Generator (emulator)
From Sega Retro
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| Generator |
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive |
| OS: DOS, Linux, Windows, Amiga, Mac, Dreamcast, Pocket PC, PlayStation 2 |
| Developer: James Ponder (DOS, Linux), Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund (Amiga), Richard F. Bannister (Mac), Atani Software (Windows, Dreamcast), Domenico Dato (Pocket PC), MetaFox (Dreamcast), Nick Van Veen (aka Sjeep) (PlayStation 2) |
| Programmed in: C |
| Last release date: 2003-05-07[1] (21 years ago) |
| Last version: 0.35 |
Generator is an open source emulator by James Ponder designed to emulate the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console. It is a portable program written in C and has been ported to the Amiga, Macintosh, Windows, Dreamcast and even Pocket PCs, such as the iPAQ and Cassiopeia. Natively, it compiles under Unix for X Windows with either tcl/tk or gtk/SDL, for svgalib and even cross-compiles to DOS with djgpp/allegro.
Generator uses its own custom 68000 processor emulation which is and uses compilation techniques such as block-marking, flag calculation removal, operand pre-calculation, endian pre-conversion, etc. There are approximately 1600 C routines generated by the first stage of compilation to cope with the 67 instruction families. These include two versions of every instruction - one that calculates flags and one that doesn't, so that unnecessary flag computation is avoided.
Downloads
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Download Generator
File: Generator v0.35.7z (821 kB) (info)
Current version: 0.35 (DOS and Linux) |
Prior versions
- Generator versions 0.15, 0.31, 0.32, 0.33, 0.34 and 0.35 for DOS and Linux, plus source codes. (info) (2.63 MB)
- Includes versions 0.13a, 0.13b, 0.15 for Windows; 0.13 is missing.
Ports
- Amiga: versions 1.15, 0.33, 0.34 and 0.35, plus 0.34 and 0.35 source code. (info) (995 kB)
- Mac: versions 0.0.3a, 0.15a, 0.21, 0.32, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.8, 0.3.9, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3 and 0.4.4 (info) (11.93 MB)
- Pocket PC: versions 1.0b1 and 1.0b2 (info) (276 kB)
- Dreamcast: versions 122502, 0.34b and 0.35, plus 070402, 070502, 122502, 0.34b and 0.35 source code. (info) (1,000 kB)
- PlayStation 2: versions RC1, RC2, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, plus 1.2 source code. (info) ("PGen.7z" does not exist)
External links
- Official website
- Amiga port website
- Mac OS X port website
- Pocket PC port website (archive)
- Dreamcast port website
- PlayStation 2 port website (archive)
References
- ↑ http://www.squish.net/generator/download.html
- ↑ http://www.amidog.com:80/emu/amigenerator/download.html (Wayback Machine: 2000-10-02 17:37)
- ↑ http://www.amidog.com:80/emu/amigenerator/download.html (Wayback Machine: 2002-03-28 17:45)
- ↑ http://www.amidog.se/amiga/amigenerator/download.html (Wayback Machine: 2010-08-12 05:51)
- ↑ http://bannister.org:80/software/generate.html (Wayback Machine: 2000-02-26 21:03)
- ↑ http://www.bannister.org/software/generator.htm (Wayback Machine: 2001-02-07 16:44)
- ↑ http://www.bannister.org/software/generator.htm (Wayback Machine: 2001-04-05 02:36)
- ↑ http://www.bannister.org/software/generator.htm (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-02 10:46)
- ↑ http://www.bannister.org/software/generator.htm (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-22 13:56)