I'm Morley Safer, I'm Steve Kroft...
Sorry for being late, I was playing Illuminati last night so I didn't have time to post a reply.
Thanks for your replies.
Interesting how some subjects can become quite heated which is nice since it stimulates creative thinking.
One last reply to kode54, you wrote that if the code was to be fully compatible with x86-64 one would have to rewrite it in an assembler that supports x86-64 well... Please check out the following page, sorry for the bad choice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assemblers and sort according to x86-64
To Gil_Hamilton, you wrote "which makes you off by almost a decade" in reply to the statement 2010 to 1980, I can only say one thing. That was overstating my case it is used for literary effect. Most modern processors work in the following fashion: If a processor has several cores then the processor takes the decision to use more than one core if it believes that it is going to take more than one core to do the job. If I'm not mistaken one also has the option to reserve more than core for the job. Which version of 2000 are you using because I could probably find at least thirty people who would say the opposite but in your defense no two computers are the same, we all have a different processor, motherboard, sound card, graphics card and so on and on your computer win2k might be better, although I doubt it. And in any case, I only wrote that I hate microsoft and windows, in some sense kode54 wanted to know more to which I gave some arguments to why. In reply to your and defreer's replies regarding comments about my computer, unfortunately at the time when I bought my computer, because I had to buy a new one due to the fact that my old one was quite slow, I wasn't able to afford a multi core computer which had just come out, being a student with only a limited amount of cash flow.
To defreer, as you say when one is using something other than windows one has to learn how to do additional tasks in order to get things working, I have done some programming in the past, but should we not strive towards being user friendly and even though some might not have a 64bit processor, I'm not sure if some of the less developed countries have the GNP per capita to be able to afford the more modern computers, but some do. Which brings me to my next point why don't we release a 16bit and a 8bit version, some might not even have 32bit computer, isn't this a little bit heartless of us to not think about the little kiddies in Africa. Are your views that when Intel and AMD have released their latest 256bit 64 core microprocessor we should still write code for a 32bit single core???
You might not believe it but I'm not trying to as you say guilt my way to get people to help me, I'm simply asking for advice so we can create a new post which has all the answers and in the future we can send this to the developers so they can write a definitive manual and perhaps, if luck would have it, rewrite the code in such a way as to make it compatible with every kind of computer. We should all strive towards perfection and in some sense having a software which has worked it's way to become the most widely used, used by all, is perfection. If we have a perfect product wouldn't we all want to share it with everyone? The Linux way...
I have now read the details in your replies and it seems that some of you do not take the trouble to read what everyone else has said and posting comments that have already been taken care of. Please don't do this otherwise we won't progress.
I'm looking for constructive advice, some wouldn't have taken time to reply to gil and defreer but being a sporting character I believe that everyone should have chance to prove themselves so in the future please follow the line above and if you want a fight we can open up a new post which is open to everyone who wants to get their knuckles dirty.
I'm still looking for advice on how to get zsnes going in a native 64bit environment.
Microsoft and its windows crap, and I tried, today, to install the Linux version of ZSNES but came across some small, understating my case, problems. After changing the source, as described by trucmuche04 in his page which can be found by searching for Cannot install ZSENES in Linux, I was stuck because when make is run it ends up saying that i386 is not compatible with x86-64 and I don't really know how to compile for a 32-bit machine unless the machine is a native 32-bit environment. So my guideline for the future is... To everyone in the linux community, if you don't want the hassle wait for 1.60 and instead, for now, use wine and the windows, it make me nauseous just writing it, version of the code. To the developers I just want to say one thing. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE rewrite the source and update the technology so its up to date with the year 2010 not 1980 otherwise you are going to loose a growing market. Other than that !!!GREAT!!! emulator