I have to rant about lazy programming efforts....

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I have to rant about lazy programming efforts....

Post #1by Rassilon » 22.08.2005, 18:46

You know I spent the entire day looking for an emulator for an old game console I used to have: The Intellivision...and you know not one of them works...not a single one....The only one that MIGHT work uses the latest version of directX which is 166 megabytes.....You know how retarded is it for someone to use directX for something old school like this? Im serious here that is utter blasphemy....

Now on about lazy programming....All these programs do no error checking except for one: Nostalgia from shiny technologies....Nostalgia is the only one I got to work before...since I reinstalled my OS recently it now runs at a whopping 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 fps on a multi threading intel 2.6 ghz.... :roll: The ones that do no error checking blast forth with so many pointer errors its a wonder they call themselves programmers....I can handle mistakes or the occasional release of something and forgetting to do a pointer check...Ive done that....but I refuse to call something official untill this kind of thing never pops up....And thier response in these forums is either I dont care or it works on my system....You know its probably why they dont have sourceforge accounts....

Well I am still wondering where I can get a working emulator for this system but I deriously doubt anyone will know anything other than the ones I found:
Nostalgia
MESS
Bliss
jwintv or something
IntWIn

My only option is to buy with money I dont have....God I hate capitalism!

Rant over
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Post #2by wcomer » 22.08.2005, 19:23

ROM Hustler lists Xanadu as another Intellivision emulator.

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Post #3by Rassilon » 22.08.2005, 21:11

wcomer wrote:ROM Hustler lists Xanadu as another Intellivision emulator.


IT WORKS!!! And I didnt have to do some pagan dance to the god of computers to get it to run lol....

You just made my day ty!
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