Vids of Icarus in action!

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:17 pm

I haven't checkup up on Icarus in a while, but earlier today I dropped into the forums for a quick nose around, and found links to videos of it in action. I had previously thought that the games were running unbearably slow - all the screenshots showed a little counter running at only a few frames per second, but these movies show them running at what can't be too far off full-speed. Worth a look.

http://www.robpol86.com/?id=icarus&noframe=1

ShadowofBob · Post by **ShadowofBob** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 6:54 pm

Nice find.

I'd been wondering how fast it was goind for a while.

pepitonet · Post by **pepitonet** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:40 pm

i don't want to insult the programmers team of icarus,but in 1 year that they have been saying they can run this and that why haven't they release a beta or even alpha version of it just to show that they have something really working, if you look at the sword of beserk video it run pretty fast,i can dare to say it runs as fast as it does on dc. again why haven't they shown any proff of existance

guitsaru · Post by **guitsaru** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:42 pm

The vids arent working for me

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:49 pm

me thinks it could just be some guy takin screenshots using a vid capt. card and a lot of free time to make them. but, i havent downloaded the vids yet

just looked at pics.

IF this IS working as well as it looks, what kinda pc specs would one need?

butters · Post by **butters** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:50 pm

pepitonet wrote:i don't want to insult the programmers team of icarus,but in 1 year that they have been saying they can run this and that why haven't they release a beta or even alpha version of it just to show that they have something really working, if you look at the sword of beserk video it run pretty fast,i can dare to say it runs as fast as it does on dc. again why haven't they shown any proff of existance

It's not going to be publically released until the emulator runs full speed and the author is satisfied afaik.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:38 pm

butters wrote:
pepitonet wrote:i don't want to insult the programmers team of icarus,but in 1 year that they have been saying they can run this and that why haven't they release a beta or even alpha version of it just to show that they have something really working, if you look at the sword of beserk video it run pretty fast,i can dare to say it runs as fast as it does on dc. again why haven't they shown any proff of existance
It's not going to be publically released until the emulator runs full speed and the author is satisfied afaik.

So never.

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:14 am

Ender wrote:
butters wrote:
pepitonet wrote:i don't want to insult the programmers team of icarus,but in 1 year that they have been saying they can run this and that why haven't they release a beta or even alpha version of it just to show that they have something really working, if you look at the sword of beserk video it run pretty fast,i can dare to say it runs as fast as it does on dc. again why haven't they shown any proff of existance
It's not going to be publically released until the emulator runs full speed and the author is satisfied afaik.
So never.

that pretty much says it all

Master Higgins · Post by **Master Higgins** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:16 am

for a quick nose around

Is that kinda like "snoop around"?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:04 am

for a quick nose around
Is that kinda like "snoop around"?

basically the same thing

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 7:05 am

Sickliquid86 wrote:
for a quick nose around
Is that kinda like "snoop around"?

Yeah

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BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:36 am

Last I heard, Icarus was running quite a few commercial games, and doing a pretty good job of it too. It is not a fake.

However, there are three reasons it's not been released.
1 - It's slow.
2 - It's not finished.
3 - Piracy.

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 11:27 am

Yeah its real but i allways thought he might make a developer release that could help us test Kos made stuff or limt it some how so it can only load kos bins.

doragasu · Post by **doragasu** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 1:53 pm

It's not a fake, but it's really slow. The videos are accelerated and don't show the emu real speed.

Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:15 pm

Yea, I renember readin on one of the updates once where they released them videos, and they said how them videos were accelerated. Still cool tho.

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 3:32 pm

I had previously thought that the games were running unbearably slow - all the screenshots showed a little counter running at only a few frames per second, but these movies show them running at what can't be too far off full-speed

The videos don't show the actual frame rate. They're sped up.

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:46 pm

those vids have been around for awile........... (before april 1st, the jet grind radio was created on april 1)

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:50 pm

Seemed to good to be true

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MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:58 pm

and i was just looking around on the forums ( http://boob.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard3/ik ... ct=SF;f=10
) and in a thread, or a couple of them, it sais that the release date for it isnt untill 2007. so im really not waiting/watching this anymore. would be cool if it was released, or made so you could only run homebrew on it....

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:00 pm

In another topic, the author states that it's just a wild rumour, and that no release date has been set. I read it yesterday whilst nosing around for the vids.