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  3. Posted

    Use the space after the lower case z.... and access them using $7b upwards - although I suspect you'd only get to $7f as $80 will fail the negative check for the termination.  Or use some of the symbols or a few of the other fairly useless glyphs.

     

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  4. Posted

    42 minutes ago, Gemintronic said:

    My big hare brained scheme is to figure out if a machine is running on PAL or NTSC.

     

    Thought of comparing the difference between two different counters: one running in vblank and one in the main loop. 

    Or you could just check the raptor_ntsc flag 😀

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  5. Posted

    5 hours ago, Gemintronic said:

    Makes me think me and atari2600land need to figure out what delta time is and how to roll our own implementation.  Get things basically the same speed on real and virtual hardware.

    Never code for an emulator. It's the emulators job to simulate the hardware, not your job as a coder to compensate for what doesn't really exist.

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  6. Posted

    On 3/25/2021 at 8:55 AM, atari2600land said:

    I don't know why it's so slow on real hardware. It's a lot faster in emulation.

     

    Because the emulator is faster than the real hardware.

     

    1 hour ago, atari2600land said:

    (NOTE- I started this project way back when Raptor Basic was a thing, and I'd much rather prefer to keep doing what I have rather than start the whole thing over with a thing I have no idea how to use.)

     

    There's a very comprehensive guide to port projects over to JagStudio so, no, you don't have to "start the whole thing over"

     

    Considering there is no longer any support at all for rB+ you might want to invest some time reading that guide before posting questions that potentially are going to get ignored ;)

  9. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Greg2600 said:

    Barbarian, Black Lamp, Bubble Bobble, Cybernoid, Fernandez Must Die, Guantlet II, IK+, Joust, Klax, Llamtron, Metrocross, Moon Patrol, Ninja Mission, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Rick Dangerous 1, R-Type, Solomon's Key, Starglider II would all need to be patched for the SD/GD?

    No.

     

    Also: 

     

    Metrocross, IK+, Starglider II - Unfinished.

    Llamatron / Mutant Camels - Released binaries are incomplete/unfinished - they are in the AtariAge store as Jeff Minter Collection.

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  10. Posted

    31 minutes ago, Greg2600 said:

    My question was mostly rhetorical anyway, thanks!  Just catching up, but seems the only games you had to patch were the Skunkboard ones?  All others (linked on first post) should load on the GD as is.

    Correct, the skunkboard locked ROMs have been updated to also detect the GD drive as a valid run option.

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Greg2600 said:

    Finally got the JagGD.  Wanted to ask a general question on these.  So I've got the old Smokemonster Everdrive pack, which had Jaguar set including retail, proto, demo, homebrew, etc, etc, and of course ST Conversions.  In that folder many game roms are there in multiple forms.  For instance, there's R-Type, which has a 1M "Atari ST" rom, a 4M "PD aka Playable Demo", and an "ST Conversion" dot rom.  I tried them all, the smaller one runs okay but has no sound.  The PD seems to run well, while the actual ST Conversion file runs too choppy. 

     

    I suppose I should just stick to the links via this thread?  LOL!  But they ought to run at the same performance level via JagGD as they would on say a cart (burned into ROM)?

    Ok, thought this would come up. Lets do this just once and move on.

     

    There are many packs of many of my binaries out there unapproved, or modified with wrong or random headers and filenames, with or without correct .mrq settings, bundled without asking for my permission - nothing I have released is PD, for example ... so with that said.

     

    IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT FROM A DOWNLOAD LINK PROVIDED BY MYSELF, I AM NOT OFFERING OR PROVIDING ANY SUPPORT.
    IF YOU ARE TRYING TO RUN PIRATED COPIES OF ANY OF MY GAMES (eg, REBOOTEROIDS, etc) I CERTAINLY WON'T OFFER YOU ANY ASSISTANCE - BUT I WILL *REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE*

     

     

    All good, carry on :)

     

    [EDITED]

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  13. Posted

    8 minutes ago, SlidellMan said:

    By the way, Cyrano, is it possible to use custom fonts in JagStudio?

    Sure is, edit the fonts in the <projectname>\assets\FONTS folder :)

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  14. Posted

    23 minutes ago, PFG 9000 said:

    That's awesome!  Interesting too that you did this in a few days, while that...other...group working on Heretic for the Jag still hasn't shown anybody a working model after how many years.

    A few days... plus several months working on Slayer and Chex.  Its all built on other things learned during the project :)

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  16. Posted

    Just now, Mr SQL said:

    the emu is helpful for quick tests but I could test exclusively on real hardware with the SuperCharger or the PlusCart pretty effectively and don't need it for debugging since Tron works better or just as well. The emu is useful but OG's don't need it.

    Do you call your garage band the Beatles? ;)  

    Says the guy with SQL in his name ;)

     

    I see I'm going to have to turn off notifications for this... 

     

    I think its great that 2600 veterans are making new games.  However, they don't have to trample over the people who have kept things alive in order for them to be able to do so - which is what their comments ammounted to in that interview. (In my opinion)

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  17. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Jstick said:

    The feeling I got was that they were really focusing on how much investment they had made in physical production capabilities, specifically large quantities of new injection molded carts.  Albert does an amazing job, but he is still buying old carts and refurbishing them, and there is still a lot of delay in the game release schedule because he can only handle so much.

    We in the Jaguar community have seen first hand what happens when you design a box and cart shell before a game.

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  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, TwentySixHundred said:

    Im sure they have passed through silently and maybe even benefited from tools created by the community.

    According to them they wrote all their own because "there are no tools" - like we've been living in a void for 20 years, LOL.

     

    I found that whole thing disingenuous to watch, especially saying nobody 'publishes' games professionaly when this very site does that.  Had to turn if off mid way through - so maybe they mellowed later on, but if they don't consider what they do "homebrew" then what are they doing on ZPH ?

     

    The game looks good, but then again $140 buys you 2-4 much better looking ones from the AA store. 

     

    I'd suggest 2600 homebrew authors legally change their name to "David Crane" just so they can add $70 to the retail price :)

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  19. Posted

    10 hours ago, zzip said:

    but seeing how it's got a 68000 that runs almost twice as fast as the ST, and most ST games don't even use blitter,  what causes the slowdown?

     

    OK, explaining once more and for the last time.

     

    If you enjoy staring at a blank, silent screen, then nothing is causing slowdown.

     

    There's no ACIA, MFP, Shifter, GLUE, YM/FDC, GEM, TOS, BIOS, XBIOS, AES, KEYBOARD(!), etc, etc in the Jaguar.  And the 68000 code isn't even a straight port as they'll be waiting on chipset flags, or writing to the SR register, or.. or.. or... or...

     

    Now, I don't know if you have or not, but if, lets say "someone" said these are "cheap, lazy ports" and you believed it, then think again.  Sorry if this sounds harsh, tired of repeating it.

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  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, zzip said:

    Ports from the ST are probably not going to hit the custom Jag hardware very hard, so I would expect most of them to work.

    LMFAO.

     

    You try getting them to run at full speed or greater with enhancements without using that.

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