SDL ported to 8-bit Atari!

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I did it! Check out a screenshot of the SDL port of Abuse running
on the Atari800 emulator:

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/abuse_800xl.png

It’s pretty damn slow, requires at least a 256K RAM upgrade (but those are
pretty common), and only supports 160x192 resolution so far, but it’s a start!
:^D–
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BRAVO!!!On 4/1/09, Bill Kendrick wrote:

I did it! Check out a screenshot of the SDL port of Abuse running
on the Atari800 emulator:

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/abuse_800xl.png

It’s pretty damn slow, requires at least a 256K RAM upgrade (but those are
pretty common), and only supports 160x192 resolution so far, but it’s a
start!
:^D

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-bill!
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Linux!
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Cool, where can we find your work to port it?

Do you have any insights into where it can be optimized?On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

I did it! ?Check out a screenshot of the SDL port of Abuse running
on the Atari800 emulator:

?http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/abuse_800xl.png

It’s pretty damn slow, requires at least a 256K RAM upgrade (but those are
pretty common), and only supports 160x192 resolution so far, but it’s a start!
:^D

–
-bill!
“Tux Paint” - free children’s drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux!
Download it today! ?http://www.tuxpaint.org/

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Ooo… Abuse! That takes me way back. So they released the source and someone ported it to SDL? I’ll have to take a look at that…>________________________________

From: Bill Kendrick
Subject: [SDL] SDL ported to 8-bit Atari!

I did it! Check out a screenshot of the SDL port of Abuse running
on the Atari800 emulator:

http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/abuse_800xl.png

It’s pretty damn slow, requires at least a 256K RAM upgrade (but those are
pretty common), and only supports 160x192 resolution so far, but it’s a start!

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Check your calendar. :wink:

-bill!On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:46:19PM -0400, Donny Viszneki wrote:

Cool, where can we find your work to port it?

Do you have any insights into where it can be optimized?

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I don’t followOn Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:46:19PM -0400, Donny Viszneki wrote:

Cool, where can we find your work to port it?
Check your calendar. :wink:

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Cool, where can we find your work to port it?
Check your calendar. :wink:
I don’t follow
It’s an April Fools’ prank. :P>----- Original Message ----
From: Donny Viszneki <donny.viszneki at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL ported to 8-bit Atari!
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:46:19PM -0400, Donny Viszneki wrote:

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Tee-hee-hee! :wink:

BTW, constructed by: (1) grab screenshot of Abuse, (2) shrink to 160x192,
(3) reduce to 16 colors (not that the Atari would look precisely like that,
but it looks pretty degraded), (4) scale up to 320x192, no smoothing,
(5) take a screenshot of Atari800 running with BASIC; typed “FPS: 3” onto
the screen; (6) paste 320x184’s worth of Abuse into the A800 screenshot;
(7) post to libSDL; (8) ???; (9) Profit!On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:09:06PM -0700, Mason Wheeler wrote:

Cool, where can we find your work to port it?
Check your calendar. :wink:
I don’t follow
It’s an April Fools’ prank. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/