Yeah... Tickle is back! :-) This project has been frozen for many years until a few months ago I started doing some work on it again and one little piece at a time it has now grown enough to be released.
The most significant changes are:
As usual new drivers have been added, this set in particular has been choosen because it allowed me to test most of the emulation components:
On Mac OS X: open the Disk Image (.dmg) file and drag the Tickle icon to any folder. Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
On Windows: unzip tickle.exe into any directory. Requires Windows XP.
Emulated games usually require a copy of the corresponding ROM files. Tickle uses the same naming convention of the MAME emulator. Required files must be placed in a properly named ZIP file in a subdirectory names "roms" (if sound samples are needed, they must be placed in a subdirectory named "samples").
If one or more of the required files are missing the program will display an error message but will also offer a choice to continue: this may be used to emulate errors or such, a feature that will be probably tested more in later releases.
Please remember that the ROM files are usually copyrighted material and are not included with this program. Furthermore, they must be never bundled or distributed together with this program in any format or media.
Note: Space Invaders and related games will complain at startup if they do not find samples for the sound effects. This warning can be safely ignored (it is caused by the emulator still having an option to use samples for sound emulation). The only drivers that really need samples are Fantasy and Vanguard.
The following table contains a list of all the drivers supported in this release:
| Name | Manufacturer | Year | Screen | Resources |
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Tickle 0.94 is built from more than 35,000 lines of C++ code. It can emulate the following chips:
Tickle is Copyright © 1997-2010,2011 by Alessandro Scotti
Tickle is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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