Nekonomicon - xmess emulator

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 1, 2003, 3:02 a.m...

It looks like this could be built with MIPSpro (for extra speed); the big error I found so far:


   cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../src/arch/unix         -I../../src         -I../../src         -I../../src/drive         -I../../src/vdrive    -mips4 -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0 -c mon_parse.c
   

   cc-1143 cc: ERROR File = /usr/include/alloca.h, Line = 39
   

   Declaration is incompatible with "char *alloca()" (declared at line 41 of
   

   "mon_parse.y").
   

   

   void *alloca(unsigned int);

Removing #include <alloca.h> allows it to compile to the end, but naturally dies with undefined symbols.

CFLAGS=-mips4 -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0
CC=cc
CXX=CC
CXXFLAGS=-mips4 -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0

The same error occurs in 1.10 and 1.11.

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lisp
From England
Who joined Feb. 5, 2003, 5:23 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 2, 2003, 12:19 a.m...

Odd, I'm pretty sure it compiled flawlessly for me.

I shall investigate, and maybe take a look at the package maker.

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lisa

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 2, 2003, 1:58 p.m...

Could just be me ... I've been having all kinds of issues under 6.5.20 with MIPSpro 7.3. It looks like I will need to get 7.4 in order to smooth things out or set up another machine with an older OS on it for compiling. OpenEXR is something I really want to compile that's apparently a victim of my OS/compiler combo.

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squeen
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From Maryland, USA
Who joined May 9, 2003, 6:10 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 3, 2003, 3:40 a.m...

I had issues with MIPS 7.4 under 6.5.19 but haven't tried it with 6.5.20 yet.

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 3, 2003, 11:09 a.m...

Currently i am testing a selfmade patch against issues in the VICE 1.11 code. Together with a CFLAGS setenv i believe i can compile VICE with MIPSPro 7.3.1.3 (IRIX 6.5.19) after all. The code is very incoherent, sometimes ANSI, sometimes POSIX, sometimes BSD. I heard from lisp that some parts go waaaaay back....

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 3, 2003, 2:18 p.m...

Getting back to compiling xmess/xmame 0.69.1, it seems that 0.68.1 already is affected with the 'bus error'.

Wich leaves me less patchfiles to sift through, although it still is 3 MB bzip2 compressed...

I have CVD tho and have compiled xmess with -g so i can trace out what's going on.

To be continued.

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 6, 2003, 12:34 a.m...

Thanks to guys at the xmame development list, the bus error on IRIX for xmame/xmess-0.69.1 has been found!

in src/mame.h they merged the wrong declaration for variable crc_only...

it should be: int crc_only;

instead of char.

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 6, 2003, 11:48 a.m...

dexter1 wrote: Thanks to guys at the xmame development list, the bus error on IRIX for xmame/xmess-0.69.1 has been found!

in src/mame.h they merged the wrong declaration for variable crc_only...

it should be: int crc_only;

instead of char.

Great work!

Any chance for new binaries? Since I *only* have 1.5GB RAM, I have to leave some parts unoptimized (-OPT:Olimit=10000) or run out of memory

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dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 7, 2003, 2:39 a.m...

Hm, i see what i can do this weekend. I'll have it definately by wednesday, so watch your FTP server over the weekend, neko.

After i finished construction in my house, i'll get on it

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 7, 2003, 12:41 p.m...

Hah! Too hot to do much construction anyway, so i cooked xmame and xmess and both are now on Neko's ftp server in incoming.

They are binaries from 0.69.1 and are baked -mips4 plus the -Ofast optimisation.

Neko, can you give them a spin, before making a tardist? I'm at home without a SGI on my desk yet...

Cheers

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 7, 2003, 2:38 p.m...

I'll give them a try this evening and report back. Thanks!

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fanch
Who joined June 9, 2003, 5 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2003, 5:37 a.m...

Hello, a few things I found, if anyone interested :

I've tried to compile xmess-0.69.1 this weekend with gcc on Irix 6.5.17, here are the results :

To avoid the bset standard definition at compile time, add
"-D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_COMPAT" to your CFLAGS.

To link, remove "-Wl,-s" in LD definition : there is no gnu ld for Irix.

To correct the first bus-error, patch src/unix/sysdep/rc.c :

--- rc.c.ori Sat May 24 21:36:36 2003
+++ rc.c Mon Jun 9 12:46:00 2003
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@

static int rc_set_defaults(struct rc_option *option)
{
+#if 0
int i;

/* set the defaults */
@@ -71,6 +72,22 @@
option[i].priority))
return -1;
}
+#else
+ if ( option->type == rc_link ) {
+
+ if ( rc_set_defaults(option->dest) ) {
+ return -1 ;
+ }
+
+ } else if ( option->type
+ && option->deflt
+ && rc_set_option3( option,
+ option->deflt,
+ option->priority ) ) {
+
+ return -1;
+ }
+#endif

return 0;
}

I haven't done any other modification in the code, maybe I should look at this crc_only definition.

Now I've got another "Memory fault" later in the execution path, I guess there is more work to be done...

Fanch.

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2003, 6:28 a.m...

nekonoko wrote: I'll give them a try this evening and report back. Thanks!

Sorry for the wait -- busy weekend!

Here are the tardists for xmame/xmess 0.69.1:

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/downloads/xmame-0.69.1.tardist
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/downloads/xmess-0.69.1.tardist

I tested them quickly as I only have a couple of ROM files but everything seems okay.

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sum][one
From Italy
Who joined June 6, 2003, 4:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2003, 2:45 p.m...

hi there,
I installed many times xmame. but i neve had chance to get it running and watch my favourites coin up games... can ne1 tell me what i have to do after the tardist installation?... can be usefull to say that I also have a huge 3800+ ZIP file for my NT xmame?.. can i use it with SGI xmame?... how?

more easly.... how do i play xmame??? eheheheh

thanks in advance

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Shtoink
From Port Orchard, WA
Who joined Jan. 27, 2003, 1:46 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2003, 8:11 p.m...

Isn't there a help option built into the xmame executable? Something to the effect of xmame --h maybe...

I imagine that you can extract the zip and fire up the roms just the same as any other platform. Works like that for the GB and NES emulator stuff.

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 9, 2003, 11:50 p.m...

Thanks for the Tardists Neko!

Sum][one, in order to play arcade machines with xmame you need a collection of roms each in a zipfile to play the arcade. For instance a rom file pacman.zip contains about ten pacman roms and to run it just type

xmame pacman

if all is well it will fire up pacman. press 5 for inserting coins and 1 or 2 for 1 or 2 player games

NES, SNES, 2600, Vectrex, C64, MSX and more are all handles by xmess. I myself am interested in vectrex, so my commandline looks like:

xmess vectrex -cart webwars.bin

To play the cartridge webwars on the vectrex system.

nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2003, 12:12 a.m...

dexter1 wrote: Thanks for the Tardists Neko!

Sum][one, in order to play arcade machines with xmame you need a collection of roms each in a zipfile to play the arcade. For instance a rom file pacman.zip contains about ten pacman roms and to run it just type

xmame pacman

if all is well it will fire up pacman. press 5 for inserting coins and 1 or 2 for 1 or 2 player games

NES, SNES, 2600, Vectrex, C64, MSX and more are all handles by xmess. I myself am interested in vectrex, so my commandline looks like:

xmess vectrex -cart webwars.bin

To play the cartridge webwars on the vectrex system.

No problem!

Depending on where you have the ROM files, you may need to do something like the following:

xmame.x11 -rompath /usr/people/neko pacman

At least this is how I made it see the test ROM (which was in fact PacMan)

sum][one
From Italy
Who joined June 6, 2003, 4:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at June 10, 2003, 7:58 a.m...

I found last night that $xmame -defaultgame romname starts the game.... :]

thanks for your help.... the fact is that i tought it were a X11 GUI interface like the Windoze .. and since default untarred (or tardistalled) xmame wont start cause of missing pacman (at least my clean installation)....

but now i got the point... so i have to set the game i want to play.. ther';s no browser like windows right?

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:: jean-claude

:: mimgfx dot com

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nekonoko
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From Pleasanton, California
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 1:31 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 16, 2003, 1:41 a.m...

sum][one wrote: ther';s no browser like windows right?

Well not in the default package. There are several front ends out there for xmame you could try. Go to:

http://x.mame.net/

Click on "Links" on the left and it will take you to a rather large list of front ends that should do what you want.

semi-fly
From Ypsitucky, MI
Who joined Feb. 21, 2003, 5:29 a.m.

Wrote the following at June 16, 2003, 7:24 a.m...

Hmm, when I get some free time I'll have to play around a bit. I had 4,200 roms in my mame directory at one point (although I might have deleted it since).

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