Going to be busy for a while.

Okay, before I start getting numerous messages about my inactivity, I'll spare you the suspense of wondering what's going on. First of all, I finally have a new job. Blueshogun now works at Microsoft (the enemy, lol). After all this time applying, I finally got it. It's a rather rewarding career (although the project management isn't 100% stable) and I really take pride in what I am doing here. So in short, I won't really have time for Cxbx for quite a while.

"What are you going to be doing at Microsoft?" Quite frankly, that is classified information, so I can't spread that information around, plus I don't want everyone nagging me with silly requests anyway. Yes, it's Xbox 360 related, but that's more than enough information given there. If you're aware of what's going on in the Xbox 360's new line up of new features, chances are you know what I'm doing.

"So, how come you won't have time for Cxbx? Is Microsoft working you overtime?" No, that's not it. My biggest issue is my commute. Since I'm really far away from Microsoft's location and I don't own a vehicle, I have to use public transportation. After traveling over 40 miles and transferring from 3 buses a day for both ways, my daily commute to and from work is 3 hours! So working 8 hours a day, plus 6 hours of commuting time, that's 14 hours a day I'm out of the house! I work only on weekdays, but I need to dedicate those available weekends to take care of important business IRL. "Why don't you move closer to your job?" That's the plan, but I have to find an affordable and suitable place to move into first. The Seattle area in general is not a cheap place to live, and when you think you find a good deal on apartments, you have to really look into it because sometimes it will come back and bite you in the @$$. Having said that, even more of my time is spent looking for a new place to live. Trust me, I didn't choose to live where I am now, and I don't plan on making the same mistake twice. Catch my drift?

So yeah, that's what's going on right now. I have lots of work ahead of me and I don't know when I'll be readily available to work on Cxbx again. Right now, I have to worry about my financial future and get that straight before I can worry about things like this right now. Hopefully, you understand. Thanks for supporting me all these years!

Shogun.

The race for 64-bit support is on!

Over in the NGemu forums (here) we have a new dev named tabai working on 64-bit support! So far, it's looking pretty good, but clearly, there is one bug to be fixed. Since I never did understand how FS and LDT worked on Cxbx, I'm sure that I could learn a thing or two from his work.

I attempted to fix the 64-bit issue myself, but I never could figure it out. The work that is being done is originally based off of the original fix from Robert Yates. I won't say too much about him as I'd prefer to keep his career details and contact information confidential, but tabai has been continuing to add on to his work so that both Debug and Release builds are supported. I don't have a 64-bit machine available to test this on (my 64-bit OS desktop is still in Indiana unfortunately) so I'll just have to take his word for it. He has posted his changes in EmuFS.cpp/h and I do plan to add that to my SVN once everything is sorted out. Hopefully we can have this fix working for both 32-bit and 64-bit OSes.

Just keeping everyone up-to-date on what's going on with this issue as more and more users are complaining about it :)

Shogun.