So I had a thought last night. I have no idea if it is practical or not. Hourglass has a lot of compatibility issues this is no secret. What if a TAS emulator was made for windows itself like a Virtual Machine. You would have to be somewhat specific with when you start timing but could this work or is this literally the stupidest idea ever?
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The idea isn't that bad, but it does come with it's own difficulties.
The biggest one being that you need a complete (additional) Windows installation, and higher hardware requirements.
Also going by the state of VirtualBox (the only, to my knowledge, open source VM), there is a lot to do in order to get it running stable enough to TAS with. I base this of VirtualBox not being particularly stable for regular usage today. VMware is much more stable, but not open source.
The idea isn't that bad, but it does come with it's own difficulties.
The biggest one being that you need a complete (additional) Windows installation, and higher hardware requirements.
Also going by the state of VirtualBox (the only, to my knowledge, open source VM), there is a lot to do in order to get it running stable enough to TAS with. I base this of VirtualBox not being particularly stable for regular usage today. VMware is much more stable, but not open source.
So basically it could work but the technology is not there yet?
The idea isn't that bad, but it does come with it's own difficulties.
The biggest one being that you need a complete (additional) Windows installation, and higher hardware requirements.
Also going by the state of VirtualBox (the only, to my knowledge, open source VM), there is a lot to do in order to get it running stable enough to TAS with. I base this of VirtualBox not being particularly stable for regular usage today. VMware is much more stable, but not open source.
So basically it could work but the technology is not there yet?
It's pretty safe to say that it is easier to just use something like Hourglass.
However, emulating a platform (eg flash) on a different platform (that Hourglass could use) kinda seems like a good idea...
(I have little-to-no programming knowledge, so... be warned)
Why not trying something to make hourglass compatible with whatever game in Windows 7 instead of limiting in Windows XP and only few games that are TASable. Looking to how Hourglass is old; 6 years; I think many improvements can be applyed to that emulator, so it can be more usable
For emulator coders, adding or removing some options can help if I'm not wrong
