Posts Tagged ‘wi-fi’

Progress

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

In open defiance of all that is sane, I actually got a chance to lay some significant groundwork towards ad-hoc networking. The recent addition is pretty significant, and if all goes well, an ad-hoc capable emulator should not be too far off. (And yes, that is ridiculously vague, but my work and family obligations make precise estimations all but impossible. And let’s not forget about the greatest game ever made being out.)

It has also been brought to my attention that FMPAC still doesn’t function correctly in fMSX PSP, so look forward to a fix of that as well.

Good to be back

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

While I continue waiting for days on end for my next GameFly rental, I wanted to let you know what’s been going on lately.

First, fMSX 2.5.1 release is coming up tomorrow. This release should fix mostly sound issues, and bring fMSX PSP up to par with the official distribution.

Second, a ColEm release should be around the corner, though it will mostly be a maintenance release.

Finally, it may interest some of you to know that I’m currently trying to implement adhoc gameplay for one (and then many?) of the emulators. Things are going well so far, so here’s to hoping…

UPDATE Gaah, I meant 3.5.1, not  2.5.1

Future of fMSX

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

If you’re a fan of the fMSX (my personal favorite) emulator, you might be interested to know what the future plans are.

Since the emulator’s recent speed boost (and various new tweaks in the PSP library) has vacated several million CPU cycles, the short-term plans are to compile the emulator with MSXAUDIO and MSXMUSIC support, and make it possible to toggle the emulation on and off while the emulator is running. Currently, fMSX needs to be explicitly compiled with support for the two, and there’s no way to turn any of them off.

Longer-term plans are to implement proper 512-column display for screens 6, 7 and 80-column text mode (the current version simply renders every other column). Plans are also in place to implement FDD (floppy disk drive) and keyboard (CAPSlock, etc…) activity indicators.

Of course, the ultimate plan would be to add adhoc wifi support to the emulator (as well as all the other emulators). Unfortunately, this is currently impossible, as I only have one system.