Post by: NYZO on August 18, 2007, 04:21:00 AM
In the absence of a BBC Emulator for the XBOX I have decided to take my first dive into XBOX development. To avoid any flamers and haters I want to state that I am in no way saying 1) I am a coding god 2) That this will be a polished build like anything XPORT or NES6502 have produced.
I say this because I am after constructive help from this great community not a load of bulls*"t posts. I remeber seeing NES get loads of abuse when first starting Zsnexbox. Lets try and avoid that this time please. I have all the tools I need and am ready to kick this project off.
Here are my questions:
1) As a lover of the BBC Micro I have been playing my beeb games on my PC for ages. I have always used Beebem and found this to be great emu. I have the source code for this and at the moment am planning to use this as the base for the port. Does anybody have any better suggestions of an emulator to port that might be better than Beebem?
2) NES6502: Once the base work of this emulator is up and running do have any objections if I have a look at your zsnexbox gui and maybe borrow some ideas?
3) Not knowing much about the GPL - am i obliged to release source for such a project as this. Want to try and avoid the crap that is going on with XPORTS disxspectrum and the developer of fuse at the moment.
Looking forward to getting some feedback from you guys!!!!!!
Lets all hope this works out well.
Post by: craze7 on August 18, 2007, 04:41:00 AM
that would be class!
Post by: NYZO on August 18, 2007, 04:44:00 AM
Post by: shorty on August 18, 2007, 01:42:00 PM
An acorn electron was my first computer, and i loved many of the games available for it. I dont think beebem plays electron games, but it is just a beefed up version of the same system, so i think many of the same games are available for the beeb (Yay!)
I actually considered trying to port the "electrem" emulator a while back, perhaps i'll still try, lots of free time coming up.
As for suggestions, i'd love to have usb keyboard support, kinda essential i guess.
And the ability to boot with no game loaded for writing programs and what not would be excellent.
Oh! and xports ability to accept custom launch paramaters (For launching games directly from XBMC).... also the ability that when a game has been launched this way, when you exit the game it falls back to the launching app (Source pretty much a copy and paste from xports emu's i'd guess).
Anyway, thanks for this, and good luck.
Shorty
Also while i'm on about electrem, it's GUI (Classic not future) Is great, simple, functional, elegant and perfect for a tv screen.
http://electrem.acornelectron.co.uk/ if you are interested.
Shorty
Post by: NYZO on August 18, 2007, 03:05:00 PM
at the moment I am concentrating on getting the basics of the emulator up and running. i am not going to go in all guns blazing and try and get every feature in the first build. The basics of being able to load and play a game with full graphics, sound and input methods are first on the priority list. Next will be to build a useable GUI around it. After that point, nice new features can be added in.
NYZO
edit:
my dev environment is now setup so let the carnage begin!!!!!!!
This post has been edited by NYZO: Aug 18 2007, 10:06 PM
Post by: shorty on August 18, 2007, 05:59:00 PM
QUOTE(NYZO @ Aug 18 2007, 10:05 PM) 
thanks for the reply shorty. those kind of features are things I will hopefully look at in the future.
NP
Absolutley, one step at a time is the way forward for sure. The games are the main thing, like you said.
Do keep us updated.
Cheers,
Shorty
Post by: kimota2004 on August 19, 2007, 07:51:00 AM
Post by: VampX on August 19, 2007, 12:36:00 PM
Post by: irishwhip on August 19, 2007, 12:54:00 PM
Post by: NYZO on August 22, 2007, 02:15:00 PM
it's a public holiday this weekend in the UK and the reading festival is calling me. So once I have had my fix of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nine Inch Nails I will be back and should have something to release to you by Wednesday 29th.
thanks guys.
Post by: Retroplay on August 22, 2007, 02:30:00 PM
QUOTE(VampX @ Aug 19 2007, 08:36 PM)
Excelleeeeeeent, I might not be familiar with the BBC but i always welcome new apps for my xbox.
What he said. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Post by: nes6502 on August 22, 2007, 02:49:00 PM
QUOTE(NYZO @ Aug 18 2007, 11:21 AM)
2) NES6502: Once the base work of this emulator is up and running do have any objections if I have a look at your zsnexbox gui and maybe borrow some ideas?
Nope. Steal any ideas and/or code you want.
Post by: NYZO on August 23, 2007, 12:50:00 AM
Post by: shorty on August 23, 2007, 08:51:00 AM
QUOTE(NYZO @ Aug 22 2007, 09:15 PM)
should have something to release to you by Wednesday 29th.
That really is fast progress
Nice one, looking forward to seeing BBC on Xbox.
Post by: montymole on August 23, 2007, 10:29:00 AM
Look forward to your efforts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Must be the only outstanding emulator left for the xbox and would be nice to play chuckie egg and Frak again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Post by: kimota2004 on August 23, 2007, 03:16:00 PM
Post by: NYZO on August 27, 2007, 02:29:00 PM
will post with more news soon.
Post by: kimota2004 on August 27, 2007, 03:17:00 PM
Post by: rubarb on August 27, 2007, 04:35:00 PM
QUOTE(kimota2004 @ Aug 27 2007, 10:17 PM)
same here.
wonder why its taken so long for a beeb emu to arrive, probably because its not well known or even known at all outside uk.
good luck with the coding (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Post by: Andrew_Roy on August 27, 2007, 08:12:00 PM
I hate how BBC television looks, with its strange hues and lighting, makes every show they make totally unwatchable. No one should ever emulate that.
Post by: Pytzamarama on August 28, 2007, 12:17:00 AM
BBC rockz!
So the list of the popular British home micros that are un-emulated is getting shorter (Sam Coupe,QL,Dragon,,Archimedes (well it is not a home micro but...))
Post by: shorty on August 29, 2007, 05:29:00 AM
Looking forward to seeing repton again all theese years later.
Shorty
Post by: killergorilla on August 29, 2007, 09:03:00 AM
Cheers for doing this, I always used to love playing the Repton games on my old BBC all those years ago, would be good to see them all again!
Keep it up mate, your work is much appreciated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Post by: NYZO on August 30, 2007, 02:52:00 AM
as always will keep you posted.
thanks for your patience.
Post by: Paradox32 on August 30, 2007, 06:03:00 AM
Post by: shorty on September 04, 2007, 08:45:00 AM
Not meaning to pester you though, takes as long as it takes.
Cheers,
Shorty
Post by: dredd666 on September 12, 2007, 08:38:00 AM
Being an old-school gamer as well, this is excellent news for me.
Hope to hears great news from you some time soon, about the progress of your work on this...
Good luck! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Post by: Pytzamarama on September 26, 2007, 03:39:00 AM
Is there any update status?
Post by: ressurectionx on September 29, 2007, 09:23:00 PM
Post by: Pytzamarama on October 11, 2007, 03:13:00 AM
Post by: Antiriad on November 06, 2007, 03:21:00 PM
Playing Granny's Garden on the XBox would be fun! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)