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Hiya TelcoLou, You are not insane! I've read recently that the SDL library I'm using might support it. Seriously though I'd just install MESS on your computer, they have a nice debugger interface you could use now too, it's pretty slick. :) I won't stop you from doing Extended BASIC on...

Hi there, As TelcoLou mentioned there is no idiot's guide per se, however it's pretty easy to use. :) The readme has a lot of info in there which can be helpful (maybe it's too much info??). I should probably write a FAQ or quickstart guide. The *only* thing you need to do is find the Atari...

Hi MrPepper, Unfortunately there is currently no other Atari 7800 emulator other than gp2xmess. You can use it just for the Atari 7800 emulation and not use the other systems. Each system is started with a different gpe file so you'll never know that it supports other systems. :) ~telengard

Hehe yeah, desktop emulators are pretty inefficient for the most part. That's the problem when developers are given too many resources. In the days of these emulators devs had what 8k/16? :) I think MAME in general now has threading built in which isn't enabled with one proc but the locking...

I can't remember if Atari800 does the 7800 but gp2xmess does. I also do not think it does the 2600 unless it has changed. Stella is a good choice for the Atari 2600. Atari800 from what I remember does all of the 800/XL/XE series as well as the 5200 (which is very similar to an 800...

Well I finally got it to at least get me to a point where I got the screen up (for coleco vision) and I could use the joystick. Man alive, the performance is awful. :( I'm gonna spend a little more time trying to play with the SDL options but if this is how bad it is I will just bring...

No problem, next release I'll be sure that both work at tha same time, both the joystick button for '1' and the virtual keyboard '1'. :) The port to SDLMess is progressing well. Maybe another day or two (hopefully, it's a lot of fiddly work). ~telengard

Well it seems my little goal of not modifying core xmess code was somewhat of a waste. :( xmess is dead, replaced by sdlmess. I'm currently moving to that to see just how much it supposedly improves performance compared to xmess. The "gloves are off" too as far as changing core code for...

Something just occurred to me. Did you remove the cfg/coleco.cfg file? I believe that has a mapping for the '1' key which would make the keypad not work with the '1' key. You'd have to and in KEY_1 to it somehow and without a full virtual keyboard I'm not sure how to do that. So currently...

Hi DaveC, I'm going to do some more testing tonight. I had tested it out with BurgerTime and I was able to start 1 and 2 player games. I wonder if some games use the 2nd pad instead of the 1st (sorta like the swap joystick in vice)? I'll get back to ya... sorry that it's not working for...

Hmm, this might actually be of some use depending on the bit depth of my surfaces I imagine. Wonder how hard it is to implement it to try out. I'm currently trying to remove /s and %s in the critical path of the a7800. Expensive operations... ~telengard

It's true, in order to get any decent speed out of some of the emulators I'll need to modify them. I am a little concerned though. I just went and tried Ballblazer on the a7800 and it's even slower than it was last I checked. I have since upgraded firmware. Weird. It's now choppy rather...

Hehe, it's real slow in the new release too. However, I spent some of tonight dusting off my gprof scripts and data to see if there were some things I could do to speed up a7800 emulation. As I've said in the past I'd like to avoid changing the core mess code as much as possible but I think...

Excellent, thanks for the info. I think I have Mr Do (great game too!). ~telengard

Yep, it's at my homepage. I posted it as a news article but I guess there is some propogation delay associated with that until someone reviews it. http://users.adelphia.net/~bsturk/gp2x.html ~telengard

Just wanted to let the reviewer know I added support for the virtual keypad. Good suggestion. Let me know how it works for you... ask and you receive. :) :P Oh, and from what I can tell in xmess, the 1st pad is mapped to 0-9 and the 2nd pad is mapped to num0-num9. So I think you...

Hi everyone, Got my gp2x back today with a wonderful d-pad on it (thanks DaveC!) and I can play games and not want to smash my gp2x to bits. Also motivated me to code a little bit so I dusted off gp2xmess. I read a comparison somewhere of PSP -vs- gp2x and the one issue the reviewer had with...

Just want to give some quick "props" to DaveC for modding my older gp2x (the one with the diagonal bias and other joystick oddities which rendered it unusable for me) with a very nice d-pad. Looks good and professionally quality install for an extremely reasonable price considering the work...

Hi again, When this happens 99.9999999% of the time it's an incompatible BIOS format. There was either a file rename or CRC mismatch. Mame and mess change the contents of supported BIOS zips around a lot as I can attest to each release upgrading my mame cabinet. :) Any easy way to test is...

Hi there, To (attempt to) answer your questions.... :) 1) Nope, no requirement about where it lives on the disk, doesn't have to be in the root 2) The cfg files are only for those systems necessary for mapping buttons a certain way. There is no default apple2 cfg file and no need to...