myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: Game Boy Advance Emulator



I like xmame, works great. ayttm is awesome. Exactly what i wanted.

I have been trying to make work a GBA emulator in DSL. There is one call VBA that uses SDL, but I am not experience enough to make it work. Anyone could help on making this program a dsl extension. This would be much better then mame or snes

http://vba.ngemu.com/downloads.shtml

:p

Cheers.
charpie,

I saw this package in the debian packages.  It is called

http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/visualboyadvance

I was able to install it and run it (and it looks great) using the standard DSL disk, the dsl-dkpg.dsl file, and the following 4 files from debian packages site:

libsdl1.2debian-oss_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
libsdl1.2debian_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
zlib1g_1.2.1.1-3_i386.deb
visualboyadvance_1.7.1-1_i386.deb

find and download those files, then open a bash shell.

sudo su
dpkg -i libsdl1.2debian-oss_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i libsdl1.2debian_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i zlib1g_1.2.1.1-3_i386.deb
dpkg -i visualboyadvance_1.7.1-1_i386.deb

run the program using
vba yourgamefime.gba

Others brighter than myself have shown how to get from here to a dsl file.  try looking here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....11;t=79
I should have been clearer.

First, you need to get the 4 .deb packages, place them in the ~ directory, open a bash shell,  and install them.

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sudo su

dpkg -i libsdl1.2debian-oss_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i libsdl1.2debian_1.2.7-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i zlib1g_1.2.1.1-3_i386.deb
dpkg -i visualboyadvance_1.7.1-1_i386.deb


Then use these commands to get a list of files, directories, and links in the deb pakages and put them into a file called test:
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dpkg --contents libsdl1.2debian-oss_1.2.7-6_i386.deb > test
dpkg --contents libsdl1.2debian_1.2.7-6_i386.deb >> test
dpkg --contents zlib1g_1.2.1.1-3_i386.deb >> test
dpkg --contents visualboyadvance_1.7.1-1_i386.deb >> test

Then you need to open the test file and edit it, using 'mkdir', 'cp' and 'link as appropriate.  Also I added the bash thing in front so I could run it.  Here is the front of my modified test so you can see what I did as far as editing and changing things:

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#!/bin/bash
mkdir usr
mkdir usr/share/
mkdir usr/share/doc/
mkdir usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/CREDITS usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/CREDITS
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/README usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/README
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/README-SDL.txt usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/README-SDL.txt
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/copyright usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/copyright
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/BUGS.gz usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/BUGS.gz
cp /usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/changelog.Debian.gz usr/share/doc/libsdl1.2debian-oss/changelog.Debian.gz
mkdir usr/lib/
cp /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.0 usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.0
link usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.0 usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
...


the -> in the .deb files represent link commands. when you edit them you need to swap the order and add the directory in front.

execute the script, then tar the directories with

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tar -cvf visualgameboy usr etc


gzip it with

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gzip visualgameboy


rename it with

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mv visualgameboy.gz visualgameboy.dsl


and you have your very own DSL.  Worked fine for me.  I know other have written things in perl to parse the file, but this one is small enough to do by hand.
Thks clacker, looks great. Nice tutorial.

This should interest a couple of dsl-gba fan. I will try this. Can I download a copy of your final visualboy.dsl somewhere so I can have a quick trial?

Cheers.
:)
You'd think with enough firepower to figure out all that, I would know where to download the visualgameboy.dsl to, but I don't.  Is there a web site that takes submissions, or do I email someone?

I am also hesitant because I don't want to give my real email address out as part of the file, which it looked like they wanted.  That is fine for the system managers, but I don't want people scanning pages and putting my email address on every sucker's mailing list from here to China.

I also didn't want to get in trouble for modifying the distributions (ie. removing documentation and source code).
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