deltapi

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[–] deltapi 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A) I didn't use AI for any of that B) you're behaving like a pedantic dick and I'm done with you.

[–] deltapi 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Wow you're unnecessarily aggressive and oppositional. Who hurt you today?

FPGAs can absolutely be used to provide cycle accurate hardware replacements. The fact that they guarantee realtime execution of instructions also makes it easier to achieve cycle-accurate execution than can be achieved with emulation.

I'm not claiming FPGAs are a magic bullet, but when it comes to offering a retro gaming experience they offer a number of advantages for accuracy that is incredibly difficult to achieve with emulation, and with input latency far closer to the original experience than an emulator can offer.

Edit: Oh, and since you crapped on my parable, educate yourself with a Google search for "ntvdm"

[–] deltapi 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That depends on the accuracy of the core on the FPGA.

Your comparison of GBA on dsi is kinda like saying "my dos games didn't work well on my windows 2000 computer" same cpu sure, but OS and hardware 'locations' aren't necessarily the same.

[–] deltapi 2 points 1 week ago

Last time I used project 64, I used a retrobrawler (the really plugs into a N64 one) and a raphnet adapter. It was great, and the stick control did feel better than an xb360 controller.

[–] deltapi 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair, I was using ultrahle, which was a very high level emulator targeting mario64 and specifically needing a GLIDE-supporting card. It did well enough on ocarina as (my understanding is that) it used the same graphics engine as Mario64 and therefore the same function calls... but there were many other games that wouldn't run at all.

[–] deltapi 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The first time I played ocarina of time, it was on a k6-2/450 with a voodo3-3000. It ran well enough that I considered it on par with a real N64. Edit: this would have been 2002/2003.

[–] deltapi 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I keep discord in one so that it can't hook my GPU and audio devices.

[–] deltapi 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except the 20 core laptop I have draws the same wattage as the previous one, so to go back to your bulletproof vest analogy, it's like doubling the stopping power by adding more plates, except the all the new plates weigh the same as and take up the same space as all the old plates.

[–] deltapi 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My 4 year old work laptop had a quad core CPU. The replacement laptop issued to me this year has a 20-core cpu. The architecture change has already happened.

[–] deltapi 3 points 1 week ago

Are they trying to create their own version of Lynndie's Abu Ghraib photoshoot? What was the aim here? (other than dehumanizing them)

[–] deltapi 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The last time I installed pfsense Ssh was disabled by default.

[–] deltapi 3 points 2 weeks ago

That was clever. Thanks for the share.

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