Yabause

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Yabause

The interface of Yabause
Developer:	Guillaume Duhamel
Latest release:	0.8.0 / December 23, 2006
OS:	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Use:	Emulator
License:	GPL
Website:	http://yabause.sourceforge.net/

Yabause is an open source emulator for the Sega Saturn. It runs on mainly on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems using OpenGL and SDL, although an unofficial FreeBSD port is available and a primitive Dreamcast port exists.

1 History
- 1.1 Notable Release History
2 Features
3 Future
4 External links

[edit] History

Development of Yabause began primarily for Linux, with the first release on September 12, 2003. Windows and MacOS support came at version 0.0.6 on July 5, 2004.

[edit] Notable Release History

0.0.1 (September 12, 2003)

First release

0.0.4 (February 10, 2004)

SDL incorporated into Yabause

0.0.5 (May 31, 2004)

BIOS screen loads

0.0.7 (December 5, 2004)

First non-Linux ports
First games booting

0.5.0 (September 27, 2005)

Major compatibility update

0.6.0 (December 24, 2005)

GUI and speed improvements

0.7.0 (August 21, 2006)

Rewritten software renderer

0.8.0 (December 23, 2006)

Many GUI and compatibility fixes and improvements, including an early networking code

[edit] Features

Yabause has features such as:

Open source and extremely portable, many ports already exist for multiple platforms
Ability to load CD images or run directly off a Saturn disk using an ordinary CD-ROM
Debugging
Multiple region emulation