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  1. Besides the near-perfect button mapping, there are also infinite knock-off N64 controllers on eBay, in all sorts of form factors and for very low prices (I think I got a seller offer for $9.95 w/shipping the other day on one of the ones I already bought), and in any color you could want. All the ones I've tried work great (arguably better than actual original N64 controllers or Nuon controllers) with the Songbird Aries64 adapter.
  2. Yeah, wording like "Officially, undefined. On Tom revision XXX, appears to behave as such:" seems fine. In some settings, we use the terms and have corresponding markup for normative and non-normative/informational content. E.g., the normative statement is the flags content becomes undefined. The non-normative/informative statement would be the flags appear to be set to 'some value' on known implementations, and these would be marked up according to some convention (Italics, grey background, etc.) in the document to make it hard to conflate the two.
  3. Same. The games are rarer than the players by far.
  4. The emulator (Nuance) has gotten good enough most people can play T3K with the sound disabled. Some people still see it crash almost immediately, some can even play with sound on. In all cases, you better have the fastest CPU in the land for playable framerates. It's under active development though, which is a better situation than things were for a long time from my understanding. Ultimately though, the unfortunate reality is you still really want one of the old DVD players if you want to play this or other Nuon games. T3K is of course platform-exclusive to this day, and as much a gem as T2K, with opinions varying on which is better (They are certainly different enough games that you can like both for what they are, as I do). The other Nuon games probably aren't essential to anyone's library (I think all the other games are available on other platforms in some form, though Iron Soldier 3 for Nuon is without a doubt the superior version), but once you have a Nuon, you might as well try them out too. If you like Jaguar games, you'll like Nuon games.
  5. The vinyl resurgence is like the first guy in a city's bar scene that decided he's going to grow a mustache and dress like he's living in the late 70's. He's thought it through, done a little research on the era, has the confidence to pull it off, and made the thrift store rounds to build up some proper 70's outfits that make sense and are in pretty good condition. The audio cassette enthusiasts are everyone else who subsequently grew a mustache and bought some vintage looking clothes at Target (Or perhaps Primark if you're in the UK?), but doesn't know WTF is going on other than knowing that first guy has a hot girlfriend and is generally perceptibly cooler than them. Remute putting out stuff on Jaguar cartridge is like the guy that only goes to actual speakeasys (Not the ones you can find out about on Yelp. The ones that don't have to close at fixed hours because they don't actually have a liquor license), is so off-grid he doesn't even have to file taxes because he barters & trades for everything rather than relying on currency, designs his own clothing from found textiles, and already has the edgy haircut everyone will have next year. Also, he's having an affair with the Vinyl guy's hot girlfriend, but no one actually knows that besides the two of them and the girls they pull in for threesomes.
  6. I think Total Carnage is awesome. I play on the numpad with an overlay. As noted above, you can pick any overlay, since you're just using it as a D-pad effectively, but it won't work well with the popular reproduction overlays. You need the sturdier, slipperyer original-style overlays to get a good thumb-slide going on. With the reproduction-style overlays, I always end up popping them out when the action gets intense.
  7. If you don't want this, you just don't understand how dust works.
  8. For some reason I completely missed this. Awesome! I'll have to give these a shot in my printer. Do you have any pictures of how it came out?
  9. git + docx/pdf/odf honestly sounds like kind of a nightmare. At Khronos (Maintainers of Vulkan/OpenGL/etc. specs, which I work on at my day job), we use asciidoctor as well for the newer specs, along with some conventions (E.g., newline after every sentence) to improve diff-ability of English language content, and it works out... OK. The older stuff is LaTeX, which I've managed to never actually learn myself, though many people still swear by it for technical document layout. Raw revision control of formatted documents is sort of hard, and honestly I think things like Google docs/Office365/etc. with the doc shared as read-only but readers allowed to make comments or suggested edits that the maintainer can apply with the click of a button work out better for this sort of collaboration, especially if the maintainer isn't a github/gitlab expert. Asking @Stephen Moss to convert from Word -> asciidoctor or some other markup language after going through all the effort to create the Word version seems like a pretty heavy lift, unless someone has a tool that can get you 99% of the way there via automation, which given some of the non-trivial formatting in this document, doesn't seem likely. A conversion like that would be the sort of thing non-technical or technically-inclined-but-not-assembly-coder enthusiasts could probably do in their spare time though, especially if there were a handful willing to collaborate and tackle it in chunks. Given I'm not actually going to do much contributing personally, my main concern with the source files not being public is Stephen gets hit by a bus or wanders off and they're just lost to time, like the originals. Musings aside, thanks again for tackling this Stephen! The updated doc is a great asset for the community. I still need to get my SDK updated to include your updated, searchable docs instead of the ancient scans.
  10. This guy's fucking with us, am I right?
  11. Yeah, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I have no problem keeping supercross 3D bikes on the track at what, 3-6 FPS? And same on World Tour Racing at what also seem like single-digit FPS at times. There's something especially wrong with Checkered Flag's controls.
  12. Got my order in. Looking forward to turning it up to 11 on the Onkyo I have hooked up to the Jag.
  13. FYI, the GameDrive can already interact with a PC. See And the homebrew library for doing things like printf-style debugging from your code when running on a GD: https://github.com/RetroHQ/JagGD The Skunkboard has been able to do all that as well since the mid-2000's, and also has support for 68k and limited JRISC source-level debugging: Neither of these require a custom Jaguar BIOS. They rely on the bootstrap code already on the GameDrive and Skunkboard themselves, as well as uploading support code to unused regions of memory reserved for the Jaguar BIOS. And of course if you're lucky enough to have an Alpine board and similarly ancient PC software, you can use the wdb/rdbjag debuggers with the existing "Stubulator" developer BIOS to get source level debugging of C code running on any of the processors. All of these tools are helpful, but none of them have ignited a fire in the developer community thus far. I don't think tools have been the thing holding back Jaguar development since ~halfway through its lifetime, at the latest. The tooling was actually pretty good for that timeframe, and is even better now. No, it's not Visual Studio and/or the clang suite of compilers and related code analysis tools, but it's more or less on par with the tools we use to debug things on bleeding-edge hardware in the modern computer industry. There's rarely if ever such a thing as a product launched that has had a nearly bug-free toolchain with no open feature requests for several years prior to release, or even within the first 6-12 months after release. That would likely be viewed as a costly indulgence given the rate hardware is developed, even though the industry could now be considered far more mature than it was in the 1990s.
  14. Now that AtariAge has the molds and Atari has AtariAge, I'm more confident than ever I'll get my purple translucent shell with embedded sparkles/glitter as part of an effort to fund VCS 2.0 development, probably in some overhyped steelbox edition (Yes, I would actually buy that).
  15. I also really don't understand what they mean by a dedicated sound chip. The DSP/Jerry is an awesome sound chip, and you can squeeze some extra calculation out of any extra cycles you have on it. Best of both worlds IMHO. What sound properties do they think would be improved by adding a dedicated sound chip?
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