hey emufan..just curious....is it possible to port this?

[xboxown]

Originally Posted by emufan

the original snes9x version uses some asm routines, but the portable snes9x-sdl not.
I doubt we will find someone taking the challenge.

You could always ask emufan! - grin -

[emufan]

Originally Posted by xboxown

You could always ask emufan! - grin -

once I win the lottery I'll hire someone to do this kind of optimisation

[grelbfarlk]

Hey could you post your makefile for Snes9x? I doubt I'd be able to compile it since it's c++ and I have to use 2.95.4 version but I'm just curious.

The configure script seems to be not liking my environment at all and I'm tired of yelling at it.

[emufan]

I was starting in the sdl folder, so copy my files in snes9x/sdl/
I had the same issue with configure, complains about "cross compiling, cannot do that" or sort of.
I did "fixed" the lines in configure, so it did continue. at the end I had to edit
CCFLAGS and CCC, CC variables in the Makefile.

try the configure, maybe it does work for you too.

#1) i was using gcc 3.4 (AmiDevCPP) , no need to edit a single line in the source files.
here the basic things I changed in the configure - required multiple times:

...
-       as_fn_error $? "SDL is required." "$LINENO" 5
+       S9XFLGS="$S9XFLGS `sdl-config --cflags`"
+       S9XLIBS="$S9XLIBS `sdl-config --libs`"
...
-       if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :
+       if test "$cross_compiling" = no; then :
...

[nobody]

Zsnes required about 300 Mhz CPU and snes9x (more accurate) about 1 GHz. I guess you need a major rewrite of snes9x, only usable for some Vampire cards or PPC (with lots of frame skipping).
PSP has 333mhz CPU and barely plays SNES games, not all of them and many times not full speed.

[emufan]

zsnes uses some assembler stuff, wants nasm :/

...
checking for m68k-amigaos-nasm... no
checking for nasm... nasm
configure: error: This target is not supported

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

I've sent an issue to Bebbo on the toolchain github regarding this, and I hope he'll be of some help.

I've seen the answer on github.
did you build
amigaos-cross-toolchain/submodules/gcc-6/libgfortran/intrinsics/c99_functions.c
to get the functions you are missing?

if you could build the cexpf function, please attach the src

[idrougge]

SNES9x has already been ported to WarpOS.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by idrougge

SNES9x has already been ported to WarpOS.

latest sdl source is 1.53, while the aminet binary is 1.26.
so it's worth to try

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by idrougge

SNES9x has already been ported to WarpOS.

Yes fair enough and it does run perfectly, and no I don't expect anything that I'd produce is going to be as good as that version. But I'm curious just how big the difference is, this might point to weaknesses in our library build. And also I don't have anything new to work on right now.

[Marlon_]

I'm quite appalled how many people within the Amiga community doesn't understand how open source works.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

I'm quite appalled how many people within the Amiga community doesn't understand how open source works.

Was that a dig at me or Emufan, because if it was at Emufan ....

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

Was that a dig at me or Emufan, because if it was at Emufan ....

It was spoken in a general sense. Everyone that ports something treats it like a one way thing. "Oh, this thing is free, why not port it?" A lot of work later: "here's a binary, enjoy!". None of the fixes reach the original source, nor any explanation how they got it to work.

The purpose of opensource is sharing. If you're not sharing it means someone else will have to go through the exact same thing again for no reason at all.

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

It was spoken in a general sense. Everyone that ports something treats it like a one way thing. "Oh, this thing is free, why not port it?" A lot of work later: "here's a binary, enjoy!". None of the fixes reach the original source, nor any explanation how they got it to work.

The purpose of opensource is sharing. If you're not sharing it means someone else will have to go through the exact same thing again for no reason at all.

That's all true.

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

That's all true.

This is something I'm striving to change. And it would be for the better for all of the Amiga community in the end!

[turrican3]

i'm really interested with it !
could you make it use the 4 amiga channels ?
I mean really in the best way, because there isn't a snes emulator who tried to make it in 5.1 or 4.0 or else, they just stay in stereo and i think it's a mistake ! winuae in 5.1 is day and night against stereo.
And i can't wait to see snes games with winuae filters, the snes emulators filters are great but i prefer the winuae one.
For the music it uses paula ? or sound cards are possible ??
ps: don't forget if you wanna have more fun you could try to port ufo (xcom2 terror from the deep) from 1995 (it was ported to sdl) ... have a look...If commodore didn't fail you should have it on amiga 1200 or cd32 for sure. Please have a look.
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[nobody]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

It was spoken in a general sense. Everyone that ports something treats it like a one way thing. "Oh, this thing is free, why not port it?" A lot of work later: "here's a binary, enjoy!". None of the fixes reach the original source, nor any explanation how they got it to work.

The purpose of opensource is sharing. If you're not sharing it means someone else will have to go through the exact same thing again for no reason at all.

Why should he stop his work and start explaining (long posts) how he ported it? The purpose is not education but to port that x program. He was asked to port the program (for the millionth time) for his own fun, without getting paid and now we see bitching.

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by nobody

Why should he stop his work and start explaining (long posts) how he ported it? The purpose is not education but to port that x program. He was asked to port the program (for the millionth time) for his own fun, without getting paid and now we see bitching.

Oh my god, you simply do not get it. :P I am also porting software to the Amiga. All I'm saying is that it would save everyone time if the changes and edits were shared back.

A lot of the games he's been asked to port over has already been ported over before, but since someone didn't share their sources it had to be done all over again. Open source is not a one way road.

I get that he does this for fun on his free time without pay, but so do I! It's not about lecturing, it's about preservation.

[emufan]

@turrican3: snes9x-sdl uses sdl audio, so at the end it uses AHI in the Amiga version.
cannot say much about that, but all features, if available, you may find in the AHI prefs.

I had a look at openxcom, the engine for the ufo series games.
it uses SDl 1.2.x with some yaml-cpp library. the latter we have to build for amigaos,
what I already try.

[Marlon_]

OpenXcom requires OpenGL scratch that.