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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2012-12-21 22:16:35 +0100
committerMatteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>2012-12-21 22:17:01 +0100
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games/hatari: Updated for version 1.6.2.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ environment for running GEM applications, Hatari tries to emulate the
hardware of a ST as close as possible so that it is able to run most
of the old ST games and demos.
-Hatari is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the
-GNU General Public License (GPL). The SF project page is available at:
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/hatari/
+Optional dependency: if portaudio is installed, hatari will be built
+with it, which enables emulated Falcon microphone support.
Before you can actually run the emulator, you also need a TOS image
file. TOS is the built-in operating system of the Atari 16/32 bit
@@ -19,8 +18,11 @@ computers. Since it is not possible to ship one of these image files
with Hatari, you either have to create your own image from your Atari
or you have to use EmuTOS, a free TOS replacement.
-It's also possible to download the ROM images from the net. See the
-package hatari_tos_roms, also on slackbuilds.org.
+It's also possible to download the ROM images from the net. See
+the package hatari_tos_roms. If you're going to install the ROMs,
+it's easiest to install hatari first, then hatari_tos_roms (otherwise,
+you'll have to manually symlink /usr/share/hatari/tos.img to whichever
+ROM you want to use).
EmuTOS is included in this package, so you can run at least some ST
applications without installing the real ROMs, but not many programs