A Dark Day For Emulation

[Zero]

A DARK DAY FOR EMULATION :

RIP : Niels Dankers a.k.a X (1980 - 2002)

ON 11/03/2002 'X' WAS IN A FATAL CAR ACCIDENT AND DIED.

I shall never forget X he was my brother my best friend and I'll miss him.
The planned release will be carried out as X would have wanted it to be.
The planned projects are now on hold and progress will be very slow because I will know have to work on it
by myself.

The *final* release (On 22/02/2002 ZeRo announced in the Emutalk forums that the GBX player project will be put on hold.
But, there was also good news: ZeRo has started two new projects.
First, there is SNES Player, a Super Nintendo emulator.
Then, there is GENESIS Player, a Sega Genesis emulator.
ZeRo said that he intends to release the first version of SNES Player within the next 2 months,
and the first release GENESIS Player will follow shortly.
So, although GBX Player is put on hold, there are good things still to come!

But that wasn't completely true !
The GBX Team had expanded itself with one more member who they crestend Dr. Light who implemented
real joypad support.Further Zero and me (X) worked really hard and we finalized our project one day later
and released it to the testers.Their response : Whoa !!! Everything works much better then before ,
better sound , even steadier speed.But we had to remove some other features like priorities , Enable WIN/OBJ/BG
and soundecho but this doesn't effect the performance.
Expect the release on 12/03/2002.

The *Final* release is created in loving memory of X my brother and co-programmer.

[dave_luther]

thats very sad

[Slougi]

:(
I don't know what to say.... ??? :cry:

[sk8bloke22]

condolenses man. thats some sad news.

[h-e-l-l-o]

i know how you feel I really know it???

[Jaz]

Sorry dude.. ???

[mesman00]

Originally Posted by Slougi

I don't know what to say....


I think its hard to put thoughts into words in this kind of situation. I would like to post some kind of memorial / remembrance, or something of the nature on the GBX Player site. any ideas?

[blizz]

damm man, I'm sorry to here that. :plain:

[2fast4u]

omg. ??? im sorry to hear that, dude ...

[Martin]

Real sorry to hear that. :(

It is always a tragedy when young people die. :hrm:

[Dave2001]

Sorry... :(

[CpU MasteR]

This is truly Sad Indeed, Rest In Peace X ???

[gokuss4]

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[mesman00]

i just posted a nice little message about X on the gbxplayer site, please visit it at http://gbxplayer.emuunlim.com .

[CpU MasteR]

Well, Here goes nothing for my sig...

[Macca]

all i can say is sorry
you have my condolances :cry:

[Renegade]

pick yourself up and go on with life. :hrm:

[sya64]

OH!:cry: (starting to cry)
SOrrY for what i do or not.
It was very SssaaDD:cry: :cry: WaaaHHH,WAHhh!

[Raging Fuel]

I come back to Emutalk after a few months, and get hit with this very sad news. :ohoh: I'm sorry that this has happened to you, and hope you get through it all.

[Renegade]

cannot carry on like this leh
in actual fact i not expect this to happen leh
zero was juz getting on fine in emulation!

[Zero]

Thanks all for your support.
I still can't believe what happened.

But I have to go on with my life even though it's hard.
I mus try.

[Jaz]

We're all behing you, dude..

[Evil Squall]

check out the GBXPLAYER Homepage (http://gbxplayer.emuunlim.com/) again and u 'll find this whole thread was a joke...

[zorbid]

The planned release will be carried out as X would have wanted it to be.
The planned projects are now on hold and progress will be very slow because I will know have to work on it
by myself.

The *final* release (On 22/02/2002 ZeRo announced in the Emutalk forums that the GBX player project will be put on hold.
But, there was also good news: ZeRo has started two new projects.
First, there is SNES Player, a Super Nintendo emulator.
Then, there is GENESIS Player, a Sega Genesis emulator.
ZeRo said that he intends to release the first version of SNES Player within the next 2 months,
and the first release GENESIS Player will follow shortly.
So, although GBX Player is put on hold, there are good things still to come!

But that wasn't completely true !
The GBX Team had expanded itself with one more member who they crestend Dr. Light who implemented
real joypad support.Further Zero and me (X) worked really hard and we finalized our project one day later
and released it to the testers.Their response : Whoa !!! Everything works much better then before ,
better sound , even steadier speed.But we had to remove some other features like priorities , Enable WIN/OBJ/BG
and soundecho but this doesn't effect the performance.
Expect the release on 12/03/2002.

This looks so much like the real stuff writen by X ... with Zero's name written everywhere...

If you are not responsible for the hoax I appologise. If you are, I'd suggest you to come back under another name.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Evil Squall
check out the GBXPLAYER Homepage (http://gbxplayer.emuunlim.com/) again and u 'll find this whole thread was a joke...

This was a (sick) joke by someone from my school (a friend who formerly was a beta tester and who had a copy of GBXPLAYER beta 0.6) who I beat-up (a little) today. He got my password (how I don't know) which I use for everything but after beating me he confessed that he did it and he changed back my pass for everything he changed.(Which I now had to change to something else).

[blizz]

Originally posted by Jaz
We're all behind you, dude..

about Thirty Five Miles behind you ;)

[Remote]

Originally posted by Zero


This was a (sick) joke by someone from my school (a friend who formerly was a beta tester and who had a copy of GBXPLAYER beta 0.6) who I beat-up (a little) today. He got my password (how I don't know) which I use for everything but after beating me he confessed that he did it and he changed back my pass for everything he changed.(Which I now had to change to something else).

Who needs enimies, when you have friends like that? Who needs friends when you have friends like that... Eventhough I find this entire story hard to believe, it seems like a longshot that Forgotten should be wrong about this... But we are all humans, and humans make mistakes... Somebody mentioned earlier that you should let the respetive authors take a look at your code and make a decision from there....

[Azimer]

I think you guys forgot to lock this one too. Personally, I think Zero should be branded a lamer and sent on his way. Perhaps he was trying to be the Dominator of GBX emulation. At least Dominator made effective changes ;-) ok close me :)

[Smiff]

is it worth finding out what's going on here? i suspect not