Making an .exe file work on the Dreamcast
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Making an .exe file work on the Dreamcast
Help! how could I make an .exe file work on the dreamcast.
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Short answer:
You can't.
Long answer:
You can' run a DOS or Windows executable in the DC directly. Maybe somebody could code a DOS or Windows emulator for DC, but I doubt somebody is interested. And of course, if somebody would code it, it would be very slow.
Other way to run a PC program in the DC is to port the executable file to DC, but to do it you need source code and some programming skills (or somebody must do the work for you).
I suppose you aren't asking how to run a DC Windows CE .exe, because somebody who can create a DC WinCE executable, for sure knows how to run it.
You can't.
Long answer:
You can' run a DOS or Windows executable in the DC directly. Maybe somebody could code a DOS or Windows emulator for DC, but I doubt somebody is interested. And of course, if somebody would code it, it would be very slow.
Other way to run a PC program in the DC is to port the executable file to DC, but to do it you need source code and some programming skills (or somebody must do the work for you).
I suppose you aren't asking how to run a DC Windows CE .exe, because somebody who can create a DC WinCE executable, for sure knows how to run it.
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Game Maker is a no code required drag and drop programming enviornment - I don't know how to do that. The adress is
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html
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... Learn to program. In C or something, not with GameMaker. A .exe file is a program that has been compiled from the source code, and you cannot just throw a exe into the DC and play it. Basically, you won't be getting that game on the DC. What about CodeWarrior? Does it provide the source? ... Can you tell I have no programming experience other than scripting in Morrowind?
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Code Warrior(or a form of it)is used in the official dreamcast development kit.
and it is downloadable from the Codewarrior homepage.(well,the sh4 version.)
http://www.metrowerks.com/mw/news/default.asp?PR=19
check the downloads section at the website above,last i checked the sh4 version of the codewarrior package was available,i think it was for a try out or free download,coulda been pay then download..cant remember.
and it is downloadable from the Codewarrior homepage.(well,the sh4 version.)
http://www.metrowerks.com/mw/news/default.asp?PR=19
check the downloads section at the website above,last i checked the sh4 version of the codewarrior package was available,i think it was for a try out or free download,coulda been pay then download..cant remember.
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Wow, don't confuse the guy. He doesn't need to know anything about Code Warrior. Since I like recruiting folks to learn C, take a gander at this:
"C is a highly useful, robust, and flexible programming. Before a program can be executed by a computer, it must undergo a transformation from a human-readable format to something that can be understood by the computer. The source code is the C program that is written by a human using a text editor (or an IDE like Turbo C, Dev-C++, or Visual Studios). C source code is easily written and read by humans and can be translated into a machine code that can be executed by a computer (i.e., x86 assembly). Source code is converted to executable code (which is useful to the computer) by a process called compiling. All source code in C usually has a ".c" suffix appended to the filenameto indicate that the source code is written in C. The source code can be transformed into executable code by using a C compiler (gcc, Turbo C, Dev-C++, Visual C/C++). "
To finish that off, let me just say that Game Maker and the like (RPG Maker, MyMomaIsAFatHo Maker) do not mean that you can program games. They are easy tools that are only useful to people for their own home use. And, not robust at all
If you aren't interested in making games, check out this cool link here:
http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=28240
"C is a highly useful, robust, and flexible programming. Before a program can be executed by a computer, it must undergo a transformation from a human-readable format to something that can be understood by the computer. The source code is the C program that is written by a human using a text editor (or an IDE like Turbo C, Dev-C++, or Visual Studios). C source code is easily written and read by humans and can be translated into a machine code that can be executed by a computer (i.e., x86 assembly). Source code is converted to executable code (which is useful to the computer) by a process called compiling. All source code in C usually has a ".c" suffix appended to the filenameto indicate that the source code is written in C. The source code can be transformed into executable code by using a C compiler (gcc, Turbo C, Dev-C++, Visual C/C++). "
To finish that off, let me just say that Game Maker and the like (RPG Maker, MyMomaIsAFatHo Maker) do not mean that you can program games. They are easy tools that are only useful to people for their own home use. And, not robust at all
If you aren't interested in making games, check out this cool link here:
http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=28240
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GCC commandline and notepage if your really on some junk pc. You can make a DOS EXE work on the dreamcast. Any one seen my ultima IV port it runs the Dos EXE for the intro, its is a interpreter for the Ultima IV EXE written by the pc coder works on the dreamcast to so . You could but he totaly knows every bit of code in the DOS EXE.
Dreamcast forever!!!