I must say, this was the only reason I stuck to Katana- good VBlank IRQ's. I didnt actually use ANYTHING else from it... I had my own disk, video and maple routines. But the VBlank IRQ's were required to maintain speed.

I assume most have read this, but I thought Id bring it up anyway...

Ait it cool!!


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they normally go for around ?500 quid($900)...(as did this one) , and you can still develop using KOS on these, the debugger (supplied with Katana) is fairly good... which is something the DC scene is missing...

Someone should do an ethernet GNU debugger stub.... that would help a lot..

Just write an x86 emu instead then, then you can run your speccy emu on that!!

Actually... There are a lot of free "C" Z80 emus...

You know... this really pisses me off.... I never made ANY seceret about the fact I used Katana... Everyone knew this... Not only that, but I was using a full legal devkit to do it. Every emu on the DC is "technically" illegal due to the IP.BIN saga... but Sega have decided its not worth t...

Yeah, you can use a keyboard.... plug the joypad in the seccond port with a memory card, and you can save to it. Cant use a Keyboard+joypad at the same time though. Yeah.... the speccy is a doddle. This is the only link you should ever need :) http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/faq/tech_48.html I actua...

Well, C64 sounds compilcated, but its not that hard...

Just take your time, and chip away... theres nothing in it thats all that difficult, just lots to do..

Hy first C64 took a week... glitched, and crashed... but the "basics" were there...

Nope, sorry....but, its only a speccy emulator... It doesnt take long to write one... a week would do it...

I wrote my first in 2 days..... After all... all you need is the core, then render the screen... thats it... add keyboard, and you have an emulator!

You dont need to make special disks to play your own games, you can swap disks once Dreamspec has loaded. pressing "X" (I think) will rescan the disk. All the games on the disk are free, and have been released into Public Domain. The list was given and verified by the world of spectrum. Th...

Yes it can be. I cant remember how you save.... I seem to remember that you put a joypad with a memory card in into port 2, then you can save with the keyboard... its in the docs....

In the makefile you have to enable builiding to a BIN file, not an elf, then you scramble it.

DC64 and Dreamspec both used this.... Of course I had an official devkit to start with...

You know.... being ex-DMA... I was heavily involved in the PC versions of that.... my names in the credits of 1 and 2.... see if ya can spot it

Never got the chance to do the Dreamcast one... that would have been fun.....

Not sure.... Im very busy with other non emulation related suff... but I'll probably revist PS2 & XBOX at some point.. I'd like to add USB support to openXDK, but Im just too busy to dedicate that kind of time...

oh well.... Im sure the world will get on just fine without me

FYI... DC64 does suport folders/sub folders. My test disk had these, no idea on the rules though... Id keep the names small T64, P00, PRG etc.. then use subdirs inside them.

Isnt SNK dead these days as well? I heard they went under ages ago...

Also.... isnt XBOX now outselling Gamecube in japan.... Its just that PS2 is soo far ahead....

Gates should never have launched there first.... stupid.. Now its a good price... XBOX is doing okay..

tick....tock....tick....tock

tick....tock....tick....tock

Perhaps I will... and perhaps I wont!

I've been looking at my dusty little Dreamcast thinking I should try and finish it off.... Time is not a friend right now.... but you never know.... I'll see how I get on..

I know someone that could loop Blood Money on the Amiga 3 times without being killed!!! Theres always someone better...


I also know the guy that wrote it

No, if you do lots of overwrite... you need a new approch... which is what DC64 does... so I render into a scanline buffer and build from that.