Dave's Classics is back -
It's been down for a week, but it's now back! Looks like they ran into the IDSA again, but they're still standing. The ROMs sections are all down for now, and may or may not be back. Dave will use this extra time to create new sections, since he will not need to worry about uploading ROMs. davesclassics.com still doesn't work, so it looks like I'll have to change all my links.. Read all about it at Dave's Video Game Classics. BTW, MacMAME.org is also back up.

PCOTT development -
Gollum, author of Boycott and UFE, has e-mailed ZD to let us know that he is working on a portable PC emulator, coded in C/C++. Its goal is to provide a PC 8086 (80286 and 80386 later) emulation, especially for demos and games. It will be ported it (it is only for MsDOS for now) under several platforms (Unix, Linux). Here's a list of features of 0.05:

• partial i8086 emulation
• MCGA 320x200x256 emulation
• some interrupts and ports
• keyboard emulation
• built-in debugger
• usual bug fixes
• COM file loading
• several optimizations (may be applied to Boycott too!)

Mythos Games legalizes their Spectrum ROMs -
Mythos Games, a company that used to make Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, and now makes games for the PC, has released those games, and are even promoting Z80 and WSpecEm on their page. One more for the good guys! Check out their site, and download those games for all your Sinclair nuts out there. Thanks to Drak for letting ZD know about this.

Atari 7800 & MAME Tech Info -
Petr Stehlik has updated the source code of his Atari 800 emulator to version 0.9.8e. That's the good news. The bad news is that it looks like Petr may not be able to continue his work on it:
"My current development source code (v0.9.8e) was updated last time on November 13, available here. This version is untested and very incomplete. I am releasing it in this state mainly due to my current inability of working on this emulator (total lack of time). Somebody else might be more lucky and have some free time to work on it."

NESticle 64?? -
Well is it possible? Read the following news piece from rob` and see if you believe it yourself.
"Could Bloodlust be on the verge of a huge comeback in the emulation community? This afternoon several hints were dropped that the maker of such fantastic emulators as Callus, Genecyst and Nesticle *MIGHT* be working on a Nintendo 64 emulator. This is totally unconfirmed but then again Sardu is quite mysterious and often releases emulators out of the blue that many people think are fake. Below are the comments made by BennyHil (a close friend of Sardu and one who tests his various emulators)

<BennyHil> I wonder if anyone is working on a nintendo 64 emu
<BennyHil> *cough*
<BennyHil> *cough*
<BennyHil> December 12th will be a big day
<reptile-> November 23rd will be a day to own all days.
<reptile-> Nov. 23 = Zelda !#$!@#
<BennyHil> but whatever happens on the 23rd will pail in comparison to what happens on the 12th
<BennyHil> and also it will tie into what happens on the 12th
<BennyHil> just call it a big surprise
<BennyHil> heheheheheh
*** BennyHil has quit IRC (December 12 - you will worship your emu god again)

DAHH Friday the 13th has stuck again! My D: drive is screwed up and ScanDisk won't fix it (it locks up) probably because the bad clusters are at the start of the drive. D: has all my important files including this website, and I really need it fixed. If you can help, mail me ASAP. My C: does not make a good drive for WIN386.SWP. I am going to get a new drive by Wed. As you can see, Xoom.com finally has completed their upgrade and their server works again. All files from News and Information are up, but nothing else. We've already used up 1/5 of the account doing that..

NES World update -
From the site:
"One month since last update and I finally pulled together and made something new. Sorry to all of you who have e-mailed me the past month and didnt get an answer to your mail, I'm back at full speed now and ready to handle whatever question you might have.
I've decided to remove the warning page, about NES WORLD going offline, since I havent heard from internet1. I hope they decided that I could stay, but we'll have to wait and see (if NES WORLD is gone one day you know why). I've got an offer about hosting elsewhere and have decided that the NES WORLD Jukebox, GB Zone and the remains of SNES and N64 Zone will move there. This will take some of the heat off internet1, which I hope they're glad hear ;)"

SNEmul news -
Archiede has e-mailed ZD to let us know a few things about SNEmul. First off, the official homepage has moved to http://www.multimania.com/cassiop. There's also a mirror in France which you can reach at http://www.epita.fr/~lannie_n/english.html.
He also says that SNEmul will soon be ported to Linux (X-Windows, running in a window), NetBSD/i386 and Windows Direct X.
Finally, he's releasing the source code to SNEmul before the year is over.

What's going on -
Hello. You have obviously noticed problems lately trying to connect here. We are experiencing some difficulties here at the moment. Do not panic. I am not exactly sure when this will return to normal, but hopefully it will be soon. A lot of things may come into focus sometime on Wednesday, the 11th of November. In the meantime, if you want to discuss things live with other users of this page, stop by our two IRC chat rooms, either of EfNET #davesclassics, or davesclassics.liquidnet.org #davesclassics. You may also discuss any emulator or page related topic in the MAME message board, since the MacMAME.org hasn't come back yet. Until then, hopefully all will be well, and thank you to everyone for your concern.

Upcoming fwGBC -
DogHuang has sent me an e-mail regarding a new emulator from FanWen, of fwNES fame. This one is a GameBoy Color emulator, and will be released soon:
The auther FanWen will have to serve his military service ( as a constitutional duty, I've just finished it and are to start my career) on Nov.17. So, fwGBC 0.1 will be released before Nov.16! That's the deadline.
fwGBC is an emulator which emulate the new GameBoy Color. FanWen has it that the release will support standard Gameboy games as well as Gamboy color games. As for the part of Super GameBoy, not enough time to do it.
He says currently it runs well with TetrisDX/DQM/Hexcite with colors. I guess that's as what we see in VGBwin 1.3. No comments on sound. :-)
A huge thanks to DogHuang for e-mailing ZD about this. Guess we shall wait and see :)

Dave's Video Game Classics down for good? -
Serious sources say that Dave's Videogame Classics, one of the largest and most popular emulator sites, was closed down by the ISDA. It hasn't yet been confirmed but the site does not appear to be available (check the link below to see for yourself), so things don't look good...

Sites down -
Zophar's Domain has it's second anniversary today, but it looks like the 'downtime fairy' has struck again! The server has been on and off all day. Also, Dave's Video Game Classics' hostname is not resolvable. Apparently they will be back tonight. update: it is still not up, but I found this on the EmuCamp messageboard: "Jose Q, from Emuviews, has said that it is intentional, althought he has been sworn to secrecy. I suspect Dave is revamping his entire site (at least that is the prevailing rumor)." BTW, Parodius Networking's page has been blanked out.. don't know what's going on there either.

Zophar's Domain turns 2! -
Well, we did it! Some people thought it would never happen, but Zophar's Domain has turned 2 years old! Later tonight, I will be posting a HUGE list of people I want to thank for making Zophar's Domain possible. And now, on with the show! Here's to another great year of Zophar's Domain!

Atari 7800 & MAME Tech Info -
Dan Boris who has been working on an Atari 7800 driver for MESS, has created a new Atari 7800 tech page. Emulation for the 7800 has just begun so there isn't a lot of information out there, but Dan has written a document explaining the 7800's memory map (which I think is the first ever). Other information on cartridge pinouts and the 7800 encryption scheme can also be found here.

Dan Boris has released the second installment of his guide on how to write a MAME driver. This time, Dan tackles how MAME handles video hardware.

Lazarus statement issued -
DeeJay99 of Lazarus has written an excellent editorial about its recent dealings with Gateway 2000. If you recall, Gateway 2000 accused Lazarus of violating its copyrights. Please read the WHOLE statement before making any judgments.
As sort of a side note, there is growing support towards making Kickstart and Workbench 1.3 public domain software. If you would like to help, please follow the link.

Dextrose returning soon (?) -
I saw this three weeks ago or maybe more but since there's really nothing really amazing this week and I have nothing to write, I said why not speaking of dextrose?!? You may not remember what Dextrose is/was so I will do a short history class. Dextrose was one of the greatest source of demos and utilities reliated to n64 stuff. Unfortunatly, for a reason that I don't know, they closed their site for a while. We got no news after this except this new picture on the main page of dextrose saying "Dextrose - At work" so I guess they may be back sooner than we expected (to be honest, I never thought they would be back :o).

bleem released to Beta testers -
Well everyone, the day has come, bleem has been released to all beta testers.. Yourself included. Not much to tell you except it is a lot of fun !!!. The graphics are great and the speed, well, it is just plain awesome. See the screenshots that Manbeast and Bleemster posted over at EmuUnlim. I am currently testing a few of the newest games and hope to have some screenshots for you very soon. If there is a game you want to see, drop me a line. I will try to get them posted ASAP. As you know, DragonYen has posted quite a few pics as well over @ his site, Elite Gamer.

Well, I updated the graphics and shrank all the animation sizes down, even more. Made a new Yoshi image, and this time added icicles and gave him a hat. Netside says SimpleNet will not reactivate our account, no matter what, so.. We were going to be hosted by EmuCult, but some fucker erased 60MB of his files on the same day we were to get access, and now PACHUKA is no longer going to host anybody. So again, we are still in desperate need of a host, as always, I'll keep you posted.

System 16 / M72 news -
Thanks to Thierry Lescot, we've got three scoops to report here:

• System 16 - A new game has been added: Atomic Point. Get the download there.
M72 - The next release will support at least eight new games (Gun Force, Blade Master, Undercover Cops, In The Hunt, R-Type Leo, Lethal Thunder, Hook, and Maho-keibitai Gunho-ki (Mystic Riders), plus the Japanese version of Hammerin Harry. You can check out some screenshots there.
• Finally, both System 16 and M72 have a new home: http://www.system16.com

ZSMS info -
Zoop was asked today if he was still working on his SMS emulator, ZSMS. His response:
"Yes I am. If everything goes well, you can expect a version of it before the end of this month (I have a few thing to finish to make emulation "perfect", and I must rewrite the GUI - the current one sucks)."
He also says it will support SMS, GameGear, SG1000, and SC3000. We look forward to it's release!

PSyKe to be released next week -
The Fox has informed me, after talking with the PSyKe Team, that there will be a new version of PSyKe next week. This version will have perfect xa and cd audio sound as well as MDEC support. Stay tuned for further developments.
Visit the PSyKe site here

NLKE update -
Lord Esnes and Nerlaska are hard at work on the next release of NLKE. New features will include built-in ZIP support, better sound emulation, higher compatibility and a new detection/loading routine. They're due to have have it out by the end of the year.

Well, the fuckers at SimpleNet disabled our account. They did not mail Netside, they just disabled HTTP. FTP still works, just as purplesky's and graphix-sounds' still do, but that doesn't do our audience any good. I am attempting to get on another server but I don't know if I'll be able to. Netside says he'll let me know if we can get on a dedicated server by Tuesday. Anybody willing to host us (400MB) please e-mail me ASAP! For now, the site will be at Xoom, but you can always find our latest location at http://patpend.home.ml.org. Again, I'll keep you posted.

SNEeSe news -
Although Savoury SnaX discontinued SNEeSe several months ago, development continues. Charles Bilyue' is continuing where Savoury left off and has sent us a little progress report to let us know what's going on:
"It was 'permanently' discontinued by Savoury SnaX, then not very long afterwards it was temporarily recontinued by myself. A release was planned for Halloween, however, after about a year or so of overclocked operation, my 486DX2-66 decided it didn't like 80MHz anymore, so until I get my OverDrive in a couple weeks, SNEeSe is again TEMPORARILY discontinued."
"However, some work has been done since the discontinuation, and will resume when my hardware allows it to be feasible."
When the next version is released, we can look forward to these improvements:

• GUI rewrite begun, is becoming more object-oriented; also has a bit of a 3Dish look to it
• Better (?) PAL/NTSC timings
• Some more speed-ups
• Speed throttling (auto-frameskip/delay)

bleem is real!!! -
Well, now all the rumors can be put to rest. Bleem is infact REAL after all. Chemical has told me that the various beta testers have received their betas, and it works beautifully, although some features originally scheduled for the beta release were not included. However, it does in fact have sound from what I heard. Kinda makes me wish I had some PSX cds myself. :-) More news as it happens.

Boycott v0.43b update -
Gollum has announced that BoyCott V.43b, his Gameboy emulator for DOS will be released soon. Expected to be included in the release version:

• .COL file support (Old VGB or new Boycott format)
• Hexadecimal color redefinition
• Model color added (like X-Windows)
• Window speed up
• New benchmark mode
• VESA detection corrected
• GUI improvements

SSemu discontinued -
Marshall Gladstone has announced the cancelation of his Sega Saturn Emulator, SSemu:
"It has been a LONG time since the last update. I'm going to have to close the SSEmu project indefinitely. AGAIN. Due to certain legal restrictions, I won't be able to release the source code."
http://www.zianet.com/marshallg/ssemu

SNEmul update -
Snemul has begun work on a Windows/DirectX Port and a UNIX/NetBSD for all your Super NES needs. What's more, work has reportedly been started on DSP/SFX Emulation. Sure to be one to watch out for.

Sites' returns -
Emulation Camp is officially ;) back online! As you may recall, SimpleNet canceled their purplesky account four months ago, but they are back now with their own server! I look forward to their updates, as I'm sure you will too. Check them out now, they have a new frames/CGI design, that's pretty cool (but I still don't like the color scheme. (hi Zoop)
Also, Zophar's Domain is back up after being down for the past four or so days.