It's funny how a bug can enlighten you to do things in a different way. Picture the scene, I was in the 3D world, loaded a game on the big TV, go back to 3D world and what do I see? Well the skybox is showing the emulator output instead of the sky. And I liked it. Then I realized it would be impossible to play whilst looking at the sky because the existing 'locking' system requires you to "attach" to a screen.

So what is the solution? Look at the screenshot below.
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So I'm working hard on getting v0.970 out this week and have been doing a lot of backend stuff in preparation for it. Why? Well it introduces a lot of new things into RetroCopy that will help propel us forward into the future. I'll have more to say about some of that stuff over the coming days. For now here are some screenshots of the latest "man model".



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Another day another screenshot! This time of the new main page. I decided to make it more simple and more focused on getting people to log in, and then take advantage of the existing online features in RetroCopy, and the ones coming soon. Maybe tomorrow I will show the new main page once you've logged in too.


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Today I've been playing around more with the new 3D world, making it a bit friendlier and snazzier. In particular I've added a human model to the world.


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I've been adding anti aliasing support back into the Windows graphics backend and thought I would take a screenshot of the difference it can make. The following image is increased by 300% to show off the anti aliasing more clearly.


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So the past week hasn't seen many updates around the site here.... why? Well I've been busy doing a LOT of RetroCopy work! Tommy and Sasha have been posting bugs to the new bug tracker making it easy (and somewhat rewarding) in fixing bugs as they appear. One aspect which will be seeing an improvement in v0.970 is the 3D room.


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Check out the latest video I made using the latest WIP of RetroCopy. You way want to watch it in 720p for full effect.



The "space effect" is something I think looks better than the previous background. However I'm thinking of letting it be customized so you could add say a zooming Sonic mixed with some game art.
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I've installed Mantis bug tracker at http://issues.retrocopy.com . Unfortunately it's not tied into the retrocopy.com user system, but it also has anonymous reporting access for those that can't be bothered creating another account.
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So if you're reading this it's probably pretty obvious the blog/news section has changed. I will likely let other team members start posting on the blog time to time also. There are still a few other things I want to get done but for now I'm happy with the changes and will go back to working on C++ code.....

Well pretty soon anyhow. I'm deciding whether or not to have an online bug tracking system like a few open source projects do. It would just make it a bit easier to knock bugs off if beta testers are forced to submit them in a certain style. It also makes keeping track of game/system specific bugs a bit easier as we work our way towards 100% compatibility on all systems.
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I have had people asking me since the blog started to have a RSS Feed for it so I made one. You can either access it to the left <------ over there or by clicking the link below. This way you can be updated fairly quickly when there is something new going on.

http://www.retrocopy.com/blogfeed.aspx
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