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  9. Posted · Edited by R0ger

    9 hours ago, leech said:

    See, my thinking is  the opposite.  The problem in my mind with the MiSTer and Raspberry Pi 4 is the layout of the ports.  They're both essentially cube like, with ports on every side with no real layout that works with anything outside of mounting them to the back of a screen to try to get things out of the way.  The Pi 400 works just like the olden days where you had some cables out the back and you could at least tie them up, or have them put neatly out of the way.

    You have boxes for Pi with ports moved all to one side. You can do whatever you want with the ports. My issue with 400 is I move the keyboard around. Or even stow it away. It was not possible with 8bits, but it would be preferable for me even then. It is possible now. Why go back ? Keyboard with 2 cables, one of which is thick HDMI, and second one must not be pulled otherwise the machine will turn off ? No thanks, that's retro too much :-D

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    3 hours ago, leech said:

    I have to say that Pi 400 has some of that awesome feeling of the old all in one wedge computers.  Wonder if they will release a Pi 800 with 8gb of ram.

    I find it highly impractical. Having all the cables in the keyboard, especially when it's this light, is not good. Pi 4 in separate box and standalone BT keyboard seem better in every aspect. I like the exposed header, it would make good education device.

     

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    2 hours ago, clth said:

    Yep, song file can be readjusted but still there is this strange corruption of memory even inside rmtplayr. Gotta check my linker config with working program and test every used linker directive.

    Then readjust it and send another diff, it's hard for me to see the differences like this. RMT player needs to be specifically aligned and I have no idea how to do it from CC65. Baktra on the other hands has lot of experience with that.

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    Well judging by the diff the WRONG version has the DOS header, as you said. RMT module pointer needs to be on that RMT marker. That is considered start of the module. That has to be on the address specified in export (4000 by default).

    RMT file is DOS file, so it does contain the header. Ie FFFF, start address, length, 6 bytes in total. In assembler you either use manual ORG and then skip 6 bytes when including the file.

    Or you use 'opt h-' (in MADS) to end previous assembler generated segment, and include the file as is, with the header. That way it will simply treat the RMT file as new DOS file segment, and use the address from the header.

    I have no idea how to do it correctly in CC65. But all you need is those 'RMT' marker bytes end up on the address specified in RMT export, and used when calling rmt_init.

     

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    16 hours ago, Stephen said:

    This makes me so sad.  VBXE is not using a PC with an NVIDIA card.  You're still bound to 6502, it's what Atari should have done in the early 80s, rather than sticking with 1978 technology through the EOL of the 8-bits in 1992.  If you code for the VBXE you will see it as a natural extension of what should have happened.  It has a display list.  It is scanline based.  Few more pixels per line, few more colours.  Same overall feel.

     

    This shitty attitude towards only the VBXE kills me.  10+ years and it's treated as the red headed step child.  Since the early 80s we accepted RAM upgrades.  We accepted stereo pokeys.  We accepted faster serial devices.  We accepted parallel devices.  We accepted CF cards not SCSI HDDs.  Covox for 4-channel 8-bit audio.  Atari released a garbage 80 column solution in the XEP-80.  But god forbid, we have a device that gives us some better colours on screen.  It's shunned as the worst thing ever.  Why is this?  Please - as an Atari user since the heavy-sixer of 1977 (which I still own) - why is the VBXE pretty much single handedly pointed out as the only 8-bit upgrade to get universally shit on?

     

    I implore you - try Sparta DOS X with Sparta Commander set up properly, and Last Word with VBXE drivers.  It's still 8-bit Atari but "next generation".

    I don't hate it. I just don't care. As I said, I don't want 'next generation Atari'. RAM upgrades were done back in the day. SD cards and HDMI outputs allows your device to work in current context. But VBXE is just random extension of capabilities. Some people will mount modern engine into old timer car. Good for them. I don't care about that.

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