Hello!
Great to see progress being made towards a Windows version of z26. However,
I really think it needs a front-end of some kind, especially after I tried
running some > 4K titles without passing in any command-line parameters.
The first one I tried (Mr. Roboto, an F8 8K game--I wanted to hear how the
music sounded) caused a ton of DirectX errors to come up (in an infinite
loop, I had to nuke it). Does z26 have an internal table with md5 checksums
for binaries to determine how to run a particular game?
It doesn't need a complex UI, just something that lets you select a game to
run, remember where your ROMs directory is, and select all the various
command-line options (such as being able to select which bankswitching
method to use if you are trying to run a game z26 isn't yet aware of).
I am willing to write a user-interface if you guys don't have the time or
desire to do so. Please feel free to contact me. :)
Take care,
..Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:11 PM
Subject: [stella] z26 for Windows
> You can find a *sneak preview* here:
>
> http://whimsey.com/z26beta
>
> BTW, RTFM. Things are a little bit different.
>
> To do the port to Windows, a number of features have been removed,
including
> the GUI. Although personally I rather enjoy doing a program for Windows
> that acts more like a DOS program than a Windows program, I suppose
> eventually we'll put one back in. But we're curious about which features
> that are currently missing are most important to you guys.
>
> One feature that is not missing is the ability to synchronize a game with
> the monitor. It's no longer the default, partly because it's a nuisance
to
> run DXDIAG.EXE, and partly because I suppose that as digital flat panels
get
> better and better, the concept of refresh will eventually become obsolete.
> I'm guessing that eventually screen updates will be so fast that the
> flashing effects that Andrew is so fond of will be emulated perfectly
> without needing any special attention.
>
> But meanwhile, now that it's possible to get better emulation of these
> flashing effects on Windows XP with old-fashioned monitors, I'm wondering
if
> we still need to do some tricky video mode that simulates phosphorescence?
>
> John
>
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