Re: vector programming...

Matthew Sell wrote:
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> Jess,
>
> What can I do to help?

Whatever you want. ;-) I can send you a copy of Borland C++ Builder V3.0 if you want as
well. Borland will also compile MSVC++ code(AFAIK).
  Basically, I need someone to bounce ideas off of and figure out the best way to do this
so it can be as modular as possible. I will try and get my code back to being able to at
least compile and then I can send you the source if you want.
  One of the major things that I wanted to do was to put MAME into a window(TCanvas).
Since MAME is written completely in C, Im not thinking that C++ will like it unless
*everything* is converted into objects. Which is a rather large job.
  Another question that came up in my mind. Is whether I should just build upon existing
MAME source or start anew. MAME has lots of the CPU modularity already done plus an
integrated disassembler. I suppose just leaving MAME in DOS and making an assember/editor
within it may be easier but working in Windows beats DOS.
  Ideas?

thanks for getting back to me.
  jess
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> - Matt
>
> Jess Askey wrote:
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> > Since it seems that many people would be interested in writing new games for existing
> > vector hardware Im thinking that I should just make my program much more flexible now
> > instead of trying to backtrack later. Right now it is sort of customized for Williams
> > Pinball Machine code and I was modifying it to also do Major Havoc hardware. I have some
> > neat ideas but since Im *not* an excellent programmer it would take a quite a while to
> > finish this up and make it 'OOPC' (object oriented politically correct). So I wanted to
> > find out if anyone wants to help with the project. Here is what I thought would be nice to
> > have....
> > 2 Pass Disassembler with hardware commenting
> > Table based processor plug-ins (support for any processor)
> > memory map plugins (for additional game hardware support)
> > MAME-in-a-window Emulation (we would of course fix some of the MAME ignorances)
> > Macro Assembler ( I have the source for TASM which is currently in DOS )
> > Library Management - Sounds, Graphics etc.
> > I have some custom TMS5220 software that will also allow converting .wav files into RAW
> > 5220 data, it would be pretty cool to be able to be able to just insert .wav files into
> > your asm code.
> >
> > the possibilities are pretty endless, it just needs to be coded. :-)
> > Anyone that is interested let me know and I will send you a .zip of the source.
> >
> > thanks for listening...
>
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Received on Mon Oct 4 12:09:30 1999