Chankast command line

Vorrtexx · Post by **Vorrtexx** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:36 am

Well after a couple of more tests I think I found out why the Mouse Cursor is appearing. It appears some of the SDL stuff will load if it uses the /cd/ VFS. Using the /rd/ romdisk VFS with SDL doesn't seem to work with the emulator.

I was pretty sure I had tested the simple SDL example before but I was using the romdisk path at the time. If I use the /rd/ path to load files with SDL, it doesn't seem to work. But if I load them using /cd/ they seem to load ok.

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:44 am

Should be like that with every thing then nothing with RD paths should work. Just change them to /CD/ etc and every thing should work.

Stef.D · Post by **Stef.D** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 1:52 am

I tried to convert ELF file to BIN with
$(KOS_OBJCOPY) -v -O binary $(TARGET).elf $(TARGET).bin

Unfortunatly Chankast doens't support that type of binary, it need a binary with a header as IP.BIN
Is there a tool to generated that type of BIN file from a "just compiled" ELF file ?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:39 am

Stef.D wrote:I tried to convert ELF file to BIN with
$(KOS_OBJCOPY) -v -O binary $(TARGET).elf $(TARGET).bin

Unfortunatly Chankast doens't support that type of binary, it need a binary with a header as IP.BIN
Is there a tool to generated that type of BIN file from a "just compiled" ELF file ?

Let's see if I can be of more use this time

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http://www.dcemulation.org/files/needed/elf2bin.zip

Stef.D · Post by **Stef.D** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:42 am

az_bont wrote: Let's see if I can be of more use this time .

http://www.dcemulation.org/files/needed/elf2bin.zip

Thanks

I'll try that right after my job, this time i think it'll work

I just hope Genesis Plus work correctly in Chankast... that would save me many time instead of reuploading binary each time.

Dreamcast Is Still Alive · Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:47 am

Where did the Great garrofi go? I would like to speak with him.

garrofi · Post by **garrofi** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:03 am

about elf file format, if someone has a source to read elf files, please contact me, and I will add support for elf files.

About the problem with homebrew apps. I have been debugging rott and after reading the toc file, the application exits. I don't have any problem with my lle gd-rom code with commercial games, any idea about it?

and when you load an application via command line, chankast is emulating bios, but only a few calls, kos examples work fine with that.

you need a 1st_read.bin file and the file has to be unscrambled.

Garrofi

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:50 am

I'm not sure how the homebrew stuff accesses the CD, but it might just be doing it in a different way. I don't think it uses that many BIOS calls, so if you're trapping the BIOS calls and emulating the CD that way it probably won't work too well.

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:33 am

I finally got it to work yesterday myself at work, on a Compaq intell 2Ghz machine with the built in intel 82845G graphics card, I had to run a utility called 3d-Analyze - http://www.tommti-systems.com/main-Dateien/files.html which allowed me to emulate hardware TnL and I was able to get some of my code for Trampalien Gunmen DC to run on it.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaB ... tart=60#60

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