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Thanks Daemon - I appreciate that.

Well, looks like i'm not gonna get anything out tonight.

I had to rewrite my video core, old one was a tad bit slow. New one seems much better, and is more flexible.

- Josh

Hi,

is there any news, good or bad, about this project?

Sorry bout the lack of comunication Good news, been making a lot of progress, I just keep wanting to add more and clean things up before I release a preview version. And this "real life" thing keeps getting in the way.

List of stuff I have working reasonably well...

Video with the built in filters (started playing with CoreImage filters as well [see MAME OSX for an example of those])

NES Pad, Zapper, Mouse, Arknoid control and Barcode reader for input

Save/Load state

Battery backed save/load


Stuff in progress:

Sound...CoreAudio is a complete PITA...

Preferences, trying to expose everything through the GUI while following the Aqua L&F


Stuff im looking at:

Gamepad support, using DDHidLib


Anything else people would like to see? Or is a low priority for them? My lack of sound is one of the main reasons I havn't released anythign, that and the fact my code keeps getting refactored. I keep learning more about Obj-C as I go and change things.


Also:
Realized I have no clue if this will run properly on a PPC mac. If someone wants to be my guinea pig, let me know. Either that, or someone can send me a PPC mac :P

Whao, that is good news

If you need a PPC tester, I'd gladly help, I have a Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz. If I can be of any help, PM me.

Also i didn't see it in your list but fullscreen support would be a nice addition, if it's not a pain to implement.

Thanks for the news, keep the good work...

Well, the final goal would be feature complete against Martin's Windows version, which includes full screen. I'll add it to my list of things to look at for an earlier release though, I have looked into it a little bit and it seems like it will not be too bad.

I'll PM you regarding giving me a hand with testing for PPC.

After some quick work with ben, made some small changes and got it up and running on PPC 10.3.9

Thanks again Ben.

Gamepad support is at the top of the must-have list as far as I'm concerned, with full-screen mode at #2 (those are the two reasons why I found it well worth the price to purchase Emulator Enhancer).

I'd be quite interested in testing too - I'm interested in hard data as to whether Cocoa works better than Carbon, and two ports of the same emulator will be an interesting way of judging that.

Here is a screeny to give a basic idea of performance as it stands right now. As soon as I fix my slight sound issue (there is a really annoying distortion) I will release this test version.

Screenshot

I didn't know if there was a rule against embedding images, better safe then sorry.


Edit: forgot my system specs. Mac Book Pro. Core2Duo 2.33, 2 Gig or ram