Batari emulator

[SpitfireSMS]

So for one of my classes we are making an atari game, using the Batari emulator.
I have the install files, it just wont work.

I tried cd'ing into the source dir and doing ./configure make make install, but it came back with errors and didnt install anything.

The instructions are located here:
http://bataribasic.com/install.html

Im not sure if thats for a (much) older ubuntu, but it doesnt help me at all.

Does anyone know how to install this emu properly?
Or alternatively, could somebody download and get it working and then let me know what you did?

[prshah]

it came back with errors and didnt install anything.

Can you post the errors?

Maybe you need to install the basic building tools. Open a terminal and give the command
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Maybe someone can offer more relevant help if the errors are posted.

[SpitfireSMS]

Looks to me like an its errors with the installation script provided by the website.


ste@ste-laptop:~/Desktop/batari/source$ sudo make
cc -O2 -o 2600basic 2600bas.c statements.c keywords.c
2600bas.c: In function ‘main’:
2600bas.c:109: error: too few arguments to function ‘getline’
statements.c: In function ‘create_includes’:
statements.c:826: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
statements.c:827: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
statements.c: In function ‘getline’:
statements.c:1131: error: number of arguments doesn’t match prototype
/usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: prototype declaration
statements.c: In function ‘let’:
statements.c:2761: warning: too few arguments for format
statements.c:2770: warning: too few arguments for format
make: *** [2600basic] Error 1



I didnt have the build essentials installed, but installing them didnt help =(

[dddanmar]

So I tried it using the following on 9.10:

$ wget http://bataribasic.com/bB_Linux_binaries_version_1.0.zip
$ wget http://bataribasic.com/batari_Basic_version_1.0.zip
$ unzip batari_Basic_version_1.0.zip
$ unzip bB_Linux_binaries_version_1.0.zip
$ export bB=`pwd`
$ export PATH=$PATH:$bB
$./2600basic.sh samples/zombie_chase.bas

Starting build of samples/zombie_chase.bas
2600 Basic compilation complete.
DASM V2.20.09, Macro Assembler (C)1988-2003
bytes of ROM space left
65 bytes of ROM space left
65 bytes of ROM space left
Complete.
Build complete.

$ stella samples/zombie_chase.bas.bin

Works, and a fun game too :)

The binaries seem to work OK.


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{edit} For building, the error is getline() exists as a function and is conflicting, but in the source directory,

$ grep getline *
2600bas.c: if (j>40) fprintf(stderr,"(%d) Warning: long line\n",getline());
statements.c:int getline()

So.... let's just get rid of it because all its there for is a warning. Instead, it will just print out "Warning: long line\n". Sorry, it won't give you the line mentioned but eh...

Remove in your favourite text editor
,getline()

from 2600bas.c (note the comma)

and
int getline()
{
return line;
}

from statements.c

$ make
cc -O2 -o 2600basic 2600bas.c statements.c keywords.c
2600bas.c: In function ‘main’:
2600bas.c:109: warning: too few arguments for format
statements.c: In function ‘create_includes’:
statements.c:826: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
statements.c:827: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
statements.c: In function ‘let1’:
statements.c:2757: warning: too few arguments for format
statements.c:2766: warning: too few arguments for format
lex -t<preprocess.lex>lex.yy.c
cc -O2 -o preprocess lex.yy.c
rm -f lex.yy.c
cc -O2 -o postprocess postprocess.c
lex -t<optimize.lex>lex.yy.c
cc -O2 -o optimize lex.yy.c
rm -f lex.yy.c

$ cp 2600basic ..
$ cp optimize ..
$ cp postprocess ..
$ cp preprocess ..
$ cp dasm ..
$ cd ..
$ ./2600basic.sh samples/zombie_chase.bas
$ stella samples/zombie_chase.bas.bin

Huzzah!

[dddanmar]

Actually, I've just read your post again and thought I'd make sure its clarified:

batari: the basic atari 2600 compiler
stella: the atari 2600 emulator

So, you are writing your code in a text editor, compiling it with batari and playing it with stella (or similar) emulator.


, using the Batari emulator.