Hi all, Are there (m)any Linux users on this list using SimCoupé? I'm looking for willing volunteers to try out the latest version before the next official release.
New to the Linux version are the GUI, sound, direct floppy access (regular format, for now), improved frame sync, and the other timing enhancements Dave and I finished off late last year. Probably lots of other bits and pieces I can't remember at the moment too, as I've not done the ChangeLog yet. MIDI OUT using /dev/midi has been added, but is completely untested as I don't own any devices - feedback on whether that works at all would be appreciated! The sources also build for BeOS - binaries are available on request, and will also be supplied as part of the next release. Linux PPC is also known to work, which should mean it's ok for MacOS too, if it's not too slow (Andrew?). The experimental OpenGL support (through SDL) runs fine for me under Win32 and Linux (using nVidia drivers), though I've heard the Linux PPC version didn't display correctly. This might be down to an endian issue so OpenGL under MacOS might not display correctly either at this time. The source archives you'll need are: http://www.simcoupe.org/SimCoupe-0.90-beta4.tar.bz2 http://www.simcoupe.org/SAASound-3.1.2.tar.bz2 (thanks to Dave Hooper for permission to release the port of SAASound) Please e-mail any comments, questions, problems, etc. to me off the list - thanks! Si
