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OK, did you check the on-screen display and there the menu selection "Input settings" / "Input assignments (this system)"? There you should look at the settings for the "twin joystick", close to the end of the list.

Just as a tip, stating that you could not do something without giving further details will probably not return helpful answers. At least we should know what exactly happened, like an error message popping up, a crash, smoke and evil stench from your computer ... In doubt, post a screenshot.

Really mad weather here in Germany. Two weeks ago we had high temperatures at about 23 °C (73°F), now the snow is back (low temp of today at 3°C = 37°F). Not only did I put summer tyres on my car already (you'll be fined when the police meets you with summer tyres in snowy conditions), but the bloom has already been there for many plants, and many orchards now call it a total loss. All fruit frozen on the trees. Again, the weather forecast warned of snow some minutes ago.

https://ftp.whtech.com/ works for me right now.

When you get stutters, check the emulation speed result message when you leave the emulation. This sounds like your hardware is too weak to run the emulation at full speed with all effects.

Banana?

You're right, the incoming RESET line was never implemented on the emulated Horizon card. I'll add that. The P-box emulation and the parent class of the cards already offer the reset line, so it is just a matter of overriding the empty virtual function. I will send you a newly built MAME executable to try it, maybe today.

Assignment: Calculate the package overhead.

Come on, the last time I played Starfort was more than 30 years ago. There is certainly someone else with a good score here.

I admit I only know this "wasssupp??!" from Scary Movie - now I know the background. Somewhat. About that song I mentioned, here is a video. Just to give you an idea of that piece of culture...

This really reminds me of a notorious party song from German Mickie Krause (one of those beach party hits that you can only endure drunken): Geh' mal Bier hol'n Du wirst schon wieder hässlich ("Go get some more beer - you're getting ugly again...")

Not ripped off, this looks like cleanly cut with a knife or scissors. This alone should earn him some really bad karma. 🤬

This is an interesting point with the TIPI. Have a look here: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/bus/ti99/peb/tipi.cpp lines 280 ff. and 465 ff. Notice the role of the member m_connected: If there is no active connection, sending is ignored. The problem is that I don't actually terminate the connection in MAME, it is the Raspberry side which receives the RESET command. Line 270 shows that I send "RESET", nothing else (no explicit closing of the connection). I don't have the TIPI here, will have to check next Friday, but this is what I can imagine. I think that on the bottomline, this can only be fixed when the Raspberry side can be configured not to break up the connection on RESET.

If you run the emulation with -oslog (or -log), do you see some message like "giving up" related to the TIPI client?

Just to remind (anyone), you can safely use the SCSI emulation in MAME *and* use TIMT3 to format the SCSI drive and to copy stuff on it. Also, the new boot ROMs are available so you can boot from SCSI. Of course, you would probably not have found that issue if you had done that.

Second try: 65750. The counter seems to use more than 16 bit.

When I see these line demos, is there nobody who could imagine writing a Qix game for the Geneve? 🙂

For easier use in MAME, here is an image. As it seems, the demos run in GPL mode. It would have been nice if you included a LIMI 2 at some times between the loops so that you can stop the demo and try another one ... but apart from that, really nice. Thanks! stringart.dsk Edit: The LIMI 2 thing seems to apply for FST or GDEMO only, the rest obviously does allow a stop.

Good old Firefox also loads without warning.

First entry at 11230.

I'm planning for the Aug 2, 2027 eclipse in Egypt. Imagine the black sun above the Karnak temple in Luxor! And it will be 6 min 21 secs long. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenfinsternis_vom_2._August_2027 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_2,_2027

I was in Saarland in 1999, south of Saarbrücken, when shortly before the eclipse, a think cloud layer came up and obscured everything for several hours. People north of Saarbrücken were more lucky; those clouds opened for them at the same time. I waited for that eclipse since I was a small boy and read about the eclipse in one of those scientific books for kids (titled "Was ist was" (lit. "what is what")). I could only heal this trauma by traveling to the 2006 eclipse in Turkey, and well, it worked out, I was instantly cured. 🙂 Some pictures from that event can be seen here: https://www.mizapf.de/de/astro/sonne/sofi06 (in case you wonder: "Sonnenfinsternis" (short SoFi) literally means "sun darkness", even in scientific context)

You can indeed see the shadow approaching. We were a group of about 15-20 people at the 2006 event, we just found a very good position on a small hill, with a view down to the coastline. I remember people from that group suddenly shouting that they see the shadow coming over the sea. The scientific guide who was with us stated that the shadow would be approaching at about Mach 2 or 3. I did not see the shadow, as I was busily preparing my camcorder and my camera. The bad thing is that you have to decide how to experience the eclipse. It's too short to do everything. For instance, apart from the shadow you may see shadowy waves swooping over the landscape, shortly before totality, which are caused by effects in the atmosphere when the sun is eclipsed to a very small part. Or you can see the hundreds of sun sickles on the ground below a tree. Your impression of the cold light shortly before totality may come from the fact that your vision expects everything in red when the sun sets, so you associate low light with warm light. Here, however, the light temperature stays the same, but it's getting dark like sunset, so it seems as if everything looks much too cold. I remember I had a weird impression of a sort of violet color during totality, maybe because of the mix of the red horizon and the dark blue sky above. It is absolutely believable that such an event may have triggered a war, mass suicide, or other hefty reactions in ancient times.

Congratulations! The camera obviously pulled up the brightness; it should have been a lot darker. Isn't it a spooky atmosphere when you look around and see the orange horizon, and above you this weird spectacle with the dark sun and the white corona in a deep blue sky, and then you notice there are stars and planets, maybe Venus or even Mercury? In the time before the totality, the eyes can easily adapt to the weaker light, and you don't notice that 80%, 90%, or 95% of the sun are eclipsed. Everything around seems to cast hard shadows, as the light source is getting smaller. Around 98% you feel like wearing sunglasses, and it's not like a sunset where you have diffuse lighting. But when the totality comes, the light suddenly dims down like in a movie theater just before the curtain opens.

You're supposed to talk to ChatGPT as if it were a person, and what gives me the creeps is when it becomes polite - and when, for a split second, I forget that it is a cybernetic system.