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Post by **Dr. Zoidberg** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:43 pm

News posted, thanks Phantom.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 12:00 pm

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=236748

I can't newspost for some reason..

I don't post news often but when I do theyre real scoops

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 4:05 am

NEW home brew game more info in the post

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=27975

Post by **BlueCrab** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:55 pm

I've released a demo version (1.5) of an RPG that I am creating for the Dreamcast and the PC. Its not much right now (only the beginnings of a Final Fantasy-esque battle system), but hopefully that will change soon. You can find it on my site at http://ljsdcdev.sunsite.dk/.
Feel free to comment on it in this topic: http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=28409.

SEGA · Post by **SEGA** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:37 pm

Sunday, February 23, 2003
Dynamite Posted by CyRUS64 @ 19:55
Jonas Norberg has released a dreamcast version of his and Bj?rn Kalzen's freeware puzzlegame Dynamate. It is also available for linux, beos, amiga, and gameboy colour, although according to the authors the dreamcast version is the best yet

It also has an integrated level-editor that enables you to create your own puzzles to challenge your friends.

If anyone converts this to a self-booting image or takes some screenshots then please mail them in and i'll add them to the downloads page too.

download elf file
http://www.boob.co.uk/files/dynamate_dc.zip

official website
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bedev/software/dynamate/

and i have made an sbi image of this persons game but i have no place to upload and link to so if anyone wants it ill email it to them[/url]

SEGA · Post by **SEGA** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:12 pm

cyrus has uploaded my sbi file to his website hers the link
http://www.boob.co.uk/files/dynamate_dc.sbi

SEGA · Post by **SEGA** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 4:37 pm

BigBoy the Author of emulators for the Xbox, PS2 and Dreamcast has updated his site with this great update about his Commodore 64 emulator for the Dreamcast.

Okay, I promised some news....Well, as promised...(long ago... in a land, far far away...etc.)....I've started up DC64 on the Dreamcast again. I've added a front end and can load in games from disk. No .TXT file needed here! (one up on the PS2!!!). Keyboard support is also there (another on over the PS2 version) and will be needed for many games no doubt.

There is still some work to do, so no release dates yet, and its not quite as compatable as the PS2 version, mainly due to optimisations required to run the thing fast enough. However, many are due to bugs that have been introduced, and will be fixed.

I've been playing delta, Commando and Uridium again, and its all great fun. Speed wise, its using 1 frameskip, (draw a frame, skip a frame), but it looks fine, and game play is full speed, which is important.

I'll try to update with some pictures and news as I go, but remember there will be no sound - sorry. If anyone really wants to do a C64 emulator justice on this machine, they need to write one in ASM really... The CPU cache kills this, so writing in 16K pages in ASM is the way to get raw speed. Needless to same, Im not going to!

I promised to release "something" for otheres to use and play with, and I will.... so, rather than whinge, please just enjoy it when it comes. if however, anyone wants to do a real one, I'll chear along with everyone else!

Stay tuned.

Check his site out here> http://classicgaming.dcemulation.org/

Post by **BlueCrab** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:52 pm

I've released a new version of the ljsdcdev project.
Demo 2 has the following improvements over Demo 1.5:
- SDLMappy based Tilemapper
- Random Battles

You can get it from my sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljsdcdev/.

It'll be put on the ljsdcdev web page and an SBI will be made, as soon as I get the chance.

Warmtoe · Post by **Warmtoe** » Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:44 am

A PLEA....

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=29207

FROM ME! LIGHTGUN TESTS...

-W-

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:12 am

Written a small program to patch games made with KallistiOS 1.1.6 to 1.1.9 and make them work in 50Hz. It doesn't support anything older than that, or libdream, or commercial games, but it does work on most recent homebrew stuff, like Feet of Fury.

http://files.frashii.com/~sp00nz/Doom/f ... onv_01.zip

Post by **Dr. Zoidberg** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:00 am

Thanks for the program & the news BA.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:07 pm

New Linux Distro For Dreamcast?
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~c-vinc02/index.html

saw this posted at DCEvolution, not sure if it was already posted here though.

this is the artical from DCEvolution.

"A new user friendly Linux Distro is in the works, called Dream[Slack]. C?dric is making it for his school project and his intention is to make one where you can operate the system only through interfaces. So every Dreamcast user can use it without a mouse or keyboard! This distro can have a lot of potential. It is still in development, you can find more info at the official page
Thanks to Polochon for the news on his French DC site! "

calle · Post by **calle** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:41 pm

dreammp3 sure looks sweet!
but playing ogg on the dreamcast? wow, that's something. those are heavy to decode!
and i mean, sid! that's soo cool. have to check how much it sounds like the original though sid-players usually don't have the <i>oomph</i> of the c64.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:07 pm

but playing ogg on the dreamcast? wow, that's something. those are heavy to decode!

Both Feet of Fury and Smash DC use OGG files as background music.

Captain Skyhawk · Post by **Captain Skyhawk** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:11 pm

As you may have heard, DC Evolution has started posting Dreamcast news, with LyonHrt and Wraggster as main posters. Here is some important news from there you have missed:

- Galaga Single Game Emu release
- New user friendly Linux Distro W.I.P.
- Provlist released

Again see DC Evolution.

polochon · Post by **polochon** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 5:34 pm

Chn is "on fire", he has just released modplay for dreamcast. info from the read-me :

This is a player for standard, plain old Amiga Sound/Protracker MOD
files with 15 or 31 instruments and up to 32 channels. Other file
formats (669, Oktalyzer, MED, XM, S3M, whatever) are not supported and
are likely to crash the player.

download are available on his site : http://chn.roarvgm.com/ (unscrambled files)

or on my site (scrambled files) : http://dcreload.free.fr/DL/modplayv0.01b.zip

polochon · Post by **polochon** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 1:28 pm

Reaper2k2 has updated his mame port for galaga (namco ver):

NEW requested features now

-screen flipping to the left & right & up

-button remapping: insert coin now mapped to (Y)

-button remapping: start game now has 2 buttons (START)&(A) either button starts game or = 1

-slowed the speed down to (I think) fullspeed not 120% speed

-removed images only one image then straight into game select

http://www.imrtech.mirrorz.com/

L@ Cible has ported opcode v1.2 which is a new small collision detection library. It is similar to popular packages such as SOLID or RAPID, but more memory-friendly, and often faster.

(The original autor of this library is Pierre Terdiman : Official page ; http://www.codercorner.com/Opcode.htm)

info from this topic : http://forum.aceboard.net/forum2.php?ru ... login=4752

New in Opcode 1.2:
- new VolumeCollider base class
- simplified callback setup
- you can now use callbacks or pointers (setup at compile time)
- destination array not needed anymore in the RayCollider (faster in-out tests)
- renamed classes: AABBRayCollider => RayCollider, AABBSphereCollider => SphereCollider
- the sphere query now only returns a list of faces (extra info discarded). On the other hand it's a lot faster.
- OBB, AABB and planes queries. Original OBB and AABB queries contributed by Erwin de Vries.
- cosmetic changes in OPC_BoxBoxOverlap.h contributed by Gottfried Chen
- some inlining problems fixed
- faster ray-mesh tests using the separating axis theorem
- new split value in AABB tree construction (contributed by Igor Kravtchenko). Provides faster queries most of the time.
- improved temporal coherence for sphere & AABB queries (works in "All contacts" mode)

download is available here : http://la.cible.free.fr/DreamCast/Opcode-1.2/

LyonHrt · Post by **LyonHrt** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:28 pm

News take from dcevolution
Bero has announced his new SDL projects for dreamcast.
The first is Egoboo, which is a 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack.
The status of this game is that currently only the title and scenario selection work, but crash's before the game.

The second is Freecraft, which is a real-time strategy gaming engine.
Again this is in very early stages, and only gets to the title.

You can download them both from http://sdl-dc.sourceforge.net however they are not playable, and only recomended for developers.

More info at the http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown/2004

Usefull links
egoboo
freecraft

polochon · Post by **polochon** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:26 am

DCplaya (aka the successor of dreamp3) is out !!
check the brand new (and also under construction;) site :

http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/dcplaya/

This player had support for mp3,oggvorbis, sid sc68 protracker music and also cd track (+ native support for playlist files : pls and m3u)
Dcplaya include a brand new visualisation plugins and an interface devoted to the music artist Jess Lysen ( http://www.jesslysen.com/ ). Also the big improvement is the plugins system kinda like in winamp, so it's easy for programmer to add new features to dcplaya (all is explained on the dcplaya site) . Of course it features many other things, just try it

You can download it here : http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/dcplaya/ it's a big nero image (22mo) that contains dcplaya and 3 tracks from Jess Lysen .

Please respect the will of the autors :

As dcplaya team would like to know the popularity of its program, it should not be massively distributed by a third party. If you want to link dcplaya in your website, please do not link directly the distribution file. Link the dcplaya home page instead. The distribution package could be change in the limit of the personnal use, as soon as the author rights are respected. dcplaya must not be sell even without any benecice.

Thanks to the authors of this great app : Benjamin Gerard and Vincent Penne

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polochon · Post by **polochon** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:56 am

eh... does your post script on dcemu has problem cos when hawq post his news about dcplaya the date is only .

Saturday, April 5, 2003

Posted by Hawq At 22:56

and I assume that your location is only GMT-8, since France is GMT +1 so the news will be posted at least sunday ?! or maybe I am missing something .. also Hawq I think that it will be cool to mention the plugin part of dcplaya in your news

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