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Atari Lynx emulator
Are there any coders out there willing to try porting Handy/SDL over to the N900? An Atari Lynx emulator would be amazing on the N900!
Here's a link to the source code: http://sdlemu.ngemu.com/handysdl.php Should be a snap for you gifted hackers out there! :D Who wouldn't want this awesomeness on their N900??! http://www.retrogamer.net/users/99/t...adblasters.jpg |
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I had an Atari Lynx and really liked some of the games on it.
i.e. 'Blue Lightning' and Xenophobe. It would indeed be really cool if someone could build an N900 Lynx emulator. |
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I've been running Hatari for some of my old Atari ST games. Hooked up to the TV? Pretty cool... Would be good to try out some Lynx stuff too! |
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yep same here i had one too battery usage was poor.
But it would be great to have this on the N900 with six axis control. :) California games,Blue lightning,Pacland, and Gauntlet to name a few. oh and Road blasters thanks whaleyboy.;) |
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Also, the graphics use OpenGL, which is going to be problematic (at best) for someone experienced to port it... [edit] Although, it does only appear to be used for 2d texturing? Did the Lynx even have 3D hardware - surely it was a bit early for that!?
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I just bought a Lynx and a Lynx 2 for my handheld collections...
Very funny that those things were VERY huge :p But at that time, it had actually pretty good graphics. (colors, backlight 16 bit) while the gameboy was only monochrome, no backlight and was only 8-bit |
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KillListOfVideo games
or KLOV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_List_of_Videogames includes the atari game tempest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28arcade_game%29 I want tempest and there are ports of the emulators on that wiki page i just gave. |
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OpenGL usage seems to be limited to 2d texturing, and there isn't a great deal of OpenGL code, although I'm not sure whether it will be trivial to port to GLES2? |
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Oh. So it seems.
Handy was opened in 2004 with 0.90 version. And the OP link is for 2001 version. So you might be right that 0.5 is newer. It's a confusing change though. |
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If Handy can't / won't be ported for the N900, there is also Mednafen, which is a command line emulator for multiple game systems (including the Lynx) and has a GTK frontend written in python called mfe.
http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/ http://mednafenfe.sourceforge.net/ That's what I usually use to play Lynx games, because for a long time there weren't a version of Handy/SDL that I could get to work. slaapliedje |
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There is a Lynx emulator for the GP2X F200, did whoever port this need permission to do so or can anyone port this version?.
Game Park GP2X F200 Atari Lynx port |
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If anyone is interested I can send them the archive for testing purposes. |
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@ishurmer
I am interested in the emulator but would prefer a deb file with GUI. Can you add a GUI to it or do you need a little help with it. Also (this is the noob coming out of me) when installable programs need to be optified to install correctly this doesn't include using programs from the command line does it? |
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Optification (as I understand it) is installing the programs under the /opt path and symbolic linking to the relevant system paths. This means the software doesn't take up much rootfs space, so clearly this is preferable. In the case of the current version of the emulator, the folder is installed under /home/user anyway, so this shouldn't be a problem. |
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What are the instructions to run it through xterm?
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If you made a folder called roms in the main folder using the File Manager, and downloaded a file called "ARom.zip", you could "mednafen /home/user/MyDocs/roms/ARom.zip" to run it. Installation is fairly straightforward, if you want I'll PM you some instructions? |
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Yep, i will give it a go. thanks
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Are there any problems with installing it this way and then later on installing the deb version from extra-devel once its released?
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Nope, will just be a case of removing a couple of files.
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Nice one, i will be on it as soon as i get home from work.
EDIT I sound like a kid with a new toy ' i will play with it when i get home from school' Dear oh dear what is the world comin to. :rolleyes: |
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i know u put in your guide to install dependencies, i have the latest firmware on the tablet,
Do i still need to install them? |
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Looks like some progress is already being made! Thanks guys! I can't wait to see the results!
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No probs...
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That is awesome, that it was that easy to get working. Emulators are usually the worse to port because of processesor architectures and optimizations. I know, for example, that both gens and zsnes don't compile as x86_64 native because of the cpu emulation bits.
mednafen is a multi-platform emulator as well, if you'd PM it to me, I'd be more than happy to test all the platforms that it supports. I'm kind of a retro junky. slaapliedje |
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I can confirm Mednafen works really well! How awesome is this phone...I posted a request for a Lynx emulator on the 14th and am playing Lynx games on my N900 on the 16th! Big thanks to ishurmer!
The only real issues are that you can't control the sound (it's always on, even when phone is on silent) and the image isn't scaled up to fit the screen, which I think might be because openGL isn't supported...? |
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I have only set up a keymap for the lynx files - if you look in the main mednafen.cfg there are numerous settings for screen res and buttons for other platforms if you could set some of these up, using standard ASCII key codes (check the lynx inputs), that would be excellent! Fairly confident we can then get a multi-platform emulator ported across. |
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Sound is a concern, I will have a play with ALSA settings, see if I can get it using the mixer. |
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I can't install this, i can't get passed:- 'gtar -xjf mednafen0.8.D-maemo-devel.tar.bz2' i just get - permission denied - |
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