[NTLK] It's back: Online NES ROM packager for Newtendo

[Greg Goodwin]

This is awesome!!  :D

Ok, so I’m curious, what was the best form of controls anyone ever came up with to play this?  I never could get used to onscreen buttons.

Does the keyboard work?

Doctor Clu



> On Oct 12, 2017, at 2:09 AM, Sylvain Pilet <sylvain at pilet.net> wrote:
> 
> Wow!
> Wonderfull Victor,
> Thanks
> 
> Sylvain
> 
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>> Le 12 oct. 2017 à 03:29, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> a écrit :
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>> *tl;dr* The online NESPackager is back, for all your ROM conversion needs:
>> 
>> https://ritsuko.chuma.org/nespackager/ (or non-secure http://ritsuko.chuma.org/nespackager/)
>> 
>> Today, while noodling around on my lunch break writing Newton Glossary definitions, I stumbled across the existence of the /compact/ DCL that Eckhart Köppen forked from the original, like, four years ago: https://github.com/ekoeppen/cDCL
>> 
>> And I went "WTF!  My entire problem has been that the DCL was stuck with really old build tools and source that won't compile on modern systems without serious effort... /and someone already made that effort?!/"
>> 
>> Obviously, I'm a bit out of touch.
>> 
>> Aaaaaanyways, the compact DCL compiles into a nice shared library /like a pro/ on Linux.  And it supports everything that the NESPackager code requires (which is only the package and NSOF stuff, I believe).
>> 
>> So this evening, I compiled a brand-spanking-new NESPackager binary on my new Linux server, cleaned up the web page a tad, and now it's back up for anyone who wants to emulate a 30 year old console on a 20 year old handheld computer.  Seriously.
>> 
>> Need legal NES ROMs?  Try some of these coding competition submissions:
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>> http://nesdevcompo.nintendoage.com/
>> 
>> -V
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