Steem Source released

[Pugsy]

Just got an email from the Steem email list:-

Hi,

we've finally released Steem's source code as open source under GPL3.
You can find the code of the current release here:

http://code.google.com/p/steem-engine/

- with a few tweaks to help it compile against newer version of the
libraries.

See the windows-build and X-build folders for build instructions and let
us know if you're interested in forking the source.

Enjoy!

Anthony and Russell Hayward

Cool

[Mug UK]

Wahey!

[Dal]

WOW! I had actually given up any hope of this happening. This is excellent news!!

Many thanks to Anthony and Russell!

[alexh]

Interesting how the repository has existed with contents since Jan 2011

Is STeEM Engine still superior to the latest build of Hatari in some ways?

Whilst the last Hatari release was about a year ago, there are constant checkins.

[Zenichiro]

I thought I'd never see the day, this is wonderful news! Came through on my mobile and I could hardly believe it... I just hope now that someone can put it to good use, hopefully in time many of the features we love in STeem can be merged into Hatari? Or at least a new release of Steem with known bugs fixed.

I just hope there's still enough able coders interested enough to get stuck in!

[Hippy Dave]

Excellent!
I took a quick look at the source-code and found that there is No mention of the GPL.
I also recommend more copyright notices to give credit to the authors.
Furthermore, ./steem-engine-read-only/X-build/README states in part that
"Steem is freeware, but not open-source."

Anthony and Russell Hayward, please comment.

[Hippy Dave]

I found the Steem mail list archive here:
http://www.freelists.org/archive/steem
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[alexh]

I took a quick look at the source-code and found that there is No mention of the GPL.

It says GPL3 on the project page.

Furthermore, ./steem-engine-read-only/X-build/README states in part that "Steem is freeware, but not open-source."

Erm, Thats the README from years ago. It's from when STeEM was released for linux only as binary files.

Anthony and Russell Hayward, please comment.

They have :

http://www.freelists.org/post/steem/Fin ... urce-steem

[Marakatti]

Great news!

My wish is that Hatari someday has similar user-friendly interface and configurable keyboard shortcuts like STeem.

[dma]

Wow, huge news!

Now let's hope for some motivated coders to give it some massive enhancements (and port it).

[nativ]

@DMA Port it back to the Atari ? as a boot manager and debugger? Onto the FireBee? or CT?

[simonsunnyboy]

I'm using Hatari for long years but STEEM is still the best emulator for Windows! I hope this leads to more improvements, better compatibility and maybe more interesting features.

[dma]

@DMA Port it back to the Atari ? as a boot manager and debugger? Onto the FireBee? or CT?

Well i rather had an OS X port in mind, but that shouldn't keep your imagination from being free.

[Steven Seagal]

If I understand well, it's been worked on lately.
What I find petty minded on the part of google is that they don't support IE8 "because it's not open-source".

[wongck]

of google is that they don't support IE8 "because it's not open-source".

LOL Is that true?
Give old Micoslop a taste of their own medicine.... Yoohoooo.. I love it !!

[Steven Seagal]

I'm trying to load the source in VC6...
It's one of those cases where its not being up to date shows.

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  for (int n=0;n<8;n++) logline+=Str("d")+n+"="+HEXSl(r[n],6)+"  ";
  logline+="\r\n";
  for (int n=0;n<8;n++) logline+=Str("a")+n+"="+HEXSl(areg[n],6)+"  ";
  logline+="\r\n";

It's an error in VC6 because n is still defined after the first for.

[Cyprian]

I have an issue too. I'm trying to compile Steem under mingw:

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C:\STEEM\SRC\windows-build\mingw>mingw32-make.exe
Makefile:26: *** missing separator.  Stop.

[Steven Seagal]

With Borland C++ 5.5, the project builds "as is". I guess it's the case too with VS2008 or 2010.
I got some warnings but I could make & run Steem.exe at once.

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E:\Downloads\steemsource\trunk_R63\windows-build\bcc>build_user
These are the BCC (Borland C++ Compiler) build scripts
for Steem (user / release build).
You need BCC from https://downloads.embarcadero.com/item/24778
and NASM from http://www.nasm.us/
Make sure the BCCROOT environment variable is set to point to
the bcc5.5 directory and the NASMROOT environment variable is set
to the nasm directory or nasm.exe is in your PATH environment variable.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
..\..\steem\asm\asm_osd_draw.asm:336: warning: signed byte value exceeds bounds
MAKE Version 5.2  Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\bcc32 -I..\..\steem\code;c:\console\bcc\Include;..\..
\include;..\..\3rdparty;..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib -v- -x -xf -xp- -xd -xs- -H- -y-
 -X -jb -j10 -tWM -r -a4 -6 -vi -d -ff -fp -w -O2 -OS -Oi -Ov -O -Oc -K- -D_NO_V
CL -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0300 -DWIN32 -c -o..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\un
rarlib\unrarlib.obj ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c:
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 448: 'str_offs' is ass
igned a value that is never used in function urarlib_get
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 380: 'retcode' is assi
gned a value that is never used in function urarlib_get
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 600: 'tmp' is assigned
 a value that is never used in function urarlib_freelist
Warning W8071 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 708: Conversion may lo
se significant digits in function ReadBlock
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 659: 'Size' is assigne
d a value that is never used in function ReadBlock
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 883: 'str_offs' is ass
igned a value that is never used in function IsArchive
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 1593: 'Count' is assig
ned a value that is never used in function UnpRead
Warning W8004 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 1591: 'ReadAddr' is as
signed a value that is never used in function UnpRead
Warning W8071 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 1679: Conversion may l
ose significant digits in function ReadTables
Warning W8068 ..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib\unrarlib\unrarlib.c 2505: Constant out of
range in comparison in function SetCryptKeys
MAKE Version 5.2  Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\brcc32 ..\..\steem\rc\resource.rc -foobj\Steem.res
Borland Resource Compiler  Version 5.40
Copyright (c) 1990, 1999 Inprise Corporation.  All rights reserved.
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\bcc32 -I..\..\steem\code;c:\console\bcc\Include;..\..
\include;..\..\3rdparty;..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib -D_BCC_BUILD -D_NO_DEBUG_BUILD -
v- -x -xf -xp- -xd -xs- -H- -y- -X -jb -j10 -tWM -r -a4 -6 -vi -d -ff -fp -w -O2
 -OS -Oi -Ov -O -Oc -K- -D_NO_VCL -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0300 -D_BCC_B
UILD -DWIN32 -c -oobj\Steem.obj ..\..\steem\Steem.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
..\..\steem\Steem.cpp:
Warning W8027 ..\..\steem\code\screen_saver.cpp 273: Functions containing switch
 are not expanded inline
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\bcc32 -I..\..\steem\code;c:\console\bcc\Include;..\..
\include;..\..\3rdparty;..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib -D_BCC_BUILD -D_NO_DEBUG_BUILD -
v- -x -xf -xp- -xd -xs- -H- -y- -X -jb -j10 -tWM -r -a4 -6 -vi -d -ff -fp -w -O2
 -OS -Oi -Ov -O -Oc -K- -D_NO_VCL -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0300 -D_BCC_B
UILD -DWIN32 -c -oobj\helper.obj ..\..\steem\helper.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
..\..\steem\helper.cpp:
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\bcc32 -I..\..\steem\code;c:\console\bcc\Include;..\..
\include;..\..\3rdparty;..\..\3rdparty\unrarlib -D_BCC_BUILD -D_NO_DEBUG_BUILD -
v- -x -xf -xp- -xd -xs- -H- -y- -X -jb -j10 -tWM -r -a4 -6 -vi -d -ff -fp -w -O2
 -OS -Oi -Ov -O -Oc -K- -D_NO_VCL -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0300 -D_BCC_B
UILD -DWIN32 -c -oobj\emu.obj ..\..\steem\emu.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
..\..\steem\emu.cpp:
Warning W8027 ..\..\steem\code\draw.cpp 680: Functions containing some if statem
ents are not expanded inline in function draw_scanline_to(int)
Warning W8027 ..\..\steem\code\draw.cpp 701: Functions containing for are not ex
panded inline
        c:\console\bcc\Bin\ilink32 -Lc:\console\bcc\Lib;c:\console\bcc\Lib\PSDK
-aa -Tpe -t -x -w -v- -C -Gn obj\asm_draw.obj obj\emu.obj c0w32.obj obj\Steem.ob
j  obj\helper.obj obj\asm_osd_draw.obj obj\asm_portio.obj ..\..\3rdparty\unrarli
b\unrarlib\unrarlib.obj, "_UserRelease\Steem.exe", ,import32.lib cw32mt.lib, ,ob
j\Steem.res
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland
Info: Link time = 0.27 seconds
..\..\steem\patches\Corporation Megademo.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Cuddly Demo - Spreadpoint.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Enchanted Land.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Grand Monster Slam.stp
..\..\steem\patches\International 3D Tennis.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Lin Wu's Challenge.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Live and Let Die.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Nightdawn.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Psygnosis Games.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Rainbow Islands (Automation).stp
..\..\steem\patches\Rambo III (Automation).stp
..\..\steem\patches\SoWatt Demo.stp
..\..\steem\patches\Super Monaco GP (Superior).stp
..\..\steem\patches\V8 Music System Demo.stp
..\..\steem\patches\version
..\..\steem\patches\Warzone (D-Bug).stp
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[Dal]

I'm trying to load the source in VC6...
It's one of those cases where its not being up to date shows.

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  for (int n=0;n<8;n++) logline+=Str("d")+n+"="+HEXSl(r[n],6)+"  ";
  logline+="\r\n";
  for (int n=0;n<8;n++) logline+=Str("a")+n+"="+HEXSl(areg[n],6)+"  ";
  logline+="\r\n";

It's an error in VC6 because n is still defined after the first for.

I'm sure this is a compiler option in vc6, but it's been a long time!

[LaurentS]

Hi,

> I'm using Hatari for long years but STEEM is still the best emulator for Windows!

It depends what you're looking at.
If GUI, I agree Steem looks better. But I don't spend hours in hatari's Gui, but in demos, progs or games emulation.

If you compare accuracy, Hatari is now closer to real hardware than Steem is (Ste DMA sound accuracy is one example, shifter emulation too, ...)
Nearly everything is now correctly emulated under hatari without patchs.

And there's the falcon part that improves months after months.

It's just my point of view.

Best regards to all atari communauty

Laurent

[Dal]

Just needs pasti support. I believe Ijor has been working on this as and when he has free time.

[Steven Seagal]

OK it can be built in VC6 too, but it was more of an effort!

- the scope thing (like above and inside 'switch')
- some casts strangely written for example int(a) instead of (int)a ... correct BC++?
- moving files and folders around (figure all the ..\ )
- had to remove some optimisation
- a try / __except match (normally it's __try, according to the doc, I know nothing about it)
- only some files in project, compilation directed by sorts of "includes" in the main files => they're not really in your VC project and you can't compile, say, ikbd.cpp:

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USEFILE("code\ikbd.cpp");

In both cases I'm not sure everything is in it but at least it compiles & runs.

[atarimania]

Great news!

Now we "just" need a port to Java including Pasti to play the games directly from Atarimania as we do with the 2600

[SofiST]

I have problems to figure out how to DL whole package .. Any hints ?
And would like to see Steem Debugger source. I have some ideas what to add/change there

[Cyprian]

SofiST, you need SVN:
http://code.google.com/p/steem-engine/source/checkout

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svn checkout http://steem-engine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ steem-engine-read-only