Handy/SDL allows you to play free/public domain demo's and games as well as commercial games which are available for the Atari Lynx handheld. It's not our intentions to promote the piracy of commercial ROM's so in short you MUST own the game itself for playing this on Handy/SDL. The use of commercial roms of games which you don't own is illegal and it hurts the companies which make these games. If you like the game, buy it! Also, e-mailing use with the question : "“Where can I find roms”?" will definately not be answered!
While most public domain demo's and games work, commercial games could or work (partially). The writing of the emulation-engine is a on going process which results in new and better cores. If a game doesn't work, don't contact us about it! Compatibility will grow on future releases so please be patient!
We can't be held responsible for damage done by this software. The use of this software is at your own risks. It will definitely have some bugs in it so it could be that some games and/or demo's won't work at all! The use of illegal obtained ROM images (aka leech-from-the-internet-while-I-don't-own-the-game) is a act of piracy and is the use of illegal games with copyrights and can result in legal actions (not only to you, but also to us).
System Requirements:
The minimum requirements for Handy/SDL are :
Intel Pentium II at 266Mhz or equivalent.
64MB RAM
1MB of free HDD space as well as free space for the rom's
Redhat Linux 6.x/7.x (or any other distro compatible with RH)
BeOS R5
FreeBSD 4.x
Solaris 2.8
For all OS Handy/SDL needs a display in 16BPP mode!
I use the following system for development and should be considered as the optimal
system requirements :
AMD Athlon 650
128MB RAM
1MB of free HDD space
Redhat Linux 6.x/7.x (or any other distro compatible with RH)
BeOS R5
FreeBSD 4.x
Solaris 2.8
For all OS stands that the display must be in 16BPP mode!
For the use of this emulator the Simple Direct Media library (or SDL for short) must be used which can be downloaded from the official SDL website. We would recommend to use and/or download the latest version available of SDL (we used version 1.2.2 for development). What's also needed is the libz compression library. Linux users will find this already installed on their system. Other users must retrieve it from Tucows (the best place) and BeOS users should look at BeBits (While with the GNU development package it's allready supplied!).
The
emulator must be started from a X-Term (UN*X clones), or Terminal (BeOS) session. The use of the emulator is very straight forward but is also has some switches to play with :
The switches are straight forward and really doesn't need any explanation. how to use it. Joystick/Joypad users beware, Handy/SDL expects that the joystick is set on port 0. Also a four button joystick is the minimum to use! The romfile can be in ZIP or GZIP format where the ROM file must be a valid Atari Lynx ROM! YOU MUST HAVE A COPY of the Atari Lynx boot image (rename the file to lynxboot.img) to successfully use the emulator (get a copy from the Internet for this).
For controlling the following keyboard-layout hthe following must be used to play games/demos/etc :
|
Lynx Key A |
Z or button 1 on joypad and/or joystick |
|---|---|
|
Lynx Key B |
X or button 2 on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Key Option 1 |
1 or button 3 on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Option Key 2 |
2 or button 4 on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Pause Key |
ENTER |
|
Lynx Key Reset |
F10 |
|
Lynx Rotate Left Key |
F11 |
|
Lynx Rotate Right Key |
F12 |
|
Lynx Rotate Normal |
HOME |
|
Lynx Key UP |
UP or button-up on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Key DOWN |
DOWN or button-down on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Key LEFT |
LEFT or button-left on joypad and/or joystick |
|
Lynx Key RIGHT |
RIGHT or button-right on joypad and/or joystick |
| Savestate saving | F3 |
| Savestate loading | F4 |
|
Screenshot taking |
F9 |
|
GBA Reset |
F10 |
|
Quit |
ESCAPE |
This layout has been defined and isn't changeble atm. In future releases there will be an option to define your own keyboard layout.
Niels Wagenaar <niels.wagenaar@wolmail.nl>.
Caz < turok2@currantbun.com>
Credits :
Linux beta testing :
Zakk, Joshua, John Mora
BeOS beta testing :
Robin T. Kimzy, Jeffro, Caz, and Claus Windeler
Copyright and Thanks :
I would like to thank the following people because without them this release wouldn't be possible :
Keith Wilkins, the creator of Handy.
#SDL on irc.openprojects.net, for some pointers with SDL.
Zakk, for giving me webspace for the NeoPocott/SDL website.
And of course all the people we forgot!!
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