Phoinix, the free Gameboy emulator for PalmOSby Bodo Wenzel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
On this page: - Overview - Warning - Downloads - Languages - Links - Credits
Overview:Phoinix ['foiniks] is the greek word for date palm. It is also the name for the mystic bird which burns itself after 500 years and is reborn out of its ashes. In this context Phoinix is the name of a Nintendo GameboyTM emulator for the Palm Computing® Platform. It was formerly known as PalmBoy, but Palm Inc. claims the word "Palm" as a trademark. Requirements:
Copyleft of the program:Copyright 2000-2004 by Bodo Wenzel. Copyleft of the documentation:Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Bodo Wenzel. WARNING:To get the emulation as fast as possible nearly no checks are made and the memory protection had to be switched off. This leads to a potentially very dangerous program - every single byte of your handheld's databases and programs in RAM can be overwritten! It's a very good idea to backup your databases before trying the emulator with new games until you gain confidence in the combination of emulator and emulated game. Downloads:You have access to all versions via the project summary page. Please read the help section on the page "How to get in touch" before sending any request for help. I'm receiving too many emails simply saying "It doesn't work!" Languages:Time after time some user asks whether s/he could help with translation into other languages, and you might be one. To help you I'm maintaining the text "Translating Phoinix" (archive with HTML and images, 36 KB). It should contain enough information to put you in the position to work, without being a programmer. If you like to contribute a translation, read the text, and then contact me. After finishing, you'll be acknowledged in the credits section. Links:If you find any links broken, please drop me a note. At best you have the correct link at hand! Some of my other computer interests are shown on my general homepage. You'll find software and hardware designs for different systems, old and new, rarely updated ;-) You would like to visit Till's page of tools for Phoinix' precursor, PalmBoy. Probably some of them are useful for Phoinix, too. Another great emulator is Liberty. Some games run better on Liberty, others better on Phoinix. Mike Ethetton, one of its authors, has written a nice page about emulation on PalmOS PDAs. Brian Krohn started a group at Yahoo which talks about emulation on PalmOS PDAs in general. I recommend using X-Master for the Hacks. Look for free games at Kojote's homepage, there are lots of free games and demos - not only for GB. Visit the games and demos collection of Anders Granlund , or search free Gameboy ROMs at EmuUnlim , at the Vintage Gaming Network , or at Classic ROMs. Don't ask me about commercial ROMs! For applying IPS patches, try "JIPS" at http://zerosoft.zophar.net, it's a Java application. Credits:First of all I have to thank Till Harbaum. Being one of my best friends, it's always a pleasure to discuss PalmOS problems - and not only those. Please visit his pages! SourceForge is a free hosting service for Open Source developers which offers, among other things, a CVS repository, mailing lists, bug tracking, message forums, task management software, web site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total web-based administration. I have to thank Jeff Frohwein for collecting all sorts of software and documentation for the passioned Gameboy developer and giving it to the community. You'll find it at http://www.devrs.com/gb/... The fine man who spent all his time for checking the playability of games is HJ. Translators:
The nice guy who made the cool morphing icon is Hendrik Lüttke. Mac users should thank Julian Hsiao for compiling the converter for the MacOS upto version 9. The executable for MacOS X was done by Ben Sanford. The graphical frontend in Visual BASIC for Windows was written by Alex Henrie. The Tcl/Tk graphical frontend for the converter "gb2pdb" was written by Paul Chandler. Aaron Link wrote the Phoinix RAM Save Converter to convert saved cartridge RAMs. The word "Palm" is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. The word "Gameboy" is a registered trademark of Nintendo. The word "Java" is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems. The word "Windows" might be a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. but it doesn't seem so. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
palm.gb_emu@gmx.de |