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Re: Question about ALG driver status
07/20/17 12:21 AM


> > OK, let me pose this question in relation to the above: does this mean that MAME
> > should also emulate the laserdisc players in their entirety for the games that used
> > them? Digitised disc data could be fed to a virtual laser pickup, the VBI decoded
> > within the LD player virtual machine, and the appropriate frame data fed from the
> > virtual player's video output to MAME's framebuffer for display.
>
> Yes it should. And it should output the composite video so we can decode it in a
> programmable shader and provide a set of dynamic picture controls like you'd get with
> a real system.
>
> > Granted, I am being slightly silly in asking that question, but not entirely. Given
> > that we're talking about reproduction of an analogue medium in a digital format,
> > we're always going to be stuck with the 'how far do we go' and 'where do we stop'
> > questions.
>
> And people said storing home computer tape software as WAV files and emulating the
> front-end was silly (rather than just storing bytes), or emulating keyboard MCUs and
> interface chips was silly (rather than just faking it at protocol level), and
> emulating CPS2 encryption was silly (rather than just using XOR files), or requiring
> encrypted NeoGeo GFX ROM images was silly (rather than using pre-decrypted GFX like
> NeoRageX), yet here we are.

Permit me another question?

This seems to me to be crossing from emulation to simulation?

The laserdisc is an analogue to a hard drive, so it feels to me like extending this means that MAME should simulate the cylinders and head(s) of a hard drive, the IRQ's generated, the ISA/PCI bus, memory controller, etc. The laserdisc player isn't really that different from the hard drive as it is just the medium that reads out the bytes stored on a "Storage platter".

I feel like laserdiscs are being held to a higher standard than hard drives with respect to being supported in MAME. Shouldn't the support requirements be the same for both mediums?

I completely get why we want to have the laserdisc itself converted into a series of bits to represent the physical layout of data on the disc, I'm just wondering why the laserdisc player itself isn't emulated?

That requirement for the laserdisc player to be simulated seems to me to be the thing preventing laserdisc inclusion in MAME as it seems to me to be setting an impossibly high requirement. Though of course, since I've never been involved in MAMEDev discussions I could be unaware of other requirements preventing it.







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* Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe 06/22/17 10:47 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status TrevEB  06/26/17 08:20 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Haze  06/28/17 02:13 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/15/17 08:39 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/16/17 01:21 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/16/17 09:09 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/17/17 03:20 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  07/18/17 08:58 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 03:31 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  07/22/17 07:47 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/22/17 08:23 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/22/17 05:40 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/22/17 06:07 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  08/06/17 02:55 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/22/17 06:31 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe  08/01/17 04:23 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status StilettoAdministrator  07/19/17 06:07 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Vas Crabb  07/19/17 06:10 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Pernod  07/19/17 07:15 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status StilettoAdministrator  07/19/17 07:50 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Pernod  07/19/17 09:11 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 08:45 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status StilettoAdministrator  07/19/17 06:36 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 08:05 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status BIOS-D  07/19/17 08:53 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 09:27 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status BIOS-D  07/20/17 01:42 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/20/17 03:14 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/15/17 08:56 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/15/17 09:34 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/18/17 07:41 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  07/17/17 08:30 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/17/17 01:46 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  07/18/17 10:48 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/19/17 04:31 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/17/17 04:16 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/17/17 06:11 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 04:08 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Rygar9  07/18/17 01:57 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/18/17 12:23 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  07/18/17 07:36 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/18/17 11:08 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/19/17 05:09 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 04:22 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Vas Crabb  07/19/17 04:33 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Rygar9  07/20/17 12:21 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status R. Belmont  07/20/17 08:54 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/20/17 04:02 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status redk9258  07/20/17 01:12 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status StilettoAdministrator  07/19/17 05:53 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 08:12 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/20/17 11:56 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/20/17 08:45 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/20/17 04:02 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/20/17 05:21 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/21/17 12:44 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/20/17 09:06 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/20/17 11:05 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/21/17 02:15 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/21/17 10:15 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/22/17 04:18 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/22/17 01:17 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status MooglyGuy  07/22/17 10:15 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/19/17 07:30 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/19/17 08:24 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/19/17 10:05 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/20/17 04:06 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 04:44 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  07/18/17 11:17 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/19/17 12:29 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  07/19/17 04:36 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  07/19/17 12:38 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  07/19/17 01:45 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/18/17 08:03 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Vas Crabb  07/18/17 08:24 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  07/19/17 04:27 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/28/17 04:52 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  06/23/17 06:13 PM
. * Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. taz-nz  06/25/17 08:17 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. Olivier Galibert  06/25/17 11:37 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. anikom15  06/25/17 06:19 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. Olivier Galibert  06/25/17 11:15 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. anikom15  06/26/17 12:44 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. Vas Crabb  06/26/17 01:41 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. anikom15  06/26/17 03:26 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. taz-nz  06/26/17 12:48 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. uman  06/26/17 01:11 PM
. * So are you volunteering to do the hardware side of things? MooglyGuy  06/26/17 11:40 AM
. * Re: So are you volunteering to do the hardware side of things? anikom15  06/26/17 11:50 AM
. * Re: So are you volunteering to do the hardware side of things? taz-nz  06/26/17 01:15 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. Vas Crabb  06/26/17 07:52 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. anikom15  06/26/17 11:47 AM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. taz-nz  06/25/17 12:41 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. CTOJAH  06/25/17 12:45 PM
. * Re: Finding real technical information of LaserDisc is hard work. anikom15  06/25/17 06:40 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe  06/23/17 06:16 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  06/23/17 06:19 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe  06/23/17 06:23 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  06/23/17 06:28 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/23/17 08:12 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status R. Belmont  06/23/17 10:12 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  06/25/17 05:25 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/25/17 10:07 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  06/26/17 02:12 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  06/25/17 06:48 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  06/26/17 02:16 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/26/17 12:43 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status casm  06/27/17 12:40 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status anikom15  06/26/17 03:41 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/24/17 01:50 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status Sune  06/24/17 07:53 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/24/17 09:22 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  06/23/17 08:22 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe  06/23/17 07:01 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status CTOJAH  06/22/17 11:39 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status uman  06/23/17 11:45 AM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  06/23/17 04:56 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status CTOJAH  06/23/17 05:44 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status smf  06/23/17 05:57 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status R. Belmont  06/23/17 10:35 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status DarkMoe  06/23/17 06:14 PM
. * Re: Question about ALG driver status SmitdoggAdministrator  06/23/17 06:16 PM
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