DarcNES/BeOS readme.txt

DarcNES is Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Alastair Bridgewater.
BeOS port code Copyright 2000, 2001 by Alastair Bridgewater.

Commercial use prohibited without express written permission from
the author. Everyone else can do whatever they want, provided that
I am credited in the documentation (and, if released, the source code).

People wishing to maintain a port for another system should contact me
beforehand in order to learn the ground rules (and to make sure that no
one else is already maintaining a port for that system).


Disclaimer:

This software is provided AS IS, etc. No warranty, etc, etc. You know
the drill.


Notes:

Okay, here's the deal. This is about 24 non-consecutive hours of hackwork
and playing with some ideas I had a while back. It's about as clean as I
could be bothered making it (I don't like C++ that much, and don't want
to hold up a release any longer then nessecary at this point). There is
no support for the PCE CD or Coleco keypad.

Keys are, as always, A, S, [, ], and arrows. The keypad arrows should
work as well. No thanks to the HTML versions of the Be book for not
having the image that supposedly has the keycode info in it.

The Apple ][ keyboard emulation is mapped as closely as possible to the
real thing with the exception of ESC (which would have been TAB), and the
arrow keys (one of which would have ended up as shift, and the other off
the end of the keyboard).

The source code is set up to compile on my system, which is running the
Linux cross-compiler toolkit found somewhere on www.be.com via FreeBSD's
Linux binary emulation. The libs are supposedly R4, but I've only tested
on an R5 PE system (via the miracle of FTP). Your mileage may vary (to say
the least).

The binary distribution is built by some hacked-together shell scripts and
makefiles and whatnot on a SuSE Linux system. It is using the same compiler
and libs as my FreeBSD system.


Web pages:

The DarcNES homepage is currently http://www.netway.com/~nyef/
The DarcNES/BeOS homepage is currently http://www.netway.com/~nyef/beos/
The DarcNES Binaries page is currently http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/dn_bin/


Thank yous:

To DireRed for helping sort out a nasty race condition in the shutdown code.
To Caz for pointing out a bug with the GUI version of the file loading code.


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