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Rich Whitehouse
@DickWhitehouse
Video game programmer and designer. Head of Digital Conservation for . Worked on Jedi Knight 2, Prey, etc. Professional Jaguar Master.
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I sat down with , , , & to talk all about 's #Atari50: The Anniversary Celebration! Part 1 of 3! via !
Full Interview Here: youtu.be/_JYg3yzbHas
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Don't miss out on the Screen Effects section of the User Manual:
richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.p
You'll find links to effects, and tools for converting effects. Here's Atari Karts running with an auto-converted Mega Bezel effect from RA!
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Feature lists, download links, the user manual, etc. are all here:
richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.p
If you have questions or requests, don't forget to read the FAQ section and take a look at the "Future Goals" section on the home page first.
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The first release of BigPEmu is now available! BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail cartridge library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features.
Check this thread for links/downloads.
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Within the next few days, I'll be releasing a standalone build of my Atari Jaguar emulator, BigPEmu!
In the meantime, here's a video tour of the emulator. It demonstrates some unique features, and includes a couple of software emulation premieres!
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If you find yourself enjoying the Jaguar games in #Atari50, thank our Jaguar Master, Rich Whitehouse -- he wrote the emulator from scratch, specifically for this project. (Where did he learn to fly?)
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Replying to @terry_goodwin @ThatTomHall and 2 others
I wrote the Atari Jaguar emulator in this one!
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50 years in the making. Today is the day. Enjoy this launch trailer that captures the spirit of the moment. #Atari50
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I've barely dug into #Atari50, but can already confirm, this is an absolute treasure. has done an amazing job.
The history, the videos, the classics, the extras, the flawless Jaguar emulation (!!!), and NEW GAMES! This is hands-down the best retro-release ever.
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I've been slowly dying of cancer for a while now. I figured I should finally talk about it a little bit (don't mind the Patreon, this is a public post):
patreon.com/posts/time-fli
May I now be transformed into a shambling reminder of your own mortality until the day I die!
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Today sees a rare addition to the “stuff I worked on that I actually really like” shelf. Even more impressively, it’ll be followed by another thing in a few months, marking the first consecutive Good Shelf addition since the Star Wars days.
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Look at me, already generating content for my Patreon. They grow up so fast, don't they?
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Here's a little bit of backstory on how some of my favorite enhancement features in the Cowabunga Collection came to be, born out of love for the arcade games.
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The script was originally written under contract, and my awesome client was gracious enough to give me permission to adapt it for a public release. You'll find it's nicely commented and demonstrates the correct way to handle PS2 textures/palettes with unusual transfer dimensions.
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Today marks the first release of Noesis in over 8 months, and with it brings Chulip support! Just in case you aren't already familiar, Chulip is a video game which will one day be seen by historians as the most culturally valuable work of this century.
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Indeed, there's nothing they can do here that can't be reverse engineered in a matter of (generously) days. Pointless performance/battery drain. Pointless use of resources. Profit for a terrible company.
Silver lining: Nintendo's stance on emulation makes them their own victims.
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Worlds shittiest DRM is coming to the Nintendo Switch and will only hurt the paid customer. twitter.com/Irdeto/status/…
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Also, just to be clear, I won't be shoving this in your face or taking any pages from the horrible influencer book. This is presented with only a vague hope that it might eventually build into something sustainable.
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After a great deal of urging from friends and family, I've finally given in and created a Patreon account.
patreon.com/richwhitehouse
If you've enjoyed my work over the years, and you'd like to see me do more work in emulation and reverse engineering, please do show your support!
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This thing turned out pretty special. I hope people enjoy it as much as we had making it. You can pre-order at Target right now! Over 100 games from 50 years, interviews, enhanced classics, new games... Jaguar and Lynx games. A lot of meat on this bone!
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However, I don’t feel like spending hours on this just to be an old man shouting at the sky, so I’m pinging interest here. Would anyone actually care and read this?
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I’m thinking about writing an article about the illness in open source culture, mostly relating to a feedback loop between corporate greed and individual narcissism, and the inherent incompatibility between a culture of capitalism and the virtues of licenses like the GNU GPL.
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Just spent about a week writing audio/graphics/input implementations, menus, shaders, and a handful of other junk. Completely worth it to avoid releasing something which sits at the mercy of someone else’s engine. I much prefer to be at the mercy of a few platform API’s!
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This video is good, but it misses some important details and doesn't outline the best path forward for these games to achieve a solid 30 frames per second while minimizing input latency. So here's a lengthy response in which I address those things!
youtu.be/yvAUfQHTKNY
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From Software's notorious 30fps stutter has been fixed - but only for hacked PS4 consoles. Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro, Elden Ring - classic games look better than ever on last-gen hardware, so what's the catch? youtu.be/M7bWbWUKHmM
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I finally get to announce that I wrote a new Atari Jaguar emulator for this collection! There will be some more interesting announcements about that emulator coming soon, so for now I’ll just say that working on it has quickly become one of the greatest joys of my career.
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More information on our newly announced Atari Anniversary Celebration at Game Informer. gameinformer.com/preview/2022/0
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New documentaries, new games, rare artifacts, over 90 games from VCS to Atari 800, Lynx to Jaguar. Digital Eclipse is honored to celebrate 50 years of Atari with this love-letter to gaming.
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50 years ago, on June 27, 1972, in Sunnyvale, California - Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney filed incorporation papers for Atari, giving birth to the game industry we know today. Happy Birthday, !
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I think I've been doing Twitter wrong this whole time, the goal is to produce as many posts with 0 likes/retweets as possible. Only then will I know that I have transcended human consciousness. Please don't like/RT.
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If you attempt to do that impossible thing anyway, you get exactly what we've achieved with open source development. Its greatest accomplishment is the devaluation of labor. In the end, it's just more tragic evidence that the world is a socioeconomic dumpster fire.
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Any open source ideology which truly serves the greater good is, by necessity, communism. Unfortunately, it's impossible to take an important industry in the middle of global capitalist hell and say "this thing is special, let's make sure it stays free and pure!"
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The silver lining here is that GitHub Copilot is doing a pretty good job of highlighting how very little the commercial world cares about respecting source code licenses. However, there is no amount of cultural shift that is going to fix this problem.
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Some companies try extra hard to cover their own asses when it comes to preventing their employees from violating software licenses, but even still, those companies are far less strict in any instance where the liability is shifted. (contractors)
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I've also come across plenty of commercial developers who blatantly steal source code without a care for the original license, or who take "heavy inspiration" from publicly licensed code. It's very common, and why wouldn't it be? Proving code theft is usually difficult.
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These licenses have ultimately encouraged an entire generation of programmers to devalue their own labor for the "greater good", usually without realizing that the "greater good" in question has just been private/commercial equity any time a project grows to a certain scale!
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Even without this terrible GitHub service, the idea that public licenses (like the GNU GPL) are meaningfully preventing the exploitation of code/software is, sadly, delusional.
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Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses.
I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license.
yeah it does
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I'm so excited to see the next collection get announced, especially given the sheer amount of work, attention to detail, and overall desire for quality the entire development team has had for this particular subject matter. It's been amazing to be part of it.
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The idea that a pile of linear algebra trained on human text interactions might be feeling is easily defeated, which makes it seem just as likely that these companies are nursing along a non-debate to create the impression that their shitty tech is way more than it is.
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How shriveled must one’s ballsack be in order to be a studio head in the video game industry and regurgitate union-busting propaganda to your employees? I can’t even imagine the density of wrinkles on such a scrotum. It would look like Mandelbrot set under a microscope.
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Sociopathic monster derides party of sociopathic monsters, pledges support for other party of sociopathic monsters.
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This pandemic has crippled my ability to interact with other humans and exacerbated most of my psychological problems, but the drastic increase in obsessive perfectionist tendencies has made me really good at writing emulators!
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