DaveC said:but Bush can get away with mass murder for oil and war profits and that is OK, no impeachment for him rolleyes.gif
Yes yes, the US got so much free oil from Iraq. That's why it costs record amounts to fill up a small car with gas..... but this is really getting off topic and I'd rather not send this topic off on another ridiculous tangent, so let's end it here.
Yup. It will also have 6 buttons on the right side, plus a stick in the middle just like on the N64 controller, plus a big stick with a red button right next to it like on the Atari 2600, two big knobs you can turn around to play Pong, a trackpad like on a laptop with two click buttons under it and a scroll thing to the side and a Dance Dance Revolution dancepad. Oh and also a big joystick with lots of buttons on it so you can comfortably play Flight Simulator with it.Bilal said:Will the unit have 4 shoulder buttons as this is needed in some PSone games?
Actually yeah, someone in the know told me that one of Craig's next announcement was the fact that the console will be bundled with a fullspeed N64 emulator with Kaillera and they're in talk with Nintendo to bundled it with the ROM of Super Smash Bros. so that you can play it online right off the box!! Yay!Bilal said:Also sticking to the emulation aspect of the console, will all emulators have online incorporated at some time. For example the Kaillera client on Amiga, Megadrive and MAME etc.
MWeston said:Actually, what I meant by cutting edge was that we use chips designed for mobile applications throughout the entire unit and provides power gating so that power consumption can be tailored for lowest possible drain in each application (as opposed to using a video encoder designed for home DVD players as an example). Yes, this does include the Wifi chipset. If you don't need it, it only uses 100-ish microamps in standby, or zero current if powered off completely.
Cool bananas! I can't wait to get my hands on one! B)
MWeston said:It won't have a nuclear powered, fusion reactor based battery! I think the idea behind the battery is the ability to easily replace it with something a little more common
Awwww... Oh well, perhaps I can bodge one together at home.
Squidge said:Yes, DaveC might have mentioned that once or twice
Bilal said:But what about Atari Jaguar emulation
I'll be very surprised if a quick port of the GP2X version of T2K (Jag emulator) doesn't run at least at fullspeed on the Craiginator. It might even run quicker than fullspeed like the PC version does.
Most Jag games are locked to a maximum frame rate, so they still play right even if the emulator's running faster than a real Jag. They just get smoother.
I'll carry on tinkering with the GP2X version over the winter, so I should have a pretty efficient code base to do a Craiginator port from in the spring.
I ain't a coder or emu-genie like Squidge, but I'll try my bestanexanhume said:Hey guys,
I stopped looking at GP news back in July and come back to a WHOLE LOT going on
I am excited about this machine, and while I am very techincally inclined (elec engr grad student), I don't know much about emulation.
Could someone fill me in as to why N64 and Saturn emulation are such large challenges. I guess the biggest help would be to know how exactly hardware carries out emulation and what specific quirks about the hardware of these machines make them such challenges.
Also, a FAQ of things known about this device similar to the post in the previous page would be VERY helpful. Thanks!
Except that power lines emit ELF at a frequncy about 7 of orders of magnitude below that of Wi-fi.imec said:If your skin is on fire from the radiation the power line above you is generating, then WiFi probably won't work. Just go out and buy a new router, it's a good investment to have a hotspot in your home.
Stealth Bagel said:Holy crap you people get arrogant the instant GBP goes to 2x the value of USD. It's been around 1.5x-1.75x the value of USD for years, so it hits 2 and all of a sudden it's 'worth less than the paper it's printed on' (you mean cloth? It's not printed on paper.) I guess then GBP is worth 2 tiny slips of paper then? I guess that means the british economy is on par with post-WW I Germany then? god, get some perspective.Goity said:Because you're all moaning about the price, but it's only expensive to you because your currency is worth less than the paper it's printed on. Still, I suppose it gets rid of fake money.
Also LOL at "unpopular president = low-valued currency"....... I hope you're not an economics major. Lots of people hated clinton and our economy was fine. I won't pretend to know what makes currency fluctuate, it has something to do with interest rates and it's all way over my head, but it doesn't take much to know the common misconceptions are highly oversimplified.....
At any rate if this handheld is solid and has all the advertised specs $320 is a more than reasonable price. A lot of people complaining are probably just broke. And broker than me..... well that's just sad.
The British economy has ALWAYS been one of the strongest in the world. Oh, and a currency being worth more than twice another is a HUGE thing. It means that bill gates entire fortune would half if he lived here. It would actually quarter as everything here costs twice as much to buy.