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That is seriously impressive.

Well what kind of screws does the Top 3 on the GC Controller Ports has? I just want the 3 for the top & also the 2 screws that hold the faceplate

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, it was those YouTubers opining that we've yet to see the console's true potential that reeled me in. Practically speaking though, it's not fair to compare things like OpenLaura to contemporary games. Games ship on a budget and with a deadline. Unless it's a developer's third round on a console refining their engine for one last sequel before the next gen thing comes out, they're never going to be pushing anything to its limits. Jaguar didn't have the longevity to get to that. With that in mind though, I think Battlemorph, Iron Soldier 2, and maybe Hiverstrike: Unconquered Lands are pretty good examples of the Jaguar pushed to its 3D limits via contemporary development. No doubt someone could do a passion project with carefully defined constraints that blows those away, but that's a whole different thing. It's hard to compare hardware abilities just by eyeballing game visuals. That's a combination of developer cleverness, artistic talent, and hardware abilities.

Wanted to make this video almost two months ago to mark the 3rd year I've been working on this silly project, but got sidetracked by major life stuff. The video is a little bit on the spoiler-y side if you're someone who wants to play things fresh.

Hopefully this game is better balanced and not as random and rushed as King of Edom.

The Happy 1050 uses that style for bank switching, with a JSR to the bank address followed by the target address. Makes disassembly fun, especially since the two banks overlap in address space. The 1050 Turbo had an even nastier form of bank switching, which has a bunch of trampolines like this: F804: 2C 01 F0 BIT $F001 F807: 2C 03 F0 BIT $F003 F80A: 2C 02 F0 BIT $F002 F80D: 4C 13 F8 JMP $F813 Why's it nasty? Because each one of those reads is actually a jump. The read triggered by those BIT instructions causes an immediate bank switch such that the next instruction comes from a different bank at the following address. It would have been worse had the trampolines not all been placed at the front of the bank where they were easier to track. 2600 games pull a lot of dirty tricks due to heavy use of bank switching and size-saving tricks. Tables are really fun, you see a lookup like LDA $F017,X and have to figure out it's actually LDA $F027-$10,X with X >= $10... or the sprite table that you tried to rewrite for GTIA also happened to overlap on one side with the sound table and on the other side with the score graphics.

Didn't see the above explanation, but did test with values of 266 Mhz and 2 NOPs. I picked those based on what I had used in the past. The SAMS burn-in worked on all 3 of my TIs. Will test 250 Mhz and 1 NOP next.

Maybe a basic way of sorting games like we started with, use a prefix (when alphabet sorted) to group them together, 1intellivision name.rom (1stonix.rom) 2colecovision name 1.col (2mousetrap.col) 2colecovision name 2.col (2carnival.col)

This hack has become my absolute favorite Atari 2600 game. I wish I could have this on a cart! I can't even play the original anymore.

it's a good question and hard to answer without more investigation into the potentiometers. The potentiometers are sealed and barely used, so it's not obvious. It's also possible I was dealt a lemon, but true durability can only be measured by the community.

It was newly formatted FAT32 using GParted. Fresh format and then copied the games over. I used the same process with the good working 32GB microSD card. I have run into this sort of situation with other flash carts and ODE's in the past as well, so now when I run into loading issues my first instinct is to try different media. Initially when I was getting the black screen with Iron Soldier 2 I searched the forums here and found some other posts with people saying the exact same thing so I chalked it up to a compatibility issue. I was quite surprised to see that the game actually DOES work...just not with my first choice of media.

Did you check if your original SD card was fragmented? That can cause issues for the JagGD, though mainly for CD games. Mitch

Hi I want to share my most recent project: Robo Tito (a.k.a Tito el robotito contra los fantasmas) It is a jumpless platformer where you control Tito, a robot that can't jump, but he can stretch to reach platforms and hang from them. Due to a programming error in his system, he is allergic to scary things. To his misfortune he is trapped in a place infested with scary things (zombies, ghosts, bats, skulls), so he have to look for an exit, avoiding to touch those spooky stuff. I have tested it on Stella and on actual hardware. But as always testing and feedback would be appreciated. FIRST DEMO Robotito Demo 1

Aha, thank you I was wondering about that port! So we just unplug the wireless modem temporarily to access it? The SD card version of the PlusCart seems redundant with the Flash RAM being so easily accessible.

Thanks to all who responded, and much thanks to foft. Turns out the config programs need to be launched from DOS (I tried MyDOS and it worked). I was finally able to flash the PokeyMax core 🙂.

Things that don't have lowercase at all: 99/4 of course Key punch tools for cards Line printers have 64 chars on rotating drum Many teletypes Programming languages until late 70s Any 6- bit communication link

I've been running my emulator on Mame .170 for a very long time (obviously) Decided to try to upgrade to the latest .264. But duplicating the general settings, the trackball on my X-Arcade isn't working at all on the new version. Not even sure what to check at this point. It's just supposed to be a mouse. The trackball even moves in the interface, just not the games!

Just a quick update.. I made this Epson ESC/P Parser APP (Work-in-Progress) with Atari ST ASCII to Unicode lookup table. You can choose system installed fonts or fonts from app sketchPath("Fonts") folder. 😃

The Inty HSC is now in a suspended state. The games currently open will stay open until we get more players. No new games will be added until the ball gets rolling again and if that doesn't happen, SO BE IT!!! 🥺

Yeah you've got all the evidence right there. Right there in front of whoever designed the chars. Still, they knew how to make lower case in dot matrix. But from memos I see, their world was usually devoid of lower case. MEMOS WERE WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. I speculate that all online messages traveled through IBM mainframe in EBCDIC with no lower case.

Posted the GPL code with additional comments by yours truly—no ALC translation, yet. ...lee

Can you dump the RAM after a failed WiFi Update?

Now that my Jaguar is repaired and I can actually play around with the GameDrive I have been having a blast most of the day and evening I did discover fairly quickly however that it is pretty picky when it comes to the flash media. Not necessarily with detecting it, but success rate of loading games. Initially I was using a Sandisk ImageMate 32GB microSD card, this one in particular: https://www.walmart.com/ip/SanDisk-32GB-ImageMate-microSDHC-UHS-1-Memory-Card-Up-to-120MB-s-SDSQUA4-032G-Aw6ka/547052541 It worked fine for the most part...I played quite a few games. But, there were some issues that I would have completely chalked up to the GameDrive versus the media. Stuff like Braindead 13 glitching, Dragon's Lair freezing on launch, Iron Solider II going to a black screen (even the cartridge dump). For the heck of it I decided to change the media and use what I normally use, which is this Sandisk model: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GY9NYRM/ And wouldn't you know that those problems are gone. I have not tested all of the Jag CD games, but the aforementioned titles now work and Iron Soldier plays just fine (both CD and cart dumps). Maybe all of this is common knowledge but I figured I would throw this out there. If you are having issues it might be the media and not the console or the GameDrive. I find it very odd however that both of these cards have similar specs but one works fine over the other. It must be the NAND flash that is used in each.

Looks like the one from this haul Any chance you are repairing the other falcons too? … and yes I have a morbid curiosity about how many systems total will be saved/restored. Also is it normal for c-lab mk1 to have a white kb? http://msx.fab.free.fr/mpc2/atari/atari16-32/c-lab.htm the link seems to show the dark grey one, the case as well looks different (but that could be due to the yellowing).