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- Amiga v2600 Readme
- ==================
- Virtual 2600 is (C) 1996 Alex Hornby and others under the GNU general
- public license. Thanks to the FWF and X64 teams for making their work
- available under the GPL.
-
- Amiga v2600 version 0.7 by Matthew Stroup.
-
-
- Requirements:
- Any fast Amiga, 020 or better, OS 3.0 or better
- Fast RAM recommended.
- The faster the Amiga, the better.
-
-
- When I saw that the v2600 code was available to be ported, I thought it
- would be a challenging project. It runs about 4 fps on my 50MHz 68030.
- Both my code and Alex Hornby's original code are in beta stages. Later
- versions will probably be faster. I'm using chunky to planar conversions
- that I found on Aminet by unknown authors. Amiga v2600 was compiled using
- SAS/C 6.57. All source for the Amiga version is included, as per the GNU
- public license. To get the original source code, or source code for the
- other versions, check the Virtual 2600 home page at:
- http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ahornby/v2600.html.
-
- Keep an eye on the Amiga v2600 web page for news and information at:
- http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~stroupm/v2600
-
- To compile the source for yourself, if you so desire, decompress the
- source.lha file, which creates the source directory. Change to that
- directory and type:
- execute make
-
- Thanks to Bob Colbert and RetroWare for allowing me to include their
- freeware game OkieDokie.
-
- My next version will hopefully have a GUI. I also need to enable the
- bottom 56 lines when in PAL mode. I am debating how I will improve the
- speed. I can't do much more while keeping graphics card compatibility. I
- could rewrite a bunch of code that would make it much faster by using the
- Amiga's awesome graphics hardware. This would even make it compatible with
- OCS machines, but it would kill graphics card support. Please send me
- e-mail if you have an opinion on this.
-
-
- Don't e-mail me asking for ROMs, because I won't give them to you. Anyone
- can find them by using Alta Vista or any another search tool. I highly
- recommend only getting the ROMs that you actually own. If you have any
- comments, suggestions, or bug reports, please send me e-mail at:
- stroupm@jps.net
- I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. I no longer receive e-mail
- at stroupm@inreach.com. I can still receive e-mail at stroupm@csus.edu, but
- this will change when I finish school at the end of the year, so use
- stroupm@jps.net. I will be moving the Amiga v2600 web page soon as well.
-
-
- Games I've tried:
- Action Man - screen garbled
- Adventure - works
- Asteroids - with -b 1 option, screen garbled
- Basketball - works
- Battlezone - graphics slightly garbled
- Berzerk - graphics slightly garbled, score doesn't work
- Centipede - doesn't work
- Chase the Chuck Wagon - graphics slightly garbled
- Combat - works, the PAL version is missing the screen bottom
- Congo Bongo - doesn't work
- Cosmic Ark - graphics slightly garbled
- Defender - graphics slightly garbled
- Dig Dug - with -b 5 option, screen slightly garbled
- Donkey Kong - works
- Enduro Racer - works
- Freeway - works
- Frogger - works
- Frogger 2 - works with -b 3 option
- Galaga - screen garbled
- Galaxian - screen garbled
- Gauntlet - works
- Gorf - works
- H.E.R.O. - with -b 1 option, graphics slightly garbled
- Indy 500 - works, but requires racing paddles, not supported
- Mario Bros. - with -b 1 option, works
- Maze Craze - works, though sprites are offset 1 pixel
- Montezuma's Revenge - works
- Moon Patrol - with -b 1 option, sprites are slightly garbled
- PacMan - works
- Pitfall! - works :^D
- Q-Bert - not quite working
- River Raid - works
- River Raid 2 - with -b 2 option, works
- Space Invaders - works
- Spider Fighter - works
- Super Breakout - with -l 1 option, works (use the mouse!)
- Vanguard - with -b 1 option, doesn't scroll
- Venture - controls not working, screen garbled
- Video Olympics - with -l 1 option, works
- Zaxxon - works
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE!
- If a game doesn't seem to be working, it's probably because you selected
- the wrong banking type. It is possible that your memory is getting
- trashed, and v2600 may freeze up, requiring a reset. This is apparently
- caused by faulty bank switching, which has been noted by the original
- author. I have not, however, had any Enforcer hits. It would be a good
- idea to reset your Amiga after using v2600, and don't do anything important
- in the background. You've been warned! ;^)
-