tzeb

It's this demo, The Top #3:

I am interested in two please!

I'm interested in two.

Hi Marco, No, not visited a user club in the recent years. I used to go to the Lopik user club but that was in the 80s.

Here's another Dutchman. Living near Utrecht.

Hello Bryan, No changes for my order.

I'd like to pre-order 1 full and 2 basic (pal) boards please.

Hello tebe, Segment is not quite what I need, it also writes the segment to the obx file (which is not needed). The output of mads -l: 1 .segdef highmem, $ec00, 512, rw 2 3 ORG 2048 4 .segment highmem 5 FFFF> EC00-EDFF> 00 00 + a1 :256 .byte 6 ED00 00 00 00 00 00 00 + a2 :256 .byte 7 EE00 .endseg I only want the addresses of the labels, so I found a workaround using struct: .struct highmem_struct pm_0 :256 .byte pm_1 :256 .byte pm_2 :256 .byte pm_3 :256 .byte .ends .var highmem highmem_struct = $f000

tebe, thanks for your explanation. I'll try the segments.

There is something about the the behaviour of .zpvar and .var that puzzles me: .zpvar does not need an address at the end, but .var does. Is this correct behaviour? see code below. The line ".var c1 .byte" throws an error: pagezero_start = $a0 .zpvar a .byte = pagezero_start .zpvar b,c .byte .zpvar d :10 .byte .zpvar e .byte ; this all works... highmem_start = $ec00 .var a1,b1 .byte = highmem_start .var c1 .byte ; ...but this line gives an error: "varstest.asm (11) ERROR: Variable address out of range" ORG 4096 RUN start_main start_main nop

Thanks for your explanations. I have got a number 3 and I am a little surprised that Atari has actually produced a good power supply with quality parts. I did not expect this, certainly not after reading all the horror stories about failing power supplies.

Hello, @tebe Thanks for your reaction concerning my pass_max question. I did figure out how to change it, but I must not forget to patch MADS each time a new version is being released. Perhaps you could consider increasing it in the released code? The number 32 is just an example. The maximum number of passes I have encountered is 18. (I do not know what is supposed to be a 'normal' number of passes?) @JAC! I really don't know how to restructure the program to reduce the number of passes. I use a few .REPT, lots of .LOCAL and lots and lots of @ labels. And the program source is large (>200KB, but the largest part is DTA digital data)

You might want to try the Foobar2000 player, it can also be used as a portable app from an usb stick. http://www.foobar2000.org Be sure to install the ASAP component from http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_asap

Hello tebe, First thanks for mads. It is a powerful tool and it has proved very useful for me. I have a small feature request: could you please increase the pass_max value (to 32 for example) in the next release? I have had some complex sources which required more passes than the standard 16 and that causes some very strange errors. greetings, tzeb

(Could not edit my posts anymore) I have updated the zipfile; the soundplayer now checks and reports if <64KB has been found.