Re: Apple emulators that support "floating bus" video sensing?

[Dirk Thierbach <dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de>]

magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 4:01 am, Dirk Thierbach <dthierb...@usenet.arcornews.de>

> So what you're saying is that when you watch a movie you may come to a
> point in the movie where you don't like the directors choices and just
> skip through it. 

Rarely. I mostly skip through sequences that are repetitive and that
I have already seen often enough. For example, I was rewatching Babylon 5
some time ago, and after having seen the opening with "It was the Dawn of
the Age..." completely for four times or so, I actually fast-forwarded
through it. Horrible, isn't it? Of course it would be much better
if you were forced to watch it every time.

> I'd also imagine then that when you read a book you'll skip pages in
> it that you find boring.

Like the preface, or the index. I've also occasionally caught myself
skipping pages in the phone directory.

> Same thing must got for music then.

Oh, yes. When practicing for the choir I sing in, I found it quite
helpful to fast-forward to places where the part I had to sing was
difficult, and I'd like to list to it. I even did a fast-rewind to
listen to that same part multiple times.

> So basically what you're saying is that you, as the end user, know
> better than the director, writer, musician or game designer.

Then I guess it's high time to start a petition to disable all
fast-forward and -rewind buttons in VCRs, CD players, and DVD
players. Oh yes, and this horrible habit of providing "chapters" on a
DVD should also go. After all, the director, writer, musician or game
designer would want us to experience the whole piece from begin to
end, wouldn't he? And while we're at it, why not some mandatory
advertisement you cannot disable?

> I prefer Michael's idea that when appropriate the emulator/real
> hardware slows down to display the video correctly, or play the sound
> the way it was intended instead of just running like a jack rabbit
> through the whole thing. Fast forwarding through a game is not playing
> it the way the designer intended.

That must be really tough for the poor designer. He has my sincerest
compassion.

</sarcasm>

Come on, this is really getting a bit silly, isn't it?

- Dirk