Emuforge homebrew compilation

[chui]

http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/emuforge.png
During RetroMadrid 2008 (http://www.retromadrid.es/index_en.html), we (Fox, Franxis and Chui) present as an exhibitor called EmuForge (http://www.emuforge.com).

We have prepared a Dreamcast compilation with homebrew of retro scene:

- DREAMEDGE (Chui (http://chui.dcemu.co.uk)): Example of EDGE 3D engine (http://edge.sourceforge.net) port with FreeDoom.
- DREAMPLACES (Chui (http://chui.dcemu.co.uk)): Little example of Darkplaces 3D engine (http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces) preliminar port.
- ANOTHER BRICK ON THE WALL 2 (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum game, Arkanoid similar.
- BABALIBA REMAKE (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): Fenix remake of Babaliba ZX-Spectrum game.
- BETILED! (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum puzzle game.
- DEEP SCAN (Octocom (http://www.octocom.es)): ZX-Spectrum simple game.
- CANNON BUBBLE (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum game, PuzzleBobble similar.
- CAMELOT WARRIORS REMAKE (BuHonero & Coelophysis (http://retrocompo.computeremuzone.com//?p=52)): Fenix remake of Camelot Warriors 8bit game.
- COLUMNS (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum Sega Columns clone.
- GALAXY FIGHTER (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum simple game.
- INFILTRADO 2 (Octocom (http://www.octocom.es)): ZX-Spectrum tactial-puzzle game.
- INSERT COINS (Octocom (http://www.octocom.es)): ZX-Spectrum platform game.
- ISOTOPIA (Octocom (http://www.octocom.es)): ZX-Spectrum molecular-puzzle game.
- JUDGE MORRY VS. BALDO MIDGET (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum simple game.
- MOGGY (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum arcade game.
- NANAKO IN CLASSIC JAPANESE MONSTER CASTLE (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum platform game.
- PANDEMIA (Octocom (http://www.octocom.es)): ZX-Spectrum adventure game.
- PHANTOMAS SAGA: INFINITY (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum platform game.
- PHANTOMASA II (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum platform game.
- PITFALL-ZX (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum game, Pitfall similar.
- RAGNABLOCK (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum Arkanoid clone.
- REVELADOS (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum blog-game.
- RUN BILL RUN (Computer Emuzone (http://computeremuzone.com)): ZX-Spectrum simple game.
- SOKOBAN (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum puzzle game.
- VIAJE AL CENTRO DE LA TIERRA (Topo siglo XXI (http://www.topoxxi.com)): Complete ZX-Spectrum game (unreleased TopoSoft game).
- ZX-COLUMNS (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum Sega clone.
- ZX-MINES 2 (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum minesweeper clone.
- ZX-POKER (Compiler Software (http://www.speccy.org/compiler)): ZX-Spectrum card game.

Download discjuggler image HERE (http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/releases/emuforge-2008.rar).

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[Christuserloeser]

Wow ! ... just wow!

[wraggster]

thanks for an awesome release :)

[abeisgreat]

Thats alot of games Thanks alot Chui!

[chui]

Today i hope to have time for release SDL+OpenGL, MAME4ALL, ZX4ALL, Nerverball and ... the secret project :D

[fackue]

Dun dun dun.

[paul3100]

Great DC compo :-) cheers

Oh off subject: what does it mean when your dreamcast gets stuck in the boot up screen, or when you power up the screen already had the dreamcast and a little of the blue on screen but frozen?

Seems that some homebrew messes up the DC such as the atari st emulator and gb !

paul

[vbt]

Impressive release Chui !!! I'm already getting the file :)

[Christuserloeser]

Seems that some homebrew messes up the DC

Well, ALL usuage of your Dreamcast will wear out the laser. - My brother bought his DC in 1999 and it never ever ran anything else than original GD-ROMs but still needed to be fixed two years later (after running almost 24/7 during this period :) ).

- Considering the sheer power of the hardware, there had to be some cuts to keep costs low, so that's probably why so many DCs stop working at one point. There's nothing that can't be fixed though. ;)

Anyway, let's stay on topic here. If you like, you can start a new thread in Dreamcast Help and I am sure someone might be able to locate the problem you described: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=26

[wraggster]

what a great time for me to get the dreamcast site back up to scratch :)

[Christuserloeser]

hehe, yeah. I can't keep up with burning and testing all this stuff :)


BTW, it's nice to see you working on the site again! I will see what I can do to help with double-checking for missing stuff.

[Christuserloeser]

Okay, I've been playing with a controller first, but I think a keyboard is better. I've plugged it in port 4.

The FSL menu works great with a keyboard too. :)


@ Chui: The FSL menu seems to slow down a little bit every once in a while. You can notice it because the music skips a little when it happens.

- I like the FSL menu a lot! I am really hoping for a version in 640x480 one day. :)




- DREAMEDGE (Chui): Example of EDGE 3D engine port with FreeDoom.

This is a very very promising port of DOOM. It's using FreeDOOM and it runs great! Extremely smooth. I am very impressed with it.

Can't wait for the next version with sound support ! :)




- DREAMPLACES (Chui): Little example of Darkplaces 3D engine preliminar port.

This is a QUAKE port in 640x480. No sound yet but it looks very promising!

This example uses OpenQuartz, a free Quake replacement.

Framerate isn't always stable but it's very smooth already.

But: without a keyboard/mouse, the controls are a real problem here. :-/


Btw, Moi already uploaded a plain files version:
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=991071#p991071

Can't wait to try a few Quake mods with it. :)




- CAMELOT WARRIORS REMAKE (BuHonero & Coelophysis): Fenix remake of Camelot Warriors 8bit game.

This game is absolutely fantastic. - Very very hard though.... :D




- COLUMNS (Computer Emuzone): ZX-Spectrum Sega Columns clone.

- ZX-COLUMNS (Compiler Software): ZX-Spectrum Sega clone.

Both entries in the menu seem to link to the version by Computer Emuzone.

That however, is an overall a brilliant port from a Armstrad CPC version of SEGA'S Columns. Excellent music ! :)




- BABALIBA REMAKE (Compiler Software): Fenix remake of Babaliba ZX-Spectrum game.

A Spectrum remake in hi res... There aren't many FENIX games in 640x480 out there - Very sweet! Excellent character design. :)

I've been running around a bit but I don't really know what to do.

If I remember correctly it crashed after a while....




- SOKOBAN (Compiler Software): ZX-Spectrum puzzle game.


This is a sweet looking game. Music is great too.

I somehow I didn't seem to be able to control the character until I realized I had to set the controls to "Kempston" in the game's options menu.

[chui]

DREAMEDGE have sound but it load sounds on-demand then freeze when read from cdrom, need change it using other thread.

DREAMPLACES is preliminar, needs a lot of work yet.

And the rest is a lot of good games.

[Christuserloeser]

DREAMEDGE have sound but it load sounds on-demand then freeze when read from cdrom, need change it using other thread.

It has sound ? - I'm gonna have to try it with DOOM shareware :)



DREAMPLACES is preliminar, needs a lot of work yet.

It's very interesting already!



And the rest is a lot of good games.

:)

[law56ker]

Wow thanks Chui!

[dc-ton]

betiled! by computer emuzone is AMAZING!
(y quiero decir con esto que es la puta hostia)

[Ajapted]

Hello Chui,

My name is Andrew Apted, and I'm the current maintainer of the EDGE project.

Congratulations on getting your DC port of EDGE into a state where you can distribute a binary.

I'm here though to ask you to publish the source code to your modifications of EDGE which you used to make this binary, as required by the GNU General Public License.

Cheers,
--
Andrew Apted

[chui]

Hello Chui,

My name is Andrew Apted, and I'm the current maintainer of the EDGE project.

Congratulations on getting your DC port of EDGE into a state where you can distribute a binary.

I'm here though to ask you to publish the source code to your modifications of EDGE which you used to make this binary, as required by the GNU General Public License.

Cheers,
--
Andrew Apted

Nice to meet you Andrew.

No problem for sharing source code, all my projects using GPL license, i did not share it because only it is a WIP version, maybe unusable for now.

Anyway there are not a lot of changes, you can download actual source code for port HERE (http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/releases/dreamedge-src-08-03-2008.tar.bz2).

Are there any possibility that you can merge with main trunk and maintain it?
I could give punctual support for Dreamcast and will be focused on OpenGL.

[Rifter01]

I mistakenly posted a question to Chui here, and I've moved it to where I think it is more appropriate..

Here is where I posted a message over in Chui's DCEMU Forums, (link is here (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79602)) and so I will look over there hopefully for help, it is under a post called "how do you boot mame4all with bootdreams", thanks and sorry if this is in the wrong place.