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Since nobody complained about beta 4, it was promoted to 0011 release Changelog since 0010 0011 =========== - XEX is now also (TAB) mountable (ATR/ATX/CAR/CAS/XEX) - added support for MAP files - menu item Mounts->Save to MAP - hide/unhide files referenced in MAP file - shortcuts and autorun can now store all current mounts - new option to not clear mounts on reentering selector - CTRL-SPACE doesn't clear mounts on reentering selector - POKEY emulation fix (Instrumentarium) - POKEY emulation fix (Das Omen) - GTIA sound fix (Flob) - fixed ECI/PBI cable detection when autorun is active - fixed default colors when no SD card is inserted - fix for CTRL-ENTER in search Also if you planned to get SUBCART or AVGCART, today is probably a good day to do so due to Black Friday sale

0011 beta4

since there's no SIO cable and no PBI/ECI cable connected, cart has to revert to the least compatible atr loading method via patched os loaded in ram, for that it needs OSXEX2 file in root of sd card (available in zip file with any fw update) EDIT: which probably won't work anyway since there's no ram under rom on 400/800 if i'm not horribly wrong (unless that incognito provides it)

most of these large xex/atr are (unfortunately) compressed so the load time is dominated by decompression (cpu) and not transfer speed

AVGCART has 1MB memory and that is shared among various functionalities depending on settings and what's being run and since XEX files also use this memory, there's not enough left for 1MB extmem the solution would be converting that XEX to autobooting ATR but it's much easier to just use CAR version of atari blast, which doesn't even need extmem (and loads way faster)

the smaller the divider, the faster the transfer so 0 is the fastest force 1088kb setting is not saved on purpose since it requires atari powercycle to get back to the selector so currently it needs to be enabled manually before executing something that requires 1MB extmem to run (which hopefully isn't that often)

i'm not sure what version are you running now since in the original post you were talking about bc29 -> 0029, now you mention bb29 (which would be a downgrade), 0029 is the latest and greatest (for now) i don't know if you also have sio cable connected (you mention only pbi/eci) but if any of those cables is connected, osxex2 is not needed for atr emulation (it will use sio cable by default and pbi/eci if sio is not connected, both methods don't need patched os (osxex2)) what happens when you launch atr files? is the machine you're testing it on stock (no extra hw like u1mb)? you can also try to disable os forcing by setting it to disabled (CAPS for menu, os select)

that's weird, it sounds like it is not seeing ctrl and shift pressed, can you confirm those keys work? did you also try without any cables connected?

even if you enable pokey emulation on them? at this moment i don't have a theory why is it happening, i don't own vbxe and the only person i know that has one doesn't have subcart (yet) so i can't do any tests if i understand the problem correctly, standard (gtia) output is fine, only vbxe is having issues, it could be that it's sampling data differently than gtia (or is it antic?), be it by design or due to phi2 loading by u1mb/vbxe/subcart/whatever it's connected there (where do you have vbxe phi2 input connected at pcb?) i'll try to do a small change in next beta to see if it fixes anything (unless i find that it breaks something else)

DOS 2.5 supports only two drives by default DOS 2.5 supports drives 1-8, but is initialized to drives 1, 2, and 8, so if you have other drives, change location 1802 ($70A); that is, if you have three drives and the RAMdisk, POKE 1802, 135. All bits in location 1802 now represent pos- sible drives.

that feature took 1 hour and 8 minutes 5 minutes of coding, 3 minutes of capturing video, 55 minutes of trying to get into my youtube account and 5 minutes to create a new one

when atrs are emulated via sio cable, all mounted drives should be visible and accessible, if you see only d1:, that'd mean atrs are emulated via pbi which is non-default (unless you run them via shift-return or hit a bug i've recently fixed concerning using shift-number to mount drives and launching via space key)

what cables (sio, eci/pbi) do you have connected?

SUBCART fw 0011 beta3 0011 beta 3 =========== - added support for MAP files - menu item Mounts->Save to MAP - XEX is now also mountable (ATR/ATX/CAR/CAS/XEX) - shortcuts and autorun can now store all current mounts - fixed ECI/PBI cable detection when autorun is active - fixed default colors when no SD card is inserted - new option to not clear mounts on reentering selector (pure chaos) - CTRL-SPACE temporarily doesn't clear mounts on reentering selector - POKEY emulation fix (Das Omen)

if you mean sio audio in, it's not handled, it was a decision between compatibility with existing cables (sio cable doesn't have "audio in" wire) or trying to support not much used feature and the compatibility won

sure sure but probably not in 0011, i'm waiting for more issues to be reported to fix them in one go, it's quite time consuming to debug pokey emulation because i tend to forget details within days and i always waste time figuring stuff over and over again (and i also need to write some scripts to make debugging easier) yes, that one was already reported

just for the record (this was already handled on discord), it's missing OSXEX2 on sd card (that file is available in zip with update and is needed for atr emulation without sio/eci/pbi cable)

are you sure it's from poland? i've seen the same machine being sold locally (slovakia) plus those tesla chips could also imply that interface was made somewhere in czechoslovakia

thanks, i'll have a look at next week

of course yes, all three atr handling methods are supported (patched os in ram, using "pbi newdevice" functionality (eci/pbi cable), full sio emulation (sio cable)), when sio cable is connected, the last method is used unless it's overridden via shift-return (i need to add a setting to let user set the preferred method)

do you have car files for those?

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i finally made a search benchmark run to figure out how much slower subcart is compared to avgcart, results seem a bit weird to me but i can't find an error in tests methodology: format (fat32) sd card (some 8gb sandisk i had here), unpack latest Homesoft Collection (228 dirs, 4918 files), unpack latest atarionline.pl (tosec named, 5469 dirs, 18040 files) game collection, search for "zybex" (actually "ybex" since i found out that Z key stopped working on this machine, pathetic) in both collections (should traverse through all directories and find some zybex files under Z dir) AVGCART: 2s, 15s SUBCART: 2s, 16s so basically the same which is confusing because i could swear that early in development i ran a quick test and i feel the "overkill" aol test was in 30-40s range but i'm not complaining for completeness, i ran the same search using the same card on a different multicart, the results were 36s and 272s

i tried to get it working on avgcart last year or so but it wasn't working properly for some reason (some demos had glitches, some didn't) so i just disabled it i might revisit it one day when i'll feel masochistic but that's not a promise, always make decisions based on existing features, not what people promise you

i don't know, maybe, attach such xex and i'll add it to queue some time ago i realized that some improvements could be made regarding returning to selector on configurations without eci/pbi cable but i always forget about it because most of the time, i have eci/pbi cable connected so i just press reset and selector autoenables without having to press cart button and i only fix stuff that somebody reports or annoys me enough personally