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Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know I have NOT abandoned the Compy 386 emulator. Life right now has been pretty hectic lately with some in my life and I had no time to work on the emulator much.

I will be starting the development again sometime this week and hope to release a beta 1.0 by the end of April/May.

I am still looking for additional developers if you would like to volunteer, email me at snowthrower@gmail.com

By the next beta I hope to have emails 41-60 loaded in and Jello B Mello has written a way to allow Compy to run on its own, or you can interact with it.

And for all you Mac fans (like me) I also now have a way to export this to Mac OSX using COCOA language and compilers. Right now the Mac OSX version isnt my top priority but I PROMISE a Mac OSX version will be out before Beta 1.0 comes out.

Also, I have fixed the bug which many people seemed to have with "autoexec.bat" and I will release a patch soon to fix it.

Another thing, before I start development on new features, I am going to be completely recoding and organizing the program. Until version 1.0, the emulator will be closed source (except to developers for this project).

I honestly cant wait to get back coding this project again and I hope you've all enjoyed previous versions of the emulator!

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Compy 386 Emulator!!!

You rule Snowthrower. I have the current version and it is pretty cool. Those new feature sound great.

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Anyone have any new suggestions for the recode/bug reports?

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Compy 386 Emulator!!!

Did the forward function ever work? It didn;t for me. I might have been doing the wrong thing.

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The code was there but it was never activated in the last beta (0.03) due to a bug. The new beta WILL include the forward to Homestar

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Compy 386 Emulator!!!

Oh, ok, sweet. I'd love to see his reply.

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Hmm...as soon as I can get my hands on a copy of QuickBASIC, I'll take a crack at drawing the Compy's monitor and creating a text window in there to limit where the messages go, along with resizing the screen (into mode 7) to get that old-time font.

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I just wanted to let everyone know who follows this project that a new beta will be released shortly. I completely recoded the entire project and made it better organized, etc.

I'm expecting a new beta by the end of the week with most emails in it.

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Compy 386 Emulator!!!

Can't wait! The beta out now is sooo fun.

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Pass the Potato!