German Krol´s Frogger

[Rat]

There is an Alphamame 67 recording of 49,700 for the game, so it should be blocked if it´s not deleted.

Oh that's my score bit sad, but he should be blocked for pausing IMO.

[LN2]

One thing I'm curious about though, just how fast do PowerPC CPUs go these days? I've seen recent adverts for PowerBooks at just 1GHz.

Ok, latest info from an online friend who is in the apple hardware seed program. I still take this at a level of "rumor" but it definitely seems good.

No...but I can tell you that I got 5 more today and they run at no less than 3x the speed of a dual 1.42 in every application.

Man, if that's true then perhaps Macs will be the first systems to be able to play some of those newer roms for MAME at full speed.

The testing CPUs this guy has though are faster than those that will come out as the first line of PPC 970 systems....but definitely seems to be the direction for 2004.

[mahlemiut]

Ok, I've found out that the video cards that the PowerBook and that iMac that looks like a lampshade are both a fair bit more powerful than my TNT2 M64. (They use a GeForce 4 MX).

But that being the case, nVidia generally has often updated drivers that should work well and fast. Either that or they just hate Macs.

[LN2]

But that being the case, nVidia generally has often updated drivers that should work well and fast. Either that or they just hate Macs.

Not sure what your point is here...seems sort of out of the blue.

Actually ATi cards run OpenGL games generally better than nVidia cards do still. nVidia cards run fine but don't support all of the OpenGL functions that the ATi drivers do in OS X at least.

Games for OS X have more graphic issues with nVidia cards than they do with ATi cards as a result.

If I ended up getting a new mac I likely would get it with a Radeon card in it instead of a Geforce card.

[Q.T.Quazar]

The German Krol Frogger score was blocked as a decision by the ENTIRE PANEL OF EDITORS during the section one of our weekly meetings that dealt with questionable input files which analinp was inconclusive on. I don't recall if skito was absent; seems to me he was there. But we debated the results that analinp was turning out, submisison conditions, etc. I'm sorry I don't have my logs any more as proof, but those conversations were private anyway.

At the minimum, in attendance were myself, gameboy9, Pat, and BenJos. the motion to ban this .inp passed given a combination of questionable things found in the .inp (this was a LONG conversation that stretched over two meetings) and German Krol's past history of using slowdown techniques and playing subspeed at MARP. Over 70% of his recordings were eliminated from open competition at MARP due to supspeed recording practices, so there was a precednt in this decision.

In short, this was a sealed deal over two years ago, determined by the governing body at MARP. If people want to reopen this discussion, fine, but a decision was reached a long time ago about this .inp's validity. Ask any of the old-timers or anyone who ran the analinp tests on his library how legitimate Krol's recordings are or were.

sincerely,
Q.T.Quazar

[The TJT]

i think this recording was dqued "by association" because there were other recordings german was using slowdown.

Same should be done with ALL preloads sport inps(autofire).
...And maybe with any game that requires much processing power from cpu(slowdown).