             *** DragoNes v0.10 by Jonathan Phnix aka Lone_Wolf***


*Introduction*

    DragoNes is a freeware DOS Nintendo emulator. With this program, you can
play your old NES games (but still very good according to me). I know there is
already good NES emulator (NESticle and iNES just to name them) but i wanted
to create my own. My first idea was to make a emulator that will be able to
run all the Dragon Warrior/Quest because any others emulator weren't able to
run Dragon Warrior 3 and 4 and Dragon Quest 4. This is why this emulator is
called DragoNes. Now, i don't want to emulate just those game, i want to make
a nearly perfect emulator with features that other emulators dosen't have right
now (lightgun support, 4 player support... etc...).


*What's Included*

    dragones.exe  -  the .exe file
    readme.txt    -  this file
    cart.nes      -  this is a freeware test cart for the NES created by ?
    cart.asm      -  the source of the cart.nes

Now, just take a look. As you see, there is no commercial games comming with
it and i will never include one with because both of moral and legal reason,
those game are still copyrighted. Don't e-mail me to ask games or www/ftp/...
containing those game, i will ignore it. You can freely redistribute this
emulator as long as this file and dragones.exe are unmodified and it is not
packaged with commercial ROMs.



*How does it work?*

    You will need some .NES games in order to make it run. You can launch the
emulator by typing: dragones <-options> [iNES file]. Type dragones without
argument to see the options (there is a frame skipping option that can boost
up the speed on slow computer like mine :( )

Those are the keys to play:
        Keyboard          NES joystick
        Alt               A
        Ctrl              B
        X                 START
        Z                 SELECT
        UP                UP
        DOWN              DOWN
        LEFT              LEFT
        RIGHT             RIGHT
        BACKSPACE         enter 6502 debugger (for those brave CPU warrior!)



*What hardware do i need?*

-Minimal
 *386 IBM PC

-Required for decent play
 *Pentium 133 MHz and up

-The goal when all my code will be optimized
 *486 66MHz and up


*Things emulated*

-Complete 6502 opcode map (seems to be plenty buggy)
-Sprites (8x16 pixel sprite dosen't seems to work)
-Background (no scrolling yet)
-Memory mapper #0,2,3



*Things not currently emulated*

-Memory backed RAM
-multi-player support
-Lightgun
-Sound
-etc...


*Versions*

-0.10 (97/08/14)
 Initial realease


*Thanks*

-Y0SHi             (yoshi@parodius.com) for his excellent NES doc.
-Marat Fayzullin   (fms@freeflight.com) for his NES doc.
-Loopy             (loopy@itsnet.com) for his NES palette.
-Trunks            (trunks@mlink.net) for the DragoNes logo and HTML.
-Undernet #coders and #emu people for moral support and help.
-And finally you... for using DragoNes.


*How can i be reached?*

Before trying to contact me: NEVER asks me for NES ROMS, I will ignore you.
FOR NOW don't e-mail me about the bugs, they are so easy to spot right now :)
If you don't want to reach me for those reason my e-mail is
lone_wolf@videotron.ca and i'm on Undernet #emu and #coders channel.
You can always go to
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/3925/dragones.html
for the lastest info and version of DragoNes!



*Legal stuff*

DragoNes is (C) 1997 by Jonathan Phnix. Use this software at your own risk, I
cannot be held responsible for any damages that might happens using it.
Nintendo Entertainement System (NES) is trademark of Nintendo of America.
Dragon Warrior, Dragon Quest are (C) Enix of America/Japan.

