Masken, Masken Where Are You?

[punisher001]

Could you please let us know any news about WhineCube? Come on, its been a long time.... Thx, and have a nice day.. :flowers:

[JKKDARK]

I believe this emulator was discontinued

[zaba_3]

I believe this emulator was discontinued

No it isnt AFAIK :)

Punisher you should try to contact him on IRC

[Sercio]

hey masken... join the challange between Dolphin and Gekko :P

[BlueFalcon7]

Last I talked to him (quite a bit ago) he was writing an assmebler core (I think it was just the core) So, from the looks of it, I think it will be pretty good when it comes out. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was dual core support...

[Masken]

Here's how it is:

After R7 I hit a wall with compatibility; couldn't figure out what to do in order to make more stuff run properly. So I started working on low-level stuff.

First I made a CPU core testing program, which ran both on real hardware and the emulator, to help find bugs. It was succesful, but didn't seem to increase compatibility.

Next I resumed work on the DSP, intending to make a similar low-level testing program for that too. However, it quickly became obvious that the amount of data that would need to be transferred between hardware and emulator required a direct connection.

Thus I started fixing up the BBA emulation. I am using a virtual network adapter from the OpenVPN project. Right now, it's working well, except when the emulator is recieving data too fast; then it will randomly freeze.

Testing continues as Real Life(tm) permits; my job takes most of my time.

When the BBA emulation is complete, I intend to make a new release. Because all OpenVPN code is licenced under the GNU GPL, WhineCube R8 will also be open source.

I'm not very interested in the Gekko-Dolphin battle; I have begun to see WhineCube as more of a testing platform for advanced emulation technologies rather than an end-user application that would be able to compete.

I still have great respect for both emulators. I'll probably be using one of them when they become playable. :)

[punisher001]

Thanks for answering Masken... Continue your great work...! :) In addition, it's nice to know that WhineCube is going to be open source software. I assume that other programmers will be interested in helping you! Cheers...

[zaba_3]

Thanks for answering Masken... Continue your great work...! :) In addition, it's nice to know that WhineCube is going to be open source software. I assume that other programmers will be interested in helping you! Cheers...

Its not like they couldn't help now ;)

[niuus]

Here's how it is:

After R7 I hit a wall with compatibility; couldn't figure out what to do in order to make more stuff run properly. So I started working on low-level stuff.

First I made a CPU core testing program, which ran both on real hardware and the emulator, to help find bugs. It was succesful, but didn't seem to increase compatibility.

Next I resumed work on the DSP, intending to make a similar low-level testing program for that too. However, it quickly became obvious that the amount of data that would need to be transferred between hardware and emulator required a direct connection.

Thus I started fixing up the BBA emulation. I am using a virtual network adapter from the OpenVPN project. Right now, it's working well, except when the emulator is recieving data too fast; then it will randomly freeze.

Testing continues as Real Life(tm) permits; my job takes most of my time.

When the BBA emulation is complete, I intend to make a new release. Because all OpenVPN code is licenced under the GNU GPL, WhineCube R8 will also be open source.

Great news from the dev himself. :bouncy:
I'm looking forward for this release.

[Maturion]

Wow, that's great news! I can't wait for a new release!

[poisonpower]

no news?

[MasterPhW]

pura boca, :shaun: cagado
Uhm, what? ET is a English speaking community, so please stay at English.
If you also miss him, you could try to contact Masken at his IRC channel, he's probably idling around there. :P

[synch]

In fact, he's insulting the author, in spanish.

[MasterPhW]

Could you please translate, what he said?

[smcd]

something along the lines of "all talk, funny" was he talking about masken, or poison power?

[synch]

The in context translation would be:

- "you just talk" for the first part
- The second part is harder to translate. The idea is something in the lines of "fearful person" used as a despective.

I can't seem to translate it better, but it's quite a "untranslatable" phrase.

[virtoz]

gief good news please :santa: