Perfecting The Emulation For Digital Eclipse's Atari Anthology

Back to the Classics is a great article written by one Jeff Vavsour. He is responsible (one of many I suspect) for bringing the Atari classics back to life on the PS1 and 2 (and some earlier emulation work on the PC).
It's a fascinating article from both a technical angle (why) and a nostalgia one. He goes on to explain why, in fact, they used emulation and not porting or simply re-writing them.
It's well worth reading if you're in to emulation (as I am!).

EDIT: Here is website! :)

Sin City

Have you played Max Payne? Did you like it? (Sure you did!)

Then you should check this out!
Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen... loads of names and it's in black and white (almost). Cool. :)

Speed cameras over reading?

That's what one David Edgar is saying. With 35 years of driving behind him he got caught speeding (41mph in a 30mph) and became suspicious of the timing system. Here is the story. 25% is a long way out too.

.Calibra Updated!

Hi all... more Calibra news!

Yep - she's back from Stealth and sporting a fancy new exhaust and intercooling setup. Dart on over and have a look. There are more pictures to come as I finish off the work and get ready to start the engine. Next weekend! (Let's hope!). :D

Stupid?

A taxi. Doing a 3-point turn. Over a junction. Next to a school. At 8:30am this morning. O_o

It doesn't get much dumber than that (and everyone else thought so too).

A bit o' Misc

I've updated the .misc page with some pics of my new toys from Australia. My mum and sister have just returned from a month out there. Lucky so and sos! :)

Observations

I've observed recently that people aren't really feeling the Christmas spirit. Not by just the "odd person" but by pretty much everyone. It certainly doesn't feel like Christmas to me but I have my reasons - mainly that most of my family are in Australia (40c temps!) on holiday, and the ones that aren't are doing their own thing. But that's just me.

Other than that I've noticed that I'm now a moving target for complete arseholes on the roads. An MR2 nearly sideswiped me the day before yesterday simply because he wanted me out of the way (I was already doing 30mph in the 30mph zone...). I had half a mind to not swerve. Arse.
Secondly a new Megane undertaking me, in a 50mph zone, at about 80mph. Yeah it happens, but I was indicating AND moving over when he did it. Tossers. Again, half a mind.

It's also very quiet here at work. Many redundancies and holidays doth not make a busy environment. How long before I'm let go?

On my way home for lunch a couple of days back I saw a 3 bed house for sale. I checked it's details on the internet and noticed it was up for £197k. That's a lot of money. Further investigation showed that my own place is probably worth around £120k - for a one bed! That is clearly madness. Oh well.

I'm hungry.

Some Christmas links (that, thankfully, have nothing to do with it)

Firstly some trailers. There are loads out at the moment and some are worth looking at :)

Be Cool: Looks like the follow-up to Get shorty (same character names) with John Travolta playing a movie producer wanting to go back to his gangster roots.. looks funny.
Charlie and the chocolate factory: A rather bizarre looking version of this childrens story by Tim Burton. The trailer, to me, is just disturbing. Worth a watch.
Bewitched: It's a re-telling rather than a remake with the lead (Nicole Kidman) actually being the witch for real, but playing one in a TV show (of the same name). Wil Ferrel stars.
XXX - State of the union: The sequel to the rather disappointing 2002 film xXx. This time it's Ice Cube's turn... why? No idea.
Hitch: Will Smith is the Love Doctor.. until he spies someone that turns him in to a jibbering wreck. Looks great. :)
Batman Begins: A bit far down the list isn't it? Well it's because this is just a little longer than the previous trailers and doesn't give much away. It's looking dark though. Very dark.
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: Either you liked him or you didn't (I've yet to meet anyone that was in-between). I'm interested to see this.
House of Flying Daggers: Cool. Kung Fu. :)
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: Don't panic. It's the same teaser that I posted earlier - just much better in quality. I can't wait to see this one!
Flight of the Phoenix: Some of you may remember the classic 1965 James Stewart orignal and some may not. Either way the new one doesn't look to do anything new... but it could be a good watch.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Now this looks good. A bit like War of the Roses in that the two lead characters end up trying to kill each other. :) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are contract killers that get each other as their next target.
Assault on precinct 13: Another remake of a 1976 John Carpenter film. The original wasn't all that great but still something to watch.
Ocean's 12: I loved Ocean's 11 and I cannot wait for the follow up.
Meet the fockers: An old trailer now but worth watching again. Hopefully it'll live up to "Parents".
The Amityville Horror: I've actually not seen the original but the trailer for this one gave me goosebumps! Want to see. ;). Ryan Reynolds stars.
White Noise: I urge you to watch this and not feel the hairs stand up on your neck. Based on "fact" with a story attached. Another "want to see". Michael Keaton stars.
The Wedding Crashers: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn.. how can this not be good? :D
The Longest Yard: A feel good american movie about prison football.. actually looks quite funny! Stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds.
Hostage: Bruce Willis is a cop.. but it's not Die Hard this time. :) - I like the look of this because it looks like he's normal. Cool.
The Pacifier: Worth watching just to see Vin Diesel cycling on a childrens (girls) bike. LOL.
Unleashed: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins. Hardly three people you'd expect to see together hmm? Well check the trailer out - looks fab.
Miss Congeniality 2: I loved the first film, and if you want to try and get this trailer working then be my guest :( - William FUCKING Shatner is back, so I'm in :)

Phew... enough movies for now I think!

Suprnova has been killed. It eventually happens. So here are a couple of links to help "replace" it:
Bi-Torrent - a basic mirror of Suprnova
Lokitorrent - Loki are similar to Supr except they have a login and a forum to play with.
Torrentreactor - Another good site!

It's being posted on Digital Corvettes, Corvette Forum and even VWVortex. The new Corvette ZO6. Want? Yeah me too. :(

And finally for now - from HSV.org.uk - the news of the Monaro VXR getting the 400bhp LS2 from the Corvette. I could probably get one of these one day... damn.

Samsung unveil 102inch plasma screen!

Oh yes. See the Register story for more details...

Honda's ASIMO

This development robot has become quite the star. Not only does it now stand nearly 4ft tall but it runs as well!

I'm impressed - although I'm a little scepticle as to it's actual purpose and intention.

Anyway. It's worth a look either way.

This is...

a really big bridge.

French too.

Morning rant

Why chose Christmas to do road works? Not just the one road - but all roads. All major motorways!

Avoid Portsmouth. Unless you enjoy sitting in traffic. Which you will.

A couple of links...

Jeremy on the new BMW 1 Series.
A bizarre E-Bay auction. :)
Chrysler's ME-412 information and news.

War of the Worlds

The first trailer is out! Summer '05...

Yes.. it is another update. Sorry. :)

Go on.. here!

New boot ;)

Yet ANOTHER Calibra update!

Yeah.. I know! But get over there and check out the pictures!

It's soooo close now! One more job (exhaust) and we're ready to turn the key! Eek!

Alone in the dark

If you remember the game then the film won't be much of a surprise. Looks; interesting!. :)

Another Calibra page update!

Yep, head on over to the Calibra page (or scroll down on the right to the .site section) and check out the latest work myself and Jamie have been doing. Almost there ;)

Stuff that rocks

Halo 2. It is teh pwn.
My overpriced £306 GeForce 6800GT. It does rock though.
Half Life 2 running at 1600x1200 on the above card. Or.. just Half Life 2. 4 teh win!
My engine rocks. Despite not being finished. Keep an eye out.

Bed time!

Oh and I rock for being 26 today. So nerr!

Creepy dragon!

Check this out! If you have a printer then print him out and do some old skool cutting and gluing! I did.. weird little guy!