Cannonball (the OutRun Engine)

How to install cannonball the outrun engine on your own PC for the ultimate Retro Experience on Ubuntu/Debian Derivates. With Windows the Process is defined on the github page.

{% highlight bash %} DIRRECTORY=~/git mkdir $DIRRECTORY git clone https://github.com/djyt/cannonball.git $DIRRECTORY/cannonball cd $DIRRECTORY/cannonball

could not get it to target debian

cp cmake/debian.cmake cmake/default.cmake mkdir build cd build sudo apt-get install cmake libsdl1.2-dev libboost1.53-dev -yy cmake ../cmake make ln -s ../roms roms

now put your “OutRun Rev.B romset in the roms dir.

and off you go by

./cannonball

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Navigate to the options menu with the Arrow keys and “1” as “Enter”. Edit your keys to your behaviours. And Blast off to one of the coolest Gaming Machine Games of the last Century.

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