Porting Help

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October 12th, 2006, 00:08
Elven6

Porting Help

I want to try my hand at DC developing and I wanted to know how you would port games over using the Katana Development Software.
October 12th, 2006, 07:39
Smurph

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Originally Posted by Elven6

I want to try my hand at DC developing and I wanted to know how you would port games over using the Katana Development Software.

Firstly: If you use Katana, don't expect any homebrew sites to host it, Reason: You are not licensed by Sega to use it = WAREZ, and anything produced with it = WAREZ.

Use KallistiOS instead. It's free and completely legal. Windows users can download a handy ISO which includes cygwin. It seems that the page at consolevision with the ISO is dead... So I'll megaupload it sometime tomorrow.
October 13th, 2006, 22:15
fackue

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Originally Posted by Smurph

It seems that the page at consolevision with the ISO is dead... So I'll megaupload it sometime tomorrow.

It just moved to a new url.
http://www.consolevision.com/?Dreamc...:Under_Windows
October 13th, 2006, 22:28
Elven6

Isn't that the one I am using?
October 14th, 2006, 00:03
Elven6

Alright so I downloaded it and extracted it, according to the readme it should have something to do with the PC aswell but when I mount it the data is not reckongnizable.

Well how would I start porting?
October 14th, 2006, 15:58
SiZiOUS

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Originally Posted by Elven6

Alright so I downloaded it and extracted it, according to the readme it should have something to do with the PC aswell but when I mount it the data is not reckongnizable.

Well how would I start porting?

Are you talking about mounting the dciso R2 in a virtual drive ? if yes, you can't because this disc has built with bin2boot. So grab a cdrw and burn this image to it with alcohol in TAO mode. After this the cd can be readable and you can startup your dc environment setup.
October 14th, 2006, 19:05
Elven6

Ok I got the thing installed, so what are the basics for porting?
October 18th, 2006, 16:48
Smurph

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Originally Posted by Elven6

Ok I got the thing installed, so what are the basics for porting?

If you don't know it already, learn C++ and become familiar with basic *nix terminal commands.
October 18th, 2006, 17:13
BlueCrab

This really belongs in the Dreamcast Development forum, so away we go.
October 21st, 2006, 21:06
Elven6

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Originally Posted by Smurph

If you don't know it already, learn C++ and become familiar with basic *nix terminal commands.

Well I know about the C++ stuff but when people make ports what is it that they look for?
October 22nd, 2006, 23:09
henzenmann

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Originally Posted by Elven6

Well I know about the C++ stuff but when people make ports what is it that they look for?

You read the source code of the program you wish to port and identify all the parts that are platform-dependent (Mostly graphics rendering, sound output, input handling, file operations).

Then you need to find out how to do all these operations on the Dreamcast with the tools that are available (KOS, SDL, etc.) and rewrite all those parts with code that will work on the DC.
October 22nd, 2006, 23:31
Elven6

ahh I see, thanks for your help hopefully I can get some things going.