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8:04am. Dewdrops gradually evaporate on my window, the remnants of rainfall last night and early this morning. For the second time in two days, I have reinstalled Windows XP, not because of a major error or my system getting hacked but simply out of a perfectionist's desire to make sure he still has his installation method memorized. It seems that if I go for an extended period of time without setting everything up fresh, I am prone to forget certain aspects of the sequence, but for the most part it comes as naturally to me as riding a bike or making a sandwich. XP has become as comforting to me as peanut butter and jelly, a nostalgic reminder of the 'good old days.' Actually, I am still amazed to be able to use it as a 'daily driver' operating system in 2024. To me, it is Microsoft's finest hour. It keeps almost everything that made Windows 2000 so good, while improving in the areas that matter. Perhaps its biggest improvement was the addition of a built-in display driver capable of full 32-bit color; users no longer had to worry about having merely sixteen colors to work with after an initial installation. It is notable as being the final major version of Windows where everything fits neatly on a CD-ROM; in less than 700MB, you get a powerful OS and all the trimmings you could ever hope for. Later versions, starting with Vista, clock in at four or more times the size of XP and require much more powerful machines. If you don't have a spacious hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive or a processor with speed measured in GHz, you are better off just sticking with XP. Even so, I am already preparing for the possibility of having to upgrade to 7 or 10 LTSB/LTSC in the future. Past testing has proven my HP Pavilion Slimline is up to the challenge; it actually has a Windows 7 sticker on the front, and that is my upgrade target if the time comes when I have to say goodbye to XP. With any luck, I will be able to use XP to the end of the decade, if I'm still here by then. A police siren blares in the background, temporarily impeding my concentration. "Is it for me?" I think to myself. A lonely life for Grandmaster C indeed. Still it's better to be happy by yourself than miserable with someone else. Returning to the comfort of my hobbies, I find myself revisiting the emulator situation once again. As my main concerns are NES, SNES, Genesis, and arcade emulation, I have tried to nail down the best possible collection of emulators with which the best possible balance between compatibility and speed can be achieved. For the NES, it came down to FCEUX vs. Nestopia in the finals, with Nestopia coming out the winner. It is almost as fast as FCEUX, while being more accurate, and more pertinently to my needs, it properly renders NES games full-screen in their proper aspect ratio. FCEUX does full-screen well if you are using a 4:3 monitor, but as I now use a 16:10, the games do not stretch to the screen properly. This is not a problem in Nestopia. Granted, the newest version of FCEUX I tried is 2.1.4a, from 2010; newer versions may no longer have this issue, but I prefer Nestopia for general daily use. For the SNES, it initially came down to ZSNES vs. SNES9x in the finals. SNES9x takes it by a mile and a half for accuracy, but ZSNES is nostalgic for me. It is the most accurate SNES emulator for MS-DOS, and the Windows binaries run fine in 9x (95/98/98SE/ME). It's the first SNES emulator I ever used and the interface is iconic, old-school in the best possible sense; all things considered, it is still a good option for most SNES games. I remembered there is an emulator called SNESGT; the last non-beta release (0.218) was released in May 2007, only a few months after the final ZSNES release (1.51). It offers speed comparable to ZSNES, and is more accurate than the newest SNES9x release from back then; while BSNES, even then, was the most accurate SNES emulator around, it required a powerful machine to run at full speed. SNESGT ended up taking back its 'throne' from ZSNES, and now occupies a spot on my flash drive, as an app worthy of preservation. Genesis was a no-brainer; it came down to Kega Fusion vs. Gens in the finals, and Fusion easily won on multiple fronts. It doesn't force the OS into 16-bit color mode when you start it up, which pretty much ensured it would win automatically. While Gens has good accuracy if you can overlook that issue, its Genesis emulation is not quite as good as Fusion's, and on top of that Fusion supports more systems...essentially everything Sega made before the Saturn. The one big advantage Gens does have is that the source code was made freely available to the public, which means people can take and build off of it however they wish. To be fair, many of the projects that have been created with Gens source code do manage to improve on the original Gens in many ways, but Fusion still takes the top spot for me. For arcade emulation, MAME remains the undisputed champ. However, things got rather interesting recently when I embarked on a personal 'research project.' As someone who is fascinated with the inner workings of arcade hardware, and the integrated circuits by which games are brought to life, I've revisited an old hobby of ripping sample data from sound ROMs. Perhaps the most ubiquitous sound IC is the Oki MSM6295 (or OKI6295), which was used in more than a thousand unique games over its long lifespan. While Oki themselves have not manufactured this IC in more than fifteen years, with its semiconductor business being spun off and sold to Rohm in 2008, clone chips continue to be produced to this very day; two notable examples hail from South Korea ("AD65") and China ("U6295"). In older versions of MAME, the OKI6295 was referenced not in terms of operation speed (MHz), but by sample rate (kHz) on a per-game basis; this made it easy to figure out what sample rates the OKI6295 was being used at on a given platform, and a boon for homebrew devs who wanted to create demos and games for such platforms. I remembered that MAME32 0.106, the last version with the old video engine that the reliable old 0.72 also used, still retained legacy kHz information for OKI6295 games, and waned to see what the final version of MAME32 was before they dropped kHz info and went to MHz. As it turns out, it is 0.111, released in December 2006. 0.106 came out in May 2006, and has beaten out 0.72 as my 'baseline' MAME version, since it supports more games and does fine with 1990s Midway titles despite no longer having the DCS Sound System hacks. (Of course it helps that I have a dual-core PC.) For the moment, I will be sticking with 0.106, but if I find myself using a single-core machine again in the future, it's 0.72 all the way. Combining 0.106 and 0.160, I find I have a nice balance: 0.106 has good accuracy for most games, while 0.160 improves accuracy in most of what it supports and adds support for other interesting titles. Both are more accurate than 0.72, but lose to it in the speed department. Still, I can shave some speed for more compatibility. Just a few minutes ago, the young CNA who helps out on Thursday and Friday afternoons arrived; he will be helping out the house manager who is normally in charge on weekends. I am sure she is glad to have some assistance; last Saturday, she had to go it alone when we attended a screening of "Inside Out 2" at the Cinemark Palace 20 and had dinner at a local Miller's Ale House. Today should be quite interesting, as I am supposed to meet with a friend and former coworker of my deceased mother at a surprise 60th birthday party for her brother Charles. I do not know when she will arrive; she said she will be picking me up sometime between 4:00 and 4:30pm, which is normally around the time we go out for dinner on Saturdays. Hopefully all will be okay; I will check with the manager to make sure.