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- Virtual 2600 README
- ===================
-
- Virtual 2600 is BETA software, please report any bugs.
-
- Introduction
- ------------
- Welcome to V2600, an Atari 2600 Emulator for UN*X/X, Linux/SVGAlib
- and, thanks to Dan Boris, DOS systems.
-
- The DOS port is currently distributed separately, this document applies
- to the X11 and SVGAlib versions.
-
- You can now experience all the fun of old 2600 games on your high powered
- workstation. Thrill to the blocky graphics! Get headaches from the flicker!
- Wallow in nostalgia!
-
- Using the Emulator
- ------------------
- See the man page.
-
- Why?
- ----
- V2600 is the the result on my 3rd year university project. I aimed to preserve
- old computer games that would otherwise be lost to the world.
-
- Platforms
- ---------
- I have tested V2600 on my home Linux system and on a Sparc 2 running
- SunOS 4.3. If you manage to compile it on another platform please send me an
- e-mail.
-
- Performance
- -----------
- The 2600 is notoriously difficult to emulate, especially in C. So I would
- recommend at least a Pentium level processor. The frame buffer speed also
- matters.
-
- On my Pentium 100 it is just nice with frame skipping set to 2.
-
- Note that enabling sound support slows down the emulation.
- Better performance will probably come in later releases.
- It also produces quite a bit of debugging output. Redirecting this to
- /dev/null speeds things up.
-
- Known Bugs/Limitations
- ----------------------
- SVGAlib version can lock up your machine. (In common with a lot of SVGAlib
- stuff!)
-
- Not all games work. (Spy hunter looks nice though:)
-
- Beware of the file selector, it doesn't always work.
-
- Copyright
- ---------
- Virtual 2600 is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General
- Public License. See the file COPYING for details.
-
- Credits
- -------
- A full list of contributors can be found in the file CREDITS.
-
- Alex Hornby 28.8.96
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