After successfully porting M.A.M.E. to the Sony PlayStation 2 I just had to try and port my generic Atari VCS 2600 emulator. The results are good. I’ve mapped the video display on to a cube that can be rotated around as you play. With VSync turned off the emulator runs at well over 300 frames… Continue reading the remainder of “Atari 2600 VCS Emulator for SONY PlayStation 2.”

As I’ve just started working on PlayStation 2 hardware and I have access to a DTL-T10000 development station (the big black monolith) I wanted to find out just how fast the main CPU, an Hitachi clone of a MIPS processor, really was.I took the source code to M.A.M.E. and xMAME and with a little tweaking… Click to continue reading the remainder of this post

Ono-Sendai is a brand of computer from William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels. The Ono-Sendai “Samurai VII” is the top of the range cyber deck that you can purchase. A few people I know, who like fast, tricked out computers, have built their own, “Ono-Sendai”. A top of the line computer with as many optional extras as… Continue reading the remainder of “Ono-Sendai.”

Well friends, it has been a journey of seven years for this BBS with many a hurdle jumped and this will be my final post on this system. I am moving all of my writing and code over to my fancy new website and will continue to write and post code on there. I just… Click here to read the rest of the post

Got on a roll answering questions in CompSci yesterday, Stupid girl who thinks she is a better programmer than me turns around and says “Jesus Christ, you are such a fucking nerd.” “Hey, don’t put him down for knowing the answers.” chimes Mike (the teacher), “You should be nice, he might be your boss one… Need to read the remainder of “Be the boss of me?” Use this link!

So WorldCon ’87 is over. Got a cool black sweatshirt and my plastic membership badge with the same logo. I have to say, the five days I have been here has been a whirlwind of stimulation. It was really anti-climatic to be heading back home on the train. Back to the real world now, I… Need to read the remainder of “Conspiracy ’87 Personal Journal?” Click this!

So I met William Gibson. That was pretty damn awesome. Also got to see Buckaroo Banzai across the Eight Dimension. Hope I can find that on tape some day as I’d like to see it again. And also picked up some really cool engineering drawings of the Millennium Falcon and the Odyssey from 2001 in… Continue reading the remainder of the post

So I learned this weekend at a session on anti-matter that empty space isn’t really empty and there is a theory that there are these things called “virtual particles” that are popping in and out of existence all the time and they always exist as a pair. I tried to ask the speaker after the… Click here to continue reading the rest of “Conspiracy ’87 Personal Journal.”

Attending my first “WorldCon” in Brighton. I seem to be spending most of my time in the dealer’s room (which is fantastic, three huge rooms, I haven’t measured it but I’d estimate it is at least 20,000 square feet) and the gaming rooms playing RPGs and computer games. I’m not sure what a dealer’s room… Continue reading the remainder of the post

Apple just made me wet my pants. Holy shit I want a Macintosh. Have you seen that thing? Anybody have a few thousand quid spare they can loan me?