CrabEmu 0.1.9 Released

BlueCrab · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:06 pm

I've been sitting on this release a bit longer than I would've liked to, so I decided it would be a good time to just release it. This new release of CrabEmu adds a Qt "port" (and support for Linux) along with many other changes to the emulation. Here's a high-level overview of what exactly has changed in CrabEmu 0.1.9 (in relation to the Dreamcast port, and general stuff):

Fix a lot of cycle counting issues in CrabZ80.
Added support for the SMS VDP's H-Counter.
Added support for utilizing a BIOS ROM with SMS and Game Gear emulation (also, added a BIOS replacement).
Added support for the IO Control and Memory Control registers on the SMS.

You can download CrabEmu 0.1.9 from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... _id=664632 . Enjoy the release and please report any bugs that you may happen to find.

Maturion · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:00 am

Great release and keep up the good work!

I am really impressed that there's Linux support, I'll try to build this this evening.

Nico0020 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:17 pm

love to see linux support, thanks for the release!

Maturion · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:48 am

CrabEmu has been featured on the popular German homebrew/gaming website Gamefreax.de as homebrew of the week.

BlueCrab · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:03 pm

Maturion wrote:

CrabEmu has been featured on the popular German homebrew/gaming website Gamefreax.de as homebrew of the week.

Wow... That's.... interesting? I didn't think it was all that impressive of a release myself... :lol:

Nico0020 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:48 pm

congrats blue crab, lol

Maturion · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:13 am

And now, it has been front-paged on ngemu.com: http://www.ngemu.com/frontpage/?p=vB119093

Christuserloeser · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:51 pm

Thanks a lot for this update! Looking forward to give it a try asap.

law56ker · **Joined:** Wed Oct 17, 2001 5:44 pm **Posts:** 952

Any updates on this, bluecrab?

BlueCrab · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 6:43 am

Sadly, I haven't had all that much time to work on it, and since the last release, there's been almost no changes to the Dreamcast version at all. The source code is up on the sourceforge project, and whats in the subversion repository there is the latest version of the code.

I want to try to do a new release sometime in the near[ish] future, but I can't really promise much. Other projects, work, and classes have kept me pretty busy.

Christuserloeser · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 12:30 pm

FM support would be totally kick ass! :naughty:

Maybe you could check against fMSXdc which does emulate the 2413 IIRC.

BlueCrab · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 1:45 pm

Christuserloeser wrote:

FM support would be totally kick ass! :naughty:

Maybe you could check against fMSXdc which does emulate the 2413 IIRC.

The problem would be that I don't think the core of the emulator would be fast enough to emulate the FM hardware in addition to what it has already. Truth be told, CrabEmu is quite slow, and always has been that way. Its partially my relative inexperience with emulation compared with some of the greats (Charles MacDonald, etc), and partially that it hasn't really been that much of a problem (except when I first released it on the Dreamcast). I've always favored accuracy over speed, perhaps to a fault.

Also, I started CrabEmu as a project to write everything in the core of it myself. That means, if I am going to do FM emulation, I'm going to write it myself, and that requires more time than I have at the moment. I know that seems a bit stubborn, but that's the way the project has been for me, and the way I want it to continue to be.

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