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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2018-08-21 15:45:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2018-09-01 07:32:28 +0700 |
| commit | 843e3bb5332fd2c0037df9c73fbb018394f39c20 (patch) | |
| tree | 1314fc4bdcd73fdccabcfe650aeaa7d65ac3f6fa /games/z26/README | |
| parent | dc2c6c06dda3c298e80502568db1c4b9c93a6a2e (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-843e3bb5332fd2c0037df9c73fbb018394f39c20.tar.gz | |
games/z26: Update README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/games/z26/README b/games/z26/README index 0065ea1939..e735b36244 100644 --- a/games/z26/README +++ b/games/z26/README @@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ z26 (an Atari 2600 emulator) -Z26 is one of the best emulators for the Atari 2600. -The author reports that the graphics part of the emulator -is nearing perfection to a point that there's little more -to fix. +Z26 is one of the best emulators for the Atari 2600. The author reports +that the graphics part of the emulator is nearing perfection to a point +that there's little more to fix. + +This is z26 version 2.13, the last release that was actually developed +and tested on Linux. The later 3.x series has some issues running on +Linux, and the authors aren't interested in fixing them. If you want +to try it, install games/z26v3 (which won't conflict with this build; +you can have both installed). Note to 64-bit users: z26 is mostly written in 32-bit x86 assembly, -so it can't be built for x86_64. However, if you build a z26 package -on a 32-bit system, and install it on a 64-bit system that also has -alienBOB's or Fred Emmott's 32-bit compatibility packages (specifically, -a 32-bit sdl package is required), it should run just fine. +so it can't be built for x86_64. However, this SlackBuild can create +a package that will run on pure 64-bit Slackware, by using a prebuilt, +statically linked z26 executable. |