Arcade Emulators for Dreamcast Section

Name Laser-SDL v1.0 Revision 1.beta1 Dreamcast

Author Ss_teven/Metafox

Description

LaserDC is a Midway Z80 Emulator for the Sega
Dreamcast console system

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Steven Harris (tty01, better known as ss_teven) read my post on my Dreamcast development site about not having Laser up until I got it converted into SDL. He's taken matters into his own hands, and produced a beautifully working version of Laser using the SDL library. I'm truly excited that he has decided to come back to working on Laser after taking a much-deserved break.

I took some time over the last couple of days to get it working for Dreamcast. I've got a simple version working very nicely with Space Invaders. It uses a crappy routine to expand the playing area by 2, so as to be seen better on televisions. The playing area is now 512*512, as compared to 256*256, but there are lines missing inbetween the pixels drawn). This is barely noticeable on television sets (at least NTSC), but is very noticable on VGA monitors.

I'm going to work on it a bit more (think of a better way to stretch the playing area), and add a menu for selecting games, but I decided to release the binary and source for those interested.