DAPHNE v0.99.6pre4 review

Welcome to DAPHNE, the First Ever Multiple Arcade Laserdisc Emulator! =]  DAPHNE is a program that lets one play the original versions of many laserdisc arcade games on one's PC.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: DAPHNE Team Price: $0.00 Updated: 07 Jul 2005

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Welcome to DAPHNE, the First Ever Multiple Arcade Laserdisc Emulator! =]  DAPHNE is a program that lets one play the original versions of many laserdisc arcade games on one's PC.

Using DAPHNE, one can play the following laserdisc arcade games:

Astron Belt
Badlands
Bega's Battle
Cliff Hanger
Cobra Command (running on Astron Belt hardware)
Dragon's Lair (US)
Esh's Aurunmilla
Galaxy Ranger
Space Ace (US)
Star Blazer
Super Don Quix-ote
Thayer's Quest

The main question everyone seems to want to know is whether you need a real laserdisc and a real laserdisc player to play games with DAPHNE.

The answer is you do NOT need a real laserdisc player to play games with DAPHNE. DAPHNE can emulate a real laserdisc player using mpeg files. However, if you happen to have a real laserdisc and a real laserdisc player, you CAN use them with DAPHNE.

DAPHNE is available for i386 GNU/Linux, i386 FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Windows 2/XP. It also may work on older versions of Windows such as 95/98/ME but performance will not be as smooth (rather jerky when using mpeg files).

This is a pre-release build for DAPHNE v0.99.6, mpeg2 decoding is unoptimized (slower) unfortunately due to compiler issues.

What's New:
fixed bug introduced in v0.99.6b where framefiles with multiple entries had their filenames truncated to 4 characters.