Arnold TNG

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Arnold TNG	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Tool
🗃️ Genre:	Emulation	🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
🏷️ Category:	Emulation ➤ Engine ➤ Amstrad	🌍️ Browser version:
🔖 Tags:	Emulation; AMSTRAD; cpc464	📦️ Package Name:
🐣️ Approx. start:		📦️ Arch package:
🐓️ Latest:	2009-03-17	📦️ RPM package:
📍️ Version:	2009-03-17	📦️ Deb package:
🏛️ License type:	🕊️ Libre	📦️ Flatpak package:
🏛️ License:	GPL-2	📦️ AppImage package:
🏝️ Perspective:	Third & First person	📦️ Snap package:
👁️ Visual:	2D & 3D	⚙️ Generic binary:
⏱️ Pacing:	Real Time	📄️ Source:
👫️ Played:	Single & Multi	📱️ PDA support:
🎖️ This record:		🕳️ Not used:
🎀️ Game design:		👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis
🎰️ ID:	6955	🐛️ Created:	2010-08-20
🐜️ Updated:	2024-02-25

📕 Description [en]

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Nurgle and Elmsoft
proudly present their first co-production:

Arnold TNG

A second Linux life at Warp speed
Based on the Arnold CPC emulator by Kevin Thacker
Arnold TNG is yet another CPC emulator for Linux, with a number of new features for power users:

The Warp factor
The CPC's Z80A CPU runs at 4 MHz. Imagine what would happen if it became more powerful: not via a higher clockspeed, but by completing instructions faster. So a 'NOP' instruction, which normally takes 4 cycles to complete (1 microsecond, Warp 1), might suddenly take only 1 cycle (0.25 microseconds, Warp 4), or even just 0.25 cycles (Warp 16). Interrupts still occur 300 times a second, the CRTC still draws 50 frames per second, but the Z80A simply provides much more computational power. In Arnold TNG, you can always press F7 to accelerate up to Warp 16, and F6 to slow down again. In fullscreen mode, the current Warp factor is shown on the right side.

The following things work at Warp >=2:

☑ Most games and applications
☑ Sound effects and music
☑ Interrupt-based mode- and screen-splitting
☑ Hard disk access (most of the time)

The following things do not work at Warp >=2:

☑ Demos with rasters and split-rasters (these shrink down)
☑ Games and applications with complicated screen splitting, that use exactly timed delay loops

OpenGL fullscreen mode with smooth zooming

Arnold TNG uses the power of today's GPUs from nVIDIA and ATI to provide smooth OpenGL based zooming. Just press F2 to enter fullscreen mode, then use Ctrl+CursorUp to zoom in and Ctrl+CursorDown to zoom out. This way you can optimally fit the scene to the screen, no matter if it's a shrunk-down game or an overscan demo. Arnold TNG also detects the physical resolution of your screen, and ensures that the CPC screen is displayed with the correct aspect ratio, no matter if you are sitting in front of a 4:3 or 16:10 screen.

Action at 60 frames per second

Despite their low resolution, many CPC games (Ghosts'n'Goblins..) and demos look great because they run with perfect smoothness and update the screen 50 times per second, in sync with the screen refresh rate. This normally doesn't work with emulators, since today's screens have a higher refresh rate, causing a loss of smoothness. Arnold TNG can make use of the fact that most screens can operate in a certain refresh rate range, for TFTs that's usually 60-75 Hz (most TFTs display the current refresh rate in the on screen menu).

Joystick emulation

In case you want to play on your notebook in the train and don't have you joystick with you, simply press F5 to toggle joystick emulation. Then the joystick is mapped to the cursor keys, the left Window key is Fire1, the left Alt key is Fire2.

📕 Description [fr]

Un émulateur de console de jeux Amstrad CPC vous permettant de jouer sous Linux avec des ROMS téléchargées sur internet.
Cet émulateur nécessite à priori (info Emu nova non vérifiée) de décompresser les roms pour qu'elles soient reconnues.

Consoles émulées (avec doc Bottin): Amstrad CPC

Ressources : voir la fiche "Ressources - Emulation (Nom de la console émulée)".
Attention : le téléchargement de ROMS commerciales est illégal à moins de les avoir acquises financièrement.

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📕 Description [en]

📕 Description [fr]

🕵️ Test [fr]