• Forget protein-based memory!  Read about the breakthrough that will enable 16,000,000 Megabyte capacity DRAM, because of a new type of transistor...
• IBM makes new chips with smaller copper wiring instead of aluminum
• I would like to say a big good-bye to the best N64 site anywhere, www.n64hq.com.

1997 has been a phenominal year for emulation.  At its outset, the typical system was a high-end 486 system, on which you could emulate approximetely: nothing.  Yeah, sure, the Game Boy emulator sort-of did it... but really, who can handle 3 fps?

Especially in the first half of 1997, emulator authors were hard at work optimizing their programs, so that even a Super Nintendo emulator could run well on a 486 DX4/100.  At the same time, Pentium prices lowered and most of us were able to get Pentium 100, 133, or even 200MHz systems.  Now, the window is opening for PlayStation emulator(s) to run on PC's, and on the horizon we even see an N64 emulator [some 2D emulation now works!]  Indeed, if you are new on the emulation scene, you can consider yourself very lucky.

Now, that same system that played such a jerky version of Game Boy can play the exquisite NESticle emulator at 15 fps, and there are much, much, more of everyone's old favorites from the past available on the Internet. The aforementioned Game Boy emulator is now 20-30% faster and plays well (after tweaking) on any 486. Mode 7 and SPC700 (sound processor) support are standard on the SNES emulators; Genecyst and KGen are godsends for the Genesis.  I shouldn't leave out the arcade emulators, though I don't care a whole lot for them: I do believe M.A.M.E. (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) runs over 200 classic games, and Callus (from the author of NESticle and Genecyst) runs the Street Fighter series of arcade games and more.

I had previously been bashing the idiots who believe that a N64 emulator existed, but that was only because there were fake N64 emulators going around.  Now, they actually seem plausible.  My first estimate was that you'd need a 4,000 MHz processor to emulate the N64, which was based on an extrapolation of the fact that, to run SNES96 well, you ought to have a 166MHz Pentium—and that was only to emulate a 2.6 MHz Processor with a 2D graphics system!  However, there are some things that make N64 emulation easier.  Probably most important is that, by sacrificing "full" emulation capabilities, 3D video hardware can be used to display the graphics; new 3D cards are coming out that mostly surpass the N64's polygon-pushing power.  Secondly, partial-compilation techniques may be used to reduce the amount of pure emulation that is done and figure out certain things before the emulation starts.  Since the N64 is a very RISC processor, 94 MHz (the N64's main CPU clock speed) may not be such a big obstacle after all.  However, there are some Coprocessors to worry about.... Anyhow, I revise my estimate.  With a 3Dfx or higher-power 3D graphics card, I'd say that you'll be able to reasonably emulate the N64 with a Pentium II 300MHz machine with 64MB of RAM.  When the emulator becomes playable, I don't expect it to be uncommon for people to have such a processor.  I wonder how they'll go about emulating the 3D stick and the Rumble Pack?

Promising N64 emulator home page is here (new address, haven't been able to access it), and the "Ice CreEm 64" page is here.

By the way, if you are interested in some early PSX emulators, check out these sites:
The PSemu PlayStation emulator that now partially plays a few games!
The PlayStation emulation program,

For more information, just go to the page on the system that interests you. If you find invalid link(s) on one of these pages, e-mail me about it. If you know that a page has moved, tell me the new address.

I wrote a Front-end for SNES9X.... go to the SNES page to get it. On second thought, don't... it sucks.  It hasn't been updated for v.20.

I got a bit of webspace so I added some SNES ROMs in addition to the NES ROMs... not many but I only post games I think kick @$$. I should post some Genesis ROMs but I don't know which ones are good...

btw, thanks for sending me ROMs people, but I can usually find 'em by myself...
 

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<arjuna_pa> tifa's tits bounce nicely in the ending of ff7

<M_Rob0t> how do i prevent mame from displaying two games screen at once?
<EMU> cut the screen in half

<IceWizard> eye gawt a penix da size of da united statez
<IceWizard> my...penix..........wants....candy
<IceWizard> my penix -- "I had a big penix i sent it to the country and I fed it on penixbread, along came a slut and gave my penix aids and now my penixz dead"

<Glaive> so anyways i wish i could go around with my schlong hanging out. imagine how many chicks would want to do me.
<Mewtiny> I walked thru a ball once with my fly open and my schlong hanging out. <Mewtiny> I didn't even know.

<pguna> is there a virus inside roms?

This Beautiful Hit Counter has counted  of you little green people since November 21, and about 22,000+6,000 more before geocities screwed it up and set it at five million... ooooh how evil!! I get the feeling it will never work right... ahrrgg! oh, well. whatever.  nothing really matters anyways... anyone know of a counter that works properly?

To write me: [email protected] ICQ: 5188638
Do NOT send me mail asking for illigal software, especially registered emulators. Needless to say, you will not get them.
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