DIDBS Eazy Build: atari800 Emulator in IRIX 6.5

[massiverobot]

Hello - a quick post on something exciting I got working just goofing around- the atari800 open-source emulator. It's available on GH and has been a very faithful Atari 8-bit emulator for over a decade. In the past few years some contributors have picked up the source from crusty Sourceforge and moved it over to GH and patched it for more a variety of systems. I decided to take a look into getting it running and quickly found that didbs 0.9 had no issues compiling atari800 but also it's main dependency, SDL1.x.

This shows what I did, but I warn you- due to the amazing power of didbs I didn't have to do much at all....

In these cases I have designated ~/local as the prefix for the local software I'm play around with - adjust to your needs please.

cd ~/code
wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15.tar.gz
tar zxvf SDL-1.2.15.tar.gz
cd SDL-1.2.15/
./configure --prefix=/usr/people/dillera/local
make
make install


cd ~/code
wget https://github.com/atari800/atari800/archive/ATARI800_4_2_0.tar.gz
tar zxvf ATARI800_4_2_0.tar.gz
cd ATARI800_4_2_0
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-riodevice --prefix=/usr/people/[yourusername]/local --with-x --with-opengl --with-sdl-prefix=/usr/people/[yourusername]/local --with-sound=yes
make
make install


Now you have the atari800 binary in ~/local/bin.

Open Winterm, cd into directory. Run it.
Hit F1. You have to locate a real atari ROM image to boot the system. These are readily available with some google searching. Check out the atari800 github page for any issues or questions, esp about the config (again, hit F1 to get to the config menu - ensure you are saving the config when exiting or all changes will be lost).

Sounds should be working-- attach speakers if you don't hear anything!

Note: I need to figure out a joystick solution, I'm working on that.




Links:

Atari800

atari800.github.io

GitHub - atari800/atari800: Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 console emulator

Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 console emulator. Contribute to atari800/atari800 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Atari 800 - Best Game Pack : Releases

WHAT IS IT? 'Atari 800 - Best Game Pack' is an All-In-One game pack includes the best Atari 8-bit games, screenshots, adverts, covers, manuals, the spreadsheet of high scores club and easy-to-use front-end. The objectives of the game pack are 'Preservation of best Atari 8-bit games and their data...

atariage.com

If you have any issues building, please refer to my published .bashrc/profile which shows my envvars for didbs.0.x:

sample .bashrc for using didbs .0.9 to build all sorts of wonderful modern packages

sample .bashrc for using didbs .0.9 to build all sorts of wonderful modern packages - .bashrc_dec_2019

gist.github.com

 

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