Plugin development

[obsidian]

Well thanks for the first Linux N64 emu

Hacktarux, how difficult would be writing support for sound plugins in 0.0.4? Do you have any pointers where I could gather info? What else is of interest now? Should I start to translate the error messages? My french isn't that good, but error messages shouldn't be too difficult to figure out

Cheers,

Obsidian

[Hacktarux]

The specs are not hard to implement but writing the plugin itself is pretty hard. There's two possibilities : lle and hle. Both needs a great amount of work. I have already ported the lle rsp plugin made by Jabo and Zilmar but it only works in interpreter mode. I probably have to rewrite the recompiler from scratch to make it working in Linux. Hle require disassembling sound microcodes and understanding what the code do globally.

I things the best thing you can do now is to improve your plugin : multiplayer, the possibility to use the keyboard OR the joystick...

A little off topic: i will probably not be able to answer any question in the next two weeks. I have to pass exams and i don't think i will have an internet connection.

[Muad]

Hi all
I done the QNX port of Mupen64 004.

About the main source:
Under QNX, the sdl lib can't be linked shared. All the QNX version have the pluggins hard linked ( inside the binary ).


About the input plugin :
QNX use gcc 2.95.3 , I rewrite the input plugin using boolean operation.

About the gfx_plugin:
The standard mupen64_gfx is OK
The TR64 pluggin is really slow. The SDL version of QNX don't support OpenGL in Hardware but use an software implementation. the result is about 1 or 2 fps with my PIII 500Mhz.
After a week of test, I found a very rapide implementation of OpenGL . I made 2 new version of mupen64 with this version.

The Screenshots :




With this version, i have about 20 pfs.
Keep in mind I don't use the mesa lib but an another ( pure software ). If your system support OpenGL ( in hardware ), it will be probably slower.

For now, there are no alpha, no blending, and the texture are buggy.

It's intereting for the system which don'y have an openGL support.

All the source is send to Hacktarux and will be released soon.

Bye

[Doomulation]

Indeed the textures are buggy, I have never seen the ground in mario to look so bad
Anyway, I'm sure you can fix it up, so good luck

[mesman00]

qnx, never even heard of that, is it another o/s?

[Muad]

QNX is a real time os.
It's very similar to linux.
It's free for non commercial use and can be downloaded at www.qnx.com.
It can be installed on a win32 partition.( no risk to loose your data ).

For me it's the best os because it's very fast ( it's my point of view).

[obsidian]

Hi guys,

just to let you know that I haven't forgotten how to post

I'm still hacking away at the next version of the PAD plugin. These joypads with two axes are mighty expensive, so I had to heap some bucks first, hehe.

I'll post a new beta soon.