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  The original author is dead, development has come to a standstill. This project is essentially abandoned, leaving us precious few options for a good, cross-platform Genesis emulator.

  posted by anonymous 23 days ago

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• File released: /dgen/sdl-1.23/dgen-sdl-1.23.tar.gz

  posted 462 days ago

• dgen sdl-1.23 file released: dgen-sdl-1.23.tar.gz

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S NEW? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.23 <- v1.22 * Added fullscreen toggle, using Alt-Enter by default. * Added the ability to set modifiers on key bindings, using the prefixes "shift-", "ctrl-", "alt-", and "meta-". * When 'z' is pressed to stop emulation while running fullscreen, the screen is toggled into windowed mode until emulation resumes. (assuming SDL supports this on your platform) * Fixed some buffer overflows in the rc parser. - Fixed a minor bug in creating the .dgen directory framework upon first run. * NASM is now required on x86 platforms. - Fixed a possible problem in the configure script detecting NASM object format on non-ELF platforms. v1.22 <- v1.21 * Fixed save RAM problems with some games that did not properly switch save RAM on/off, such as Shadowrun and Shining Force. * Fixed SDL joystick code, thanks to Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>. * Fixed timing problems on FreeBSD and on very fast machines when playing with sound. If you use FreeBSD, I suggest updating to the latest 4-STABLE snapshot and rebuilding your kernel to get the best sound sync. * Added OpenGL rendering mode, thanks to Andre Souza <asouza@olinux.com.br>. See the '-G' option in the dgen(1) manpage or 'bool_opengl' in dgenrc(5) in order to activate it. * Added 'bool_fullscreen', 'int_scale', 'bool_opengl', 'int_opengl_width', and 'int_opengl_height' dgenrc fields, in order to allow fullscreen, scaling, and OpenGL preferences to be set permanently in dgenrc. v1.21 <- v1.20a * Screenshot code added, courtesy of Allen Noe <psyclone42@geocities.com>. The key_screenshot field in dgenrc sets the key that will make screenshots happen. Its default is F12. * MZ80 core updated to version 3.4. Sound in Aladdin and the Sonic games should run at the correct speed now. * Fixed a bug in the handling of handling saved state and RAM filenames, which would result in saved state files being saved with a null filename. - Added a '-s' switch, which will load the given saved state at startup. * Added support for joystick through SDL for SDL 1.1.x. - Fixed compilation problems with the gcc "2.96" on Redhat 7.x systems. Thanks to Jeff Grady <jgrady@chimera.acm.jhu.edu>. v1.20a <- 1.20 - Fixed a tiny problem that caused MMX to be improperly detected on some Linux boxes. v1.20 <- 1.18 * DGen now uses autoconf/automake, so compiling DGen is now as easy as './configure && make && make install'. Because of this, though, you'll need to upgrade SDL to v1.0.1. The new Autoconf scripts are still a bit experimental; if it seems broken on your platform, try to fix it and send a patch. - I rewrote and reorganized documentation to better fit the way Automake likes to do things. * Manpages are now available, for dgen(1) and dgenrc(5). * If the normal window size is too small for you, you can now scale the window with the new -X and -Y options. v1.19 <- v1.18 - $%&($! Nothing was working! v1.18 <- v1.17 * Enormous speed increase, thanks to the hard work of John Stiles, who also has put all interrupt bugs to rest, finally. * DGen works in FreeBSD! The included Makefile.config.FreeBSD should work without modifications. You need the GNU make and EGCS ports, though. * Demo record/play! You can record a demo of yourself playing a game with the '-d DEMONAME' switch, i.e. "dgen -d foo.demo my_rom.smd". Then play it back later with "dgen -D foo.demo my_rom.smd". Also, no verifaction checks are done on the demos, so you can feed it arbitrary files and see what happens, if you like. :) v1.17 <- v1.16 * Save RAM implementation has been overhauled, so now games with overlapping ROM and save RAM (like Phantasy Star IV and Sonic 3 + Knuckles) can save games correctly. Many thanks to Steve Snake for helping me make this work right. * Crude PAL mode support, give the '-P' option to use it. Doesn't work very well yet. - I made some changes that should (hopefully) make DGen run properly on big-endian platforms, but I don't have any way of testing it. If you have a PowerPC, SPARC, or other big-endian system, give it a try and help me iron out the wrinkles. :) * Window is now emulated properly, so Herzog Zwei split-screen and other little bugs should be fixed. Thanks again to Steve. - A little bug that caused SDL to complain about not being able to initialize sound, even if bool_sound was false in dgenrc, was fixed. This should help all you folks without sound cards. * Assembler tile rendering is now in place for the new raster effect engine. A small but noticeable speed increase. :) [PKH] * All the SDL-dependent stuff has been separated into the sdl/ directory, and I wrote a little platform-dependent (pd) API so you can attach an interface for your favorite Unix-like operating system and toolkit. :) If you want to do a port to BeOS, MacOS X, QNX, etc. this should make your life easier. I also hope to have raw Xlib and SVGAlib interfaces to replace SDL, and thus require one less thing to download. :) - Improved sound writing method, by Daniel Wislocki <wislocki@math.grin.edu>. He says this improves flaky sound in 44kHz, and also fixes the problem of the emulator being too fast. I have a very slow computer, so I have to take his word for it. ;) - I also removed most of the messages dgen makes (except for errors), so that it is quieter. If you liked having all those messages, tell me and I'll put them back in. ;)

  posted 3067 days ago