Wave Runner Source Code

This demo started out in August 2018 as a few snippets of code thrown together to help learn 6502 coding, developed into a few effects that used 'stable raster' techniques, and then evolved further (with much collaboration!) to eventually become Wave Runner.

Build BSNova19.ssd

Build on Windows or OS X. (It should work on Linux too, but Mono wouldn't run the .NET EXEs when I tried, for reasons not entirely clear...)

Windows dependencies

Requirements:

• Python 2.x
• BeebAsm on PATH

All additional dependencies are included.

OS X dependencies

• Python 2.x
• Exomizer v2.0.9 - run make in exomizer2/src folder to build the appropriate version. Makefile assumes it's on the PATH and called exomizer2
• Exomizer v3.0.2 - grab the 3.0.2 zip and build. Makefile assumes it's on the PATH and called exomizer3
• BeebAsm - follow repo instructions to build. Makefile assumes it's on the PATH and called beebasm
• Mono and libgdiplus - MacPorts has suitable versions
• GNU Make

Build process

Type make, producing BSNova19.ssd.

Set variables on the command line to manually specify paths to executables:

• PYTHON= for Python (default: python)
• BEEBASM for BeebAsm (default: beebasm)
• (OS X) EXOMIZER3 for Exomizer v3 (default: exomizer3)
• (OS X) EXOMIZER2 for Exomizer v2 (default: exomizer2)
• (OS X) MONO for Mono (default: mono)

For example:

make BEEBASM=~/beebasm/beebasm EXOMIZER=~/exomizer-3.0.2/src/exomizer

Type make clean to remove intermediate files, forcing a full build next time.

Build tools

The build uses three C# command-line tools named FontExtractor, ImageAnalyser and RasterGen. These can be built on Windows or MacOS using Visual Studio. They are simple .Net executables with no third-party dependencies and should be portable between OSs.

Tools needed to build the command-line tools

• Visual Studio 2019

Build process

Load tools\Tools.sln into Visual Studio.

Build.

Commit new EXEs after changing - they are part of the repo.