Gens/GS

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Gens/GS is a version of Gens for Linux maintained by GerbilSoft. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens. Additionally, a future version of Gens/GS will combine the Windows code into the same codebase, so one codebase can be used to compile on both operating systems.

Releases

Milestone 1

Milestone 1 introduces the following new features:

• Massive code cleanup throughout the entire Gens codebase. Many functions with duplicated code have been consolidated so that the duplicated code is now shared between the functions. Also, several large files have been split into smaller files. For instance, gens.c has been split into gens.c, g_md.c, g_mcd.c, g_32x.c, and g_palette.c.

• Introduction of OS-independent functions, which will allow for the integration of the Win32 version of Gens later on, so that one codebase can be used to build a Gens executable for either operating system.

• Gens v7 savestate format, ported from Gens Rerecording. This adds, among other things, proper Sega CD savestate support.

• Fixed the built-in debugger, which was broken due to changes in the way text was written to the emulated screen.

• Added enhanced Sega CD GFX debugging from Gens Rerecording.

• VDP/GFX debugging now outlines the selected palette.

• Initial attempt to consoldidate global variables into structs. This will make it easier to figure out where everything is located.

• Complete rewrite of the GTK+ UI. Among other things, the new UI has much improved synchronization, so when a menu item is checked, it actually means that item is enabled.

• Rewrite of the byteswapping functions so that they describe what is being swapped (e.g. be16_to_cpu_array()).

• Fixed tons of compiler warnings.