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Short IRG mode with a delay between SIOV calls should be enough -- it should already be writing continuous mark tone (1) after the end of each block.

As for some trivia in between, some time ago I learned that "case" still refers to the set of letters of the typesetter, when the typesetter had one case (the upper case) with the capitals sorted in, and another one below with the small letters. Although Gutenberg invented the printing press, we don't have a similar (known) term in German, just "big letter" and "small letter". By the way, the lower case letters are from medieval times (8th century), and the capitals, of course, from the Romans. I also learned that in Arabic, you have four "cases": starting, middle, ending, and isolated.

Yes, tested w/a Hyperkin (before 8bitdo retro arrived) and then yesterday w/a Gemini controller (after thorough testing w/the dongle + adapter cable): both controllers worked fine. Tested at both ports.

Autocorrector guilty! I never noticed when the computer added automatically the extra period. I've removed it. I've cleaned the code a lot in v0.4.4 so the interrupts are enabled early. Because the interrupt handler runs early, your song auto-start fails because #vgm_song is zero. I've made this patch at the start of vgm_play and now it works just fine: IF #vgm_pointer = 0 THEN IF #vgm_song <> 0 THEN GOSUB vgm_start RETURN END IF

@ZeroPage Homebrew Thanks James! (Just an FYI the magics are all down, back, fire or down, forward, fire or down, up. The yellow ninja will crash the game if doing down, forward, fire magic as I haven't finished coding his spear move yet.) Holding down+fire in the air is jump punch. (I left a DEBUG in that changes characters for testing if doing a straight up and down jump punch). Simply standing and pressing fire performs a low kick. During the knee bend animation press up for high kick or away for roundhouse.

Just a quick thought, and sorry if missed it, but does your A8's joystick port definitely work running an Atari joystick? Just wanted to double check your actual machine/it's port and pokey is ok

Like your artwork - very well made! 2 small suggestions: elevator is hard to see - everything is mostly black. And maybe can you make a small space between the life indicators - they are all „connected together“?

That's not very good news, because the long IRG can be needed for any data block. It seems, I will have to do the following: 1. Set up the POKEY for cassette output - two-tone mode, appropriate values in AUDCx and AUDFx, baud rate. 2. Start motor. For each block 3. If the intended IRG time is > 250 ms, then force POKEY to output 1 for the desired time, minus 250 ms. 4. Call SIOV with DAUX2=$80 to get the remaining 250 ms of IRG and record the data block. End for 5. Stop motor. 6. Reset the POKEY for normal operation. For 1 and 3, I will need to copy/paste and modify code from the Altirra OS. Doable, but still a somehow disappointing. One has to ask why the IRG duration cannot be specified in DTIMLO of the DCB... I guess I am 2024-1979=45 years late.

Hard to believe? Not really. Finally in recent months/last years time people have been more and more pushing back against the types of clowns that will try and erase ones existence for not agreeing and watching those meltdowns online are a real source of amusement as it's overdue. We're good, and yeah I own them now, so it all ended up well in the end. I got where you're coming from, and that's from someone who used to work in that industry then after the related media for a time and still has family in that industry who works as a producer. I get there are stakes being set and jobs on the line, but there are differences between A and B but some people just get hot and that's that.

Many thanks for the game and especially for the PAL version ☺️ Regarding the colors: the red and pink are very similar and hard to distinguish (at least in the PAL version). I can make a video if you like or need? Idea: what about more points if you catch the fruit fast and less if it took longer?

Thanks - didn’t know this hack! @Thomas Jentzschmaybe you have or can do a PAL version of it please? 🥺

Must admit, after seeing/playing Missile Command (played it to death in the past), I'm considering a VBXE install

What I usually see here used instead of small capitals are italics. For the same reason as the Wikipedia article mentions as a use case for small capitals. When I do see small capitals here it's in that case as the first few words in a new paragraph. Instead of indentations or just one large leading letter. But then they aren't small capitals in the font used, but a totally separate font used for the leading words. Sometimes even in a different color.

I've got 2 PS3's hooked up in my game area. One is a later slim model that my buddy gave to me without a harddrive, but for free. I installed a new harddrive and it runs great. I use that one for driving games like GT6, Daytona USA, and a few others that I play with my Logitech wheel. I've also got a stack of 12-15 AAA games that were given to me, but I don't see myself ever getting around to playing them at this point. The other is my original 80GB fat which has a dud laser (already replaced it once, 10 years ago). It also likes to spontaneously shut down when playing processor-intensive games (like GT6), presumably due to some kind of PSU or overheating issue. So, I've soft-modded it and filled up the HDD with a nice selection of shoot 'em ups and arcade-type games (mostly from PSN) which I play on a rotatable screen (for shooters that support TATE mode) and arcade controls. After over a year of use, none of these games have caused the shut down issue. I love that I was able to find a nice use for this busted old console which I was very close to just tossing in the bin at the electronics recycling center. The arcade style of the games list makes this particular setup a fairly common choice for me when I go down there, because I'm all about the "get-in-and-get-out" game experiences as opposed to the big 100+ hour time wasters.

I may sound preachy, but only because I feel passionate about issues of software piracy and IP theft in particular. I merely took a stand and stated my opinions on a very polarizing issue. Hard to believe in this day and age, huh? Someone who is actually willing to take a stand on a matter of consequence. But I am not trying to change anyone. I am not about imposing my beliefs on others, nor am I motivated to diminish your argument by taking it apart on a point by point basis as you have now done. I believe there is plenty of room on this forum for multiple viewpoints, including yours. I've said all I am going to say about this issue, and I shall now abandon this thread for good. The OP has long since sold his games, and this lingering thread is now showing all the signs of turning ugly. And nobody wants that. Do have a great day! -Ben

amazing, we are finally getting some VBXE software after all these years waiting

I'm not an expert, but most probably you need to redeploy it. It's not much of config. To be on safe side, i would only stoop old container, then deploy new one, an check if everything is working, then remove old one. As they use same ports both cannot run in parallel, but can use same share. Just review config of old one an adjust it to new one. It's only ports and path.

Besides prototype/unreleased stuff like the Atari 2700 and Kee Programmable Game System, I *think* the only ones I'm missing are the Atari 2800, the Irish all-black 2600jr., and, weirdly, a Sears Light Sixer. Otherwise, I think I've got every version, and then some: Atari 6-switch - heavy Sears 6-switch - heavy Atari 6-switch - light Atari 4-switch woodgrain Sears 4-switch Atari 4-switch - black Sears Video Arcade II Atari 2600jr. - small rainbow Atari 2600jr. - large rainbow Coleco Gemini Columbia Home Arcade Expansion Module #1 (for Colecovision) System Changer (for Intellivision II) VCS Adapter (for Atari 5200) For grins and giggles, I've also got a TV Boy and an Edu-Games 2600 (an Argentinian 2600jr. clone). If I had to pick a favorite, my gut tells me Atari Light Sixer. But, variety is the spice of life! 😁

You can also order them already done from Blue Sky Rangers for just $2 or $3 a set (which is quite cheap). I honestly don't know why anyone would want to take the time to print & cut these when they are so readily available. https://www.ebay.com/str/blueskyrangers?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ex-C4Qt_Rhu&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=mEXHEiIoQQG&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

So true, and if you ask you'll get admonished by both the people who know the potential but refuse to explain, and the people who believe in mythical untapped Jaguar potential. But due to Moore's Law, you can make a reasonable guess of what it's capable of for a system of that timeframe and price.

You're entitled to your opinion. I would suggest trying a few more games and consider that the bits mean little to nothing. Try playing Tempest 2k, NBA Jam and other games. I personally really love Defender 2K but I also know that is not everyone's cup of tea. The Jaguar was positioned strangely in the market, not by design but by the unknown but inevitable direction of gaming. They were trying to out do the SNES and MD and did so quite well. They threw in very fast (For the time) 3D and they really did have some good ideas that could have been executed better. You look at the interviews by members of the Atari team from the time and tell me that those people weren't passionate and trying their hardest make the best with what they had. Some games suffered at the hands of inexperience, budgets or bad tools. The Jag is a 2D powerhouse and if you look at something like Skyhammer you can see just how much they were able to pull out of the system in terms of 3D. I'd bet that someone today could optimize that game to run better but only because we know more now than was known then. Could it out perform the PSX in 3D? Should it be able to? Hardware was increasing in power quite fast in those days and the PSX is how much newer than the Jag? Nothing I said here should be taken negatively btw. Hang out, enjoy the forums.

Yeah, that is true. We might never know why they were using small caps from their early days of making mining industrial electronics machines. There is a whole Wikipedia page about the history of small caps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps As for the video processing stacking the tms9918 a bit easier as the overlay circuit is inside the silicon but all versions can handle it, even the later improved models of v9938 had that option. On the ti99 when using the 9918 the extvdp is infact sent to pin 5 of the monitor part, but as @Tursi points out the SYNC line is fixed to the reset control stuff the missing pull to 9v circuit is not there, plus it has to be timed right as if you pull it for too long the vram stops being refreshed as well, causing data loss. I need to find the original ti datasheet that shows how it all works they made what was called a "application note" describing it in detail with the special 9v sync circuit detailed out.

You will usually only get a long IRG at the start of file (leader tone) when using CIO. When you write a record, the SIO output at the end should be logic 1 which is the same as the tone for IRG. You should be able to get a longer IRG by just having a delay between SIOV calls, and there should be no disruption in the leader tone. But don't use long IRG mode since it stops the cassette motor at the end of each write. Also since you're using SIOV you have the flexibility in that you can write out practically any record size that you want (I'm guessing you're probably already planning to do that) I used it in the day before I had a 1050 to create a fast loading AsmEd image - it had a loader that was a few blocks long then the entire 8K cart image was written as a single block. Also I used a VBI when writing it to increase the baud rate.

I guess the same reason why when you need a winter coat in February all you can find is a few on clearance but plenty of swimsuits.. retail stocks months ahead of demand. Plus in those days you had all those printed Christmas catalogs which I'm sure take a while to put together and you want your game to be included.