The Century Arcade

A kit for making bootable ready-to-play ISOs of classic games

To setup a build machine

1. Start with Ubuntu Server 12.04.3LTS.

2. Install these packages

    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install git build-essential zip unzip libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev texinfo libncurses5-dev
   

3. Choose the toplevel $ARCADE directory [default /opt/arcade]. Make sure it has at least 10GB free.

    $ export ARCADE=/opt/arcade
    $ mkdir -p $ARCADE
   

4. Checkout the Century Arcade src repository.

    $ git clone https://github.com/century-arcade/src.git $ARCADE/src
   

5. Build the toolchain. This downloads ~200MB and uses 2.5GB of disk under the $ARCADE directory.

    $ make -C $ARCADE/src toolchain
   

To build the ISO for a game

1. Download the game source package (like LostPig-source.zip) and unzip into a folder (like $ARCADE/games/LostPig-source).

2. make GAMESRC=$ARCADE/games/LostPig-source

3. The LostPig-zmachine.iso will be in the current directory.

To play an ISO with qemu

0. [For a release: unzip the .izo.zip to get the .iso.

1. QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa qemu-system-i386 -soundhw all -cdrom LostPig-zmachine.iso

Notes

Makefile tries to include .arcaderc (from the current directory) very first thing for default GAMESRC and PROJECT values for development purposes (so a bare 'make' actually does something reasonable).