Dustlayer

Retro means old but cool.

I grew up with the Commodore C64 but was never able to master the machine. I was young, I wanted to play the latest games and let other people do the pioneer work on exploring this incredible hardware. Today I have better skills to catch up on what it takes to code the C64. I will share what I learn along the way. Enjoy the trip to the past!

DUST 0.5.0 released - removed Win32 emulation

April 17, 2013  /  actraiser

I have released a new Version of DUST and removed the setup routines to install Win32 emulation.

How to update:  ​sudo npm -g install dustlayer

​Why the removal of Setup Options for Win32 Emulation?
​The automatic installation simply does not work satisfactory. There are countless sources of errors depending on OSX Version, previously installed Wine version and directory permissions. I realized it is much easier and straight-forward to write a short tutorial on how to get Wine working on Mac OSX instead. 

A nice side-effect is that the whole DUST setup runs now through in less than 90 seconds on a standard OSX system. ​

Expect a tutorial on Win32 Emulation on Mac next week as chapter of a new episode which discusses playing with sprites where we want to use a Windows-Application to edit our graphics. That is unless I find an alternative Sprite Editor on Mac - if you know any, let me know.

-act

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