For those of you wondering what is the latest
system software that can be run on Mini vMac:
You can run up to System 7.5.5, but don’t.
It’s very slow at 1X speed on the PC version, the DS
port which runs at 1/2 to 1/4 speed is just unbearable.
Not to mention that if you use the 2.5MB build you will only
have 1MB of free memory once the OS has finished loading.
So basically, stick with 6.0.8.
If you are on a real Mac this is easy but unfortunately for PC
users this can be quite difficult.
This mini tutorial will show you how to download Macintosh
files on a PC and extract them under Mini vMac.
Before you begin you must have:
1) PC Version of Mini vMac
2) HFV Explorer
2) Bootable system disk
3) Stuffit Expander installed on your system disk
Here we go:
Step 1) Download your application
Step 2) Open your disk image in HFV Explorer
Step 3)
Drag your application onto your mac hard disk.
When the “Select copy mode” dialog comes up select
“Raw copy, data fork” from the drop-down list and press ok.
Step 4) Run Mini vMac and boot with your system disk.
Step 5) Run Stuffit Expander, select your archive and extract it.
There is a lot of confusion on how to do this as it is fairly difficult to do
unless you have been playing around with Macintosh emulation for a while.
It also doesn’t help that some of the utilities used are becoming more and more rare.
This mini tutorial assumes that you have a bootable hard disk image already prepared and have the PC version of Mini vMac ready to go.
1) Get HFV Explorer (Click Mac EMU Tools link)
2) Get and extract binUnpk
3) Get stuffit_expander_40.bin
4) Run HFV Explorer and open up your hard disk image.
Next, browse to where you downloaded stuffit_expander_40.bin.
Drag stuffit_expander_40.bin onto your disk. (on the left)
A window will appear titled “Select copy mode”.
From the drop-down list select “Raw copy, data fork” and press OK.
Exit HFV Explorer.
5) Run the PC version of Mini vMac and start up using your bootable
hard disk image.
Now, drag binunpk-1.0.1.dsk into the Mini vMac window.
Run the binunpk application and select File->Open from the menu.
Click the “Drive” button until your hard drive shows up above the
“Eject” button.
Double-click stuffit_expander_40.bin and extract it anywhere on
your system drive.
Exit binunpk.
You will notice a new application called “Stuffit Expander 401 Installer”,
double click the installer application and follow it’s instructions.
6) Installation complete!
Delete the installation files and shut down Mini vMac.
Here it is, the DLDI compatible version of Mini vMac for the DS:
Mini vMac DS-R3.zip
Source code available on request.
This should work with most homebrew devices, I cannot guarantee
all of them since a few have broken DLDI drivers.
You can test your driver by following the instructions here:
http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=Testing_instructions
Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this, it’s been such
a long time though I don’t remember everyone.
If you did help out in some way please comment or email me
so I can update the post/zip with a list of credits.
About documentation:
If you sent in documentation but it’s not in the zip there
is a good chance I lost it.
Please re-send it so I can update the zip file.
Thanks to: (List incomplete)
Tripsk8er333 (Mac6onDS)
I threw this in today, should be toggled with a tap of the touch screen.
It will only show areas you have been and only enemies that you can see.
Sorry to do this yet again but a few more things need to be done in the registered builds first.
I’m releasing this test build of the Spear of Destiny demo mainly test MP3 playback and find some hidden bugs that may be lurking around somewhere.
Known issues:
1) Scaled screens flicker every second or so
2) Saving/loading large files will cause MP3 playback to break up
3) Demos do not play properly
4) Keys are not yet configurable
Don’t worry about #2, if you save and the mp3 playback starts to break up just go back into your game and it should restart normally.
Keys:
Turn left: DPAD Left
Turn right: DPAD Right
Forward: DPAD Up
Backward: DPAD Down
Strafe Left: L Shoulder
Strafe Right: R Shoulder
Shoot: A
Use: B
Next Weapon: X
Run: Y
Installation:
Copy the wolf3d folder into the root of your media card, run.
Unfortunately there will be no source release until everything is ready.
However, the ARM7 MP3 player source is available. I’m not 100% happy with how I did things but it seems to work fine.
NOTICE:
This game WILL FAIL if your DS homebrew device does not support unaligned reads!
EDIT:
By unaligned reads I mean a broken DLDI driver, to test your driver check out this site: http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=Testing_instructions
Game files:
http://rapidshare.com/files/67764655/speardemo-mp3testrelease.zip.html
ARM7 Binary source:
http://rapidshare.com/files/67935995/7mp3play-src.tar.bz2.html
Please report any bugs to: the_lazy_one_09[__at__]hotmail.com
I can now 100% confirm that the next release will support the original music in MP3 format!
The tools to extract and convert the music will be released very shortly, there is one bug on PowerPC platforms that is causing the delay though.
There are a few more glitches for me to work out but soon I will release a test mp3 player and one track from the shareware wolf3d for people to test out.
I just want to make sure there will be no problems with playback on most devices.
Keep in mind that there is a lot more work to do on the port itself since a lot of changes were lost in the weird project folder disappearance incident.
Once I can verify that MP3 will work for everyone you can be assured that work on this port will go VERY fast.
Sorry for taking so much time but finally I have something that
is working and now it needs doc writers and testers.
I realized I asked for doc writers before but that was a while ago so I’m
not sure who is still interested.
If you would like to write some docs or whatever let me know and
please put your email (obfuscate it a bit though, damn bots).
There’s no guarantee your docs will be included, but who knows.
The faster you respond, the faster you get the files. I am looking for 5 people
only this time though. Some ideas are maybe to write a compatibility list or tips
or whatever.
It doesn’t have to be about using/installing the emulator (though I need some of those).
The new builds should work on just about any cart as long as there is a DLDI driver for it.
BEWARE If your cart does not do unaligned reads/writes, I have no idea how the app will behave in that situation.
For some reason my entire projects/source folder disappeared.
I do have a backup but it was made before
a few key changes to Wolfenstein were made.
Expect more delays before another release is made.
What I might end up doing is finding CVS/SVN hosting so this never happens
ever again. This would also allow impatient people to build or hack away
at the source.
It has been too long since I released anything for this project, there are a few more bugs and
missing features but from what I have seen it plays very well.
Improvements:
- Compiled with the latest libfat (should now work with most/all DLDI devices)
- Sound (no music)
- Status bar on bottom screen
- Saving
Todo:
- Music
- Builds for registered versions and spear of destiny
- Configuration
- Enhance sound
A note on saving:
Currently saving is broken between builds, if you make a savegame with this version and upgrade
the wolf3d binary your save will crash.
Keys:
Turn left: DPAD Left
Turn right: DPAD Right
Forward: DPAD Up
Backward: DPAD Down
Strafe Left: L Shoulder
Strafe Right: R Shoulder
Shoot: A
Use: B
Next Weapon: X
Run: Y
Installation:
Copy the wolf3d folder into the root of your media card, run.
Download: Wolf3D DS Alpha version
Download: Wolf3D DS Alpha version update (attempt to fix gfx bugs on ds-x)
IMPORTANT:
If you already downloaded the alpha version and are having graphical issues,
try the updated binary posted above. Keep in mind that any saves you made
will not work with the new binary.