Foone🏳️⚧️
this Game Link thing is interesting:
It's a local IPC protocol to let you write a 3rd party program that interacts with an emulator, getting RAM contents and even capturing video/sending input.
It seems to have been developed for Grid Cartographer, a closed source program, but it's implemented in DOSBox-X:
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/tree/master/src/gamelink
Foone🏳️⚧️
and a special DOSBox version used by Grid Cartographer:
https://github.com/hiddenasbestos/dosbox-gridc/tree/master/src/gamelink
Foone🏳️⚧️
this looks like it'd be a great platform to build a DOSBox specific cheat/reverse-engineering tool. that'd be sweet
Foone🏳️⚧️
I'm gonna have to write my own code to talk to it, which is a pain because the docs are "the source"
Foone🏳️⚧️
Craig P
@Rikkles Yeah, it just requires knowing exactly how two different emulators handle memory and adapting a largely undocumented system, no big deal.
Rikkles
@Craigp well if you put it that way… ;) I propose you look at an even more involved hack:
Craig P
@Rikkles I am legitimately impressed!
Rikkles
@Craigp what for? It’s a pretty basic shared memory “protocol”
Craig P
@foone oh, I've seen grid cartographer in action, that bit works great!
Rikkles
@Craigp @foone I also implemented Gamelink for Applewin and other derivatives, so I could use GridCarto with Apple games. I even got permission to modify the Ti99 emulator Classic99
Foone🏳️⚧️
@Rikkles @Craigp oh that's cool. More examples of integrating it will definitely help me.
Is there any docs I'm missing, or did you just build it off the dosbox source?
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