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98.07.31
TheSE discontinued
- "Urban Nilsson and Christian Gyrling have decided to cancel their Super Nintendo emulator.
With several excellent Super Nintendo emulators out there (Snes9X, SNEMul and ZSNES), Urban
and Christian decided to hang it up. With TheSE officially canceled, they've decided to
release one last final version of TheSe:
'We have decided to discontinue TheSE! There isn't much more to do on SNES emulation than
SNES9X, ZSNES and SNEMul already have implemented or is about to implement. With the release
of the Snes9x source we decided to stop programming TheSE (at least for now). TheSE ver 0.14
was never finished. Therefore we release TheSE ver 0.14 BETA as our last version.'" -
Emu News
Service
98.07.30
NSFE OpenGL Problems - "Gordon Hollingworth (author of NSFE)
has encountered a problem using OpenGL, a problem that is seriously curtailing the project.
(It's an error resulting from a ChoosePixelFormat call; see
his site for
the details). Gordon is looking for any OpenGL guru's to lend a helping hand. If you can
help, please do." - Emu News
Service
Raine update - "Emulators Unlimited is reporting that Richard Bush is
adding support to Raine for three new games. The new games are Dinorex, Drift Out and Growl."
- Emu News
Service
I had a little fun with BLOCKQUOTE and ALIGN="justify" as you
can see ... I decided the news was too cramped in it's previous format. Also, Nexus728
has officially left Patent Pending due to lack of time.
98.07.29
JoseQ's
EmuViews returns - EmuViews is back after about two weeks of down time due to SimpleNet's
new policy of no emulation sites (or even links to them, for that matter)
allowed.
98.07.28
- Birthdays
- Deezer - turns 19 today!
- Nexus728 - turns 16 today!
New Odyssey² game - "John
Dondzila, author of several Vectrex and ColecoVision games is now tackling a brand new system:
the Odyssey². As you can tell from this sneak-preview screenshot, this new game is inspired
by the classic shooter/maze game Berzerk. Tentatively titled AMOK!, the game is nearly done
and should be ready in a couple of weeks. John is polishing up the collision detection and
will add sound effects as the final touch.
The Odyssey² was released way back in 1978 by Magnavox and featured an Intel 8048 CPU. And if
I'm not mistaken this will be the first new game for the Odyssey² in 15 years." -
Emu News Service
Retrocade update - "The Retrocade team is gearing up for Beta 9 of
their private beta for beta testers. Their plan is to have everything in place (controllers,
bug fixes, etc...). Many of the games have improved speed (all Z80 games do) and some (like
ZeroZone) are over 300% better. After the release to the beta testing masses, they will be
focusing on documentation and web site changes/updates. Following that, we'll release a
release candidate. If no serious problems are found, it ships. What this meanas is that, if
there are no serious problems, a PUBLIC release of Retrocade could be available shortly after
the release candidate is tested by the beta testers. There is no known release date for
anything, so don't hassle the authors." - Dave's Video Game Classics
Status of individual sections has been added to sidebar on the
left. The percentages indicate how much of the section has been updated AND has the files
avaliable. The pages may or may not be up however, but will be added on our new
server.
98.07.27
NeoRAGE Update - "PC Arcade is reporting that the next release
of NeoRage will feature:
- World Heroes 1 & 2 works perfectly
- Puzzle de Pon now also works 100%
- Gfx-glitches (blinking sprites) fixed in Metalslug and Puzzle Bobble
" -
Emu News Service /
Dave's Video Game
Classics
98.07.26
- Video Game and Emulation Articles
More Zophar's
Domain info - "Well, http://www.zophar.net was Zophar's Domain...until a huge problem
occured. So it'll be down once again until we are settled into a new server, which could be at
any time.
We originally thought that we were hacked. However, thanks to faraway and vore (beleve it or
not), it has been determined that it was the owner of malicia, that ZD was hosted on, that put
this 'hack' of a page up.
Personally, i don't really know what to think. I don't know why this was done ...ZD is down
once again.. and will be back up.
...it always comes back. So, until then...sit tight." - Zophar,
Zophar's
Domain
98.07.25
Zophar's Domain
info - "Well, this is just to let all of you know that ZD's not dead. It didn't 'move' and we
didn't relocate to a gaysex site (heh). It was hacked. And currently, I have no way of doing
anything. Just so you know that it's not dead...and I'm working on figuring out what to do
next." - Zophar, Emu News
Service
PalmGB update - "For
registered used of PalmGB: PalmGB 1.5.0 will go into public beta testing on July, 31. I am
really sorry for all the delays, but I'm currently in a rush for finishing my Ph.D.
dissertation (it must be read on August, 20). You have to understand that it is my first
priority for the next weeks. Nevertheless, this does not mean that you will not have lots of
new features in future versions of PalmGB after this date. Thank you for your patience." -
thanx to Chris Hickman, Archaic
Ruins
Well, we aren't up on k0r3dump as planned. Apparently the hard
drive still needs to be installed. Projected date is another week. I had not realized just
how much stuff was still up on Netside. Of course all of it is several months old. People
have been e-mailing me about broken links, etc. At this point, DO NOT BOTHER. They should all
be fixed soon. The upside of being back on Simplenet is that our message board is still
functional. Post if you want to. Especially since both Zophar's Message Domain and Emulation
Camp boards are down. If you absolutely need a certain file, post a message on the board, do
not fill up my e-mail. Thanx. Total site revamp is 40% complete.
98.07.24
Nintendo Entertainment System Architecture updated - "After about 2 years
of not updating his NES technical documentation, Marat Fayzullin has released a new
revision. However, it's just a minor update...still no sound information or mappers
information is included in the document." - Zophar, Zophar's Domain
Zophar's Domain hacked? -
It appears Zophar's Domain was hacked around 11:50PM EST today. All pages are gone except for
this strange entrance page. There is no mention of who did this
or why they did it.
Snes9X Win32
update - "I get quite a lot of mails from people keen to know when Snes9x for Windows95 will
be updated. Well the team, and more importantly The Teach the porter, have been having
problems with a major bug affecting the port. This has now been solved and pending any minor
disasters a new version should be out within the week. Remember you heard it here first :)"
- Secain, SNES Emulation
Centre
98.07.23
98.07.22
98.07.21
- Emulation News
- MESS update - "Chris Salomon is working on a PDP-1 driver" -
Dave's Video Game
Classics
- Vs. SMB for NESticle - VS. Super Mario Bros. has been hacked by TrelaneQ to enable
FreePlay mode and changed it to MMC3 mapper so it can be played on NESticle. Numerous palatte
files have been released too.
98.07.20
- Note from Mß
- Crosswinds sucks. period. I'm taking a chance and moving the site back to Simplenet
for the next few days.
98.07.19
- Emulation News
- fwNES98 update - "The US mirror of fwNES has
just been updated with the latest word on the next release of fwNES:
- Namcot Mapper fixed .SanGokushi2 /KaiJyu work
- FamiJump2 work
- VS(nintendo arcade board ) CastleVaina/SMB work perfect
- Mapper 93
- Mapper 91 fixed (about 80 % include IRQ..still some glitch)
- Mapper 73 fixed ..
- GUI crash bugs fixed .
- Sound core updated /VRC6/VRC7/MMC5/Namcot addtional sound channel..
- Currently work on adding more pirate carts (from HK/TW/China)mapper... and
FDS...
No release date is known as of yet." - Emu News Service
- SNEmul update - "According to the
latest update on the SNEmul homepage, SNEmul version 0.81 will be released very soon, but no
exact release date is known as of yet." - Emu News Service
98.07.18
- Emulation News
- Sega CD Tech Info - " I received the following e-mail from Eidolon regarding Sega CD
emulation:
Today, I finished a huge update of the Sega CD section of my site. I have added two new documents which will
prove to be very helpful for everyone who attempts to emulate the system. These documents are
the US patents for the Sega CD device and for the CD country protection routines. Though
these documents are rather non-specific (in terms of giving concrete memory addresses of the
various functions), they describe the inner workings of the Sega CD very precisely. I have
commented the documents where I think it was necessary or helpful. With these two documents
now available, it should be a LOT easier to reverse-engineer some games in order to write an
emulator, because now you actually KNOW what the various code routines of the games are
supposed to do according to the patents. Feel free to mail me your comments or post them on my
message
board.
With these new documents, the already-available BIOS files and of course talented programmers,
Sega CD emulation is now within reach!
You should check out his site if you're interested in emulating the Sega CD. - Zophar,
Zophar's Domain
- Raine update - "Richard Bush has announced some new preliminary information of the
next release of Raine. First, at least one new game will be supported, Bubble Memories. Also,
Raine 0.12 will have 'optimized sprites and the sprite flicker on F3-System games is now
fixed.'" - Emu News
Service
98.07.17
- Video Game and Emulation Articles
- Emulation News
- Yet another one bites the dust, Goodbye nEMU - "Well, the idiots have done it again.
First Emucamp is closed due to Simplenet's ignorant belief in the gospel according to the
IDSA. Then EmuViews is almost brought down due to it's own server's ignorance. But this on
hurts the most.
It is with great sadness that I announce that nEMU is no more. Due to his disgust with the
emulation scene in general, [_nIRV_] has seen fit to close nEMU. For those of you that think
it's no big deal, you don't realize how many news updates were culled f rom nEMU for ZD, how
many times [_nIRV_] selflessly shared info with me even before posting it on his own site.
Out of respect for [_nIRV_] and the passing of nEMU, I will be doing no more updates to ZD for
the rest of the day and I urge the other staff to do so as well." - InVerse,
Zophar's Domain
- Snes9X.Com Hacked - Somebody hacked the Snes9X.Com website and posted [-NiRv-]'s final
update on the page, along with other ranting. It was apparently done brute-force, the
sysadmin apparently not picking a good password. The only evidence of the hacker's identity
is <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Nirvana"> in the HTML source. Perhaps [-NiRv-] felt like
going out with a bang.. who knows. Anyway the update with the Snes9X info is now archived
here. See above.
- VS. Super Mario Bros. news - "VS Super Mario Bros. has been dumped. While attempts to
get it to run under Nesticle so far have failed, work is continuing, and if something happens,
it will be posted here." - Dave's Video
Game Classics
- MAME update - "The Neo Geo driver has been
improved. While it doesn't feature sound support yet, it runs about 15 arcade Neo Geo Games.
Also it runs Puzzle De Pon flawlessly. Screen shots are available on the MAMEWIP page.
Finally, another game called Tag Team Wrestling has been added." -
Dave's Video Game
Classics
98.07.16
- Emulation News
- PSyKe adding partial CD-ROM support - "Good
news from the PSyKe camp: RaskY and mOoNsHaDo have added partial CD-ROM support to their
PlayStation emulator... RaskY has also fixed a few bugs in the CPU emulation core making PSyKe
more stable. Beta testing is currently underway and there will be a full report in just a
couple days." Emu News
Service
- Jose Q's Emuviews to return -
"Jose has mentioned that he intends to bring back his pages afterall! It will either happen
before his honeymoon (he is getting buried... errr married in a few days. :-D), or shortly
thereafter. This is very good news for emulation fans. Best of luck to Jose with his marriage!"
- Dave's Video Game
Classics
- MAME update - "A lot of people are wondering,
what happened to the next release of MAME. Well, Nicola is having problems with his phoneline,
thus causing the delay. There is no word as to when the problems will be cleared up, nor is
there any idea how long after the problems are fixed, that the emulator will be released. As
info happens, I will post it. As far as ROM merging/PROM adding, I think I am finished, and
the files will be added by the release." - Dave's Video Game Classics
- Note from Mß
- Our site will be set up at the
k0r3dump consortium within a week. We will have a GB of space and FTP. That's all I know
at this time. Stay tuned!
98.07.15
- Emulation News
- Future SMS Emulator - "You probably read on Zophar Domain sometimes ago that Zoop, of
Emulation Camp, is coding a Master System emulator currently named 'zSMS'. Today, he did a
major step by optimising is emulator alot. Alot means you can run a game with sound at full
speed on a p120! No release date for the public version has been set but here's a little hint:
If Emulation Camp is not up, zSMS is not released :)." - nEMU
98.07.14
- Emulation News
- Project Unreality Development Continues - "I'm
not allowed to say much about it but I can tell you that it's totaly truth that Project
Unreality is still coded, not by the original team. An excellent programmer is now working on
Project Unreality, he doesn't want his name to be in all the news page for now but trust me,
PUR is in good hand. Do not bug me about a release date and the name of the programmer, thanks
and enjoy the return of PUR, and wait for the next release, it's gonna be wonderful. :)" -
nEMU
- Emulation vs. Simplenet round 2 - " As you can see on the homepage of JoseQ, EmuViews will
be down because of his provider. It's actualy kinda strange, they said it was agains the law
to host a site like EmuViews and it was taking way to much bandwicth. The weird thing in the
story is, they also wanted JoseQ to put a link to the homepage of the provider because
EmuViews has lots of hits per day. Hmm. Anyway, the site will be down and may not be back
until two weeks. If you can help, drop a note to JoseQ, thanks. It's the second big site to be
closed by his provider, the first one was Emulation Camp." - nEMU
- Note from Mß
- TRP has successfully backed up our site from TeleFragged. He will be transferring it
to Crosswinds all this week. Now I have a lot more work to do... We will get our own server
pretty soon it seems, thanks to Jasun Grenier! All CGI will be offline while we stay at
Crosswinds. I am fooling with the layout again, expect something when we move to the new
server. I am going to keep the archive up at TeleFragged until I recieve a response, however
I will only update the news page there. Sorry Crosswinds is slow, but I can't help it...
That's all for now.. I still am not quite sure what is going to happen in the near
future.
98.07.13
98.07.12
- Emulation News
- Wzonka-Lad discontinued -
"'Project Terminated'. Wzonka-Lad, the premier Amiga Gameboy emulator, has been abruptly
discontinued. The page has been updated with a simple discontinuation notice (above). This is
a pity for Amiga users (especially those that registered Wzonka-Lad), since this was the best
Gameboy emulator they had. This is both unexpected and unfortunate. - Luke Sneeringer,
Archaic Ruins
- nEMU returns - "I decided to stop my
break I wanted to take. The main reason is, lots of good emulation sites are having big
problems or slowed down in updating their homepage and lots of good emulator are released.
During the break, I decided to work out a new look and this look will stay here for a very
long time. Some sections are not complete, give me time to finish them because, like I said, I
was in break and I try to return in emulation as fast as I can. Thanks and please enjoy the
new nEMU.... Histories and direct download will come tomorrow. Give me time to set my things
up. Ho and an HUGE thanks to Nacho who gave me this domain, I love this dude :)." -
[-NiRv-]
- MESS to add Bally Astrocade support - "Frank Palazzolo, who is responsible for the voice
emulation you now hear in Star Wars, Gauntlet, and other Atari games in MAME, as well as many
other additions and improvements, has now contributed the first ever Bally/Astrocade emulator
driver to MESS! Screen shots are available at the official MESS Page." -
Dave's Video Game
Classics
- Note from DarkOrk
- Due to many new things coming into my life at this time I am leaving KonTek. I've
recently become romatically involved and I will soon have a job. I've also started doing
volunteer work. This leaves me very little time. Thanks for letting me be part of this
group. I am sorrowed to leave. Goodbye. oo - DarkOrk
98.07.13
- Emulation News
- xNES news - "According to the new xNES page, the
xNES project is not dead. However, the project is changing gears. xNES, if you'll recall, was a
NES EMU written in C/C++. The project was abandoned by its original author, and the source
code was released. The MESS component that emulated a NES machine was based on xNES source.
Late last month, the xNES project was resumed by a new author that tried to graft changes from
the xNES beta never released, and the bugfixes the MESS team put out. Now, however, he
appears to be starting over from scratch. - The Gray Area
98.07.12
- Emulation News
- Wzonka-Lad discontinued -
"'Project Terminated'. Wzonka-Lad, the premier Amiga Gameboy emulator, has been abruptly
discontinued. The page has been updated with a simple discontinuation notice (above). This is
a pity for Amiga users (especially those that registered Wzonka-Lad), since this was the best
Gameboy emulator they had. This is both unexpected and unfortunate. - Luke Sneeringer,
Archaic Ruins
- nEMU returns - "I decided to stop my
break I wanted to take. The main reason is, lots of good emulation sites are having big
problems or slowed down in updating their homepage and lots of good emulator are released.
During the break, I decided to work out a new look and this look will stay here for a very
long time. Some sections are not complete, give me time to finish them because, like I said, I
was in break and I try to return in emulation as fast as I can. Thanks and please enjoy the
new nEMU.... Histories and direct download will come tomorrow. Give me time to set my things
up. Ho and an HUGE thanks to Nacho who gave me this domain, I love this dude :)." -
[-NiRv-]
- MESS to add Bally Astrocade support - "Frank Palazzolo, who is responsible for the voice
emulation you now hear in Star Wars, Gauntlet, and other Atari games in MAME, as well as many
other additions and improvements, has now contributed the first ever Bally/Astrocade emulator
driver to MESS! Screen shots are available at the official MESS Page." -
Dave's Video Game
Classics
- Note from DarkOrk
- Due to many new things coming into my life at this time I am leaving KonTek. I've
recently become romatically involved and I will soon have a job. I've also started doing
volunteer work. This leaves me very little time. Thanks for letting me be part of this
group. I am sorrowed to leave. Goodbye. oo - DarkOrk
98.07.11
- Note from Mß
- Well, as you probably have noticed, I've started covering more news than I did
previously. Until we can get space (which seems may be soon) we will be a news and limited
archive site. If we have to move off immediately from TeleFragged, you can find us at
http://www.crosswinds.net/oman/~patpend until we have our new server set up.
I am also currently finishing up Intellectual Property: The Final Say article (finally).
We'll see what else the future holds.
98.07.10
- Emulation News
- Damaged Cybernetics
returns! (sorta) - Now this has got to be the most surprising thing I can remember hearing
since Snes9X's continuation was annouced. Donald Moore (MindRape) has updated his site,
adding "The Real Truth" about why dC was closed. It is a very strange story, I must say. But
don't take it from me, read it here. [Warning, not Netscape compatible >:( ]
98.07.09
- Emulation News
- MAME To Add Neo Geo Support - "Well, not in
the upcoming release but, Neo Geo support is being worked on for MAME. IT may be awhile before
it is available in a public release. There are currently some problems with the current version
of MAME. It currently supports 7 games, such as Puzzle Bobble, Nam 1975, and so forth, and
will probably only emulate the ARCADE versions of the games, and not the console. The console
support outta be added to another good multi-system emulator that you are all familar with. :)"
- Dave's Video Game
Classics
98.07.08
- Note from Mß
- Well, the worst has happened. I recieved the following e-mail today:
--
We were talking last night, the owners of TeleFragged and we were deciding your sites fate.
You are a huge amount of space on the server about 350 megs and your hits are less then
notable. We have plans in the works to get a larger emulation site in that will do the whole 9
yards.
I am sorry to say with your current hard drive space and your hits we would like you to be
removed from TeleFragged. I know this is not what you want to hear but we have to consider the
other sites we host.
I hope you understand.
MM
--
So now, I don't know what to do. We can't move back to SimpleNet after the recent EmuCamp
incident. ClassicGaming.com won't have us. I'll try a few other places.. TRP will archive
the files for now, until we find a place to put them. I'll mail ZD, AR, and ENS to see if they
will put up a notice up. Other than that... I just don't know. Maybe we'll set up a temporary
Xoom account... or maybe we'll stay here and become and news & info service.. Any help is
appreciated.
98.07.07
- Note from Mß
- I decided I didn't like the buttons like they were, so I did some creative aligning.
I also updated the banner, button, and sidebar.
98.07.07
98.07.06
- Emulation News
- Emulation Camp Problems - "Simplenet has suspended Emulation Camp's account citing
that emulators are illegal and all that crap (which they are not of course). Please write to
abuse.review@simplenet.com and tell them the
truth about emulation. Nothing on EmuCamp is illegal; we don't have registered versions of any
emulators nor any commercial ROMs (only freeware and homebrewn). I know many of you dislike
Simplenet saying its slow and unresponsive, but thats not the point. The point is that if web
services continue to try to close perfectly legal emulation sites, then nothing will remain of
our hobby and joy. Even if you don't like Emulation Camp as much as Zophar's or Emu News,
please voice your support for not only my site, but the others like it accross the web. Thanks
for all your help.
And if you want someone to blame, try this guy: Brad
Gula." - lilac, posting on Zophar's
Message Domain
- Note from SSF
- Sorry I haven't done much lately my house was hit by lightning and fried my computer
because it happened to be on at the time O_o. I'm currently in CA visiting relatives and
using thier AOL account right now. I'll be back home and on my brand spankin new computer
late on Sunday, July 13th. So I'll fix the broken SPC links then.
98.07.05
98.07.04 - Independence Day
- Free Play closed - As
mentioned over a month earlier, Free Play has been discontinued. It was one of the better
arcade ROM sites, and thankfully, the archives will remain. You can read the the final
message, "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish." on the site.
- Note from Mß
- Happy 222nd birthday to the United States of America! I have updated the site layout
all the way to v2.0. New banner.. including a flag for this week ;), new buttons, new colors,
and new formats have all been added (for the News and Introduction section at
least) Tell me how you like it! Also, the TeleFragged FTP limit has been increased to 65
users and the emulator pages section, as it was when we moved to TeleFragged is available in
the FTP, and has since 98.06.08 thanx to TRP.
98.07.03
98.07.02
98.07.01 - Canada Day
- Note from Mß
- This site has been terribly kept up, especially since I tried to install Windows 98
with bad setup files.. NEVER try this at home. Well, I'll try to get stuff fixed, and the new
design up ASAP! [there was a message I posted from the library, however I overwrote
it.]
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