AVRONEWS #3 09.10.2006 I seem to have contracted the Castlevania virus. Ordered by me on EMU-RUSSIA random game Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night for PSOne turned out to be very interesting. It will probably drag me in for a long time. *** I recently watched a friend's intro video for the game Metal Gear Solid 3 for PS2. I went to the store and bought the game itself. License. How much? I won’t say who paid. Well, you have to buy it at least once in your life something licensed. *** The stray computer I picked up on the street has acquired a new one the owner in the person of my father. Surprisingly, the father had not previously who showed no interest in computers, suddenly became interested─ I was pleased with my find and asked to give the foundling to him. Computer, into the beam─ high traditions of PC users, I upgraded (replaced audio and video card) and dragged it to the new owner’s home. Installed Vyn95, War─ craft-II and Starcraft. Showed me where to click and gave me a smart book uncle Figurnov for reference. Apparently my father’s introduction to computers began with the discovery of an IG in the snow─ a damaged PlayStation 1 console, with a broken case and broken─ with internal loops. The cables were replaced with more different ones and the console came to life again. Then we bought gamepads at a flea market terrible to look at, but still quite serviceable. In the nearest store─ didn't buy a disc with the game Colin Mc'Rae Rally 2.0 and we arranged a re─ new ride on a new old piece of iron. Then came the games of Pigs at War,all sorts of worms and footballs. I periodically bring Tekken-3 and we fight until the pig visas─ on :) *** The process of transferring Spectrum software to a new HDD has come to a halt─ second stage - I wrote a HDD driver with MAS support for iS-DOS─ TER/SLAVE and working via LBA28 addressing. Maybe I'll dash off some kind of copier to correctly drag partitions from old wine─ and for a new one. LBA rules. The speed is much higher. Especially this boo─ noticeable during operations with single sectors when reading and they are written not in a group, but one at a time. In the driver for the CHS address─ sations for each such operation there were a lot of divisions and about some nasty things to calculate the sector offset from the beginning of the partition la. The new driver has simple summation. *** I want to use a game console as an emulator for ancient games─ rov systems, such as NES, SNES, SMD, GBA, NEO-GEO and others. Unfortunately─ emulators on PS2 are not developed and those that exist often suffer slow and sound glitches. The only SNES emulator written, or rather ported, from SNES9x of some ancient and buggy version. It seems that the author didn’t really bother with optimization and sharpening─ what kind of engine for PS2 hardware. Many toys slow down, up to 25 frames per second instead of 60. The sound breaks, repeats and overlaps─ is happening. I don't believe that the PS2 hardware is not enough to emulate the SNES. Are there really no hardware sprites on PS2? More or less emulated onlyNES, and the emulator is written for PSOne and on PS2 the emulator itself runs in PSOne emulation mode. Another quite decent Commodore64 emulator, and the rest are no more, than fakes from Chernobyl. NEO-GEO is probably a slide show. Ho─ I won’t confirm because I haven’t seen it. An XBOX would probably be ideal as an emu machine, because... same─ Lezo writing and porting existing writing emulators (just compile) is not very difficult. Besides low screen resolution and no need to display an image any video filters should have a very positive effect on performance of such emulators. *** On my day off I went for a bike ride. I like to ride─ walking through unfamiliar places in the city. It’s a pity that with each such train─ There are fewer and fewer unfamiliar places. This time I drove quite far and punctured my rear tire. Damn, not a penny of money, no tools and no bike first aid kit. I walked home. Walked for 2 hours 20 minutes. Tried to ride the bike twice in low gear and choose softer soil so as not to chew the tire and bend the rim. You can drive, but it’s scary that the repair is simple sealing the tube and tire will turn into running around shopping in search of a new wheel. So I walked. Well, at least I walked around for the week ahead. *** I'm supposed to have a vacation in October, but my workload is 200%.I suspect that they won’t let me go on vacation. I'll try to break free at least by the end of the month... *** 01/X/06 Andrea Bocelli performed on Palace Square for two hours─ your concert. My mom and I arrived early because... ma was afraid that will not be able to get closer to the stage. All approaches to the square, except for one, they were blocked by riot police in bulletproof vests and black helmets. Admission to the concert was free. At the entrance of me They searched and did not find anything interesting. Up your sleeve I secretly smuggled the jackets and the umbrella. We stood in front of the big screen, right under the speakers. At first there were not many people and we could go to the stage─ but it was time to get closer, but we decided it was better to stay here and hold on to the side protecting the tower with the speakers from vandals. The concert started 15 minutes late. On the street it was before─ quite cool, and given the lack of movement throughout for almost three hours, my mother and I were absolutely frozen. There was no crowd. Surprisingly, there were half of the youth─ but... It’s not even clear what they forgot here? The vast majority─ You didn't let the magnums out of your hands :( After the concert there was a huge fireworks display. In my memory This is the first time that fireworks were fired in honor of someone. Look─ They didn’t fight, but rather moved towards the warm metro. Ma in delighted - she says that she could stand like that all night and listen. *** 02/X/06 From early morning I went to the military registration and enlistment office formilitary ID, which I haven’t been able to get since 2003. But if then─ Yes, no one demanded it and I didn’t need it, but now on ra─ Both of us are stuck - give us a ticket and that’s it. I had to stomp. Passed the medical examination (Quickly remember your height and weight; Sting─ would there be? No. I write in good health; Any complaints? Yes. Do you have any help? No. I write healthy...). I was quickly declared healthy and fit... *** I bought a Pioneer music center at a thrift store, as old as dad─ NT - already produced in 1991. Cheap and cheerful. MADE IN JAPAN. *** 03/X/06 Today I almost became the owner of a Super game console Nintendo. Went shopping after work looking for a cable Jack3.5 - 2RCA for connecting all kinds of different sound sources to the entrance of the music center, and wandered into a thrift store. There I saw at the corner SNES with five cartridges and two gamepads. Show me I say. The seller started to connect it to the TV. It turned out that the native video There is no cable and therefore you can only connect via an antenna entrance We connected it, but there was no sound. The seller started to hover me, that you just need fine adjustment of the frequency, but he supposedly doesn’t know How can I configure this TV without a remote control? In general, I said that I'll come by some other time. It's a pity. *** 9/X/06 And yet I went on vacation, albeit for two weeks, but that’s all same. Immediately a lot of things around the house piled up, which I spent about ─ put it off for a long timelater." I plan to take the second half of my vacation before the New Year holidays─ nicknames so that together with them they get three weeks of rest. It's a shame, but Fido works extremely disgustingly for me - absolute hell─ res answers once a week, but on the other hand why can’t I write? in an echo. Netmail within St. Petersburg seems to be no work from me either─ et. In this way I missed two advertisements for computer hardware, including the “recoil of Scorpio with a monitor and four boxes─ kami floppy disks." Damn, it's a shame. Why don't the authors of the messages write your phone numbers in the ads? Today, for the first time in several months, ZX.SPECTRUM appeared in the echo message and echo rules from comoderrobot. I really hope that those─ Now the circulation of the echo has improved.
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