I am that guy from PSPupdates writing about speed and Zx-81. I know I will probably get called at least a couple of names for appearing here, but apparently it looks that you guys got annoyed at my comments, so I sort of come to apologise.
First of all, had I noticed you replied, I would not have written the same comment twice (or more, because I keep posting it since some 0.5x version). I checked a few days after each post made its appearance, didn't see the answer from you guys, then I thought I'd repeat. You got the message, disregard another instances of it.
Secondly, I didn't know that you actually asked Zx-81 for help and that he rejected your offer to join the team. In fact I used him more as an example of continuous improvement of the emulator, both in terms of functionality and speed, rather then actually suggesting that you started cooperation with him. It surprised me a lot that you did and I appreciate the effort. Plus I didn't get your replies, so I repeated it later on (see above).
Thirdly, I will rephrase what I wanted to say in perhaps more acceptable manner.
I do appreciate all of your hard work. I know it is damn hard to do refactoring of the code, to optimise the code, to make things work better. I know that emulation is not an easy task to undertake, especially if you write on for a platform that has a certain number of limitations (PSP). I know that it is not your job but something that you do in your free time (hence, you waste some part of your life on it, not getting paid), that you put a lot of effort into it and that the least people could do is to give you a little encouragement. I know how annoying it is, when you try hard to do something and all you get is critique, especially from people that do nothing.
So, the emulation of Amiga was one of the arguments for me to buy a PSP. I am happy that someone continued the development of PSPUAE after 0.43. I definitely notice that there is progress, both in terms of speed and compatibility. I do not actually play the games yet in my free time (speed...), but at least I could do a few nostalgic trips to the times of my youth and watch a few worlds I have once visited. Credit for that goes to you.
Having said that, there are still a couple of things that need to be done with PSPUAE and the biggest issue is speed. Yes, I know that with frameskip some titles are more or less playable. I personally hate frameskipping, mainly because I remember how fluid and quick this games were back on original Amiga. What I wanted to achieve with my posts on PSPUpdates was to make you concentrate you more on accelerating emulation speed and less on menu tweaks and such. Not to say that they are useless, but to suggest assigning more priority to speeding things up. I was under impression that you mainly add things like nicer menu and don't do much about you-know-what. While there is nothing wrong with that, I wanted to play my favourite oldtimers on the go at full throttle, so I posted, hoping you would notice.
Well, obviously you did. And you felt offended by it.
So I would like to officially and loudly say that I am sorry (and by the way, if you want an official apology on PSPUpdates, I can do that too). I did not intend to annoy you, smirk at you, or make wise-ass remarks. I generally like the result your job. I follow its development, wait for next releases, test them, I show it to others, heck, I even described it on my freshly opened blog (you can see it at
http://bartsnews.blogspot.com/2006/10/amiga-emulation-on-psp.html ) and said it was nice (the very first thing I wrote about there was your emulator). I definitely did not want to make you angry or feel like the only thing people care about PSPUAE are its downsides.
Once again, I apologise for that. Please continue to work on PSPUAE and I will just shut up.
Last point, I think that pointing out (very minor) problems with other emulators was neither very nice nor very true (both SNES and Amstrad emulators on the PSP actually run very well and smooth), but I do understand that you were angry, and since you were actually furious because of me, then I guess I'll take the blame for it.
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