DCaSTaway

Yesterday CHui and Me have released the first port of DCaSTaway, using OpenM68K core. The emu runs and emulates games 100 % and you can use the mouse and the joy for playing games or software. Many other better things will come up and of course, let's talk about the availability of your M68K cores for SH4. In www.talfi.net and here self you can follow the progress of the emu and download a version to tryout. It's Still very WIP and needs more speed. Actually we're getting almost 85% speed comparing with an original ST. Thats a good new and at the end an ATARI ST EMU for our Dreamcasts. Cheers

The sound is not yet emulated, so in few days we'll release a new version trying to include a menu to change ATARI DISK IMAGES and configure some aspects for the emulator. In main page of this wonderful DC site you can download it and remember to include a file called ROM (containing TOS,. recommended 1.04 UK) and a floppy Disk image called DISKA (containing ATARI ST software)

The Colour graphical modes are well emulated, even if you choose to change it from the GEM.

The mouse and the Joy are also too emulated, then a lot of games will work prefectly.

It has been executed in chankast and doesn't work, so don't waste your time doing it. Seems to work, but It crashes showing bombs.

I hope you enjoy it, and my infinity gratitude to Chui for all his help.

Was playing around with it in the early hours of this moring ;) (the emulator that is, and not what you people with dirty minds were thinking!)
Its quite impressive for a first release, though sadly i couldn't find my mouse :-[

[quote author=LyonHrt link=board=dcemu;num=1095070473;start=0#1 date=09/13/04 at 06:36:17]Was playing around with it in the early hours of this moring ;) (the emulator that is, and not what you people with dirty minds were thinking!)
Its quite impressive for a first release, though sadly i couldn't find my mouse Â*:-[[/quote]

Dear Friend, don't worry, yesterday but too late we have released a 2nd binary including the joystick support.

Visit www.talfi.net to DL. ;-)

[quote author=ron link=board=dcemu;num=1095070473;start=0#2 date=09/13/04 at 07:14:02]

Dear Friend, don't worry, yesterday but too late we have released a 2nd binary including the joystick support.

Visit www.talfi.net to DL. ;-)[/quote]

You don't want me to get any rest do you ;)
I'll try it out right now, and get a local download on here.

Wraggy is not online, so I can't find another way to pass u the emu. Thanks a lot.
Sorry anyway

The download might be corrupt :/ I got a crc failure when extracting it.

Is this pal and NTSC aswell cause i would really love to check this one out big fan of old pc stuff

OK about PAL and NTSC, pricipally is AUTO. Will work in both systems. Also in VGA.

oh yeah btw, we now have a local link, so its all good :)

also what about rom wize how many can be on a disk

Processor: Motorola 68000
Speed: 8 Mhz
RAM: 512K (Up to 4 Mb)
Sound: Yamaha YM2149 (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET)
Operating System: TOS (Tramiel Operating System)
GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) by Digital Research
ROM: 192 Kb
Drive: Single-sided 3 1/2" and double-sided floppy disc drive 360 & 720 Kb
Display Modes: 320X200 (16 colour), 640X200 (four colour), 640X400 (mono), palette of 512 colours or 4096

Alright i know how to do it now. Just wondering if the bios has to be zipped and the game should be called DISKA and the extension is .msa

is this right?

Well, some more .msa files must be probed, at the moment we know that the emu loads .msa, that means that should work fine, in any case try .img or .dsk and DO NOT USE EXTENSION FOR THE FILE, Just name it DISKA and make sure is in the same root that the 1ST_READ and the ROM (thats the name of the TOS ROM).

Thanks for the release ron! :)

just a recap, in the root of your cd it should be

1st_read.bin - emulator image
rom - your tos bios, no extension
diska - your disk image

I get teh TOS screen but ti will not read the DISKA. Its years snce I had an ST but do you have to do anythign to run the disc as clickign the DISK =A Icon opens a blank window. The game is Lotus esprit Turbo2 by gremlin. They have made all of their games for Atari ST free so its not Warez BTW

moved to official forum

Right now it auto loads the disk image when it loads up, so if the game is autoboot, which i'm certain lotus esprit is, then it you'll see it come up.

If not, you should load up the disk, select the floppy disk a icon, executables are usually, *.prg and *.tos

Remember it has to be named diska (no extension)

DCaSTaway Alpha 01R3 released.

EMU SPEED 100 % ATARI ST
Video MEDIUM y LOW, speed increased to 100% when executing GEM
- Real Video Modes in DC 640x400 is 640x400 REAL and 320x200 is 320x200 REAL
- Blitter es much more faster,increased arround 30 %
- The 99.99% of the games in 320x200 video mode are now fantastic
- Original Dreamcast keyboard is fully functional as real atari keybaord. To use the ATARI mouse or pointer still use the joypad.

WHAT IS NO IMPLEMENTED
- Mode Monocrhome
- packs & msa disks DOES NOT WORK
- SOUND not implemnted yet.

STATUS: Games 100 % playable.

See You Tomorrow.

All teh images I have are .MSA Do they not work or do I just have to rename it DISKA?

THanks
Q

WHAT IS NO IMPLEMENTED
- Mode Monocrhome
- packs & msa disks DOES NOT WORK
- SOUND not implemnted yet.


OK we hope to include MSA and Pkg files support in next versions

Ok, I managed to try another image. Good stuff. I have a few questions.

What port should the Keyboard be in? Does it only work in port 1? What is the mapping for the Emu? Ports 1 n 2 Controllers, and 3 Keyboard and 4 mouse?

Are you lookign at adding steffs 68K core? Obvioulsy this will help you speed things up. Also Have you spoek to Tyrell of The Seccy emu on the DC as his emu runs 128K spectrum emulations with sound, and its the exactly teh same sound chip in the 128 spectrum as the Atari ST.

Im lookign forward to seeign this full speed with sound.

Cheers
Q

Okay i had a problem with the burn all i got was a black screen i got the Tos Uk version 1.4 and Super Off Road.msa (which i now know that msa dont work) but anyways would that be the problem for having a black screen?

[quote author=Eric link=board=dcastaway;num=1095100877;start=15#22 date=09/14/04 at 07:38:53]Okay i had a problem with the burn all i got was a black screen i got the Tos Uk version 1.4 and Super Off Road.msa (which i now know that msa dont work) but anyways would that be the problem for having a black screen?[/quote]

DCastaway is early stage, no virtual keyboard, no file manager, and no error management :D

About .MSA... don't work but I got MSA2ST app (google search) but it's a MS-DOS RealMode app (win9x). Anybody runs this app?

AH okay so i got the black screen cause it does a direct load of the rom lol i thought it loaded that filemanager that was shown in the download section of Dreamcastaway and now one more question what about .ST downloads

If you are looking for a legal TOS (ST ROM) you can use EMUTOS. It's Opensource and free and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/emutos.

Please, follow the rules respect to illegal images and piracy.

MSA Converter is a utility intended to convert and handle the files
images of diskettes for emulators ATARI ST. It functions under Windows
95 and more. It also makes it possible to visualize some formats of
Atari images directly since the images discs or the hard disk.

The principal functions are:

The exploration of image disc with addition/suppression/visualization
of files M
The conversion of format of images disc (ST, MSA, DIM, STT)
The conversion of files ZIP into image disc ST or MSA
The posting of the state of the clusters of an image disc
Compression ZIP of multiple single files
The search for files let us double
The creation of virgin images discs with many parameters
Bilingual Français/Anglais

NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS
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- autoframeskipping has changed to the 25 option and now fps
with amazing, very smooth results works constantly to and drawn of
screen much more faster (we have detected that in certain games some
fused backscreen are irregular, but does not prevent the correct
execution and playability of emu.)

- the DISKB has been added and is obligatory that that is in the same
root of CD, ROM and DISKA so that emu works. (Very Important)

- Now the floppy disks of Atari go to ram, being faster, faster the
execution and the speed in the reading and the writing of such,

READING and WRITING in the floppy disks. (is 100%)

* When not being in the CD else in ram, this it considerably
increases to the speed when making the together disc change and power
to have several games to become a collection wonderful and not to have
to change the CD (you remember that the greatest discs of the 720 ST
are of Kb, take a look if tons of them in a CDROM fit to you)

- KEYBOARD, MOUSE and JOYPAD are functional in Dreamcast 100 %
(Highly recommended to use keyboard and mouse Sega DC)

Atention:
A = JOYSTICK BUTTON
B = RIGHT MOUSE
X = UP JOY
Y = LEFT MOUSE
START = Start Game (Enter in Atari ST)


NEXT IMPLEMENTATIONS
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- LOad and Save to VMU games and disks.
- GUI and Graphical MENU for emu configuration.
- File Manager to change Game / PRG
- MSA & PKG support
- SOUND

Thats wicked i might wait for the FileManager to be released. I am also still having problems. Today I tried the UK version TOS 1.4 still didnt work. I also got Outrun and changed it to DISKA and still having a problem. I think i am doing this correctly but i am still getting a black screen.

I'm unable to run it with DC coders cable, it freezes when the binary is 100% loaded, does it only run from CD, and not with dcload's cd emulation? (I don't have blank cd-r's now)

[quote author=pelayo link=board=dcastaway;num=1095100877;start=15#29 date=09/14/04 at 22:50:11]I'm unable to run it with DC coders cable, it freezes when the binary is 100% loaded, does it only run from CD, and not with dcload's cd emulation? (I don't have blank cd-r's now)[/quote]


I use BBA for runing dcastaway with cd emulation.
Do you unscrambe 1st_read.bin before?
scramble -d 1st_read.bin dcastaway.bin

i use 'dcload-ip dcastaway.bin -i data.iso'.
'DATA.ISO' is a cd-iso built with mkisofs util: /rom, /diska and /diskb

I unscrambled it, I tried it but doesn't work, it loads 100% but when it executes, the dreamcast hangs. The console also exits when it sends the execute command, instead of starting cd emulation. Maybe it's a coders cable only problem?

I use coders-cable, and I don't have any problem when transfering and running to the DC. Quite sure it's a problem in your config. Take a look in what appears to your command console.

Ok, ive tried several games and I just cannot get past the title pages. I have 2 Joypads plugged in and a Keyboard(All official). I just cannot get any user input workign with the games. Supercars stays on the title page Ive pressed every key on teh keyboard adn it doesnt do anything. ALso Ive pressed allof the Joypad buttons.. :( This happens with all of the games. Do you guys have to have devices pluged in certain ports etc.

BUG- You must burn DISKB on the CD otherwise it will crash. Even if you want to try a 1 disk game (That took me 3 disks to solve)

Cheers
Q

OK , thx a lot for your info qatmix. I'm sure that you are doing something wrong. But don't worry, to pass over the presentation screen press start button on your joy.

Anyway in few , few days an official beta will be released containing a menu and a file manager, in where all your `problems with the emu just will disappear.

I appreciate your notes and i'm taking good note about what's happenig , because knowing that info, allows us to correct all kind of bugs.

Thx

Ive tried pressign start, still no luck... :(

Lookign forward to teh beta version.

[quote author=qatmix link=board=dcastaway;num=1095100877;start=30#35 date=09/15/04 at 16:09:44]Ive tried pressign start, still no luck... :(

Lookign forward to teh beta version.
[/quote]

i'm writting a virtual keyboard for dcastaway.... wait a few days :D

Now, i writed a part of GUI with menu for choose image disk, but hangs when i choose another image disk during emulation:

Wow you make it Â*:o, an Atari st émulator ^_^ , i will try it when sound and virtual keyboard will be ready, because i haven t the dreamcast keyboard, i can t play games without it , no ? i love the game Bloodwych but for starting a game , i Â*have to push the F1 button, i can do that with the dreamcast pad ?

Quote:

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'DATA.ISO' is a cd-iso built with mkisofs util: /rom, /diska and /diskb

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Can you tell me the parameters to mkisofs to create an iso and insert that files? maybe I'm creating a bad .iso (I used Magic ISO Creator for windows). Sorry, I'm newbie on some unix commands.

Virtual Keyboard will be available in few days, as fast as I can finnish the design. Take it easy, we've got in mind.