http://www.cyberwarriorx.com Saturn and Programming, at its finest Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So yeah, it snowed again - like 40cm(or more) worth of it! Plus the wind dumped more of it in the driveway. Fortunately from all the exercise I've been getting all winter, this amount wasn't too daunting, but still, it's getting a bit hard to find spots to put it. ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2008/03/10/snooooooooooooooooooow/ So you've just written yourself a fancy new emulator with multiple cpu's support and things are looking up. The only problem is, it's slow. Not only is it slow, it's just too darn slow. So you go back and optimize, optimize, optimize. And still, it's just not very fast. So ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/30/idle-cpus-are-the-tools-of-the-devil/ People who know me know I generally hate it when people port my code over to [insert console or hand-held device here]. It's not because I don't like people using my code, but most times those people don't properly evaluate whether or not the code will even run remotely well. ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/19/port-retort/ So I live in Canada. Ontario to be more exact. Normally we have light amounts of snow, you shovel your driveway for like 30 minutes and you're done. Well, let's just say I spent a large chunk of the day shoveling, and I'm just beat. Take a look at how ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/17/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow/ A few months ago I bought a wireless wii sensor bar made by a company called Asid. I was originally was planning doing some modifications to it, but after taking it apart, I changed my mind. See for yourself: For the visually impaired, instead of doing the standard clean mounting with ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/12/quality-chinese-engineering/ In the first part I talked about frame-limiting and some ideas as to how you can limit speed in a fairly accurate manner. It's only fair to talk about the other part of keeping frame rates constant: frame-skipping. Obviously with emulation there's no guarantee you'll have everything you want done for ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/07/ive-hit-my-limit-part-2/ So anyways, normally I end up having nothing to write here, so I usually don't. But once in a while I get a good question from someone which gives me a good idea for a post. This time I was asked about frame-limiting/frame-skipping in the context of an emulator. For people ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/05/ive-hit-my-limit/ Well, it's been a while since I've posted on here. Basically that job I had in spring finished before the fall and I've been looking for more work since then. Also during that time I was also trying to go back to university to eventually get my degree. As I'm sure ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/12/02/saturnucleosis/ Well, for those of you following DeSmuME and Yabause, not much has been done lately, I managed to get a new job as a software engineer(thanks to my pal Ben) so I haven't had as much time to work on other things. That being said, I've got some things that ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/04/09/work-and-things-of-interest/ Phew, I finally got a Wii - almost two months after it released. No thanks to my employer Best Buy. You'd think we'd have first dibs or something, but nope. And people wonder why I love my employer so much. So anyways, it's pretty fun. I actually got my mom ... http://www.cyberwarriorx.com/2007/01/17/legend-of-the-wii-quest-over/