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    Beta Mupen64Plus

    Well, pardon me, then :) . My MIPS exposure has only come from university courses, and they naturally simplify it. I didn't experience the ugliness of delay slots until my capstone project (a latency-insensitive SPARC CPU on FPGA). Keep up the good work! When the Pandora comes, I will help...
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    Beta Mupen64Plus

    Well, it could be worse. At least you aren't emulating SPARC. :lol: (Though, I'm not familiar enough with MIPS to know it doesn't have conditionally-executed delay slots...)
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    To The Other Noob Programmers Out There...

    Whoa, the fastest scala implementation uses an order of magnitude more memory than Java. In most of the benchmarks, they seem comparable, but there are a few crazy ones.
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    To The Other Noob Programmers Out There...

    Haha, well I hope you didn't take my post as positive for learning C++ first. I was explaining that C++ might be overwhelming for the beginner--It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot. Don't get me wrong, though: you can do it in any language. As far as support for Java goes, Debian has arm...
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    To The Other Noob Programmers Out There...

    Sounds like a good idea to me. :) C++ is the language of choice for some performance-critical applications (like games) for a number of reasons: It is object-oriented, which tends to be the more intuitive paradigm for games. It's a mature language with much development done in compilers...
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    To The Other Noob Programmers Out There...

    It helps if you can break your ideas into much smaller milestones. Think about what your game needs to be complete, what the subsystems are and how you will interact with the hardware. Then start out with little demos of the smallest of those pieces, and work your way up. The little assignments...
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    To The Other Noob Programmers Out There...

    I think the important part is that those first results are small. Newbies to programming/software design should try for smaller goals that are still fun; otherwise, that big, interesting project you're planning is likely to become a big mess. On languages, I don't recommend anyone start with C...
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    It Is Now Time...

    I don't really mean to fuel this more, but it seems many people truly are ignorant and swayed easily, particularly with respect to national issues. Perhaps it is simply a human thing--we get so caught up in our passions and beliefs that we hardly look for rationality. Moreover, doing the...
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    How About This 360 Pad With Pandora? :)

    I wonder if the driver has gotten much better since I last used it. It was missing IDs for the wired third-party controllers I have, and even after I added them, something funky was happening to the analog stick calibration. Values wouldn't map to the same area on the controller as time...
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    Why Is Every Obsessed With Mhz Values?

    I just finished the undergraduate course on computer architecture at UC Berkeley, after taking the last quiz on synchronization and cache coherency protocols on Thursday. So yes, I am quite familiar with the book. :)
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    Why Is Every Obsessed With Mhz Values?

    You mean it doesn't do write-allocate, right? Write-through would just mean it doesn't wait for a line to be evicted to write back to main memory. While it is kind of strange to have a cache that is both write-allocate and write-through, it can be done. ;)
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    Why Is Every Obsessed With Mhz Values?

    Oh, that's so very wrong. For that to work, you must make a lot of assumptions about the microarchitectures being compared. That 1800 MHz CPU likely has a much deeper pipeline (more stages), which makes its first instruction take just as long or longer than the 600 MHz one. Clock speed is not...
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    Pandora Wow Factor.

    The engine is; the artistic content is not. The most popular actively maintained version is ioquake3.
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    Porting Various Operating Systems To Pandora?

    Already happening? I mean... I would assume whatever is being distributed on the internal NAND is going to be optimized for the Pandora ;) . And whoever maintains the third-party packages for the Pandora is probably going to make sure they are optimized for the hardware as well. The...
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    Omap Dev Kit Playing A Video

    Er, I'm pretty sure it was for donating to that charity thing Craig was in, not the project itself. Just setting the record straight. :)
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    A Really Noob Question

    Meh, it's not really all that convoluted or unclear, unless you invoke the fair use argument. I think someone could easily prove legitimacy under 117(a)(2) with the evidence of failures of the media. Since the law says it is not infringing to make "another copy or adaptation of that computer...
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    A Really Noob Question

    Not quite. If I'm interpreting the case correctly, JS&A failed in getting support under subsection 117(a)(2) because they supposedly didn't prove that their archives guarded "against destruction or damage by mechanical or electrical failure." The judge then sets aside JS&A's arguments as...
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    Holy Crap! Kudos To You All!

    Upon closer inspection of the following posts, it seems most didn't believe so then, either. I'm not sure when "might want to support Debian ARM packages" turned into "will support Debian ARM packages." Though if I had to guess, I'll bet it was when atomicthumbs wrote it on the wiki... ;)...
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