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thomson-to8-game-engine

Thomson TO8 game engine (sprites, music, etc.) and its generator written in ASM 6809 and Java.

How to compile the Java Generator

Prerequisites

The Java project uses Java and Maven. You need it to be installed first.

You need JAVA 11+ and Maven 3.6.x+.

Check your installation first.

On Linux :

$ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14
OpenJDK Runtime Environment GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)
Maven home: /home/robin/.sdkman/candidates/maven/current
Java version: 11.0.7, vendor: GraalVM Community, runtime: /home/robin/.sdkman/candidates/java/20.1.0.r11-grl
Default locale: fr_FR, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "5.4.0-81-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

The MAVEN and the JDK versions can vary depending on your current setup.

Compiling and building the executable JAR

$ cd java-generator
$ mvn clean compile assembly:single

Check that a file named game-engine-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar has been created in the folder /java-generator/target/.

How to generate a TO8 Game

The generator must have been compiled and built before this step

On Linux :

$ cd ./game-projects/sonic-2
$ java -jar ../../java-generator/target/game-engine-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar ./s2-EHZ-halfline2-linux.properties

...
...

Write Megarom T.2 Loader to output file ...
Ecriture ROM sur disquette.
Write Megarom T.2 Data to output file ...
Build done !

Check that the runnable program is generated in various format inside the dist folder.

$ ll dist
total 9096
drwxrwxr-x 2 robin robin    4096 sept. 13 10:35 ./
drwxrwxr-x 7 robin robin    4096 sept. 13 10:57 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin robin  655360 sept. 13 10:35 sonic-2.fd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin robin 2097152 sept. 13 10:35 sonic-2.rom
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin robin 1310720 sept. 13 10:35 sonic-2.sd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin robin 5242880 sept. 13 10:35 sonic-2_t2_flash.sd

Now you can run your program on your prefered emulator or a real Thomson TO8 computer.