Yup, still using this crummy XP computer until February next year... So until then...
I'm using VBA 1.8.0.603 and when I used it I'm obligated to unplug the internet and not run anything in the background. Which sucks, I like playing music in the background when playing a game. Why do I have to unplug the internet? Well, it disconnects it, permanently until I restart the computer. Weird, huh? PSX doesn't do this, ZSNES doesn't do this, and neither does TF2... So why is VBA forcing my internet through a meat grinder? I'd use VBA-M (last time I used it was a year ago) and while it does better emulate the gameplay due to it looking more smoother with its fps, there's always a sound channel missing during playing a game (this is with default settings, fyi). Should I switch to VBA-M and try and solve my sound channel issue and perhaps it'll run better on my might-as-well-be-ms-dos-PC? or just try an older version of VBA in general and see if that'll run better?