virtualjaguar1

Usage

Overview

Virtualjaguar is an emulator for the Atari Jaguar videogame system.

Options

[rom image file]

Name of file to load

-a, --alpine

Run in Alpine emulation mode

-b, --bios

Boot using Jaguar BIOS

--no-bios

Do not use Jaguar BIOS

-g, --gpu

Enable GPU emulation

--no-gpu

Disable GPU emulation

-l, --log

Create and use log file

--no-log

Do not use log file

-h, --help

Show command line help

Sound

DSP emulation is needed for audio output

-d, --dsp

Enable DSP emulation

--no-dsp

Disable DSP emulation

Video

-f, --fullscreen

Start in full screen mode

-p, --pal

PAL mode

-n, --ntsc

NTSC mode

-B, --blur

Enable GL bilinear filter

--no-blur

Disable GL bilinear filter

-z, --please-dont-kill-my-computer

Do not show emulation of tv static. This can be slow on low end CPUs.

Controls

Ctrl-Q

Quit virtualjaguar

Ctrl-I

Load a new program

Esc

Pause emulation

F7

Advance the emulation by a single frame

F9

Toggle full screen mode

The default keybindings for controller 1 are:

(Keybindings can be changed in the configuration dialog.)

S

Up

X

Down

A

Left

D

Right

P

Pause

O

Option

J

Button C

K

Button B

L

Button A

1 through 0

Buttons 1 through 0 on the keypad

=

Keypad *

-

Keypad #

Files

virtualjaguar.log

Virtualjaguar log file. Only written if the log option (-l or --log) is given. If the file cannot be opened, the log it sent to standard output instead. The log file is overwritten on startup. Note that the file is written to the current directory.

${XDG_DATA_HOME}/virtualjaguar/eeproms/ (typically ~/.local/share/data/virtualjaguar/eeproms/)

Some Atari Jaguar cartridges feature a small writable EEPROM, used for saving game state and score lists. If this directory exists, virtualjaguar will emulate the EEPROM by saving the state in file in this directory.

${XDG_DATA_HOME}/virtualjaguar/software/ (typically ~/.local/share/data/virtualjaguar/software/)

The virtualjaguar GUI for loading software scans this directory, and shows the loadable files, along with information about the program, and a label image if one is included in a zip archive of the software.