DgenMOS 1.23

Short:        Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator
Author:       DGen team, Morphos port by AmiFreak
Uploader:     lanch tiscali it (Fabrizio Bartoloni)
Type:         misc/emu
Version:      1.23
Requires:     PowerSDL.library
Architecture: ppc-morphos

Note from uploader: this is the latest version I had on my HD, if you have any
newer feel free to upgrade this archive.



This is a quick recompile of the dgen-sdl megadrive/Genesis emulator
(http://www.pknet.com/~joe/dgen-sdl.html) for MorphOS. There are probably quite
some bugs/problems as I haven't played around with it alot yet so use it at your
own risk.
This archive also includes a tool called Tobin which allow conversion
of .smd rom files to .bin rom files.


DGen was originally written by Dave <dave@dtmnt.com>. It was ported to SDL by
Joe Groff <joe@pknet.com> and Phil K. Hornung <falcon@pknet.com>.

The following people have also made contributions to DGen:

Andrew Bazan <abazan@mailbag.com>
  - Got DGen/SDL to run under BeOS.
Steve Snake <snake@toodarkpark.freeserve.co.uk>
  - The author of the best DOS emulator KGen, was also very patient with my
    stupid questions about the Genesis, thus allowing me to fix little
    emulation quirks. ;)
Amy Lear <Amikins@operamail.net>
  - Helped add 8-bit sound support. :)
Daniel Wislocki <wislocki@math.grin.edu>
  - Improved the sound engine to be nicer to higher-end systems.
John Stiles <stiles@emulation.net>
  - He works on the Mac port of DGen, and what a job he does! He wrote the
    original raster engine, and also has sped things up enormously.
Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G@bigfoot.com>
  - Rewrote a lot of the string-handling code to make it much less evil-looking.
Allen Noe <psyclone42@geocities.com>
  - Added screenshot functionality.
Jeff Grady <jgrady@chimera.acm.jhu.edu>
  - Fixed compilation problems with gcc snapshots.
Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
  - Fixed SDL joystick initialization problems.
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
  - Helped fix timing problems on very fast machines.
Andre Souza <asouza@olinux.com.br>
  - Added OpenGL rendering mode.


All the real/hard work to get it running on MorphOS was done by the following
people:

Sigbjørn Skjæret  - MorphOS version of GCC 2.95.3
Gabriele Greco    - Amiga/MorphOS port of SDL Daniel J. Barrett - Amiga version
of getopt() (http://de.aminet.net/aminet/aminet/dev/misc/GetOpt-1.3.lha)


MorphOS specific notes:

- Copy the dgenrc file to s:dgen/. If the dgenrc file is not found in
  s:dgen/ Dgen will check the current directory, if it's not found
  there either dgen will exit with an error message.
- dGen is pretty slow and probably only useable on heavily overclocked
  CyberstormPPC cards :-(
- Sound is disabled by default edit your dgenrc file to enable sound.
  More information about the rc file can be found in the dgenrc man
  page.

history:

17-08-2002: - very small optimization in z80 core switch statements
08-08-2002: - Initial MorphOS compile
	    - fixed joystick stuff
	    - changes some path stuff

future:

- Try to get it running under WarpOS (currently gives a very nice
  WarpOS:-).
- Make sure everything works properly.
- Release sourcecode changes (there are only some VERY MINOR changes
  to the original source).

contact:

Email: AmiFreak@chello.nl