Thoughts about embedding libfawk? Any other small scripting languages to consider instead? I thought about trying to lex/yacc a custom parser, but getting into flow control and stuff means I pretty much have to write scripting language myself, and that's too big a task.This program is an Asteroids emulator for the Atari 800XL. Asteroids Emulator on the Atari 800XL Since the nineties, arcade emulators like MAME can emulate the classics like Asteroids on the PC or the Mac. It is licensed under the Modified (3-clause) BSD, which seems to be compatible with the GPLv2. Even Ataris own version for their 8-bit home computers ist not very close to the original. My current idea is libfawk which has a BASIC interpreter. I was thinking about embedding a small scripting language which would be in the headless target only.

rec on|off Control if frames are recorded to media fileĪtari800 -H1 /tmp ~/retro/a8/carts/Action.car -o test.avi -step 60 -type ' instead of the multiple command line arguments because it could also be parsed out of a file or STDIN as well as an argument.īy scripting I mean being able to have a text-based script (a program) to send input (keystrokes, joysticks, whatever) into the emulator and PEEK into the internal state to be able to control what happens next or when something happens.

Mac atari 800 emulator