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Thanks for the info - few more questions tho:

Fabrice Bellard wrote:

>> Will support for newer graphics cards be included any time soon?
>
>
> No.

Is this sort of thing difficult (I've not written an emulator before)?

>
>> Why doesn't (guest) Windows 98 (FE) recognise the emulated sound 
>> card  as new hardware on my host  Mandrake 10.0 machine when I 
>> specifiy "-enable-audio" - it doesn't think there is one at all?
>
>
> Did you try to relaunch the hardware probe in Windows ?

Yes, I'll look into it again. It may well be something with my setup as 
I also recently did a CVS build and still have the problem.

>
>> Any thoughts on binary builds for i586 and higher instead of default 
>> i386, are any processor specific optimizations likely to be made in 
>> future?
>
>
> No, except for translate-copy mode to use MMX/SSE/SSE2.

To me the i386 support seems to be pointless - anybody who is seriously 
going to be running QEMU will be using a minimum of a i586 (K6-2, 
Pentium etc), granted QEMU it is not intended for just this processor 
platform - what is the justification for a 386 compatible version....? :)

Excellent software all round - wish I had the technical know how!

Benjamin