Generator (emulator)

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Video game console emulator

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Generator
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
OS: DOS, Linux, Windows, Amiga, Mac, OS X, Dreamcast, Pocket PC
Developer: James Ponder (DOS, Linux), Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund (Amiga), Richard F. Bannister (Mac), Atani Software (Windows, Dreamcast), Domenico Dato (Pocket PC), MetaFox (Dreamcast)
Programmed in: C
Last release date: (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, PlayStation 2 (PGen) 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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File: Generator v0.35.7z (821 kB) (info)
Current version: 0.35 (DOS and Linux)

Old 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 0.13, 0.13a, 0.13b, 0.15 for Windows.
    • Generator v0.03 (BSD/Linux) (1998-11-08) (missing)
    • Generator v0.11 (BSD/Linux) (2000-01-23) (missing)
    • Generator v0.12 (BSD/Linux) (2000-02-02) (missing)
      • Generator32 v0.13 (2000-02-21)
      • Generator32 v0.13a (2000-03-26)
      • Generator32 v0.13b (2000-04-02)
    • Generator v0.15 (DOS/Linux/source) (2000-04-30)
      • Generator32 v0.15 (2000-05-04)
    • Generator v0.31 (2001-08-07)
    • Generator v0.32 (2001-08-18)
    • Generator v0.33 (2001-09-02)
    • Generator v0.34 (2001-10-20)
    • Generator v0.35 (2003-05-07)

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