VBA-S [S as in Spacy] - Page 10

Squall-Leonhart · March 10th, 2007

OH, i thought i'd give an update on how Vista's Dx levels work

Fully Functioning versions of DirectX 9 and 10 co-exist in vista

Directx10 only supports Directx10

DirectX 9L (EX) is a specially designed version of DirectX 9 just for vista, to support DirectX 9 and older games.

Fixed Function DirectX 7 and Fixed Shader DirectX 8, are layered over Directx9 Dynamic shaders in Vista, so the minimum requirement for VBA becomes a Geforce FX or Radeon 9500

GDI is no longer hardware accelerated and instead written to system memory

**Spacy** · March 11th, 2007

Was GDI ever hardware accelerated???
Whenever I was using it, it had a miserable performance when using larger window areas (3x size and up).

Squall-Leonhart · March 12th, 2007

apparently it was, i think GDI was just slow in general as its better used to render the desktop.

**Spacy** · April 10th, 2007

@dramo:

Did you already give up, or why aren't there any commits on your SVN-repo @ Google Code since some weeks?

wahoyaho · May 16th, 2007

so like, where can i get this vba-s? :s or what is the best version of vba right now?

Hiei-YYH · May 16th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by wahoyaho

so like, where can i get this vba-s? :s or what is the best version of vba right now?

tried the first page?

drvoke · May 17th, 2007

none of the download links on the first page work. ^_^

SonGoku1905 · May 18th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by drvoke

none of the download links on the first page work. ^_^

All VBA builds can be found here

e-lation.net - Your Emulation Source . emus

enderandrew · May 18th, 2007

Do you know what would be useful? Having dates for those downloads. All the forks have confusing version numbers. They don't have descriptions. How is someone supposed to know which version is the latest, fastest, or the one they want?

Squall-Leonhart · May 19th, 2007

the version numbers are the dates... atleast on the WIP builds

and the latest 2 are the worst

use the one before that.

Cypherswipe · May 23rd, 2007

Uhh.... I think you replied to the wrong thread there....

Squall-Leonhart · May 23rd, 2007

wtf.... that wasn't even supposed to be posted on this forum :|

i think firefox is picked up a spook

Cypherswipe · May 23rd, 2007

Heh. ...and now that the post in question was removed from this thread, people are going to be going "WTF?".

DarkPhoenix · June 1st, 2007

Sorry to bother, but, would anyone be able to point me in the direction of the most recent source code release? All the links seem to be dead, and google's not so helpful on the matter.

I'm hoping it'll save me some trouble compiling, since I'm having a hell of a time with compiling VBA 1.72 in VS2005, particularly as some of the DX8 files it depends upon aren't in the most recent DXSDK (as one of the other threads seemed to say that VBA-S had been shifted over to DX9).

**Chrono Archangel** · June 1st, 2007

we have the 2006/04/14 source right here.... http://files.ngemu.com/gba/vba/downl...P_20060414.zip

unfortunatly I dont have anything after that

DarkPhoenix · June 1st, 2007

Thank you kindly. Solved 99% of my problems. Now to figure out why my build gives me no sound...

Squall-Leonhart · June 9th, 2007

do you have the latest DX SDK?

DarkPhoenix · June 9th, 2007

I do. I probably should've edited my last post...
As it turns out, I only get no sound for the Mario Advance games. I dug up a copy of the precompiled binary from the same date, and it's the same case for that. I don't, however, have any sound problems in the debug build. (The same goes for graphical glitches in Megaman & Bass, as well as in the Metroid games) Perhaps a related matter, I don't have any problems building the release build, but for the debug build, I had to use the Force Multiple linker option. I haven't really had the time to dig through the sourcecode to look at it, though.

**Spacy** · June 27th, 2007

Unfortunately I made some mistakes while partitioning some months ago, so I don't have the source for VBA-S anymore.

Your sound problem in Release builds should be a result of Microsofts compiler making mistakes while optimizing. The only way to fix this for the release build is to set optimizations to "custom" and use the try&error method for every single optimization option. Shame on Microsoft.

wahoyaho · September 6th, 2007

Does anyone have the latest 1.77 WIP?

March 10th, 2007	#181 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,866	OH, i thought i'd give an update on how Vista's Dx levels work Fully Functioning versions of DirectX 9 and 10 co-exist in vista Directx10 only supports Directx10 DirectX 9L (EX) is a specially designed version of DirectX 9 just for vista, to support DirectX 9 and older games. Fixed Function DirectX 7 and Fixed Shader DirectX 8, are layered over Directx9 Dynamic shaders in Vista, so the minimum requirement for VBA becomes a Geforce FX or Radeon 9500 GDI is no longer hardware accelerated and instead written to system memory __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

March 12th, 2007	#183 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,866	apparently it was, i think GDI was just slow in general as its better used to render the desktop. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

May 19th, 2007	#190 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,866	the version numbers are the dates... atleast on the WIP builds and the latest 2 are the worst use the one before that. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

May 23rd, 2007	#191 (permalink)
Cypherswipe Extra Large Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 934	Uhh.... I think you replied to the wrong thread there.... __________________

May 23rd, 2007	#192 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,866	wtf.... that wasn't even supposed to be posted on this forum :\| i think firefox is picked up a spook __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

March 11th, 2007	#182 (permalink)
Spacy Emu author Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 370	Was GDI ever hardware accelerated??? Whenever I was using it, it had a miserable performance when using larger window areas (3x size and up).

April 10th, 2007	#184 (permalink)
Spacy Emu author Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 370	@dramo: Did you already give up, or why aren't there any commits on your SVN-repo @ Google Code since some weeks?

May 16th, 2007	#185 (permalink)
wahoyaho Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 9	so like, where can i get this vba-s? :s or what is the best version of vba right now?

May 17th, 2007	#187 (permalink)
drvoke Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: North Korea Posts: 2	none of the download links on the first page work. ^_^

May 18th, 2007	#189 (permalink)
enderandrew Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Omaha, NE Posts: 5	Do you know what would be useful? Having dates for those downloads. All the forks have confusing version numbers. They don't have descriptions. How is someone supposed to know which version is the latest, fastest, or the one they want?

May 23rd, 2007	#193 (permalink)
Cypherswipe Extra Large Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 934	Heh. ...and now that the post in question was removed from this thread, people are going to be going "WTF?". __________________

June 1st, 2007	#194 (permalink)
DarkPhoenix Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: United States Posts: 4	Sorry to bother, but, would anyone be able to point me in the direction of the most recent source code release? All the links seem to be dead, and google's not so helpful on the matter. I'm hoping it'll save me some trouble compiling, since I'm having a hell of a time with compiling VBA 1.72 in VS2005, particularly as some of the DX8 files it depends upon aren't in the most recent DXSDK (as one of the other threads seemed to say that VBA-S had been shifted over to DX9). Last edited by DarkPhoenix; June 1st, 2007 at 03:44.

June 1st, 2007	#195 (permalink)
Chrono Archangel Administrator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 7,002	we have the 2006/04/14 source right here.... http://files.ngemu.com/gba/vba/downl...P_20060414.zip unfortunatly I dont have anything after that __________________ When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

June 1st, 2007	#196 (permalink)
DarkPhoenix Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: United States Posts: 4	Thank you kindly. Solved 99% of my problems. Now to figure out why my build gives me no sound...

June 9th, 2007	#197 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 3,866	do you have the latest DX SDK? __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

June 9th, 2007	#198 (permalink)
DarkPhoenix Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: United States Posts: 4	I do. I probably should've edited my last post... As it turns out, I only get no sound for the Mario Advance games. I dug up a copy of the precompiled binary from the same date, and it's the same case for that. I don't, however, have any sound problems in the debug build. (The same goes for graphical glitches in Megaman & Bass, as well as in the Metroid games) Perhaps a related matter, I don't have any problems building the release build, but for the debug build, I had to use the Force Multiple linker option. I haven't really had the time to dig through the sourcecode to look at it, though.

June 27th, 2007	#199 (permalink)
Spacy Emu author Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 370	Unfortunately I made some mistakes while partitioning some months ago, so I don't have the source for VBA-S anymore. Your sound problem in Release builds should be a result of Microsofts compiler making mistakes while optimizing. The only way to fix this for the release build is to set optimizations to "custom" and use the try&error method for every single optimization option. Shame on Microsoft.

September 6th, 2007	#200 (permalink)
wahoyaho Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 9	Does anyone have the latest 1.77 WIP?

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