Friday, April 29, 2005
The Game Boy Advance port of the classic PC game Out of this World (titled Another World in Europe) has been released as freely downloadable ROM by the original developer.
From IGN, "The rights to Out of this World, AKA Another World in non-North American territories, had been reacquired by the original game's creator Erich Chahi. Cyril Corgordan has worked with Chahi to bring the original design to the Game Boy Advance, and the final product is now available for download, for free, on the programmer's website: http://www.foxysofts.com ."
"Either a GBA emulator or a rewriteable cartridge is required to play this downloadable file. The game features all the levels, graphics, and sounds of the original PC game."
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Al on 04/29 at 01:53 PM
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Friday, September 24, 2004
Transitive Software's CEO Bob Wiederhold comments on his companies technology, which as reported earlier, promises to allow emulators to run with no noticeable speed problems.
From KIRO, "Wiederholds initial goals are less incendiary, but could bring about big changes in the way companies manage their technology assets. WhatҒs more, the technology could eventually drift down to the consumer level, where it could allow older video games to play on newer versions of game platforms (such as Microsofts Xbox, or Sony Playstation). The initial target market for the product, however, is large computer makers."
"Wiederhold says Quick Transit has been in development for nine years, and that itҒs the first software emulator that works with a broad array of processors with minimal performance degradation. Typically, software emulatorswhen they do workחsuffer performance hits; a cursor arrow struggles to move across the screen, or there's a two-second delay after clicking on a file menu before the dialogue box opens. Analysts who have seen Quick Transit report that it exhibits no such degradation."
"The release has generated some buzz, along with doubts. 'People are excited,' says Wiederhold. 'But theres also quite a bit of skepticism surrounding the announcement. That was expected. We claim to have made a pretty big breakthrough and donҒt think people will believe it until they can see the [shipping version].' Transitive claims it has six companies signed up for the product, but declined to identify them; Wiederhold says the first customer announcement will come 'in the next couple of months.'"
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Al on 09/24 at 01:51 PM
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Monday, September 13, 2004
The QuickTransit software developed by Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California was written to allow various platforms to emulate programs with no performance hit.
From Wired, "The company claimed QuickTransit eliminates the need to port software from one platform to another. Software applications written for one platform will run on almost any other, without any modifications to the underlying program."
"For example, Wiederhold said QuickTransit will allow the next-generation Xbox (which will have a Mac-like PowerPC chip) to run first-generation Xbox software (which was written for an Intel chip)."
"In demonstrations to press and analysts, the company has shown a graphically demanding game -- a Linux version of Quake III -- running on an Apple PowerBook."
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Al on 09/13 at 11:38 AM
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
The first public release of WhineCube, an Gamecube emulator on the PC is now available.
The emulator currently is not able to play commercial titles, but can handle various demos that are available for download. Additional details can be found here.
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Al on 06/13 at 10:59 AM
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Sunday, May 30, 2004
Version 0.1 alpha of the newest emulator for the Dreamcast is now available.
The emulator and additional information can be found at Chanka.
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Al on 05/30 at 10:38 AM
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