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  3. Posted

    What are the first two games you completed? I'm sure I could guess one, but not the other... . Are they available?

     

    The first one is MazezaM and the second one is Uwol Quest for money.

    I only need to add sound for both and that will be ok.

     

    Regarding bagman, the speed will change if you carry a bag, you will be slower (and much slower with a blue bag).

    Of course, this 32K version , as you can hear with the youtube video, also has the digitilized sounds from arcade, thanks to Daniel Bienvu tools for wav converison :)

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  9. Posted · Edited by alekmaul

    There is no no$xxxx emulator for colecovision.

    I did some colecovision emulators for other consoles, so I know how to code it.

    As I said previously, my goal is not to do "bluemsx" clone but another emulator to help me coding homebrews for Coleco. So I put inside it what I want to help me (sprites / bg preview, I/O memory stuffs, also symbols for asm view, and so on).

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  12. Posted

    Hi,

    Don't know if it is the good place to talk about that but i'm trying :D !

    I'm in search of a Colecovision console for my homebrews developements.

    I already bought an AtariMax cart to test them :)

    I'm french, so I need one with 220V powersupply and Peritel cable for TV output if possible :/

    If someone can sell me such console, it will be great.

  13. Posted · Edited by alekmaul

     

    I 've just remembered that few years ago i made a "wonderfull" game for colecovision that is freely downloadable, and it uses Screen Mode 2 Text. You can download it here :

     

    http://www.atomicfe.com/colecovision/gt5/gt5.htm

     

    click on "Telecharger!!!" button to get it. It should be ok for your tests.

    Got it youki, thanks a lot.

    I really love the comments regarding this game :P (I'm French but I think you know that ;) ).

    Regarding news :

    I'm currently working on DirectInput integration to support joypad.

    I'm also working on ini file config to save all things done on emulator and also last rom opened.

  14. Posted · Edited by alekmaul

    I would love a new coleco emulator , for me ideally.

     

    -It most super all colecovision graphic mode (including "non official one" like the Screen Mode 2 Text )... blueMsx support it , but for instance i have been very frustated with the Coleco emulator on Nintendo DS. It does not support it correctly, so i can not play my own game on my DS :(.

     

    -It should have a very good debugger.

     

    -It should offer some feature to display Memory in a graphic way. (means for instance, i could say 'i want see memory (RAM and VDP RAM) as if all bytes are graphic pattern.

     

    -It should offer some tools to help to rip sound. Like just a way to log what is send to Sound Chip.

     

    -It should offer a tools to export VDP 's pattern, color and Name tables to file (compatible with Daniel pattern editor for instance).

     

    Ok Youki, I will update ColecoDS for you if you want ;)

    OK for non standard modes, will add them but do you have rom regarding such use of non standard mode ?.

    Regarding display memory, take a look at screenshot, I think it is what you want.

    Ripping sound and VDP values is a good idea took, i put that on my todo list.

    Currently, i'm fighting against direct sound, i usually use SDL and DirectSound is not so much easy to implement than SDL.

  15. Posted · Edited by alekmaul

    Aside from accurate emulation (colors, sounds, hardware quirks, etc.) an emu needs to have certain features in order to be "useful":

     

    - PC game controller support (gamepads, etc.)

    - Savestates

    - Emulation pause (i.e. pause even if game itself offers no pause feature)

    - Screenshot snapper (PNG usually preferred)

     

    Savestates will be done.

    Pause is OK , you have a step by step debugger and you can change what you want in memory :)

    Sreenshots are done, BMP version, not png, sorry about that.

    Regarding PC game controler, what do you want exactly. Currently, you're right, only keyboard is supported ...

    Regarding Internet, why not, but it is not the prior task for me. As I said, i'm using it for myhombrew devs.

    Also, evg2000, you're right. PC windows only, it's made with an old version of c++builder. Sorry about that.

  16. Posted

     

    I think Epyx Pitstop game uses mode 0 for the intermission blue screen.

     

    Thanks a lot for that. I think I have epyx game on my hard drive.

    I will use your test rom regarding SGM.

     

    Hope to release my emu soon even if some features are not yet available to know if community think it is a good idea to have a new emu for Colecovision

  17. Posted · Edited by alekmaul

    Hello,

    I'm currently doing a new emulator for Colecovision to help me doing homebrew.

    This emulator is a "hommage" to Martin Korth no$xxx emulators.

    Currently, the core emulation works fine and I'm now working on I/O Map window and Screen datails windows.

    I tested this screens with mode 1 and mode 2, they work fine.

     

    Now, I have two requests for the community :) :

     

    1) I have no rom image with mode 0 and before doing such rom, I just want to know if someone has a Mode 0 rom image to test my emulator.

     

    2) Also, i want to add Super Game Module support. If someone has a rom image of such game, can it send me the link or the rom (if it is not a problem with copyright issues of course).

     

    This screen show you my emulator in action.

     

    yacve.png

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  21. Posted

    Glad to see you here Jean Michel ;)

    Thanks JF :)

     

     

    I use Pletter compression to finalize the graphics. There isn't specific tool for Pletter. There is pletter decompressor that came with the library in the comp folder. attachicon.gifcomp.zip This one is has the fixed source code and the comp.lib you can overwrite the current one to use the fix version of Pletter. The current code doesn't decompress properly on the real Colecovision while the fixed version decompress the graphic better on the real Colecovision.

     

    And Mazezam looks terrific. Very nice job!!

    Really nice, is there a tool to compress with pletter algorithm or do I need to do my own one ?

  22. Posted

    There already is a Mazezam for ColecoVision, but it's pretty simple, and has only 10-12 levels, I think.

     

    Yeah, I know about that version, but mine is really different and has more levels (same number as the GBA version, more than 20 levels).

    It will also have musics (i hope :P).

  23. Posted

    Hello,
    I'm new here but hope to share some stuffs I did (and sure, I WILL do) for Colecovision.
    Previously, I did some emulators of The Colecovision console and last week, I thought about doing MazezaM for colecovision to test Daniel Bienvenu lib (he tested nds lib previously on dev-fr, the old french DS, GBA, and so on community).
    So I port my GBA version to Colecovsion :
    Here is the youtube link :

     

    http://youtu.be/Rj7jPJi3r9s?list=UUEP793b8Q6Rlt2fjP2L2vrA

    I have now some questions :
    Is there a tool to compress graphics with Dan0 compression method or other method than RLE ?
    Is there tools for music conversion. My GBA version is a mod file, and I want to port, at least, the MazezaM theme to it.
    Hope to release MazezaM soon :), after this one, I will try to port another game : Uwol.

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