamic - the gameplay is decoupled from the...
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    Quake 3

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