30/1/1997 Qbert Emulation Project Beta 0.0000001 -------------------------------------- This is the first release of the Q*bert emulator. This emulator is far from complete! Currently you can only watch the demo mode, a playable version should be ready by March 1997 Development ----------- The emulator is written in a mixture of 16bit C and Assembler. Masm and Turbo C++ version 1 where used in the coding of this emulator. The code was developed on a Pentium p90 with 16 meg ram and a S3 virge video card (2meg). The emulator has not been tested on anything other than a P90, so it may run too slow or too fast on your machine!!! A quick note about speed, the emulator does not need any memory managers or device drivers, I have found that a large speed increase (and less crashes) can be achived by not loading either config.sys or autoexec.bat!!!!!!!!! Limitations ----------- Also as this is only a demo, it can and properly will crash at some point. There is no sound, no controls and the video mode uses (mode 13) does not display the full screen. These will be fixed in later versions!!!!! Controls -------- Q - quits emulator P- Switches screens game / debug Rom Filenames ------------- The roms need to be in the same directory as qbert.exe qb-rom0.bin Game code qb-rom1.bin qb-rom2.bin qb-bg0.bin Background qb-bg1.bin qb-fg0.bin Forground sprites qb-fg1.bin qb-fg2.bin qb-fg3.bin Thanks to....... Dave Spicer (for letting me beta test dascard) James Rowan (for the Q*bert Schematics) The Q*Bert design team members who have emailed me!! And all those who have offered there support. Contacts -------- Qbert@defender.demon.co.uk http://www.defender.demon.co.uk/qbert.html Copyright --------- The emulator is the sole copyright 1996/1997 Lee David Taylor. It cannot be redistributed in any other form than it has been supplied. The ROM files should not be supplied with your zip file and I WILL NOT SUPPLY THEM TO ANYONE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU ASK ME.................. Origanal Q*bert Roms (c) Gottlieb