nullDC now open source!

http://code.google.com/p/nulldc/source/checkout

This is great news for DC devs. Now that it is open source it can be crafted into a nearly perfect emulator. I've already started a major code cleanup and potential *nix port. (Although it is only in its baby steps) This summer I may invest in a Katana, as it seems like one of the best systems to emulate for developers. (Don't worry, it will still be usable by plain players too)

 

W00t indeed, especially for the *nix porting efforts - much appreciated. Do you work in a public repository? I might chip in a few man hours if I find the time.

 

Great news!

 

you should contact drk||Razi and work on the googlecode repository instead of creating a fork somewhere.

 

Sweetness. Would love to see a 360 port as well as general improvements.

 

I will contact drk after I get a decent amount of code clean up done. I first plan on thoroughly commenting on the code. The comments are pretty... sparse. And yeah, whoever wants to help can. The code is a mess right now, and with my initial revisions I will be cleaning up a lot of the debug build stuff. It's pretty messy, I can't stand reading this code actually. There are typedefs for typedefs for typedefs and defines for defines for defines.... its annoying really. I will keep you people updated on this.

Edit: Also, file names are very odd. types.h is not only conflicting with a standard header, but is almost entirely debugging info, like 2 types defined <_<

Edit2: Here is an example of what I'm doing http://retro.pastebin.com/BGXi99Tg (Before) vs. http://retro.pastebin.com/vnPZAaGg (After) (Not much codewise is changed, I'm more concerned with documenting (and pondering the stupidity of...) the code)

 

I wish I had time to make a contribution like that to the DC dev community.

 

Well, I am in contact with the nullDC team now. They are very...windows elite... so a *nix port might take a while, but just be assured I am working. If you wanna help just hop on #nulldc on EFnet to help!

 

Hey, how is that VMU plugin for Logitech G15 Keyboard Screens coming that I had PsyMan work on? I had a thread dedicated to it here.

http://forums.ngemu.com/nulldc-discussion/121109-g15-gaming-keyboard-vmu-plugin.html

He said its finished, but I kinda can't test it now, somebody have a camera and G15 to test it out for me please?

 

This is really good news. Maybe in a year or so the emulator will finally be near perfect. Hows the Naomi emulation going? I've not really kept track of it since it got cracked.

 

No clue, I haven't gotten around to the Naomi code yet. The command line and configuration related code is completely (or nearly) platform independent. The system stuff itself is heavily interleaved.... so it's gonna be hard to port that part by part, so it will be a while before I update on the next ported and compilable chunk...

 

Now, if only Makaron would weigh in on this...

 

Well, if anybody is willing to help, PLEASE let me know. (What I plan on doing with the code is making it as much Standard C as possible, and using a cross platform UI language like GTK+/SDL instead of Win32 and DirectX. If anybody is experienced with any of that, please tell me and tell me what part you would like to work on!! :nod This would be awesome as a bit of a community project, if not here, elsewhere. AFAIK the nullDC team is pretty much out of the picture besides approving SVN committers.

 

Just wanted to bump with an update. I'm currently migrating my build system to the latest in compilers, libraries, and whatnot, so I will craft nullDC to use the latest innovations. I finally have a game plan down. I will use a mix of C and C++ and whatever assembly is present, and use Qt/SDL for the UI and A/V media, as well as controllers and the plugin system. After I am done with the basic stuff, I will try to learn DirectX and make DirectX plugins for the picky. Then I will try to open the plugin system, but I will be very selective of what plugins are officially supported, as I've seen some pretty ugly plugin designers out there.

 

Why bother to learn DirectX ? I can't imagine you will gain anything with that, except personal experience + pleasing hardcore directx afficionados...
OpenGL should cover all the 2D/3D needs of the emu, no ?

 

Yes. Just name the OpenGL backend "Windows 3D Pro+ plugin" on windows and the usual "everything goes faster with D3D/D2D/Glide/something" crowd will be none the wiser.

 

That's the way to go !

 

I opened the SVN in Visual Studio 2010, I got lots of errors on compiling. Did anyone else get this?

 

just tried to open it in VS 2008, but it wouldn't load since the project was created with a more recent version... I'll have to wait until I get VS2010 I guess...