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  2. Posted

    A lot of trouble with VJ since few month since a Windows 7 update

    > VJ works fine in rom mode but crash in Alpine mode

    Hi.

    Do you launch the alpine mode directly without a rom / binary? In this case, the debugger will launch whatever the pc position / code it found, so it will result mostly on a crash. I have discovered this when studying the emulator code to add some stuff.

  3. Posted

    Great, Thanks for spoiling it. I've been working hard to acquire the Jaguar trademark from Atari. Now if they see this they will want a ton of money killing the project.

    About 15 years ago, Hasbro Interactive released all rights that they have to the vintage Atari hardware platform, the Jaguar.

    In theory the SDKs, tools and tech. documents may be included but I never read the official Hasbro Release document(s).

  5. Posted

    I assume the USB ports are physically connected. Tursi pointed me to some USB driver code included with the Skunk full distribution which is intended to interface with the USB ports as a mass storage device.

    I remember to have read a couple of text files mentioning WiP on these 2 USB ports. Could you point me to this USB driver code? I have the Skunk full distribution zip file (the one available in the Tursi's web site), so I will be able to find the code if you can give me the filename(s). I do not promise anything but I can have a look at this stuff.

    Zerosquare is correct, the Skunklib is the communication functions library.

  6. Posted

    Hi Carl,

    At first, congrats for your work and dedication to our community. I have a comment/question about your next step. I believed the USB port found on the Skunkboard was not physically connected. I found this info on a web site:

    "What are the two large USB ports for?

    -When originally designed, Skunkboard was intended to support USB memory sticks for booting and loading software. This functionality is not yet developed.
    -There are no plans to develop these USB ports at this time."

    So does it means it was a matter of software and not a hardware issue?

  8. Posted

    Hi,

    Sorry to bother you with this question, but I have a Cybermorph boxed edition which contains also a manual in Japanese. I've found this curious, do all boxed editions came with it too? (I do not think so but I prefer to ask).

    Thanks,

  10. Posted

    Sure.

    I and Jagchris did a discussion about it some time ago, and written down a document; you can find it here: http://3do.cdinteractive.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3601

    There are also a couple of screenshots to show the solution in action too. It works fine at my side, so you may have different results. I will recommend to start playing around GDB and Skunkboard within the GDB console mode, if you never done it before.

    I use my own jserve version based on Tursi work (very talented guy), but the jserve from Tursi will work fine too.

  11. Posted

    Hi,

    I use GDB and Skunkboard; I use both via Code::Blocks, in my case, and comfort is similar with Visual Studio, you can trace M68K only.

    It is rather slow for Debug, but my laptop is pretty hold too so it doesn't help either.

    When using GDB & Skunkboard environment, I remember I was able to trace without the symbols.

  12. Posted

    There's apparently no shortage of people to buy them so far - that's a really good thing, the more people that end up owning them, the more chance we have of seeing new stuff appear and the active Jaguar fan base widening.

     

    If we're looking for how many people actively use them for playing games or developing stuff, that's harder to estimate. There are definitely a number in the hands of collectors, potentially owning one of each variety. Collectors gonna collect, if it helps support a release then so be it. I still see occasional mention of people who have had one for years and never got around to trying it, but that's good in a way as it hints that people who maybe collected one have seen there's plenty of stuff out there to give them reason to actually use it. There are some who only really started using it once they realised belboz's gui or jiffi gave them a friendlier method of interaction than a command line.

     

    If you want to get your updated versions of jcp to devs, posting to the AA programming section would be a good start. The Jagware megathread of dev tools is my personal first stop when looking for something, zero keeps that up to date and it usually saves time having to sift through multiple sources manually. http://www.jagware.org/index.php?showtopic=836

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

    There is an update of jcp2 (2.0.5), it includes a parameter to select a Jaguar based on the Skunkboard serial number. It was a good suggestion. :-)

    The mods from the Jaguar64.eu forum granted me a FTP access, so I will also put stuff there as well.

    If someone meets an issue with jcp2 and/or have suggestion(s) to improve the tool, I would like to hear it.

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  13. Posted

     

    Tursi has posted at least once on the subject, iirc there was a figure that was pretty accurate. skunk + skunk 2 + skunk3 + ghost = just under 500 units. OK, looked it up, top hit on google... "We sold just shy of 500 units, and could have sold more if we could have built them". 10 or more from the guy who made some and posted pics to twitter http://atariage.com/forums/topic/201788-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-skunkboard/?do=findComment&comment=2831306

     

    So it's probably safe to assume 500 is a good number with those added. If you can get a number for the silly ones you have your total.

     

    If you're looking for an install base, how many still function and how many have yet to be even taken out of the box thanks to being added to collections is less easy to calculate.

    Thank you for the information, I was not looking for the install base; but about an overall number.

    I was curious about how "popular" this kind of stuff can be.

  15. Posted

     

    Probably not the best place to post releases, looks like you have an audience of one (I noticed only one download of the 32-bit version before I took a copy of the 64-bit one, that would be the one other person posting in the thread I assume).

     

    Thanks for the release.

    I think I have an explanation about the number of downloads. When I updated / edited the message in my original thread, it did reset the download number to 0. I updated my original message to avoid to stack pile versions in the thread.

    This jcp version is not the 1st one I did; the 1st one took more downloads but it had a Windows XP compatibility problem (which was solved in the current release). If you find an issue, please let me know, and I will look at it.

     

    In the web site, there is a also a discussion about M68K debugging (Code::Blocks, GDB, jserve & Skunkboard) and an updated jserve version (a new one is in progress but I need time to test it more, and I may include the Skunkboard detection version - which may be more user friendly that to give an usb port).

     

    Regards,

  17. Posted · Edited by dilinger

    Using

     

    SubQMod's Macro Assembler for Atari Jaguar

    Copyright © SubQMod 2007-2009

    V1.0.16 Jun 24 2009 (Win32)

     

    This produces a syntax error

     

    dc.w 112-135,101-116,84

     

    but this works

    dc.w 112-135,-15,84

     

    Have you tried a most recent Smac version? The 1.0.18 by example?

  19. Posted

    Hi Michael,

     

    Thank you for the updates, and sorry for this late reply.

     

    I have tried with your new package and just got 2 errors (on the ALN.UI file by example), errors different from the previous ones.

    "maximum token number exceeded without further..."

     

    I will look at the issue again, but your package looks very usable anyway.

     

    Regards

  20. Posted

    Hi Michael,

     

    Thank you for the file, I have look at it and it looks fine.

    Look / presentation is different but this is a matter of taste, the information are here and this is the most important.

     

    Anyway, your version is already available so the community has a nice alternative; I wll continue to do the PDF and will post them here time to time.

     

    Regards,

    04-TechnicalReference_26.April-21.June.1995.pdf

  21. Posted

    Hello Michael,

     

    Thank you very much for this information. Your work was unknown to me and I'm glad to know someone did OCR actions before.

     

    I've tried UDO with your files but was not able to generate PDF or Rtf files. I'm using UDO 7.03 on Windows (command line) and I just got errors whatever the formats selected.

    Most of the errors are related to "too many words..." or "items ignored...", but please could you generate one or two PDF and/or Rtf files at your side? To see how it looks like.

    If you can also send me your options used in the command line, it will be useful, just in case of.

     

    Anyway, your work offer a very interesting option / alternative for the community. And, I'm probably too old fashioned when it is about documentation - PDF or Word files have my preferences.

     

    With kind regards,

  22. Posted

    Thank you for the feedbacks,

     

    I will try to finish the OCRs before Christmas; Since my Jaguar stuff is not arrived yet, I can spend some time on this,

     

    This evening, I give you a new chapter "Getting Started"; as usual, feel free to let me know if you spot errors. It can be easily fixed. Since I'm new in the Jaguar scene, I use this OCR actions also to know more about the machine & the stuff around. So I apply some kind of proof reading.

     

    The next chapter in progress is the "Technical Reference".

     

     

    01-GettingStarted_10.April-5.June.1995.pdf

  25. Posted · Edited by dilinger

    Thank you for the feedbacks,


    I'm able to create a word file (by page), so I guess there is a way to improve the presentation, to have a unique good looking.

    If you have to choose on future OCR actions, what chapter the community would like to see first? among the remaining ones:


    Index.pdf

    Getting Started.pdf

    Software Reference.pdf

    Technical Reference.pdf

    Hardware Bugs & Warnings.pdf

    Jaguar CD-ROM.pdf

    The Jaguar Voice Modem.pdf

    Jaguar Workshop Series.pdf

    Sample Programs.pdf

    Libraries.pdf

    QSound for Jaguar.pdf

    Cinepak for Jaguar.pdf

    Tools.pdf

    Appendices.pdf

    Madmac Macro Assembler.pdf

    ALN Linker.pdf

    DB - The Atari Debugger.pdf


    Thanks,

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