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There is no way to setup any delay on pad reading in my Sound Engine.. it reads both pads as fast as it can and presents the states of the pads. I just checked the code and it actually reads BOTH pads data at the same time as their data is mixed together. No it's not, they are size identical, one is using 8bit signed integers, the other is using 8 bit unsigned integers. The sample resolution is 8 bits in both formats per sample, hence they are identically sized and easy to convert between (literally add 127 to each byte if memory serves - for signed to unsigned).

For the record you ARE using SE as SE = Sound Engine It's not Second Edition or anything. As for changes in the latest version there is only one breaking change, it is quite major in terms of audio in that it won't work if you don't do it, but that's it. Other changes are actually reduction in bus usage and improved playback accuracy, and the ability to disable some features. I don't understand what you mean about requiring a delay to read the pads, all U235 SE does is process the pads internally and present the values there whenever you need them, you only need to read them when you want to, the whole engine is a passive system that you cannot really directly interact with. Not sure of any controller functions that would require a delay, can you give an example? In terms of signed/unsigned samples, it only supports signed samples because that is what is needed for MOD standards, there is no difference in quality between signed/unsigned samples, just the format the data is written in, it's pretty trivial to convert between the two formats, one day I will add unsigned support, but I have a long list of features to add and no time to add any of them. Internally the engine and the mod player are separate, the golden plan has always been to make it modular so you could swap out the mod player for another (OctaMed etc), again no time or that would be in. I'd seriously look to using 0.24 in terms of audio and performance it's a much nicer engine. If there were some nice API to adding commands to RB+ I'd probably look to implementing the necessary wrapper myself, I simply don't have time to hack away at RB+ Thanks for the feedback, if you find bugs/issues or have features let me know and they can end up "on the list"

I'd not suspect it's the RAM, the OP makes 64 bit reads from the RAM, so all 4 chips are being used whenever you see something on screen. Of course there could possibly be a single pin/track gone/going bad somewhere, I'd just suspect bad ram as having a more instant effect. Bad power isn't going to help, so deffo look at that, perhaps dried out cap in the power chain ?

Morbid curiosity, but what is wrong with U-235 SE ? If no one tells me of an issue I cannot fix it. So given U-235 SE does have a mod player, pad reading & random number generator, what is it missing that makes it not of interest to you?

Err 4 (assuming that is 68K) is Illegal instruction. Either it's hit an "illegal" or hit some garbage in ram when executing. The rest of the values are Program counters and 68000 Register dumps. When you try with official BIOS do you get a red screen on boot? or does the game also start and then crash out? IIRC BJL doesn't verify the whole cart like the official BIOS if you boot a cart from it, so it's possible to have a bad cart contact and the game crash when it needs to use that pin. Do the games included with BJL work OK?

If you want to check functionality of 68K and be able to step through it to make sure it's doing what you expect I highly recommend Easy68K.. it's a full featured 68000 simulator, and you can step through instructions, monitor memory etc. Really handy. I assume you are building up a SE command, would it not be faster to combine the values with or and only write to memory once (well 2x 16bit words) rather than a bunch of individual 8 bit writes.

Had a look in my backlog and there is an active bug in 0.24 that if there isn't a mod playing, the pad read/RNG doesn't run! This may be related to the "hang" you are experiencing. If you don't want to have music, a hacky work around would be to have a mod with a single blank pattern, no instruments and set this playing. Also if you start and immediately stop playing a module, this works too. (thanks for update CJ) I clearly need to update my testing to include situations where there is no music. I've not looked into this bug further, but it will be fixed in the next release (whenever that happens )

OOPS! Looks like I had a brain fart whilst I was writing that part :D Cheers for the heads up (fixed). Sorry not responding too quickly, very busy with work of late. RE Crashes, the mod player does have bugs, but these are mostly around effect playback and not lockups. Make sure the mod/samples are correctly aligned in your game, if the alignment is word and not long it can cause issues.

Why am I only just learning about these now! did a quick google and they look AWESOME fun! we never did them on my Comp Sci course 😕 (or if we did I was too busy not attending or asleep). Cheers for the info shamoo

Yep EQURUNDEF is your friend.

D'awww *blushes* thanks for the kind words. Glad that guide is still coming in useful on occasion, and glad you got your issue sorted most importantly! Word of warning, don't get it wet, or leave it alone in a dark loft for years.. they multiply! (alas mostly dead units but still ). Welcome to the crazy world of Jaguar (well, sounds like you are already well and truly in anyway, but meh, welcome )

Could be that the wire for one of the channels isn't fully connecting at either end. Off top of my head I can't remember if the Roar is a diff channel to the tune, sorry.

How are you connecting it to TV? might be one channel isn't connected properly, or the TV isn't mixing Stereo to Mono well

I guess another way to summary would be: Kieren Hawken will find a community that he thinks is quite small and unknown, wheedle his way into it quite quietly at 1st, then start making bolder and bolder claims, until people start calling him out on it. He won't back down will deploy sock puppets and start talking to himself to try and give his points apparent merit. Eventually getting banned/kicked from said community. At this point or just before the kick he will worm into another small community and start the process again. If anyone mentions the problems in previous community he will claim it is the work of a small group of trolls out to get him, police have been involved etc, all sorted out, evidence is online. Loop back to the start of this paragraph and repeat. He can't play nice with anyone and will throw everyone under the bus eventually.. he has been doing this since at least 2006, probably earlier, hence the length of this thread.

Pretty sure, KidGamer (Roberth) was friends and blinded by Kieren's fibs for a while. I think he has apologised for this in his post on here. Kieren used to feed him all kinds of malicious crap to help sow his lies. I assume KGRAMER is a shortened form of KidGameR. If I am wrong I am sure he will pop up and point that out. He did do a lot of Kieren's dirty work back in the day and was even a moderator on his echo chamber of hatred and lies (JS3 on Facebook).

No, KGRAMR is @KidGameR186496 on here. They are not the same person.

LOL there is a review of Reactris in there? See my earlier post about his earlier "paragraph" review of it on some website. I suspect he just re-used that to pad the pages as he is actually scraping the barrel if he is including unfinished, 36~ hour coding competition entries as complete games to review. And the ever popular "PM me", yeah because if he did all his dodgy illegal dealings openly (that he accuses everyone else of) it might highlight what a two faced unscrupulous conniving twat he is. Seen that a few times where someone is looking for a game or ROM that isn't easily found (because it's not supposed to be freely available) and he'll advise the person to PM him. Would appear that whilst everyone else are horrible pirates, he's some sort of saviour with his back alley dirty mac PM based piracy, because lets face it, why else would it be in a PM?

I think you misunderstand Remo's point. He isn't trying to dictate how you write your posts, just making a VERY valid point that for all the comedy name calling of Kieren, and the minor chuckle it gives, it makes the information and stories less indexable in this thread. If you search for Kieren Hawking you will find links to pages that are relevant to that name, so the search engine will index each post that mentions that name, true a wall of them won't win points, but a thread where individual posts use that name will. It will also be able to present multiple individual posts within the thread with a name match. Plus if someone say searches for "Kieren Hawking RetroGamer" it will match more accurately to any posts with all 3 words. If you however put "Karen Halfarsed", and reference some really interesting facts about his crap with RetroGamer, this isn't going to match as well. So people searching will be less likely to find the specific post of interest. Yeah they may find this huge thread of info, but if they were specifically looking for information about him relating to a specific event or entity, the silly names are not going to help locate that info.

His scoring of titles has always been more about his view of the author more than the title itself. If he wants to buddy up to them and kiss arse they get a good score. If however he has had a disagreement with them, or they have called him out previously, poor score. For this I would cite a game I entered in a 48Hr coding competition, "Reactris". It was written from scratch over a weekend whilst at Atari Connexion in France. I did code, SH3 did graphics, whilst sat in a large French hall with other retro fans. The game is in no way finished, complete and in terms of playability it's a hint at Tetris (the theme for the competition IIRC). Did I ever claim anything other? nope, the game was made freely available for people to download and look at from my website (it still is if anyone wants a look), the text around it explains it's incomplete, 48 hour coding yadda yadda. This didn't stop Kieren from putting up a review, slating all of it's flaws (incomplete, bugs out when you fill the stack, scores don't work etc) and giving it a 2/10 score. Also didn't stop him burning it to CDs, stealing Felyx artwork that he made for it, and selling copies for £25 on ebay either. Am I upset by his score? no, it gave me a good laugh at just how pathetically petty he is, as if his view of something I actually created would bother me. He simply over estimates his worth in every aspect.

Reading that you could pretty much just remove the right hand side of the conversation, as he barely even acknowledges most of what is being said to him, he clearly just wants to say his piece and the other participant of the conversation could literally be a wall. It's almost like he has scripted it even before starting the chat! Is he really charging £1000 for his writing too? 20p a word? for stuff that requires extensive reworking before going to print?

RE @Landstalkerpost with the screen caps.. this easily demonstrates kizzys grasp on "Evidence".. once again you can see he claims to have evidence of something, when pressed for where it is, he gives the vaguest of replies (the only way he could be more vague would be to respond with "The Internet"). Push again and he will start to try and make you feel bad for asking, as though for some reason his impeccable reputation should be evidence enough. Keep pushing and assuming he doesn't just flat out block you, he will start replying with stories of things being edited, or after much searching as best he can, out of context clips, or unrelated clips of people talking about other things, as if in some way this proved existence of the evidence he has so far managed to produce.. but obviously exists.. he'd never lie.. Anyone thinking that Kieren has evidence of innocence... this is what you have to look forward to.. at no point will you see evidence, but you will see a lot of unrelated rubbish.

He did say that his kid logged on with his (Kieren's) account and got the abuse, as people thought it was Kieren. Which just suggests that maybe better parenting of small children should be observed. The Xbox isn't a babysitter, and children who are sensitive to such content should be monitored or at a very bare minimum parental controls should be used to prevent them accessing that content or accounts. This would be what a responsible parent would do. However I suspect it's all complete fantasy anyway, just sympathy mining as is his way. Get called out for being a cunt, default to trying to say how everyone else is mean to deflect from his own actions. Similarly, if Craig's post would upset his wife, why did he show it to her? does she spend her time reading retro forums? I suspect not, more like more sympathy mining tactics from Mr Kizzyfibs.

Those pictures would be what I was referring to as what Kieren and Pickens were giggling about and running around doing whilst everyone else was having good harmless fun playing games. Literally like little unsupervised children 😕

Ah, I see the get-out clause there. Most people will read that and think yeah OK sounds good (apart from the bad grammar obviously ), BUT, he has used the word "impartial" which in Kizzy speak means something completely different to a regular person. In Kizzy speak, this will mean someone who already believes him as being innocent, someone who will back him up regardless of whatever evidence someone presented. They could have video footage of him mugging a granny, with him speaking into the camera and saying "It's me wot has done this krime, K-i-e-r-e-n H-a-w-k-i-n-g", and they would say it's not him. My prediction of what the podcast interview would sound like, to paraphrase the future, would be along the lines of: "Look, there is loads of evidence out there already, it all proves what has been said about me is rubbish and the work of a few trolls, just look at twitter and facebook, it's really easy to find. Anyone who doesn't believe me is an idiot and has a grudge against people with mental health, this has had be really low, lets talk about something more positive! I know, lets talk about me, and how I was talking to $NAMEDROP, recently whilst visiting $NAMEDROP, and how awesome my latest book is 'Copy Pasta for beginners volume 11: yet more bollocks wot I dun wroted'"..

Hi Craig, Just to add to what you have put here and has likely been mentioned by others. JagFest UK was 1st held in Rochester, Kent, in 2003. It was organised by Nick Harlow and GazTee, and was an ace event. No where near the sort of scale of the larger Retro events, more of a boutique Atari (mostly Jaguar) themed get together, there was possibly still close to 100 at that 1st event. The event was repeated each year by Nick until 2006, when I organised the event and it was based in Warrington. This is the 1st time I recall meeting Kieren, altough looking back at older pictures of JFUK's he was clearly at one in Kent, pictures of him sat with his small card box if Lynx games. He attended 2006 and brought his collection with him (mostly Lynx stuff IIRC). That was his total involvement. However a few years later he was clearly trying to make a name for himself and he was claiming to have help organise the 2006 Jagfest in Warrington. The entire event was planned, booked and paid for by myself, with no input from Mr Hawken. I did pull him up on this and his claim was simply that as he bought a ticket, and attended with his collection, he had helped make the event a success, so he clearly helped organise it!!! How can anyone argue with that logic!! I know I apparently helped organise the London 2012 Paralympics by that standard 😕 The last JFUK I went to was in 2009, which was organised by Mr Hawken, the turnout was less than stunning, the event was on the whole shrinking anyway, but I suspect the more than double ticket price didn't help towards that. He was very keen to get money for tickets ASAP also, sending out threats of cancelling the whole event if he didn't get ticket payments. In 2006 the ticket price managed to cover a minibus for everyone to ferry them into the town centre and back to the event, no such extras in 2009. I know exactly what SH3 is referring to in the "Antics" mentioned in the captured picture. In the tail end of the evening pretty much all attendee's were stood around playing Guitar Hero / Rock Band on Gaz's PS3 that he had brought, generally having a good time and a laugh with each other. Meanwhile Kieren and DCRip (David Pickens if memory serves) were running around giggling like little kids overtired at a wedding reception. Literally giggling to each other and running around the hotel. Turns out this was the infamous creation of the "Reboot office" pictures (a banner taped between 2 urinals in the gents), and "Jaguar CF Prototype" (picture of an empty card board box). All very very childish. There were more suspect aspects of JFUK 2009 on the Sunday (like when Kieren left early, why he and DCRip were acting like kids).