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  • Birthday 12/14/1966

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  1. Hi Andrea, I sent to you (PM) a link to the file, say if any problem. thanks for support, and yes, return for errors (lots of) is highly welcome. Sure my new compiler is not free (RAD Delphi enterprise at $3000) but it's ok No fee for friends, thanks anyway. By now I work more on DEXL and Atari ST/E projects with my friend Shadow but I will come back to AT800 and Phoenix (re-firbushed-again) soon. glad to hear you, vi auguro una buona serata Rudy
  2. Hi Andrea, I will send you the latest version on your PM ASAP. Note that the screen-editor has some interpretation problems due to a mix between linear and atascii character codes (char-editor himself is ok). Best Rudy
  3. Hi, I stumble OVER your post. Just try ataritools-800 first tool is a charset editor witch can load and save envision format and in 5 antic modes. Sure it's a pc thing but with exact memory, color codes and files as real A800 do, files as is can be loaded by A8 through APE or via sd on A8 via sio. More over, you can generate asm (mads) or atari basic text code from charset graphic data and copy past in your editor. Google it because last time I put à https link, my comment was backed off the forum. Best Rudy
  4. Hi, That's sound familiar to me unfortunately. But when the things gone wrong, they gone wrong. On my side, the worst case : System HDD crash + portable hdd backup crash (fall on the floor, bad idea to code in the bed) + usb key backup crash at the same time ! Can you believe that ? Now I backup on thermo-optical device (fujitsu-siemens mo drive, or dvd-ram) every month, but be sure that if a incident should be happen, it happens when all the most important work is not yet backuped, as the Murphy's law said. I really understand, that's very very discouraging. Rudy
  5. I see that it's a very very old topic, but it's always interesting to have an explanation on certains tech choices. Long years ago, I read a paper on RBP project and the soundchip that was to be used should be the YM2151 but .. It seems that the yamaha company did not agree to sell its chip for the future ST line (but accepted for arcade terminals) because since the ST was already equipped with MIDI ports, the addition of YM2151 was a threat to their future MSX machine (I think it's the II, I don't remember well). So Atari had to take a lower chip, the YM2149. Their MSX has never been a success and the ST has been under-equipped compared to its possibilities, saddly. I thing the YM2149 and YM2151 have the same pinouts-same signals and as the RBP board was already made, it was the second reason (to avoid re-ingineering the board), but to be checked.
  6. Sad new ? Condolences for his family, I know he was fragile with heart due to several problems. We exchange mails time to time about Atari prototypes. I'm feeling empty :-((( Rudy.
  7. Thanks, So I keep the implementation of this.
  8. I was very hungry & discouraged because lots of friends were waiting for phoenix (lots of messages "I can't wait") and except for graphics and intro pokey music, all was lost (HDD & USB keys crashed more or less at the same time. adaptations for ST crunched too. phoenix was huge (37k in MAC65) but near finished (score management and some sounds left) and ST galaga/phoenix far from the end, but all the same, it was hard to swallow.
  9. Hi MrFish, Yes, really I lost a big big amount of intricated work best
  10. Hi, why -> In text-mode, each line of character is 8bit, so when doing an interpretation of a char-line value bin 10011001 in gr.10 I must do something with this value 9 in 9color mode to have a visual result, even if it's a strange result or unusefull at the first approach. I know that there is no more than 9 colors availaible but as a nibble is already availaible to code a 9 color pixel, and machine doing an interpretation with upper values (my list in upper post), I ask if values seems correct to others skilled users (mainly on NTSC machines because mine are PAL, in various situations, ..) to do global work on chars with tool software. I post as screenshot to show sample interpretation with GR.11 txt mode (left) to gr.0 (right) as example of what I try to explain. bugs on C/GTIA are not a problem as long as they are the same everywhere. sorry for my bad english. best Thanks for response
  11. not from me Philsan as all my A8 sources where destroyed about 10 years ago (graphics survived), and after a long long discouragement period, I rewrite part of code from memories time to time (but using the wudsn, by now and with the writing of a more powerfull tool that is not yet completed at this time). best wishes
  12. Hi all and , first, best wishes for 2020. Just a question about gr.10 (9 colors) mode to be sure to do not a mistake the colors cover $2C0 to $2C8 and values from 0 to 8 on 4bits bloc (1byte->2pixels). But setting values from 9 to 15 return this result : value 09 -> color 8 value 10 -> color 8 value 11 -> color 8 value 12 -> color 4 value 13 -> color 5 value 14 -> color 6 value 15 -> color 7 as values 12 to 15 seems less or more logical (forgetting bit 3) values from 9 to 11 don't. As it's for a gr.10 charset tool mode interpretation, I just ask to more skilled 8-bit atarians if it's correct to take values in previous list for visualisation of data on screen, or not ? have a nice day
  13. Hi All, Just to close this topic. I find the solution of the problem I submit. After trying all here above suggestions (functions keys enabled, 5200 controlers, upgrade Altirra to 2.90, ...) with no success , I try to edit a custom map [in Altirra] with start/option/select using the same F2-F3-F4 and [against my expectations] it works fine after that operation. I will thanks all Atari fellows who answer me in this topic and drive me to the solution. And with this, I discover some really interesting features in Altirra 2.90 Best regards to all, Rudy
  14. Hi Phaeron, I will follow your suggest to change Altirra to new version in the wudsn chain. Thanks for precise information, I appreciate it a lot and I will add it on my tech-paper cards. Best wishes, Rudy
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