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What happened to FCE Ultra? Its web site has been down for months now!

It was discontinued quite a while ago.

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Yeah, but why kill the source forge site? The site could have been left up indefinitely so that people could access the source code and binaries. Which brings up another point. Where can I download the latest source code and binaries for FCE Ultra?

You can find the source and binaries for FCEUXD, which has an improved debugger. Don't know if it's linux compatible or not though. Probably not.

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I am really wishing that I pulled down the source before it was too late.

The source is available from many emu sites such as ZD.

I'm going to try to make a release of a "new" emulator based off FCE Ultra sometime in the next few months, but my life is so busy now, I don't know if I'll make it...

What will the improvements be?

I've removed the low-quality(default) sound mode and replaced the high-quality sound filtering code with something more flexible, and faster if your CPU has SIMD instructions(3dnow, sse, mmx, or altivec). The VRC6 sound emulation is more accurate(slightly lower volume and correct phases relative to internal Famicom sound channels). I've also made(and will make) various minor code changes and cleanups.

I'm abandoning the current MS Windows code entirely. I will try to make the command-line operated version compile and run ok under Windows, however.

What's the benefit to removing it rather than simply making high quality the default? Which NES emulator do you expect owners of aging laptop computers to use?

It's not what *I* want from FCE Ultra, it's not what I'll use, and the code is in the way. =b

People can use an older version of FCE Ultra. People can use another emulator. People can make a fork of the old codebase with new features integrated. I'm not people; I'm one person.

Complexity is the biggest enemy. When code gets past a certain complexity, it becomes impossible to have a clear grasp of what it's doing and defects are more likely. Also it's not really that these features were removed from FCE Ultra; they were removed from one of the many copies of its source code. I think you get higher quality by crafting something to your liking than the composite of the many (unless of course making something that pleases the many is to your liking).

Well spoken, blargg. The delete key is a programmer's best friend

Will there be a Linux port?

Yes.