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Ok finally got around to doing what I need to do, here is the new home of FrodoDS
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/Frodoc64.shtml
latest sourcecode is there and the an old binary from April that I posted in the forums for a test earlier.
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/dsd64.jpg
Troy(GPF)
Hi Troy !
I tested the emulator and I think it is very good !!!
Now I want to know about the future of this emu ?
greets
edids :)
going to try now
thanks, well Im curruntlly working on a port of SIDplayer so hopefully based off of it I can make the sound better.Quote:
Originally Posted by ediDS
With the latest compiler though Im having problems getting the emulator working again, and haven't had a lot of time to troubleshoot the source of the problem yet.
Troy(GPF)
hey troy
I just discovered your C64 emulator for the DS and was thrilled to try it out. unfortunately it does not work on my M3!
I can load the emulator, on the top screen I get "spring coding competition 2006", the bottom screen is white. I can't select or change anything. If I press the A button I get a keyboard on the touchscreen and on the top screen I get the C64 screen. when pressing the R button it does "load , 8,1"
sometimes it loads a game, sometimes it says "ready." and the blinking cursor below. when it loads the game, the game runs extremely slow. I'd say around 5 frames per second maximum....
I think I use the newest version of your emu. I got it from http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk/Frodoc64.shtml
do you have any tips how to make it work? I would LOVE to play some C64 classics on my DS!
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
Yes ! Very good ! I just hear now quality of the SIDplayer .
I think this sound is very good !! Nice work man !
First sidfile I heard was Arkanoid .............great !!
Now put this to the C64 emu and a RESET function and you got it .
Thank you GPF.
Hi Troy .
Are there any news from FrodoDS ?
Did you already put the sidplayer inside the emulator ?
CU
Bytepete
Not yet, been busy lately. Hopefully soon I'll resume work on it.
Troy(GPF)
Pleeease...take little time for this EMULATOR !!!
The EMU scene on NDS is really poor ...any new pry what burn...sleep for ever later 1 or 2 releases....
I Know...asking about that is always "lamer"...but
is nothing another to do , for us.
So I hope , something nice come also for us.
I think if you can insert one option on emulator (with sound or without sound) is a BIG nice addon, because , also now...if you play WITHOUT the solud-emulation...every game RUN nearly 100% speed!
With sound emulation , also if is bad (now) ...many games are really too SLOW and unplayable...
GOOD LUCK
Last week I attempted to add streaming sound to the emulator and have been unsuccessful so far, the sound breaks the ability to load disk images, but for now here is a test build with sound disabled, its only been tested on a supercard sd so far, its using sata fat drivers so will not work with cards that are not supported by that.Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
Troy(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk
hello GPF and thanks for the Great Work !Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
I have a problem, i understand that this version is only for linkers using sata fat drivers. But, i have a G6 lite and there was a release frodo who works on my G6 lite :
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...threadid=21448
This ancien version uses the romfs appended to the end of the .nds or .ds.gba file so should work for most everything......:rolleyes:
But not the new version Why ?:(
can you do a frodo compatible whith other linker ?
Thanks for answer.:)
(I am french i hope that i haven't to do faults :p :p )
Hi Troy any news on a new release of a new version of Frodo DS?
Pleading, grovel grovel!
Look on previous page I just put up a new version yesterday :)Quote:
Originally Posted by xcom
Troy(GPF)
I didn't build the romfs version, mainly because of the majority of people who don't understand how to make it work , and also the number of people who have compatible flash carts trying to use it anyway :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Kasimir2007
I'll left the code on another computer but on monday and I'll see if I can build a version with romfs then.
Troy(GPF)
A great thanks ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by GPF
I am novice and i found that this is easy to make it! .... Hum for me :o
I know a person (AlekMaul) who works for the compatibility emulators DS and other homebrews. this is the author of MarcaDS, ColecoDS. he works with author of snemulDS for the compatibility with other linker.
I know that he have a lot of linker at home.
I know that he works same on a emulator amstrad for DS ! but this isn't ready still !!!. :)
Can be if you give the code source, i can to say him for this problem of compatibility. :rolleyes:
Or you can say him here
http://www.portabledev.com/pages/forums.php
this is the AlekMaul 's forum. He is cool.
He has successful at to do works G6 in mode Fatlib !!! :
"Après quelques heures de bataille contre les différents fichiers mélangés et pas compatible EABI, j'ai enfin réussi Ã* faire fonctionne le G6 en mode FATLIB."
:eek:
But save dont't Works but with the time......
:)
Ooops... Delete, Delete, Delete - You're a Star, Champ, frickin' number-one, skydivin', basejumpin', really nice guy, bunny huggin' Legend!Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
Guess I should read the forum properly.
Good stuff, and enuf said!
Runs better - Still jerky in playback.
Do you think the emulator will get any faster or is Frodo just too slow in terms of how it's written and the processor it runs on?
I have Frodo on the Intel Mac and Xbox and they fly.
Hello Troy!
You have to build a version with romfs for other compatibility ?
I wait this for to test the new version of frodoDS!!!!
Good Works and thanks.
ok here is the romfs version of the same code, no sound as it breaks file loading for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kasimir2007
run the createromdisk.bat or the equivelent cmds below.
genromfs -f romdisk.img -d rd -v
padbin 0x100 FrodoDS.nds
copy /b FrodoDS.nds + romdisk.img /b FrodoDS_fs.nds
rememeber this version should only be used if the fatlib version from last friday doesn't work with your hardware, post your problems here.
Troy(GPF)
Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
Thank you very much, i test this on my G6 lite with passcard3 and FrodoDS Works very good :D :D !
I build my version that i give for novices :
Here FrodoDS4test for G6 with games for test :
http://rapidshare.com/files/676362/Frodo4test.zip.html
And a version for put other games in rd and run createromdisk.bat for create FrodoDS_fs.nds :
http://rapidshare.com/files/676730/F...romfs.zip.html
I hope that you will put the romfs version in future version. and thanks for this.
My test here :
I try Archon,Astroblitz,Barbarian,BountyBob,Bruce lee,Cauldron,GianaSister,HERO,Impossible mission,Jumpmans,Montyontherun,Mule,Sorcery,TheGoo nies,TheNinja,WayOfTheTiger and Zorro ..... Works All good thing.
But now, this is more slow that the version of 2006-03-28 with sound ! :rolleyes: Here (version G6) :
http://rapidshare.com/files/678376/F...03-28.zip.html
You can test and see ......
I think that the new version appears to me to be more stable that this last. But this is very low !!!!
The sound is not the cause that this low, there is another thing ....
Ah yes ! I hope to see a option to return in the menu games. because i am obliged to close
and to open DS to run other games ......
And also To add scrolling to put + than 17 games.
and .... Hum .... Spring coding competition it is finished :D , has to replace a beautifull menu.... finally it is not urgent :D !
I wish you a good improvement for the future version and I waits to test this with impatiently.:p
(Don't forget the romfs version;) )
Hi Troy ! :)
You began again to work on FrodoDS? :)
you have innovations has to say us???? :p
:o
Hello Troy (GPF).
News on FrodoDS ???? :rolleyes:
:confused:
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kasimir2007
Yes hi , Troy !
Give us a few words about status !
greets
bytepete
Hi troy!
news for G6 :
News!
G6 drivers have been released!
They can be found here:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11…sc&start=30
I test scumvm with this and libfat works on my G6 !!!!!
I will like to see next version of frodoDS to work with libfat on my linker G6 now.
any hope for a christmas release? :)
Well i didn't have much time over the holiday's to work on it, only thing I was able to get working was a partially working DS-X port, but I need to track down why its running so slow compared to my very first release, very strange.
I am thinking about starting from scratch and using the new libfat dldi patch schema so I don't have to worry about supporting every new card out there. And maybe in the process will figure out why the newer toolchain has slowed Frodo down.
Troy(GPF)
:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by GPF
Good news for to put DLDI drivers.
CrocoDS is great emulator Amstrad, Dspec and Speccy is great spectrum emulator. I hope to see a day FrodoDS has full speed (..... the only emulator commodore :o .)
Cool to hear some news!
dldi is indeed the way to go. As mentioned by Kasimir2007, CrocoDS is using it. I do hope C64 emulation will reach the same level of compatibilty and speed. :thumbup:
theli recompiled FrodoDS with DLDI support:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12146
I haven't tested it. Other than DLDI support, there are no other changes.
Nice work! I gave my DS to my son a while back, so I hadn't been keeping up with the progress on this. I just picked up a Lite and an M3 (micro SD,) for it. I tried out FrodoDS the other night, and it's looking great. A little slow, but I'm quite impressed. The C64 is fairly tricky to emulate well, especially on limited hardware. Very cool! I'll be following closely again. :)
Got to admit, this would be the holy grail of emulators for the ds. A c64 with a keyboard! The PSP and gpx2 are great but there is like 30% of the games and software for the c64 that a virtual keyboard like they use just wouldn't work.
Thank you GPF.Please keep up the awesome work.
Hello Oh Great GPF !
News for FrodoDS ?
Sorry to bug you again GPF, but I was wondering if there was going to be an ability to switch virtual disks in the future? So many great games have multiple disks and/or sides.
well been working on getting the existing code moved to latest toolchain and libnds release.
Eventually it will have the ability to switch disk, right now I am kind of need some ideas on how best to do it, from a user standpoint. If I have some ideas I can start looking into the coding part :)
Well here is my latest version thats using the dldi patching code now, so hopefully will be able to work on most hardware now.
attached is an nds file that just needs to be dldi patched and copy that and the /rd directory to your media and put your d64 files and you can also place a snapshot created from the pc version and call it jjr.fss and that is loaded from the left trigger. right trigger still does a load"*",8,1 and then run
Please give me feedback compared to previous releases.
Thanks,
Troy(GPF)
First of all Thank you GPF for your time and your hard work to make such good emulator !!!!!!!
Feedback :
I checked the new version to the version from 11.04.2006 (v0.3) I played Giana Sisters on MoviePlayer 2.
The new version has better sound but it is slower and also the gamespeed is slower .
The Vers.0.3 is much faster .
Some Ideas: Is it possible to make it with switable functions like on/off Sound or frame skip would it be faster ?
bytepete
just discovered that my compiler optimization were not being used, so this new build has them.
skipframes=9 and has always been like that.
I've removed vblank during menu, so it might behave funny, i can put it back but wasn't sure at the time whether i was using it elsewhere.
Rendering directly to vram now instead of an extra copy step, so might look funny at some times.
Let me know how this version runs.
Make sure and patch for dldi for your card.
Thanks,
Troy(GPF)
ok finally had a chance to test the last version myself and most of the sprites were missing from everything I tested, so I have reenabled the rendering to a backbuffer and copying it to vram :)
Changed a couple of things so that its not uses exact CPU or CIA cycles so its should be a lot faster, but might be at the expense of compatibility.
But remember that if it doesn't work on the pc version of Frodo its not going to work on the ds version :)
Enjoy and please leave me some feedback, last couple of versions of been downloaded over 20 times and not a peep from anyone :(
I have jury duty tommorow so I will be playing c64 games all day while waiting around :)
Man I wish I had some ideas on implemented disk change, the code part is easy, but some kind of GUI menu ideas is what I need.
Thanks,
Troy(GPF)
Hello GPF !
I have just checked the version 20707 with Movieplayer2 and Gianasisters . For me the verison is the fastetest ever !!
Loading time was very fast and sound is much better.
About swap disks function: putting 2 disks in one (if possible) and than no need to swap , but need to simulate like change for the emulator .
I hope you understand my Idea .
greets , thanks
bytepete
Thank you for your work on frodo. I like it very much!!
I'm sorry to say, - in this version all sprites are only yellow spots on my screen ...