nullDC now open source!

Well, MS compilers tend to change an awful lot inbetween versions (obviously, since you only get one every few years). Try going back to VS2008 maybe.

 

Yeah, I guess I will just stick with SDL/OpenGL. (I could experiment with PulseAudio and other stuff on Linux, but I doubt that will go anywhere...

 

Please no PulseAudio. Just stick with OSS. ALSA is a mess as well.

Honestly, that code needs an immense overhaul. The snippet alone that you pasted scares the living daylights out of me.

 

Yeah, I'm trying my best on it, although work is keeping me busy, to the point of personal injury actually, I live in South Texas, and the heat indexes are crazy (107-111 Fahr) and I've almost needed to go to the hospital several times due to passing out from heat exhaustion, so I'm not in the position to be pouring all my time into this, but I will do what I can. Probably a good call on that PulseAudio and ALSA and whatnot. I'm going to try to stick with only either platform independent or widely implemented APIs only. (Hence OpenGL/SDL for graphics, Qt for UI, OSS for Audio, SDL for input management, and Standard C/C++ library functions for file manipulation. If I have to write my own file writers and stuff to make using the standard libraries easier, so be it, but I will make sure that I absolutely DO NOT use anything specific to one platform or architecture unless I have to. If I do any assembly, I will port it to as many platforms as I understand assembly for [which are currently x86 and M68000 :/])

 

Great! Sounds a lot better. I would help, but school just started for me. And on top of that, I have an outstanding number of other projects that I have yet to complete! :dammit:

Any reason for the mix of C and C++ (other than the fact that some libraries are written in C)?

Have you thought about the build system? How about CMake?

Good to hear that the nullDC team has released their code and you taking on this behemoth of a project!

 

Btw: Since you're aleady using SDL, why not use their sond system abstraction? I think (been a while) they have a file I/O interface too...

 

Just had a quick look at wikipedia for OSS & ALSA...
they both seem to be for Linux only, no ?

I've used OpenAL a few times in the past and liked it a lot better than DirectSound... I don't know how good/widespread the linux version is however.

 

ALSA is short for Advanced _Linux_ sound architecture, so that one is so far pretty Linux specific. OSS is multi-platform, but probably not in a way you care about: It's available for Solaris and some of the BSDs.

Fairly OK, not that widely used.

 

Well, I haven't really put down the code for all of that yet, so I'm still planning things. Right now I am still working on getting all of the non-output code ready, such as the emulation cores themselves, and the glue that holds them together. I know that, as far as graphics are concerned, SDL/OpenGL is what I'm using, UI will be Qt, and I will decide later on the rest, although I will use SDL for a majority of things as it is able.

Edit: Update, finally got Linux working with the internet, so I can make it my primary OS again, and, therefore, do the majority of my development on it!!!

 

Keep up the good work! +1 for linux port!!

As you can see, there are A LOT of Linux users on here who would just love you if you really get this ported over. If I could run nullDC full speed in a year or two on my gentoo laptop... oh man, wow.

/me claps hands for this!

Regards,

npt

:dance:

 

wow.... great news! Hopefully we will see ports for different platforms in the future!

 

Well, some news you may not want to hear, I've postponed this indefinitely as I do have a life and more important things to take care of. Rest assured, I still have interest in doing this, but it's a matter of finding the time and patience to do most of it.