Supermodel is 20 years old

[Bart]

Wowzers. The Supermodel project is 20 years old. The child I never realized I had. I don't know the exact birth date because I'm a negligent father. But next year, she'll be old enough to drink in the US so maybe I'll throw a nice party for her.

[k_rollo]

Congratulations! Re-launch party for GitHub repo as official site

[Ian]

I don't think model 3 emulation would really exist without you Bart, or if it did it wouldn't be nearly as complete I know I had a big hand in it, but it always amazes me how far emulation got based upon nothing other than maybe a pdf file of the real3d api and a description of the hardware lol.

[MrThunderwing]

Jebus, 20 years old. In the UK Supermodel's been old enough to get married, smoke and drink for the last 2 years (and actually until only fairly recently, the legal age for those first 2 used to be 16). Knowing how young kids start boozing over here though, Supermodel's probably already been puking up outside their local kebab shop at 2am after drinking too much White Lightning Cider for at least the last 4-5 years (Cider in the UK is not the same drink as Cider in the US BTW, it's full of booze). It's probably time someone had a stern word with it. Told Supermodel buck up it's ideas or it'll never get a decent job and be able to earn enough to move out of its parents home.

Seriously though, congrats Bart. As Ian said, it's always felt like you've been the main driving force behind Model3 emulation and without you I doubt we'd be at such a great place with it now. I can remember, at least 14 or 15 or so years ago, people on the old MAMEworld forums occasionally talking about this supposed Model 3 emulator called Supermodel that existed behind closed doors, but I don't think any screenshots of it had ever surfaced back then. I can also remember around this time, trying to run Scud Race in MAME on my old Pentium 4 PC that had half a gig of RAM and some severely underpowered GeForce GPU that also only had about 500mb memory (not that the GPU made any difference to MAME). I tried loading it and it just went to a black screen. No error messages came up though, so I just left it to see if anything would happen and after about 5 minutes the game actually started... at about 1 frame every 3 seconds. It was absolutely unplayable, but I was still sort of amazed that my shitty old P4 was actually running this stop motion animation version of Scud Race.

What anniversary is NESticle on these days?

[k_rollo]

Jebus, 20 years old. In the UK Supermodel's been old enough to get married, smoke and drink for the last 2 years (and actually until only fairly recently, the legal age for those first 2 used to be 16). Knowing how young kids start boozing over here though, Supermodel's probably already been puking up outside their local kebab shop at 2am after drinking too much White Lightning Cider for at least the last 4-5 years (Cider in the UK is not the same drink as Cider in the US BTW, it's full of booze). It's probably time someone had a stern word with it. Told Supermodel buck up it's ideas or it'll never get a decent job and be able to earn enough to move out of its parents home.

This is my favourite passage in this forum.

[Joaquim Gonçalves]

20 years of pure nostalogy. Thanks for provid miracles on this system.

[Abelardator2]

I'm here from the start too, I remember sending Bart video and audio recordings so he could compare.
Now it amazes me how close the emulator is compared to the actual hardware.

Thanks to everyone involved....

[model123]

Congratulations
Thank you for continuing this project

[Juttar]

Wow! Congrats!

Edit: And exactly twelve years ago today was the release of Supermodel V0.1a!

[Bart]

Wow! Congrats!

Edit: And exactly twelve years ago today was the release of Supermodel V0.1a!

Indeed. That was an exciting day for me!