Atari Lynx for native Dingoo

Posted Wed, 10/21/2009 - 06:26 by capt_bugaloo

A beta of an emulator for the Atari Lynx was released today
It runs great with the native environment - no Dingux installation required!

I have tested it with a few ROMs of games I own; I find the emulator works very well for many ROMs.

  • Blue Lightning, KLAX, and a few others I tried ran quite well; I didn't notice any slow down other than some choppy title music in BL.
  • STUN Runner has some messed up graphics; but is playable.
  • Ms. Pacman runs about 15% too fast!
  • "Lynx Diagnostic cart": when you push buttons on the button test, a speaker beeps like it should but the button display doesn't light up.

Awesome for a beta release! :thumbsup:

Sorry for the lousy quality of my cell phone pics... The quality of the emulation is quite good, with clear sharp graphics and smooth framerate.

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freezes when opening lynx game

by agsmith1983 - 02/15/2010 - 00:38

i have copied the lyngoo.sim and the lynxboot.img files under game on the dingoo but when i try to start a .lnx rom it freezes..  can any one help me? its only new so all the software is original.. thanks

Keeps needing a reset

by ssppllaatt - 01/19/2010 - 20:21

Love this emulator

My problem is this, I run a game and all is well then I come out and try to run another - the dingoo freezes and must be rest.

 

Is there a fix for this? 

cant see the files

by Rakkachi - 11/15/2009 - 09:29

strange, i placed the files where they should go but i dont see them...in the browser there there alright. need i to register then to see them ?

the cake ...its a lie

1) the LynGOO.SIM file is in

by capt_bugaloo - 11/15/2009 - 15:43

1) the LynGOO.SIM file is in the GAMES folder?

2) the lynxboot.img file is also in the GAMES folder?

3) the ROMs are unzipped and have file extensions of .LNX?

4) you ran an "Update Jukebox" after copying all the files?

 

1. yes it is on

by Rakkachi - 11/15/2009 - 16:50

1. yes it is on Udisk/games/

2. yes it is its a 1 K file though could that be right ?

3. yes unzipped them en tried them on my pc with a emulator working ones i copied to the games folder.

4. i did not but this is for music i tried it anyway, no result.

the GBA and SMD files show up fine, strange...

the cake ...its a lie

fixed

by Rakkachi - 11/28/2009 - 19:45

ok i found the problem, apparently this only works if the .Sim is on the dingoo itself and not on the memorycard.

the cake ...its a lie

hi, i installed this emu and

by specialneedsmonkey - 11/13/2009 - 14:57

hi, i installed this emu and loads of roms but after playing for a while (which worked great) non of the other emulators loaded their roms.. the only other thing i changed was i added the manic minor app but everything else started working back up again after i deleted the lynx emulator. has anyone else has issues with conflict ? 

im using the new firmware which has been upgraded by pof

i've never played this

by specialneedsmonkey - 11/12/2009 - 17:11

i've never played this console, could anyone mention some games worth playing? 

thanks

Try searching on

by capt_bugaloo - 11/12/2009 - 17:20

Try searching on wikipedia.org for more info on the Atari Lynx.  It was sold from 1989 until about 1994, and had maybe about 165 games released for it.

It has a lot of good conversions of 80s arcade hits: KLAX, Joust, Robottron, STUN Runner, Qix, Paperboy, Ms Pacman, Battlezone 2000, etc.

It has a great game called Blue Lightning that is similar to Sega's Afterburner.

If you like puzzler games, check out Shanghai, Chip's Challenge, and Crystal Mines.

 

cheers for the reply, i'll

by specialneedsmonkey - 11/13/2009 - 10:09

cheers for the reply, i'll look into it :)

always wanted one but then it was always a very expencive thing.

Awesome!

by Vincent Greene - 10/28/2009 - 20:11

Thanks so much for making this great emulator. I've never played Lynx games before, they're a lot fun on the Dingoo :)

 

One problem I noticed with only one game: When I play Viking Child, the screen flashes from time to time during gameplay. Sound in the title screen seems out of sync. But this might just be the game, I have no way of telling, because I'm new to Lynx games.

We want port Atari800 , one

by freeesh - 10/23/2009 - 18:29

We want port Atari800 , one from the best 8-bit computer.

Stalls

by SlimPickens - 10/22/2009 - 16:05

When i try to load another game it stalls my dingoo i have to reset tryed changing firmware back to manufacturer but same problem

Second beta available...

by capt_bugaloo - 10/22/2009 - 03:18

 

A second, newer beta has just been posted by the developer:

   http://www.speedyshare.com/163829299.html

 

  From the original

by capt_bugaloo - 10/22/2009 - 03:15

 

From the original announcement on another Dingoo board:

First beta can be found here:

http://www.speedyshare.com/534817175.html

Place LynGOO.SIM together with lynxboot.img in your GAME folder and have fun with some LNX files!

This version still contains several glitches and load/save state is not implemented yet. You will have to google lynxboot.img as I'm not allowed to bundle it with the emulator.

So you put LynGOO.SIM in \GAMES, along with a good copy of the Lynx Boot ROM.  And where do you find this lynxboot.img file?  See the quote above.

The Lynx ROMs must be unzipped, and have a file extension of '.lnx'

Go to "Interesting game" and browse to your LNX ROMs.  Click on one and it will launch!  Very easy.

 

Very Nicely Done

by DS_Strider - 10/21/2009 - 18:20

I've had near perfect emulation for a lot of the games for this emulator. However, I had trouble getting it started at first. (Forgot to include the BIOS image for the Lynx).

 Where do you get the bios

by Fru - 10/21/2009 - 21:38

 Where do you get the bios image and where do you put it?

LynxBoot

by dingoo-digital-usa - 10/22/2009 - 14:32

Just google lynxboot.img and you will find the sites to download it

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