Thursday, December 18, 2014

Recent commits : a month in bitbox

Hi all !

Here are some news about the recent commits of the bitbox engines, kernels and other bits since last month. You can look at the git history to find them



- graph_frame and graph_lines names are used in API (to be able to disconnect graph_frame, which is hard realtime, and game_frame, which is not)
- simple modes have been added : those are text and graphical modes based on framebuffers.
- USB HID devices (gamepads) are now parsed so there is fewer need to include gamepads in kernel, some might often even work as is.
- A simple sound mode with samples, and its accompanying small sample demo program .
- A new dedicated app to test USB devices (by pulkomandy)
- Emulator has better device input and can work with gamepads, keyboards
- A beam racer outrunnesque game has been started (by pulkomandy) !
- 320x200 and 400x300 kernel mode have been added which leave much more CPU time
- sawteeh audio player has been introduced, but has been temporarily removed while working on implementation issues
- a chiptune player has been added. Its engine will be merged into main library as a in parallel with the sampler sound engine.
- color simple textmodes have been added
- a Boulder Dash remake has been introduced
- support for RLE encoded sprites in sprite engine (as well as a small change in API)
- small improvements & bugfixes

.. and that's it !

Here is a screenshot from the new color textmode :




5 comments:

  1. Emulator compiling has a problem.
    Link error message appears on console.

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    1. It was a library version mismatch problem.
      Now there is no problem to compile an emulator.

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  2. Ok but it will be difficult to help you without context. Can you give the error message ? (Btw the mailing list is a good way to get help.)

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  3. Is it possible to port Bitbox on Circle of Raspberry Pi bare metal framework?
    Currently RPi hardware spec. has more capability than Bitbox.
    But Circle has few function than Bitbox currently.
    I think Bitbox software can take the good hardware spec of RPi without improvement of Bitbox hardware for the future.

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=90130

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  4. Well, I don't know since I have no experience of the API but it surely could be done given the more powerful (but a bit more closed) hardware.

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