Heaven/TQA

Since days I have strange happening with Maria like INCing xpos of sprites but nothing happen on screen? Double checked with monitor and memory shows that the dL entry byte 4 is increasing but on screen nothing happens? Wtf.... yes dll is in ram at 2300 ff. So question... Can Maria hang? DLI are fired as color changes and music plays... Why does music fucks up when my dll is too short? Do I have to set for 288 scanlines minimum so maria works correct? I can not share code this time publicly.

Do I love the 800.... even I like the XL models...

Me...

Modern.

The ide solution I used to write Gnork demo to 1541. but they are nearwhere as good as our Atari solutions due to complex 1541 (trackloader, fast loaders). Whats far better is that 1541pi I got recently which supports everything so demos work.

Playing with a lot of retro hardware Atari seems the most expandable for years... thanks to SIO etc we had early on stuff like flashcard devices very cheap compared to other platforms now catching up with help of arduino or pi.

Honestly... you can not write through ROM to RAM like On C64 but luckily switch off ROM. But stock Atari XL/XE have only 64k-2k RAM for code. As d000-d7ff is not available for code like on C64. Its more like a very creative marketing blub....

Just to be fair.... Maybe I missed something but where does an stock 800 XL has 64k RAM? The C64 basicly has even more than 64k.... counting RAM under IO plus color ram?

Wasnt the enduro port The great American cross country road race???

Been there.... didnt I posted my voxel engine with a car sprite?

Or those? http://atariage.com/forums/topic/250813-voxelflight-interactive-game-engine/

What about Star Raiders 2 proto? And Rescue ob Fractalus or Eidolon or koronis Rift.

Beware... our Arsantica demos are for PAL.... not tested or adapted for NTSC.... but glad they were mentioned. Before I would show Way Out why not Capture the flag instead?

Thanks Peter for ironing out my bugs . I guess it took longer me finding the original source on my hdd... . And we should release it on tape with audio while loading.... reminiscing the long loading times.

Me just stumbled of that bitshift, too... as normally you might have bittable like 01000000,00010000,00000100,00000001.... ( in MC)... so you index with xpos and get the value (table at least 160x). VladR were you referring when saying charset the so called dirty char method? http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:lines http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:filling_the_vectors

Haha

Eg Mateos card?

The DLI test sounds nice.... is Maria cutting off too long DLLs or like on A8 picture gets corrupt and rolling?

So DL and DLL in RAM, right?

Baaaah thats shit.... if thats true why does every emulator suffer??? I read it in your dev wiki but thought I test it in a7800.... and it worked... I mean putting every stuff into that small 4K ram is not good.....

but in A7800 I can put DLL and DL into ROM? so it's possible for static stuff... even I suffer more cycles DMA Maria is demanding?

thanks... holly shit... looks good on real metal . just some more testing... btw... does 7800 have a NTSC/PAL flag to test like GTIA?

Question: assuming the DLL and DLs remain static... why do I need to put them into RAM and not ROM?

just some small test of my old 3d engine... does this work on real hardware? 3d1_7800.a78

Now that 80s card looks sexy for my 800....