chris_rainbow Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Hi all, New features for version 2.2: - improvements to video timing - Bennet tables implemented for DMA timing - mid-scanline timing fix (e.g. Fast Eddie, Silly Things demo, Master of the Lamps) - 6502 store timing fix - VSCROL fixed - VDELAY fixed - player & missile colours fixed for GTIA modes - "Share Joystick fpr Player 2" menu item added (share a single joystick for 2 players, playing alternately) - PIA memory repeat added - PIA fixes for DCRs and data registers - menu option to turn on/off console speaker - SIO disk fixes - sound restored when window gets focus - more trace info for CPU, SIO, PIA and display options - scanline ruler added - CONSOL read fixed for 5200 (Xari Arena ok now) - 20% faster than v2.1 http://www.chrislam.co.uk/rainbow-atari-8bit-emulator.htm Regards, Chris. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 sorry, i dont understand WHY we have the best - Altirra ..but interesting enthusiasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atx4us Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 (edited) sorry, i dont understand WHY we have the best - Altirra ..but interesting enthusiasm. At one time (long ago), Altirra wasn't the best, either - Atari800Win Plus was! But, I'm sure glad that phaeron didn't give up to remarks like this! Edited August 25, 2012 by atx4us 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 sound in the emulator just awful. the speed of the emulator antsy. game "Alley cat" would not start the emulator. half the games and programs do not run or throw an error. up: removed the emulator after five minutes and sat down at the altirra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 W1k, you ok? Bit overly critical wasn't it, for an emulator resurrected from dead its moving along nicely.. Carry on Chris, ignore that odd burst of negativity.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 sound in the emulator just awful. the speed of the emulator antsy. game "Alley cat" would not start the emulator. half the games and programs do not run or throw an error. up: removed the emulator after five minutes and sat down at the altirra. Again, no need to be so damning sergey, there's a fine line between being critical and being rude.. As At4xl said, good thing no one posted comments like this to Phaeron at the start of Altirra.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Paul, I just wrote an opinion. conclusion - emulator unusable. may-be someday this emulator will be very good and may even surpass altirra. but not now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 the point is that i am an optimist.. i did not mean it in a bad.. all new SW for atari is good.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sub(Function(:)) Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Hi all, New features for version 2.2: […snip…] http://www.chrislam....it-emulator.htm Hi Chris That is really good to hear. I think I registered a copy of either rainbow (or Horizon?) many years ago. It's nice to see alternatives in the emulation scene. Do you know if Richard Bannister will be porting over to Mac OS X? Many thanks for the hard work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I'm never going to write Rescue on Fractalus II (the improved version) with my first assembly language game. Doesn't stop me coding though. I have that dream that one day maybe I might... ... just not yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rainbow Posted August 25, 2012 Author Share Posted August 25, 2012 [quote name=Sub(Function()' timestamp='1345901545' post='2585884] Hi all, New features for version 2.2: […snip…] http://www.chrislam....it-emulator.htm Hi Chris That is really good to hear. I think I registered a copy of either rainbow (or Horizon?) many years ago. It's nice to see alternatives in the emulation scene. Do you know if Richard Bannister will be porting over to Mac OS X? Many thanks for the hard work Thanks! Not sure if Richard will be working doing a Mac version... from his website he seems to have cut back his involvement with emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rainbow Posted August 25, 2012 Author Share Posted August 25, 2012 W1k, you ok? Bit overly critical wasn't it, for an emulator resurrected from dead its moving along nicely.. Carry on Chris, ignore that odd burst of negativity.. Thanks, will do! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sub(Function(:)) Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Thanks! Not sure if Richard will be working doing a Mac version... from his website he seems to have cut back his involvement with emulators. Looking at the selection of emulators on his site, I guess at some point that had to be inevitable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Paul, I just wrote an opinion. conclusion - emulator unusable. may-be someday this emulator will be very good and may even surpass altirra. but not now. Maybe it was the translator, it sounded very harsh, we want to encourage these guys as much as possible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Chris, thank you for the great work. Don't let the bad attitudes expressed in this thread dissuade your progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACML Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Chris, I really appriciate those few gifted individuals that have labored to keep the Atari 8-bit going and making it easier for us to re-live one of the coolest machines I can remember. Back in the 1990's there was Xformer and it worked reasonably well. It was no longer supported after 2003. Then I found Atari800Win and it was better. Better than Altirra when Altirra first came out. Now I use Altirra and it is awesome. I remember Rainbow, but never realy tried it. At the time, it looked very cool, but I wasn't spending much time on 8-bits then. Please keep developing it! You never know when Altirra may no longer be supported. There's always room for another 8-bit emulator. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Thanks, for update, but..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 The passion to revive and improve the emulator after 12 years deserves kudos! I remebmer reading about Rainbow in an ABBUC Mag back then and it was unique because it came (legally) with the OS ROMs. Just installed it now and will add is to the next WUDSN IDE update also of couse. The coolest thing for me is that once again one of my demos is on the emulator site/package :-) The last time this happend was with Visdom II and Atari 800 Win (it required cycle excat splits and GITA bug). Can't way to push the emulators again one day .... (that's really getting hard now, RC will cause all unknown effect to be found :-) Q: It doesn't support double densitiy disks, right? And are the DSK images something special atr just ATRs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I think the next step in Atari emulation is going to be to build exact logic simulators based on the die shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Chris, Good job on the mid-scanline change fixes! It looks like you may have taken on a regression in Alley Cat, though, as the DLIs were OK in 2.1 but are unstable in 2.2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rainbow Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 The passion to revive and improve the emulator after 12 years deserves kudos! I remebmer reading about Rainbow in an ABBUC Mag back then and it was unique because it came (legally) with the OS ROMs. Just installed it now and will add is to the next WUDSN IDE update also of couse. The coolest thing for me is that once again one of my demos is on the emulator site/package :-) The last time this happend was with Visdom II and Atari 800 Win (it required cycle excat splits and GITA bug). Can't way to push the emulators again one day .... (that's really getting hard now, RC will cause all unknown effect to be found :-) Q: It doesn't support double densitiy disks, right? And are the DSK images something special atr just ATRs? Well, I had to include the demo after the time I spent getting it to work A couple more tweaks and it should run perfectly. Hope to add DD support later. DSK are just ATR disk images without the header. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rainbow Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 Chris, Good job on the mid-scanline change fixes! It looks like you may have taken on a regression in Alley Cat, though, as the DLIs were OK in 2.1 but are unstable in 2.2. Thanks. Yes I noticed the flicker in Alley Cat but after the release. Next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Hope to add DD support later. DSK are just ATR disk images without the header. I think everyone else calls these "XFD" files don't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Hope to add DD support later. Brilliant! I've actually got some strange 180k disks that Altirra can't boot (Or, at least I can't make them work, but I'm prepared to bet it could be a user setting!). They start up fine (3 beeps for the normal sector reads) then make a horrible 'crash/static' sound and stop. Phaeron, would you like me to PM an image of one to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 CyranoJ, please report the error with the boot image . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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