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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
How you will pay more with Obama healthcare, even if you make less than $250k
  1. In 6 months, insurance companies can no longer deny children coverage for a preexisting condition, in 2014 this will also include adults. As this will cause more expensive insurance claims, the insurance companies will pass these costs on to the consumer with higher insurance costs. - Side note, don't get sick till after 2014.


  2. Insurance companies must allow "children" to stay on their parent's insurance plans until age 26th. Again, this will cause more insurance claims which will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher insurance costs to consumers.


  3. Mandates on States for Medicaid are paid by the federal government only through 2016, when already bankrupt States will have to pick up the tab. So, State taxes (sales or payroll) will be need to be increased to pay for federal healthcare mandates.


  4. If you have very good insurance now, it may be classified as "Cadillac" insurance and taxed at 40%. There are union contracts that are considered "Cadillac" insurance. The wording is that the 40% tax will be on the insurance company, but we all know they will pass those costs on to the consumer.


  5. If you don't want healthcare, you'll get a $695 annual fine starting in 2014. Yes, there's tens of millions of people right now who can afford healthcare but just don't want it.


  6. If you work for a small business (starting at 50 employees) they will be required to offer healthcare or pay $2,000 per employee per year. As it's cheaper to pay the $2,000 fine than offer healthcare, many will choose to pay the fine and the employees still won't get a health plan. Either way, these additional costs that businesses will encounter will result in a reduction in wages and staff, or price hikes resulting in general inflation.
Information obtained from CBS News summery of bill.
 Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (3 comments)Posted by: teckel 

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
New Version Of The NES Emulator FCE Ultra GX

The filling in this Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator sandwich is this updated port of the NES emulator FCE Ultra and the news is, well it?s mostly what you just read for the previous bit of news really:

  • # Improved stability
  • # Fixed broken SDHC from HBC 1.0.2 update
  • # Fixed issues with returning to menu from in-game
  • # Add option to disable rumble
  • # Auto-determines if HBC is present - returns to Wii menu otherwise
  • # Miscellaneous bugfixes


    • Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    New Version Of The SNES Emulator Snes9x GX


    The filling in this Nintendo GameCube and Wii emulator sandwich is this updated port of the NES emulator FCE Ultra and the news is, well it?s mostly what you just read for the previous bit of news really:

  • # Improved stability
  • # Fixed broken SDHC from HBC 1.0.2 update
  • # Fixed issues with returning to menu from in-game
  • # Add option to disable rumble
  • # Auto-determines if HBC is present - returns to Wii menu otherwise
  • # Miscellaneous bugfixes


    • Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    New Version Of The Arcade Emulator Mame32Plus [Ash-Build]

    An update now for this hack friendly Mame build, let?s see what?s been done to it:

  • # The King of Fighters ?97 10TH Anniversary (Ivex, EGHT).
  • # Updated The King of Fighters ?98 - Combo (Hack by Ivex).
  • # Updated The King of Fighters ?99 Evolution Ultra Remix (Yashional).
  • # Added The King of Fighters ?96 Chinese 1.00 (hack).
  • # Added The King of Fighters ?97 10th Chinese Edition (hack).
  • # Added The King of Fighters ?97 Final Battle (hack).
  • # Added The King of Fighters 2000: BOSS STRIKER PRO ( Eddids, EGHT ).
  • # Added The King of Fighters 2001 - Special ST Version (Hack by KOF1996). Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    New Version Of The GameBoy Advance Emulator VisualBoy Advance GX

    Now we kick of a hat-trick of emulators for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii with this updated port of the excellent GameBoy Advance emulator VisualBoy Advance which has this news:

  • # Improved stability
  • # Fixed broken SDHC from HBC 1.0.2 update
  • # Fixed issues with returning to menu from in-game
  • # Add option to disable rumble
  • # Auto-determines if HBC is present - returns to Wii menu otherwise
  • # Unfiltered mode fixed
  • # Miscellaneous bugfixes


    • Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
    New Version Of The GameBoy Colour Emulator Goomba Paletted


    Kuwangers updated this GameBoy Colour emulator for the GameBoy Advance now so let?s see what he had to say about it:

    I?ve just noticed an odd bug with my fork of Goomba. For some reason, whenever Super Mario Land starts up, the palette is messed up. This bug is apparently at least as old as my v2.32 fork (and probably earlier).

    So, I?ve updated my fork to (hopefully) fix the problem by fixing custom palette loading.?

    Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    New Version Of The Multiple System Emulator MESS



    If you are new to MESS think of it as the home system version of Mame, which it?s born from, as it?s basically just that, of course that?s putting it very basically as there is a little more to it than that with changes beyond what Mame has but that?s the essence of it, so then what?s new in this version? let?s take a look:


    New System Drivers Supported (in no particular order):

  • Atari 1200XL (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari 600XL (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari 65XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari 65XE Arabic (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari 130XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari 800XE (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Atari XEGS (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Dator 3000 (not working) [Roberto Carlos Fernandez
  • Gerhardt, Wilbert Pol]
  • Dick Smith Wizzard [Curt Coder]
  • Dick Smith VZ 2000 [Curt Coder]
  • DEC VT100 (not working) [Miodrag Milanovic]
  • Hanimex Rameses [Curt Coder]
  • Kaypro II (Model 2/83) (not working) [Robbbert]
  • Kaypro 4 (Model 4/83) (not working) [Robbbert]
  • Kaypro 2x (Model 2/84) (not working) [Robbbert]
  • Kaypro 10 (not working) [Robbbert]
  • Kyocera Kyotronic 85 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • LLC1 (not working) [Miodrag Milanovic]
  • LLC2 [Miodrag Milanovic]
  • NEC PC-8201A (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Nokia MikroMikko 1 M6 (not working) [Curt Coder]
  • Nokia MikroMikko 1 M7 (not working) [Curt Coder]
  • NTS DreamWriter T400 (not working) [Roberto Carlos
  • Fernandez Gerhardt, Wilbert Pol]
  • Olivetti M10 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Omni II (not working) [Robbbert]
  • Sanyo Creativision MK-II [Curt Coder]
  • SNK NeoGeo Pocket [Wilbert Pol]
  • SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color [Wilbert Pol]
  • Talking Electronics Computer (TEC-1) [Robbbert]
  • TRS-80 Model 100 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • TRS-80 Model 102 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • TRS-80 Model 200 (not working) [Fabio Priuli]
  • Walther ES-210 (not working) [Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt, Wilbert Pol]
  • Z1013 (Model with 8?4 and 8?8 keyboard) [Miodrag Milanovic]
  • Z80 N.E. [Roberto Lavarone]

    System Driver Changes:

  • [A7800] Better NTSC palette. [Robert Tuccitto, Underball, GroovyBee]
  • [ATARI] Refactored MESS specific code from MAME to MESS source. [Fabio Priuli].
  • [ATARI] Updated keyboard and keypad scan handling to be more accurate. Added natural keyboard support. [Fabio Priuli].
  • [ATARI] Fixed PIA regression. Floppy disks work again. [Fabio Priuli]
  • [ATMOS] Added Basic v1.2x enhanced BIOS [Fabio Priuli]
  • [COLECO] Converted to use PORT_CATEGORY for controller selection. Look into the Category Menu (after pressing TAB) to enable Extra controllers. [Fabio Priuli]
  • [COLECO] Fixed Super Action Controller emulation (it was missing additional action buttons and P2 slider). [Fabio Priuli]
  • [CRVISION] Added tape loading. You can now load tapes which have only the left track. Stereo (data+audio) tapes are not supported yet. [Curt Coder]
  • [ELECTRON] Fixed graphical display modes. [Robbbert]
  • [MBEE] The pc85 now has the correct bioses (Thanks to Stewart Kay and IanM). The shell multi-rom selector is working. The bad dump of Telcom 3.21 has been replaced. The rom banking feature of Telcom 3.21 is now emulated. [Robbbert]
  • [SPECTRUM] Removed Spectrum+ keyboard keys from earlier models (and from some clones). Moved Joystick interface selection to the Category Menu. [Fabio Priuli]
  • [SPECTRUM] Added natural keyboard support. [Fabio Priuli]
  • [STUDIO2] Fixed .st2 cartridge loading. [Curt Coder]
  • [TI99 family] Added functionality for multi-cartridge handling. Added support for complex/multi-file cartridge images. [Michael Zapf]
  • [TI99_8] Fixed the driver and removed the GAME_NOT_WORKING flag. [Michael Zapf]
  • [TRS80] Various improvements: [Robbbert] added centronics printer
  • Cassette works on all clones
  • Model III/4 RTC and cassette hooked up
  • UART added
  • LNW-80 graphics and colour added
  • ht1080z and system-80 extension roms added
  • [X68000] Added support for 3 and 6 button Megadrive gamepads. [Barry Rodewald]
  • [ZX] Improved natural keyboard support. Removed hacky double mappings for Cursor Keys (and a few others). To access these keys, now you have to either press Shift together with another key, like in the real keyboard, or simply switch to natural keyboard emulation [Fabio Priuli]
  • Added natural keyboard support to a number of drivers: ac1.c, amiga.c, apogee.c, b2m.c, bk.c, einstein.c, galeb.c, homelab.c, irisha.c, mikro80.c, mikrosha.c, mz80.c, orao.c, partner.c, pecom.c, radio86.c, sapi1.c, special.c, ti99_8.c, tm990189.c, ut88.c [Fabio Priuli]

  • User Interface Changes:
  • (none)

  • Imgtool Changes:
  • (none)

  • Source Changes: The core is based on MAME 0.131. This incorporates all features of the update to this core. [MAME team]

  • New tool added (castool) for cassette to wav conversion [Miodrag Milanovic] Courtesy of xlenigma from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    Monday, February 2nd, 2009
    Model2 v0.9 NEW


    Get it! It runs Daytona and all others fantastic!!!!! Courtesy of UltimatePump from the forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (0 comments)Posted by: echoman 

    Thursday, September 4th, 2008
    What happens when Obama's teleprompter stops working


    David Letterman's Barack Obama "Uh Count"
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (11 comments)Posted by: teckel 

    Saturday, May 24th, 2008
    ePSXe 1.7.0 released!
    Arguably the greatest PC-based emulator for the Playstation, ePSXe has finally had a release after 4 years! Many improvements have been made to the emulator, and here is a short list of the changelog straight from the homepage.
  • Multiple changes has been done in the Pad support.
  • The internal SPU plugin has been updated to the 1.7.0 version.
  • The iso support code has been rewritten.
  • The MDEC decoder has been rewritten.
  • A new version of the Pete's Software Plugin is included.
  • The XA/CDDA support has been worked in this new version.
  • Many things have been fixed in the cd-rom decoder and the core.
    • Thanks to MightyMo for posting this in our forums
     Discuss this in the Arcade@Home™ Forums (2 comments)Posted by: Wildman55 




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