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VBAMpb updated and now called simply 'VBAM'

2014-12-28T22:47:00.002-05:00

VBA-M Emu on Passport

If you read this looking for emulators for your BB10. I finally got around to updating VBA-M emulator that was ported to Playbook aeons ago and then kind of kludged up on 10.1 then some fellow coders added rom browsing and other goodies. Anyway it always bothered me that the speed and layout never was correct so I've fixed it finally. Updated core with all bb10 devices supported in a self configuring signed bar file.

Download VBA-M for BB10 devices

Classic,Q5,Q10, Z10,Z30,Passport keyboard+touch support
GB,GBC and GBA on the fly rom switching.
Faster ... Updated VBA-M core.
Coming soon, cloud dropbox etc.

Atari800 emulator Playbook port

2013-04-19T23:23:00.000-04:00

Atari800 : New fully working and easy to navigate builds for PB OS2+ and BB10 devices!

This is a port of an excellent emulator atari800.sf.net that can you can configure via easy menu's to become an Atari 400,800,65XE,130XE,5200. Latest update has full menu access and directory browsing with working dpad, NTSC filters, resizeable screens etc via the menu options in fact there's tons of options all configurable.

atari8001.0.0.4.bar BB10
atari8001.0.0.6.bar OS2 Playbook

atari800 rom file(s) these are free to use no copyright assertion.
Without any ROM files you'll see the main screen with a black background and lots of buttons ...

Oops the fire button is mapped to 'a' and the emulator defaults to L-CTRL so first step use menu to fix this:

Menu->Controller Configuration->Define layout of keyboard joystick 1->Trigger < press fire button then RESET button>
Save an updated config file via Menu->Emulator Settings->Save configuration file

Change resolution to something better/different via Menu->Display Settings->Video Mode Settings

FullScreen = yes
FullScreen Resolution <press return> select 800x576 and press return

MENU button this brigs up the powerful menu interface of Atari800
INPUT TOGGLE -will change back and forth between keyboard and 'hotkey' mode.
ESC is the escape key so you can exit menus and sub menus back to the Atari screen
RESET will reset the Atari system
RETURN is the return key for selecting menu items
RUN, OPTION,SELECT,START are the Atari800 standard buttons
Bottom right is the fire button and Bottom left the dpad.

Homepage for Atari800 emulator is http://atari800.sf.net

misc\atari800\atari800.cfg

Update \misc\atari800\atari800.cfg to reference the BIOS 'rom' files:

Atari 800 Emulator, Version 2.2.1

OS/A_ROM=atariosa.rom

OS/B_ROM=ATARIOSB.ROM

XL/XE_ROM=/accounts/1000/shared/misc/atari800/ATARIXL.ROM

BASIC_ROM=/accounts/1000/shared/misc/atari800/ATARIBAS.ROM

5200_ROM=/accounts/1000/shared/misc/atari800/5200.rom

UAE Amiga Emulator - Blackberry Port -

2013-02-22T11:00:00.000-05:00

U.A.E ( Universal Amiga Emulator ) v0.8.29

v1.0.0.6 built with OS2.0.1 it's tested on BB10 and should work on PB.

Note that for nowyou need to modify the ../misc/uae/uaerc.cfg file to load ADF disk images.

Bugs: dpad sliding finger without lifting doesn't appear to trigger events.

github source UAE emulator source,
Modified SDL 'git repo' that has joystick support and improved audio

Status: A500 emu is running with ECS/OCS 68020, 680ec20, 68882 tests on kickstart1.2
Joystick working, tested with IK+.
kickstart 3.x seems to blink he Amiga power LED on/off not sure why yet.
Mouse and L/R buttons working ( they're invisible but the mouse pad is next to the dpad )
F1, F2, 0,1 L-SHIFT and R-SHIFT are mapped on screen
No file browsing or selection yet, it's taken from the uaerc file ...
Not tested hard files yet.

misc/uae - UAE directory, created if not present.
misc/uae/uaerc - Config file that is loaded if present or created if not.
misc/uae/roms - expects kickstart roms and .adf disk images to be present
Currently hard coded.

http://www.amigaforever.com/ - To obtain legal kickstart ROM it's owned by Cloanto and not free or maybe you already own an Amiga like myself!

http://www.amiga.org/ Forums
http://www.back2roots.org/ Demos
http://www.dream17.info/downloads.php?cat=1 Team17 catalog

FCEUX NES Emulator - Blackberry Port -

2013-02-09T16:08:00.000-05:00

Updated FCEUX for BB10. By default I stretch the screen but you can override this and other settings in the misc/fceux/fceux.cfg file.

Swipe from top to show hidden 'save buttons'
Tap top left to cycle through roms ( you'll have to wait for file dialog selection )
/misc/fceux/fceux.cfg to fiddle with aspect ratios , PAL V NTSC etc.
/misc/roms/nes put your .nes roms here.

BB10 package 1.10.5.1

VBA-M emulator for BB10 port

2013-02-04T11:00:00.000-05:00

Updated: January 2015

Latest signed bar file: V9 VBA-m emu r1202 with full GB,GBC,GBA support.

VBA-M r1202 rebase code ( rom mirroring, ARM core tuning etc )
GB,GBC,GBA emulation switching on the fly ( v9 )
Automatic device detect and setup for touch or keyboard devices
Z30,Passport,Z10 tested Classic,Q10,Q5 TBC.
Way faster partly due to portrait mode being smaller rendering window.
System messages active ( red text bottom left of games )
Filters are active you can cycle through with key 'g' or the tv icon.
Comes with 3DTank.gba demo, I may add more interesting roms in other .bar releases.

TODO:

~~Rebuild with older API sorry it's built against 10.3.1 at the moment.~~
Q10,Q5 testing
Landscape autodetect ( detection is present, screen setup is flakey )
~~GB/C to GBA switch handling~~

Want to develop your own games for GBA ? checkout www.gdbdev.org and specifically DragonBasic if your not comfortable with C/ASM and if you do create some DB games drop a note here.

http://www.gbadev.org/tools.php?showinfo=195

Keyboard device layout

touch device layout

DGEN Emulator Playbook

2013-01-21T10:00:00.000-05:00

SEGA Genesis/Megadrive DGEN port for Blackerry BB10/Playbook

NEW v1.10.3.1 built with PB 2.0.1 NDK tested on BB10, should work on both platforms.

NOTE:

BPS dialogs don't work on BB10 , for now it's back to 'tapping'. Latest version has save/load support buttons, it seems to fail sometimes so it's something that needs to be worked on.
this is with the dynamic 'TV' effects like blur, scanline or interlace.

http://dgen.sourceforge.net/

Archived files not supported yet so use unzipped rom files
It's using the CZ80 and MUSAS 68K Core ( more accurate and newer than the MZ80,Star cores.)
Running 50-60 fps average is about 57 FPS
22Khz audio which is the default and no glitches with FM generation etc.

Stuff I'm currently working on ...

2013-01-05T13:25:00.000-05:00

I've been busy internally at RIM on BB10 but have recently managed to look at the emulators again to see if they work on BB10. So the short term plan is to get them working on BB10, re-build PB 2.x flavours and look at some other emulators that would be fun to play.

UAE Amiga Emulator - WIP

github.com/trevornunes/uaesdl

Okay got a basic virtual joystick working in SDL library which is needed to make this emulator any kind of use. I need to work on performance as the emulator is sometimes fast and other times slow it varies depending on game/demo. I also cannot get kickstarts 1.3 and greater working for whatever reason. So at the moment it's a reasonable A500 ECS with 68020/68882 and fast ram emulator. There is a mouse and 2 buttons ( not visibly mapped ) working alongside the joystick. Missing a dialog to choose .adf files at the moment it's loading based on settings in the uaecfg file.

Handy - Atari Lynx emulator ( working )

github.com/trevornunes/Handy

This works great with rom cycling I haven't played with it much to be honest and it doesn't have a great game selection but it's another emulator in the bag for Blackberry.

SMS Plus - Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator ( working )

github.com/trevornunes/smsplus

SMS Plus ported and code dumped into github. This is a Sega Master System / GameGear emulator and it works great but currently only loads a fixed path misc/roms/sms/game.sms , I will need to put in a ROM selector at some point. So for now it's just misc/roms/sms/game.sms Alex kid fans rejoice.

Another developer has ported this emulator with dialog support that might be a better choice, it's on crackberry forums in the emulator section.

Handy - Atari Lynx Emulator

2012-11-27T00:38:00.002-05:00

This is a port of 'Handy' an Atari Lynx emulator http://handy.sourceforge.net/ Directories should be automatically created but the important location is misc/roms/lynx. The rom images can be .zip or .lnx and as usual they're not supplied. You'll need the lynxboot.lnx file in the same dir as the roms in order to load games.

handy-1_0_0_3.bar
Tested on BB10 it should work on PB 2.x but I haven't tested yet.

AtariAge Lynx

2012-11-19T04:30:00.000-05:00

Updated DGEN to work on new BB10 devices For now the dialog handlers are removed since they're not working correctly, so it's back to to tapping until later. At some point I will sync up DGEN to the latest source code since it fixes some sprite masking and a number of other changes.

BB10 Phone DGEN bar file: roms go here -> <device_path>/misc/roms/smd/somefile.smd unzipped.

dgen-1_10_3_0.bar

It's based off DGEN 1.30 source code but with this latest version I patched the vdp driver to pull in from latest git repot a sprite masking fix which was causing a couple of games to incorrectly show sprites. So it has a hint of 1.31+ in it.

1. misc/dgen/dgen.cfg parsing now supported. You can download an example file and rename it 'dgen.cfg' dgen.cfg . You should use 'soundsamples 2' and 'soundsegs 16' and it won't be 'choppy' but play around ...

2. The app will now repeatedly look for roms in /misc/roms/smd folder and if found after a few seconds. So if your installing this for the first time, you can leave it running ... Then add an .smd file in the roms/smd folder and it should automatically locate the file and startup ...

3. No ROM selection interface , the older BPS logic doesn't render correctly for some reason.

4. icons now 60% transparent and relocated to fit L series phones.

5. Got rid of the 'turbo' buttons which are blasphemy ...

Unreal Speccy Portable

2012-02-20T14:04:00.000-05:00

Here we go again, come on, boom boom shake da room!

Port of Unreal-Speccy emulator for the Blackberry Playbook.

http://code.google.com/p/unrealspeccyp/

Playbook ported code is currently stored here ...
https://github.com/trevornunes/speccy

Since this is a computer emulation it's a little different. The top left of the screen opens up a menu and file selector option. From the menu selector you can navigate around your filesystem and load .sna .tzx .zip speccy games. For now you'll have to also select beeper, tape or AY for audio depending on the mode of the emulator so it's a couple of steps to get a game loaded.

Unreal Speccy Portable v1.0.0.2 OS2 signed bar

updates: smoother input handling , less sensitive on menu and games in general.
create zx dir unders roms and default open to this directory

Top left is the menu button
The second icon on top left is the 128k speccy mode
Then we have the cursor for navigation
You'll also see QAOP 0,1,2,3 buttons on the screen
Enter on the bottom right.

Loading snapshot .sna files ( Fastest and easiest way to play games )

Step 1: Click top left icon to raise menu
Step 2: Navigate down to 48k mode and press enter ( or don't if you want 128k mode )
Step 3: Navigate down to Reset and press enter

You should see the white screen speccy 48k screen appear!

Step 4: Press the menu key to close it, then press again to highlight ...
Step 5: Use the file browser and find a snapshot file and select it, it will automatically start the game

Loading tape archives ... ( for the real experience open the menu, select 'Tape' for audio ... )

Step 1) Click the 128K speccy icon and select enter for Tape Loader
Step 2) Click the top left icon to highlight the menu
Step 2) Press enter key to start the Open... file browser
Step 3) Locate your tape archive file Speccy game
Step 4) select it ( it won't start up immediately )
Step 5) navigate down to the Tape option and select Start ( it will toggle between start and stop )

Hugo emulator ported to playbook

2012-01-20T00:48:00.000-05:00

Hugo is a PC Engine, TG16 emulator that has been around for years. This tiny 8bit console was slapped into a giant fridge of a plastic case for the TurboGrafix16 I guess to appeal to the Western market...

download v1.0.0.1 signed bar file

HuGo!

Status

Currently I have a ROM 'cycler' that can trigger reload of cartridges automatically but ... it crashes when the 2nd load occurs due to malloc,mem corruption. Normally the emulator shuts everything down including SDL but I want to keep graphics up since we are not on a desktop we only need to reset the core emulation. The core itself dynamically allocates various blocks during InitPCE() and then clears them in TrashPCE() however something is going nuts after the second restart cycle. I also changed the graphic mode to 32bit instead of the 8bit SDL mode I think it looks a little better even if arguably it's more CPU expensive.

The porting procedure ...

A little more code tweaking was required than FCEUX but it was mostly done in one night. One thing I did was to generate Linux build since its another Autotools job meaning it's worth generating for a Unix/Linux like target first then import the code. This saves time when you import into Momentics, because the config.h file is pre-generated and if done on Linux is setting POSIX includes and other common defines. It also sets the emulator flags and SDL target so I can get a rough idea which source files matter and which dont. Anyway after compiling and playing around with the emu on Linux I deleted some obviously redundant code e.g. windows, gtk_xxx files then zipped up the source so I now have a unix like mini SDL build that is fairly close to QNX/PB ...

Getting a project like HuGo! into Momentics is a two step procedure:

Step 1) Create an empty tablet project
            gets me bar-descriptor.xml etc

Step 2) Import existing filesystem into the 'src' directory of the new created project
            gets the C code in this case into the project

At this point I could hit compile and watch it explode ... but there's a couple more things to do before we hit compile and work out the issues...

Modify the project settings Build settings to reference libs, headers etc.

We need to set any special compile flags e.g. NEW_GFX_ENGINE, -DSDL etc
We need to set up include directories e.g. {workspace}:/SDL/include etc
We need to add -L library paths to libSDL12.so and libTouchControlOverLay.so
We need to import build settings from FCEUX or some other Tablet project to get Device-Release, Device-Debug etc. Or you can manually add the ARM compiler chain , I just import from a similar project.

Update bar-descriptor.xml with your token, enable file access, add libSDL12.so etc.

disable warnings, yeah I said it ... At this point lets fix up errors first...
set -O2 optimization for a Device-Release build don't need debug at this point.
add __QNXNTO__ flag and __PLAYBOOK__ flags to compile we will use this to isolate incompatible code. I actually only use __QNXNTO__ most of the time since I want all QNX devices to be able to compile this code and not just PB.

Now hit compile and get this thing running on Playbook ...

Bang!   Every project starts out this way, the first file dies due to missing headers, wrong types, some windows code getting compiled. So we just solve each little problem one step at a time. Any code that looks like windows gets deleted, if it's loaded with windows hooks just delete the module, ditto for any other platform we don't care about. Hit compile again ...

syntax error before '(' or before a variable it's an unknown type , check the headers
can't find argp.h oops ... I copied this from GNU pages since it's not part of QNX build.
GL code hooks - for now if they are not isolated with preprocessor flags
GTK code littered throughout ... this is where the __PLAYBOOK__ flag comes in handy

Wrapping unsupported code with flags ...

#ifndef __PLAYBOOK__

original code here that was causing a compiler break ...

#endif

#ifndef __PLAYBOOK__

SDL OpenGL code here..

#endif