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2003-09-16 10:18
deizi
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REAL THING or Emulator?

do you have/or use The Real Thing instead of an emulator? ...and what's your opinion about emulators? (they don't work properly). i'm not really using them anymore. because i have the real thing. :)
 
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2003-09-17 05:18
Dane
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The emulator is a must when I paint X-fli pictures. The pixels blur together too much on a tv-set. I also tend to make most my worktunes in WinVice nowadays. And of course, coding is a whole lot easier with alt+w and fake reu-files.
2003-09-17 05:49
deizi
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Quote: C64 Emulators are now at the point of being nearly 100 percent accurate (Including those with extreme vic trickery)

The main problem is the stable refresh of the display. Most PC monitors do not support 50Hz and all the imperfections (Which would have normally been blended by television) are displayed.

However a Video card with TV out can be used to display the emulator on a Television screen at exact 50Hz rate resulting in an extremely authentic experience)

Shame about the not so 100% sid emulation though


you said it! and you get the best FEELING when you watch demos, play games with a LARGE (or widescreen) TV. ;)
2003-09-17 05:50
deizi
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that post was ment for creamd.
2003-09-17 06:13
Stryyker

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For coding I've grown to love comfy text editors, more than 1000 chars on screen. I love fast assembly with less limitations. VICE monitor isn't too bad and has helped me much during debugging. So far the only thing stopping me from composing on PC is the keyboard (too lazy to relearn the reflexes). Still, emulators are a great tool. I love having some variety.
2003-09-17 06:17
Puterman
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I'm still pretty childish, so I use the real thing for everything.
2003-09-17 08:21
Bert/RDS

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So do I.
2003-09-17 09:02
CreaMD

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Bert, Puterman. There is nothing childish about having your personal preferences.

Deizy: I currently use 1084 color monitor, but I'm going to set up a projector and big speakers sooner or later.
2003-09-17 11:45
Dwangi

Registered: Dec 2001
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I use emulators on my amiga500.
2003-09-17 11:47
hollowman

Registered: Dec 2001
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perhaps the lack of flaming is because the narrowminded bigmouths arent active anymore
2003-09-17 13:46
cadaver

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IMO emulators have to be used responsibly. Especially ADSR & filter are still way off, even in reSID. Therefore I compose either on real C64 or hardsid. Often things made on emulator/x-dev utils are just "automatically" better looking & sounding on the real machine, but there are things to watch out for..

About programming, there's no way I would subject myself to project build process on 1MHz machine, when size of source files is measured in megabytes - time is short anyway..
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