Developer Information

This page gathers information for people interested in helping with the development of ArcEm.

Aims and Future plans

Here are a few things we're looking to work on in the future, if you're interested in helping with any of these, drop us a line on the developer mailing list

• Easier to port to more platforms
• Easier for the end user to use
• Support more hardware
  • IOEB emulation (1.6MB floppies, joysticks, more VIDC clock speeds, etc)
  • Parallel & serial emulation
• Tidier, making the code easier to bug fix and maintain
• Faster
• Additional features
  • Networking
  • Ability to save & restore emulator state (perfect for those games that don't let you save)

Developer Resources

Compilation Instructions

The User Manual contains a section on how to compile each platforms version.

SourceForge Project Page

The SourceForge Project Page contains many useful pages, including the Bug Tracker, List of releases, CVS access information and a source code viewer.

Developer Mailing list

Want to keep up to date with new features being added? Want to help out? Join the developer mailing list, arcem-devel, and speak directly to those involved. You can also read through the archive of messages.

CVS Mailing list

You can also join the CVS commits mailing list, arcem-cvs, to keep track of changes.

Datasheet Archive

A collection of datasheets and technical information on the Archimedes and later hardware has been collected together. Please have a look at the wanted list and see if you can contribute.

Feature Matrix

This is a table of what features are supported on which platform based on the current state of the CVS HEAD.

	X Windows	MS Windows	Mac OS X	RISC OS	Amiga
ExtnROM	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
HostFS	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Gfx > 800x600	Y	N	N	Y	Y
Sound Support	Y [1]	N	N	Y	Y [2]
Mousewheel Support	Y	Y	N	N	Y

[1] - Requires pthread library and OSS sound API.
[2] - Requires ahi-handler