[Reprints of Hotdog and Relief Pitcher and New Releases Coming This Month]

thats the point. everybody can sell some copies incognito on ebugs. but if you want to go offical...

[ComLynx<->USB Adapter]

I found a already equipped board with a dual interface using this chip:

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/data-sheets/CP2105.pdf

 

Nice thing, you can connect two lynx at one USB cable. but only one of the connections features "unusual" speeds like 31250 and 62500.

 

Annoying thing, shipping is more expensive that the boards :-(

 

42bs: I was wondering about the diode. its clear that it prevents the TX from pulling the line while the lynx is sending. but wouldnt a resitor do a better job?

[Quadromania Available Now!]

bumped and pinned topics suck.

[Things I didn't keep: presumably lost?]

I myself have a lot of "unrelease"/lost screen which I got from other people. SOme of them even were playable for few minutes. Maybe I should put a gallery on line.

[Things I didn't keep: presumably lost?]

where did you release them?

[Has anybody played around with digitized sound?]

does a mod player count as digital sound?

[Lynx loader from scratch]

actually it depends on how the multiplication is written. if it cares about if bits are set or not.

 

anyway: already with the microloader + unpacker for the first game binary you are so fast, that the "blob" from turning on is already disturbing the music

[Lynx loader from scratch]

just a hint:

the second stage in the microloader is not encrypted. thus there is no real speed difference to your ansatz.

if you want to do a REAL optimization, you have to choose the filler bytes such, that the multiplication is faster.

[Sprite Glitch]

soil sprite is missing the 0 at the end

[lyxass updated]

PS. I was wondering if it would be ok to output the code as cc65 assembly source with some switch. This would be quite useful when making compilation carts. You could then build BLL games into separate segments and use cc65 linker to create the cart.

 

I am not sure if this is so easy. Because you would have to handle only some of the macros, but keep the labels.

[lyxass updated]

 

Will do as soon as I get to my own computer! I'm surreptitiously misusing workplace resources to post this message. That said, I don't actually have anything immediately to assemble, so appropriate feedback may be delayed. I was a heavy Lyxass user a decade or more ago but all my work is lost to time, at least in its original form.

 

Thanks again! But does this mean we're the last people left alive using this assembler?

 

No. But most people use some already compiled binary.

 

Meanwhile Bastian completely rewriting his assmbler from scratch.

[lyxass updated]

lyxass.zip Please check if this solves problems for you. I omly make a rough check and compiled one complex project with old against new, and output was same.

[lyxass updated]

I am doing patches for my own purpose. and publish the changed sources on my website.

 

As I am the only one, I see no much use in using a repo

[lyxass updated]

Now I got it. yes,,,,,, this looks suspicious. I overlooked that one. I fix that. NO idea why is was working for me, maybe long size was 64 bit.

[lyxass updated]

The "hashing" for fast compare of strings was from the 8MHz era of the compiler. It has been replaced already by strcmp. Please check the _newest_ sources.

[Atari Gamer articles]

looks like an extened version from karris flashcard from 15 years ago...

[Good Atari Lynx Emulators]

The origial author lost interesst, thus if you want to improve it, fork it. Find my latest patches here. the discussion you find in the development forum.

 

https://github.com/bspruck/handy-fork

 

all changes have been ported to libretro. Because of the missing source repository for mednafen, i gave up patching there.

 

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-handy/

[Good Atari Lynx Emulators]

problem is not the emulator core, which is mostly identical. but the old windows sound system just sux.

PS: I am still looking for a volunteer to update the windows handy version with a better sound driver...

[Good Atari Lynx Emulators]

there is. but is not really working.

[Good Atari Lynx Emulators]

retroarch is the most up to date cross-platform

[Blue Lightning sheet music request]

I was abit too fast for answering:

 

At least Blue Lightning does not seem to use the format which the EPYX kit uses for music. Or the data has additional data in front of it.

 

Will not help you too much as you would have to build a parser to get out some "notes" and "instruments". The data format can be foudn in the EPYX docs.

[Reprints of Hotdog and Relief Pitcher and New Releases Coming This Month]

You mean something like this:

 

Screenshot from 2018-07-14 19-08-15.png

 

No clue of what it is...

 

No thanks sorry, I have my own

Supporting 2megabyte cards, too

[Reprints of Hotdog and Relief Pitcher and New Releases Coming This Month]

the avp is a different one with some patches which allow to play as alien.

[How to build cart dumper for Lynx?]

I always use my lynx to read data from cartridges

[Blue Lightning sheet music request]

There are no lynx music files. It might be possible to extract the music data from the ROMs, but I guess its not worth the effort, as the EPYX kit music is more a scripting than a real file format. Some games might use their very own music driver anyway.