Getting Nuance to work

[StarControl]

I'm new to the Nuon, and my only exposure so far is through Nuance. I've gotten as far as getting the games to load, but I can't get them to start. The emulator is completely unresponsive to the keyboard. Also, there is a guy on another forum with a recent quad core CPU and hot video card that says that when he does get it to go that Tempest 3000 is like a series of snapshots. The emulator was developed long enough ago that I'm having a hard time believing a modern PC can't run it full speed. Are games playable on Nuance if it is set up right? The sound is a little choppy on my quad core, and I haven't even got the games started yet.

The Next Tetris loaded up, but it starts with a movie and of course Nuance doesn't have movie playback. Is there a way to skip past the movie to the game? For that matter, is IS3 playable if you don't mind missing the movies?

Any hints for the Nuance newbie?

 

[StarControl]

I've played with Nuance and the configuration settings some more and actually played a game of Ballistic. However, the best I can do is get Ballistic and Space Invaders to play in slow motion, and Tetris to start up in super slow motion. Merlin Racing dies right after character selection. I didn't attempt TNT, IS3, or Freefall because of the video playback issue. Merlin Racing and Ballistic both bring up a weird quad split screen display. This was on a dual core, and I haven't had any better luck my quad core.

Has anybody actually been able to play a game -- any game -- at enjoyable speeds with Nuance? Or should I just give up? I was under the impression that it was a playable emulator, but I think I am going to have to revise that view.

 

[Skah T]

No, it's too slow to use in real-time. I believe Riff was going for accuracy over speed at first. He was going to do optimzations later. Really sucks he's no longer with us