Stella Dingux Preview 0.1 - Atari 2600 Emulator


xzakox

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Hi!
This a fresh port of the stella 2.3.5 to dingux, it has some hacks, but it seems to work nicely.
As usual... put it in your SD Card under local/whatever and add an entry to your dmenu like:
Code:
  MenuItem Stella     
  {         
    Icon = "/usr/local/emus/stella/stella.png"         
    Name = "Stella"         
    Executable = "./stella"         
    WorkDir = "/usr/local/emus/stella"         
    Selector = no     
  }

Readme:
Code:
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Stella 2.3.5 
Ported to Dingoo by David Pello
Contact: zako@ladecadence.net
Homepage: http://ladecadence.net
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Changes:
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0.1 - First release, seems working


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INFO
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Controls:
	Usual joypad up, down, left right, and A button.
	In menus, L jumps from control to control, A selects, and B cancels.
	L shows option menu.
	Start shows commands menu.
	Select to quit.
Roms:
	As there isn't (yet) a standard directory for roms, the browser starts searching at /usr/local/ ... put them where you want.
	Roms must have the .bin extension

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THANKS
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Thanks to booboo for Dingux, awesome work!!!
Thanks to Stella Developers.
Thanks to #mundo_viejuno crew, always there.

David.

Please give feedback!
Thanks!

Stella-Dingux 1.0

:wq
 
Looking good to me. I had a bit of fun playing River Raid and H.E.R.O. - my two favorite 2600 games!


I have a couple suggestions:

1). When using the menu and waiting for the next user input, you could do a:
ie. cacheflush((char *)dingoo_screen16, DINGOO_SCREEN_WIDTH * DINGOO_SCREEN_HEIGHT * sizeof(unsigned short), DCACHE);
cacheflush() actually always flushes the entire cache but the above code would future proof it in case it ever gets fixed.

That will help with the re-drawing artifacts.

2). It would be handy for DinguXMB if future versions of the executable file would be called "stella.dge".

3). Although not really required, the Dingoo sound system works best in multiples of 8000 - adding 24000 and 32000 maybe useful.
 
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