[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago

Valetudo is fantastic. Unfortunately the rooting process for some robots is a decent amount of work, but once it’s up and run going it’s very solid.

I’ve been running two robots for two years now with no problems and no internet connections. Full mapping with zones.

[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Analogue consoles still are emulating the old game consoles, but they do so in a different way than a normal software emulator. This emulates the individual circuits of the device on a special chip called a FPGA. This has the advantage of supporting much lower input latency (say with real controllers) and video latency (down to the cycle for CRTs). This means your lightgun will work on a FPGA NES with connected CRT, along with making the system “feel” better (due to the lower latency).

[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago

That’s a long story actually. Analogue has a (poorly implemented, in my opinion) marketing campaign advertising that their FPGA consoles don’t use normal software emulators like say SNES9x. Their devices instead emulate the consoles on a special chip called an FPGA that lets you mimic the circuits that make up the CPU and other parts. It’s still emulation, just a very different kind than what you normally get on devices like this. That’s also why it’s so hard to release new cores for the Pocket, because you have to create this mimic circuit design that often doesn’t exist elsewhere.

Analogue also doesn’t advertise the ROM playing nature, but their official cores are just a download away in a dedicated area they put aside for community contributions.

[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago

It does actually! NES, SNES, Genesis, Tamagotchi and more are available and can play ROMs of the SD card. I’ve helped create a number of these cores

[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Thus ends the claymore spam. I tried it a few rounds and it was amazingly easy to rack up 20+ kills with decent placement

[-] agg@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I can’t imagine wanting to move from Bitwarden, but it’s nice to see a relatively trusted name like Proton enter the space.

agg

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