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The Fox (EMULATORS UNLIMITED) 
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Michael Tedder (N64 Emu)

Q.How many people are working on the emulator in total?

A.Technically, just me. I've received a lot of outside help from
numerous people, but I still have to at least mention Oman for all the
help he's been able to provide.


Q.Is it true 3dfx will have a part in the emulation (i have the monster 3d)?

A.Any 3D card that supports Direct3D (more specifically, DrawPrimitive in
DirectX 5) will work. I might, at some day, add specific API calls for
other cards, such as the GLIDE API for 3DFX, but for now, D3D is a must.
By the way, this is currently destined to be a Win95-only application. I'll
consider letting someone do a port to another platform if they are
interested, but not any time soon.

Q.Being realistic, which official N64 game would work first?

A.I'd probably have to say Super Mario 64. Sure there's alot in SM64, but
a majority of the polygons in SM64 are just plain gouraud shaded, and
there's not that much 2D going on.

Q. Is your first target to make games like pong.v64 work ?

A.Yes, and possibly some homemade demos (like "The Display List Ate My
Mind") are a good starting point.
Q.It was awful news recently to hear that the Saturnia Emulator was a fake
after getting people excited (including myself). This is not to say that
yours is one though. But people only believe what they see. Jim from the
Emu Newstold me about the Saturnia being a fake 2 weeks
ago...interesting eh?

A.Yeah, but when I saw that picture, I knew I had seen it elsewhere, but
just couldn't place it. I don't know why anyone would want to start
hype about anything fake. It gives yourself a small amount of glory
while people become excited about it, but in the end everyone hates
you. :) Just go through with the damn thing and have everyone flood
your mailbox with emails like "THIS THING ROCKS!!" :D

Q.Also whilst your completing the emulator....would there be anychance
that my site could have a bit of a competition on making a name for the
N64 Emulator that you are producing.

A.Go for it. The current name I have for it is 'N-less64', but I don't
like it. So please, feel free to make up a name (hence the competition).

Q.Any other news before we go ??

A.Not really.. :( I'm stuck on something in the bootstrap code. Being
able to not read the PIF-ROM is hurting my progress alot... I'm
currently trying to hook up a logic analyzer to the PIF and see if I can
get anything of use from it. Hopefully I'll be past this problem by
this weekend.