Daedalus v0.07b Readme File
Copyright (C) 2001 StrmnNrmn

This document last edited 3 June 2001.

This is the source distribution of Daedalus. If you are not a
developer, you will probably find the binary distribution more
useful.

What is Daedalus?
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Daedalus is a Nintendo64 emulator for Windows. Daedalus is named
after the craftsman at King Minos's court who designed the 
labyrinth for the Minotaur.

Getting the Latest Version
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Daedalus is currently hosted on the Boob site at
http://daedalus.boob.co.uk/. The most recent version of
Daedalus will always be available there (and hopefully mirrored
on some of the other emulation sites).

Using The Source
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The source for Daedalus is distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, which is included in this archive as
lisence.txt. Please make sure that you understand the terms and
conditions of the lisence before using the source.

I have no documentation or walkthrough for this sourcecode at
the moment. Please be patient until I find the time to compile
some documentation.

If you'd like to get involved, check out the Daedalus website for
contact details. I'd very much like for other programmers to get 
involved with the Daedalus project, but I'd rather people worked on
the official project than set up their own open source emulator
using the Daedalus as a foundation (but that option is open to you
under the GPL license). If you're considering starting your own
emulator, please consider that you will make a much greater
contribution by working on the official Daedalus project.


Requirements
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Visual C++ v6. I use service pack 4, so you may need to download this
from MSDN to compile the source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/.

DirectX8 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/directx/)
zlib (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/)
libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html)

Good coding skills and patience are a must! This program is very complex
and even I have to relearn parts of the sourcecode when I start working
on a different area. If you have a weak constitution, don't go near
SR.cpp! :)


3DfX and ATi
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There are still problems with Voodoo based cards. I have tried
as much as possible to remove the bugs that caused Daedalus to 
crash on 3dfx cards, but there are still many graphical glitches
remaining. Unfortunately as I do not have a Voodoo card of my own,
it is very difficult for me to test and fix bugs. Hopefully over
the coming weeks support for 3dfx cards should improve
substantially.

If you find that Daedalus causes problems with your graphics card,
you now have the option of trying one of the graphics plugins that
are available.


Support, Bugs, Comments etc
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This version of Daedalus should be considered a BETA RELEASE and
as such it is anticipated that it will crash from time to time.

For support issues, bug reports, comments and so on, please visit
the Daedalus homepage:

http://daedalus.boob.co.uk/

Who / What is StrmnNrmn?
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StrmnNrmn is short for Storming Norman. "Storming Norman" is
slightly too long to use as a nick on IRC, so it has been
shortened to "StrmnNrmn".

Credits
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Thanks to CyRUS64 for prompting me to release the emulator,
for helping with some of the programming tasks and for hosting
the Daedalus site on Boob.

A very big thanks to the following people:

o Azimer, _Demo_, F|RES, Icepir8, Jabo, LaC, Lemmy, Niki Waibel,
  Zilmar, and all the other N64 emu developers who have put up with
  my awkward questions over the past few months!
o Bjz, CyRUS64 and Genueix for compiling the ini file with this release.
o A big thanks to JTS and others in #daedalus for helping to sort
  out the 3dfx bugs.
o Thanks to Gorxon and Genueix for maintaining the website (and
  The Gypsy for hosting!).
o Thanks to JTS for doing the FAQ.
o Thanks to Lkb for some very nice additions to the Debug Console
  and mirrored texture support for cards that don't support it
  in hardware. Lkb has also added much better localisation support,
  and been improving the Dynamic Recompiler.
o Thanks to Jun Su and Orkin for various other changes.

Check the credits.txt file for more details.



Copying
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Daedalus is released under the GNU General Public License,
and the sourcecode is available from the Boob site. 

Disclaimer
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The Daedalus distribution comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind.