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New Microsoft Diagnostic Service - Posted by Adam M on Monday, May 22, 2000 8:32
Microsoft has created a new Online Diagnostic Resource The whole story can be read HERE
Webtrends Stats - Posted by Guru-Choc on Sunday, May 21, 2000 21:43
I love stats, they are such amazing things thats why I installed the new stats counter at the bottom of the page, it has 45 different stats you can look at, it even tells you which page on the site people come too first, and funily enough 15% don't even bother with the news page, just go straight to the roms page and leech em. You can have public access to the stats by clicking here for a short time only. I only have the counter installed on 4 pages for now.
WIP ROMs - Posted by Guru-Choc on Sunday, May 21, 2000 8:35
As promised, some more MAME 37b3 WIP ROMs, get em while they are hot :)
A good advice from Dr_Evil - Posted by Mason on Sunday, May 21, 2000 4:43
Dr_Evil says: "When a problem comes a long you must zip it! Zip it good". Sorry had to post it. I think it's a funny joke.
Palm Pilot V - Posted by Guru-Choc on Saturday, May 20, 2000 21:24
Just got confirmation that I qualified for the jackpot.com referrer prize of a Palm Pilot V, this will now be given away to the 4 millionith visitor to this site, they hope to have it sent to me within 10 days, I'll let you know when it gets here, hopefully I'll get a webcam off my mate this weekend so I can show it to you with my ugly dial and all. A BIG thanks to all the people who signed up and are still winning, I got $5 this afternoon on my second spin :) Some more WIP ROMs tomorrow before I go for a feed.
Join me for a feed. - Posted by Guru-Choc on Saturday, May 20, 2000 18:37
Going for a feed and a drink at the Paniyiri Greek Festival tomorrow with Bman2 and Grecko, will I see you there ??
More Leland ROMs - Posted by Guru-Choc on Saturday, May 20, 2000 12:56
Seems I forgot Ataxx, Indy Heat and World Soccer Finals, you know where to get them now.
Mimic - Posted by TheBeaver on Saturday, May 20, 2000 12:52
Just updated the WIP page with some screen dumps.
http://mimic.arcadeheaven.com
My response to Hanaho - Posted by Anticpuid on Saturday, May 20, 2000 0:29
First I would like to send my appologies to Hanaho and Richard Ragon for my post. Based on the information I had and that is available from Hanaho's offical site the Hot Rod functions as a PS/2 keyboard. Until my "misleading" information was posted Hanaho had not publically disclosed to Hot Rod owners (myself included) that USB adapaters such as the one I suggested would work with the Hot Rod are not suitable for use with their product. Overall I find it very disappointing that Hanaho has known these adapters may be troublesome and has not communicated as such to current and potential Hot Rod owners until my post was made.
New sites - Posted by Guru-Choc on Friday, May 19, 2000 17:46
I just registered a new domain, www.c64heaven.com,(it isn't hosted anywhere yet) wonder what I will be hosting there, maybe some C64 dumps I would imagine, many that have just been found and the oldies awell, 2500+ online at once, lets see what happens in a few days time. I have also got my 3 adult sites almost ready to go, I won't be posting the addys here as this is a family site, but the money made from the adult sites will remove the banners completely from this one once everything is up and running smoothly. If you would like the sites names and are over 21 please mail me here and I will let you know when they are open, I also have a webmasters program for them thats pays 50% referal commision, if you know anyone how would like an adult sponser for their web site, use this mail link here.
HotRod no-no with USB - Posted by Guru-Choc on Friday, May 19, 2000 16:52
Richard Ragon/CEO HotRod Joystick has mailed me this response to the article that was posted below, basically saying don't use your HotRod with any USB device that 3rd party developers are making, you can read his mail here.
New Cheat File - Posted by Mason on Friday, May 19, 2000 16:31
The new cheat file for MAME is out. It covers games up to MAME 0.37 BETA 2. You can get it here
www.iwannabe.god? :P - Posted by BMan2 on Friday, May 19, 2000 11:16
Slashdot is reporting that the top level domain .god will soon become available. The person reported to have proposed selling this domain is saying he will not respect trademarks or copyright laws in respect to selling the domain names. Any Microsoft fans want to register www.billgatesis.god soon? :P
ZSNESWin - Posted by BMan2 on Friday, May 19, 2000 11:09
A snippet of news I missed the other day about one of the "big two" SNES emulators ZSNES getting a Windows port in the distant future. While progress is going slowly with most things ZSNES - this is one for SNES fans to look out for in the future. More info can be found on the ZSNES news page.
MAME CE gets an update - Posted by BMan2 on Friday, May 19, 2000 11:05
Various reports are showing that a new version of MAME CE - or MAME for those cute lil hand held portable type thingies (:P) has been released. The homepage is here - but it was down the last time I looked. If you're interested in playing Galaga absolutely WHEREVER you wanna be - go grab a look at this great port of the world's best arcade emulator.
Stepping over the border - Posted by BMan2 on Friday, May 19, 2000 11:02
Just a quick update as I've finally found a computer that'll let me update the site (note to ALL Internet Cafe's: Comic Chat is EVIL and so are 25 computer networks run off dialups)
Anyway - I'm over in Banana Bender territory - or Queensland for those less in the know - and developing an unhealthy addiction to beerage - thank god it's not XXXX :P Unfortunately - I won't be here long enough to see NSW humiliate Queensland in State Of Origin V2 but I'm sure they'll get there without me.
Now - on with some updates I've found. :P
Beyond Ridiculous - Posted by Adam M on Friday, May 19, 2000 9:15
It now seems that Dr. Dre (Andre Young) has entered the Napster Fracus, and is demanding that Napster Block Access to his songs. The Funny thing is that Neither Napster, Metallica, or Dr. Dre have any control over this. I myself don't use napster, But it has been widely known that there are ways of circumventing any block they attempt. The Artists should spend more time writing new music, and Not worry about this losing battle.
Legend of Zelda for the PC - Posted by BudFern on Thursday, May 18, 2000 23:59
I always loved playing Zelda on my old NES. But now we can play it on our PCs. Zelda Quest is an enhanced clone of the original! The original quest is exact, and there are other downloadable quests and even an editor to create your own. If you like this type of game check it out here.
Mimic - Posted by TheBeaver on Thursday, May 18, 2000 21:41
The work in progress pages for my emulator are up.
Check them out at http://mimic.arcadeheaven.com
This is where the bulk of Mimic related news will go.
The executable and at least one driver will be up in the net week, but until then read what its all about.
I AM IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!! - Posted by Adam M on Thursday, May 18, 2000 15:06
Those Pictures of the New Dragon's Lair game over at Tim's Site look AWESOME! Thats the way to update a classic.....
Arcade Heaven Message Board - Posted by Adam M on Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:11
Our Message Board Just passed 5,000 hits, be sure to check it out, and if anyone has any suggestions, or anything they would like to see there please let me know.
Leland Games - Posted by Adam M on Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:08
It should be interesting to see how some of the controls are emulated, I remember especially the World Series Baseball Game, had some unusual ones to say the least. There were 2 joysticks and several buttons.
New emulator - Posted by TheBeaver on Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:12
I have been working my own emulator over the last few months and am glad to say it is ready to release.
ARH will be the host.
I am just awaiting the final stamp of approval from guruchoc before I let the new pages rip.
This new emulator is designed to also be a development tool for other emulators (such as MAME) so, when it is all up and happening, recompiling MAME for developing drivers may be a thing of the past as this new emu (called Mimic) uses text based driver files.
Susie breaks 19 yr old record - Posted by Guru-Choc on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 21:09
The simply amazing Susie O'Neill finally got the monkey off her back and broke Mary T Meagher's 19 yr old 200m butterfly record, another super swim from our Olympic Swimming Trials, I really don't know why any other nation is even bothering to send swimmers along in their Olympic teams, Aussies swim like fish.
Awards and stuff............ - Posted by Guru-Choc on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 20:58
Don't do this often but I must be in a good mood, got a nice mention on Emu Portal and finally the extremely nice guys at Sub-List (look here for other interesting stuff aswell) were nice enough to include me on their list.
Leland ROMs - Posted by Guru-Choc on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 20:23
Finally managed to compile the Leland games into my mame binary and I have put them online for you to avoid the rush, enjoy.
Outlook Patch - Posted by Adam M on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 15:31
Microsoft will a release patch for Outlook for protection against I love you and other similiar viruses. the entire story can be read HERE
ROMs working again - Posted by Guru-Choc on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 5:41
Finally all the bugs have been squashed in the ROM script, enjoy.
Hotrod gets USB support - Posted by Anticpuid on Wednesday, May 17, 2000 0:46
Beklin has annoucned a PS/2 to USB adapater. The adapater allows you to connect PS/2 keyboards and mice to USB equipped computers. It also correctly maps PS/2 keyboards for use with Macs. Since the Hotrod joystick is functionally a PS/2 keyboard this means it is now possible to use a Hotrod with USB equipped Macs and "legacy free" PCs. Definately good news since the USB native Hotrod seems to have disappeared from the radar scope.
ROMs dead again - Posted by Guru-Choc on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 20:58
MAME and RAINE ROMs are ok, everything else bad.
Leland Games - Posted by Mason on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 16:34
According to the MAME WIP Page Aaron Giles has submitted the Leland which he did together with Paul Leland. Keep looking here for more info. The Leland driver contains alot of great games. I even remembered playing Indyhead and Super Offroad on the Commodore 64.
More boards dumped - Posted by Mason on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 16:31
The Guru dumped some more boards. One of them is Super Punchout from Nintendo. Let's hope he get time to do samples for the game too, which is missing.
OFFICE 2000 Security Vulnerability - Posted by Adam M on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:48
Microsoft released a security patch today, apparently there is a problem with how a certain active X control is marked. Why am I not surprised...... you can find the patch HERE
What a show off !!! - Posted by TheBeaver on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:49
Just as I am struggling to get 6 figures on Pacman, this show-off goes and does a perfect game !!!
http://www.twingalaxies.com/PR-Pac-Man_World_Record.html
FYI - Posted by TheBeaver on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:21
I am not sure if the last entry is a joke or not but for whoever cares...(from the point of view of FTP)...
ASCII is a texted based transfer which is therefore 7-bit (the 8th bit is sometimes used as parity)
and Binary is, well, a binary transfer which sends each 8-bit byte as is.
Sorry to bore everyone :)
All ROMs working again. - Posted by Guru-Choc on Monday, May 15, 2000 21:45
If I only knew the difference between ASCII and Binary.
Metallica, beaten at their own game. - Posted by Guru-Choc on Monday, May 15, 2000 21:36
What will they think of this, don't they know the power of the web, see you on the hotline sometime.
Monaco GP Simulator - Posted by Adam M on Monday, May 15, 2000 5:52
Mike DX of EmuDX and the Monaco GP Simulator, has been kind enough to share a some WIP imformation on the Monaco GP Simulator. It seems that both scrolling and collision are working at this point, however the simulator is still in the early stages, and a fair amount of work remains. Upon completion, the simulator should be very faithful to the original arcade classic. I loved playing this classic in my youth, and am looking forward with great anticipation to re-living some of those fond memories once the simulator is completed.
Team Japump continues.... - Posted by Mason on Monday, May 15, 2000 2:44
The guys at Team Japump got time to dump some more games. There's alot of games based on the ST-V, but also a single one on Namco NA-1 System. Both systems which could be great to see emulated.
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