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    Thanks! I don’t think a CRT would ever roll due to this code. Today I got feedback from a programmer, there was still an improvement to be made, now the screen transition looks a bit cleaner and doesn’t roll on my Panny Plasma either.  My confusion was tied to the timing of writes to the SDMCTL shadow register controlling Antic.  It isn’t immediate but is executed on the next VBI. So problem solved and game is (once again) finished. 

     

    Wait till everyone sees the beautiful manual! 
     

     

     

     

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    So the 3 AI's are Red and are all Players, and  Player1's guy is another player sprite (Yellow).   But all the missiles are purple - at first I was surprised , I assume you are using the missiles all linked together right? I've read about that but never used it.  I believe the '5th player' inherits one of the BG colors, is that correct?     

     

    Assuming I'm right and you linked the 4 missiles into a 5th player (what it's term), I was not aware you could still position the missile pixels independently!  I thought they would be all together like a Player sprite's 8 pixels. 

     

    The game looks quite appealing in motion.  I hope there are different colors for the enemies and not all being red all the time. I'm not very famliar with the Inty original, but no reason you can't have more variety across the stages with colors.   I'm anxious to see what cool bonks and buzzes and musical ditties you might throw in there. 

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    EDIT - the minor issue reported here is now resolved. 

     

    Could everybody who played at least one round of the demos I posted this year answer a question for me?  

     

    When you beat a game , did you ever see the rankings screen kind of roll when it loaded up? Or when the game returns to the title screen, have you ever seen the title screen do a quick roll When it loads up?   These are the same screen in the game,  but with different info on them.  

     

    Running my XEGS through a Radio shack multi box into a Panasonic Plasma with RCA cables  I have seen this screen roll,  and could never fix it or figure out why.  So today I plugged the XEGS into my little Vizio flat screen with same RCA cables .... and it never rolled once.  

     

    The game code has been completed for a while, but I thought I'd try to figure it out, but now I think I was chasing a red herring. Please respond with your experience, yes it rolls sometimes or no you never saw it.  

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    I used to love reading it. Over time, it started to seem I had already read it all and there were fewer things in the mag that interested me. I'm from USA mind you, and I can only take so much Speccy content since I never even saw that hardware in person. I always picked up the issues that interested me at Barnes & Noble, which I have not visited for about half a year. I have stacks of the magazine and I will likely reread many of those someday soon.  Can't comment on the most recent issues. 

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    PS4 Beach Buggy Racing 5 hours.   I've owned this 2 years and decided to beat the entire game, of which there are many races. The game crashed trying to save, and I lost hours of gameplay progress on the save file (it reverted to an older version??? Not sure what happened).  So I played some more, but every 5 races or so I'd reboot the game (maybe there is a memory leak if you play too long at one time, I thought).    

     

    Beat the final 1000cc race/boss, also had enough money to level-up some extra vehicles to 500cc and 1000cc and try them out.  I like the surf guitar soundtrack and the many beachfront locations of the races, makes it unique.  But I think I'm done with the game now. 

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    3 minutes ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

    This would indicate that your console itself likely needs the pokey adjusted. What about Popeye? I've seen it where Kangaroo has control issues and you find out that Popeye has trouble going up and down ladders. Or with Gyruss you can't easily get the ship to rotate around the screen.

     

    He said he was playing using emulators,  Last month I played 5200 Kangaroo on Altirra, and experienced sticking joystick controls, solved for me by pressing left right up and  down a moment each - which fixed the problem. It only happened on the first game I played after boot up. 

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    I always get the shimmering too, and I saw the frame shimmer and jumping text on last night's show too.  It is usually worse on my Galaxy Tablet (using the Twitch App)  than in Chrome on my laptop.  "60fps-like".    I didn't realize it could be fixed. I thought it was a consequence of losing frames because of the streaming. 

  21. Posted

    At the beginning of a round,  press every direction up down left right & diagonals before you start to make progress. Then see if the controls seem to work.   Some 5200 games have logic to interpret how far the analog sticks go towards the maximum readable value. I've experienced some weird moments with kangaroo too, but nothing as bad as you described.

  23. Posted

    Aww, that is terrible news. Curt has been one of the OG 21st century Atari pillars of the community with all the stuff he has been involved with.  I recall meeting him and discussing various Atari and homebrew things with him a few times but years ago. Condolences to his family. 

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