[Game Trainers and Cheats]

18 hours ago, davidcalgary29 said:

Please consider the code for the hidden game of Galaxian in Lexis and the one for the hidden game in Lynx Reloaded.

 

It'd be great to also see the Battlezone 2000 mode be given a menu option.

As there is a released ROM version of Battlezone 2000 which directly  starts the easter egg, this might not be necessary.

you find it somewhere in the forum here

 

[Game Trainers and Cheats]

I did aleady ?

Like on some othes...

[Game Trainers and Cheats]

not bad, you need the hint for APB?

[Alternative software for the Atari Lynx Flashcard]

maybe if you install the linux subsystem.

but it might be easier to use just a native program as putty, teraterm or hyperterm

[Alternative software for the Atari Lynx Flashcard]

i successfully used minicom, picocom, gtkterm, cutecom. finally i stayed with the last two.

[lz77 packer]

Remark:

I used the code in BadApple https://demozoo.org/productions/198602/ for the video playback by doing a double buffering, thus decrunching one buffer while replaying the other one.

I have not used it for depacking of binary code, as pucrunch is better integrated into lynxdir (loading adresses, etc). Even so this should not be a problem.

 

[lz77 packer]

I added the exo decoder code plus the the magic spells you need to get it work here: https://github.com/bspruck/exolynx

[Handy latest version (0.98) for Windows (eeprom support, new backgrounds)]

hm ... at least under wine it is not running very good ?

lot of graphic glitches

[Bootsector-Demos]

I lost the original emails long long time ago. so i cannot tell you why it was never continued.

[lz77 packer]

-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern    15400 Jun  3 02:41 demo0006.o
-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern     8311 Jun  3 02:42 demo0006.puc

 

similar rate

[lz77 packer]

anyway, not sure if we have the same binary ?

but thats what i found on my disc without too much searching

[lz77 packer]

^{9700 vs 8300 is not "nearly" the same}

[Bootsector-Demos]

On 5/31/2020 at 4:31 PM, LordKraken said:

The space dragon game looks like there is an actual game, would be nice to know more of it

several half-playable level stages

[lz77 packer]

https://github.com/bspruck/pucrunch

[lz77 packer]

-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern  7738 Jun  3 01:18 demo0006_1.exo
-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern  9111 Jun  3 01:18 demo0006_2.exo

 

but that is including the .o header and prepared fro stream unpacking. i am not sure that i ever created a version which directly can parse binabries to the correct location ...

I used it only for video-playback on the lynx until now.

[lz77 packer]

-rw-r-----  1 bjoern bjoern 15406 Jun  3 01:11 demo0006_1.o
-rw-r-----  1 bjoern bjoern 18022 Jun  3 01:11 demo0006_2.o
-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern  9749 Jun  3 01:11 demo0006_2.puc
-rw-rw-r--  1 bjoern bjoern  8321 Jun  3 01:11 demo0006_1.puc
 

[lz77 packer]

not bad, much smaller than my imploder, pucrunch and exomizer ports.

but i guess tha packrate is worse.

[Bootsector-Demos]

For some I do not even know who made them, even if, I do not have the email adresses.

Some even came with source.

But at least I think i can post some still images ... maybe someone recognizes his product and releases it

[Bootsector-Demos]

actually, i have some old "unknown" single screens or early game protos flying around some people posted or send me many years ago. but without approval, i would not like to release the somewhere.

 

[Bootsector-Demos]

Luckily, I know the guy responsible for Atari matters ?

[Bootsector-Demos]

On 5/24/2020 at 9:01 PM, 42bs said:

BTW: Out call to everyone here: Archive your stuff on demozoo.org! There are only a few Lynx productions and a good part is from BLL.

 

 

not quite true, all recent released demos are there. I would not add game protos or plein tech tests etc. This doesnt make sense. I know, that your IRQ test is listed there and elsewhere ... no idea why

 

[Handy Music instruments on WhiteLynx.fi]

On 5/25/2020 at 7:15 AM, phuzaxeman said:

I'm a musician as well and producer that knows midi but I don't know anything in terms of lynx music.  I just know it has one of the best sounds on any atari.  Would love to learn how to create some tunes with the lynx.

so, maybe a bit more seriously:

 

a) you have "only" four channels in parallel, so no black midi

b) you have to create/find good instruments which

b1) sound good over the frequency /note range you use for that instrument

b2) fit to the other you use

 

so translating the notes fro midi to something a player on the lynx understand is the simplest part. and there are tools for that.

 

 

 

[Handy Music instruments on WhiteLynx.fi]

find some nice instruments and map them to the notes/instruments from your midi files.

 

Thats the short cut.

 

[Lynx arranger instrument]

14 hours ago, karri said:

89ABCD ????

120?

The supported midi commands

[Lynx arranger instrument]

The same command implemented as in the live player (keyboard->PC->COMLYNX).

Not on and off with velocity, programs, pitch....

 

Thus commands 8,9,A,(B),C,D,E

B only 120