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  2. Posted

    The great thing about the Lynx, is there are so many genre's to choose from.

     

    I personally enjoy most of the arcade ports. Its great to pick up the Lynx and have a quick blast.

    STUN Runner, Rygar, Hydra, Battlezone 2000, Paperboy, Roadblasters, Rampart...the list goes on.

     

    You can't go past all the Epyx games too. Blue Lightning, Electrocop, Gates of Zendocon, Chips Challenge, Zarlour Mercenary etc.

  6. Posted

    ^^ Probably couldn't finish it on a real Lynx (especially without the A/C adapter!) but maybe through emulation and saving your game as you go?

     

    I think thats the way to go. It would take a long time to do. Dont think I'd have the patience personally.

    I like the game, because I can just have a quick game when im bored etc.

  8. Posted

    I too ordered a board from ebay. They arent well made in my opinion, as they only employ single sided tracks.

    Make sure u solder the socket on the top side (the silkscreen side). Id bend the pins flush with the board once they are through the holes and then do a small solder over the top.

    Make sure you have a thin soldering tip aswell. :cool:

  9. Posted

    This is some good stuff Gorf. As much as I love the 68000, It is a crippled processor. Replacing it with something like a 68020 like you mentioned would likely not work correctly due to the way in which some games were programmed. Has anyone actually tried this? obviously retaining the original bus of course.

  10. Posted

    If Im not mistaken, the original intention for the jag was to use a 68030 processor. However due to some tight asses (tramiels?) the old hat 68000 was used. Do you think the 68030 would have made a difference Gorf? Being a proper 32bit processor and running at higher clock speeds.

     

     

     

    68k is only for 2D games period.

     

    Cave still use the 68k for their newly release shmups on their PCB boards.

     

     

    The 68k should boot the Jaguar and then be taken off the bus. The 2d games

    would be worlds better than they already are if the coders used the RISC's soley.

     

    It you think Rayman was nice, it would have been childs play if they only used

    the RISC's. Every time the 68k acesses the bus, it cuts the bus width 75%!!!!

    It then does what it does already sucking the very life and power from the

    GPU and DSP that are now in battle with the 68k to get a friggin cycle or two

    off the bus. If that is not bad enough, it does that at HALF the clock rate of the

    rest of the system.

     

    They musta been puffin some mad chronic!

     

    The best illustration of this is a 64 lane highway that a bunch of cops decide

    to shut off 48 of those lanes all of a sudden. You were doing a nice smooth 75

    MPH. Now you are doing about 10 MPH stop and go. Now the cops open those

    lanes again. Good right? Well yeah but opening all of those 48 lanes back up

    dont bring the traffic speeds very quickly back up to that nice smooth 75 MPH.

     

    It is really no different in having a halfspeed 1/4 buswidth processor on that

    64 bit Jag bus. Every time the 68k hits the bus its like someone cut 48 bit out

    of the system temporarily. Closing off the other 48 bit of the JAguar. Another

    RISC core soley for system control would have been deadly. Now you take

    away the 68k and now you only have the GPU and the DSP at full throttle

    performing as they were meant to. The Jag should have been the GPU, the

    DSP and 4 megs of RAM, 2 megs each processor on seperate busses and a

    small unified cache between them so they can talk to each other. You would have

    never seen the Sony PS1 (as long as Atari made the right tools that is.)

     

    Actually, the trouble with the above is the DSP, though fully able to do 32 bit

    accesses is crippled as it only is connected to the bus at 16 bits. Another major

    blunder of the chip design. The DSP's bus with is the same as the host processor.

     

    The 68k is to the RISC's as kryptonite is to Superman.

  12. Posted

    To be able to see the lynx screen in the sun, you would need to fit reflective backing behind the screen. However, the screen itself does block alot of light, similar to a welding mask. You would need a new screen in my opinion.

    Doesnt really bother me not being able to play in the sun, beacause there are plenty of other things to do in fine weather. :cool:

  14. Posted

    Funny this topic should come up.

    Iam in the middle of developing a game with a few arcade ports. At the moment I plan to include 6 to 8 games on the cartridge. Its great to get an idea of what games people want to play, so I will take into consideration peoples preferences. More details to come soon.

  15. Posted

    I just got Chip's Challenge today. I remember playing this on Windows. It was a long time ago, back when I was a kid!

     

    Its a great game, can get really though. Sometimes makes me want to throw my lynx in frustration. :cool:

  16. Posted

    This is a great thread. Thanks for the help guys, especily Karri, you have done a wonderful job. It has inspired me to learn programming on the lynx.

     

    Wow. Thank you for the compliments.

     

    The MegaPak template can be used for your own releases also. Just change the graphics MegaPak to something else and also change the Songbird logo at the startup screen.

     

    You can also write a completely different main menu system from scratch. Just delete everything in intro/intro.c except the last routine doing the hard boot initialisation. You can then write whatever you want in the routine intro(). That is the code for the MegaPak main menu (the LOL operating system).

     

    Fadest has shown the way to go by releasing Yastuna 2 for free. After MegaPak I will try to follow this route with my HeroQuest cart that I am currently working on.

     

    --

    Karri

     

    Your hard work certainly makes it easier for the lynx fans to get into game dev. Cant wait to see some of your games.

     

    If you still need help with your Heroquest port, send me a pm. Regards Ben.

  21. Posted

    If you dont like it, then toss it in the bin along with your checkered flag cart. The game is horrible, but not worth your life my friend. Besides, the CD-I Zeldas werent nearly as bad.

    Take a chill pill and go play some Battlesphere. :cool:

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