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Thanks to everyone who joined the ZPH stream yesterday! It was fun. If you missed it, you can still catch the replay. Keep that feedback coming on Microvaders!

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I meant for a game with a single palette, versus a game where the palette can change. So yes, it is necessary to have the full range of colors available to have flexibility for all games. Agreed that having a simple way to modify the palette with a spreadsheet or similar would be ideal.

Thanks. I think that makes sense, but is a lot of work to do by hand. It would have been much simpler if it was just 16 sequential 24-bit RGB entries, instead of 16 offsets into a 12KB file with the rest ignored. I suppose I could build a Python script for it.

Has anyone tried modifying the default Lynx palette in Mednafen? In the documentation, it says: Global Filename: Description: lynx.pal Atari Lynx 12-bit BRG 4096 RGB triplets I'm not sure how to physically lay out a file like this in practice, since Mednafen doesn't provide lynx.pal as a reference. Has anyone messed with this before? I find that Mednafen colors seem "washed out" compared to Handy, which might be more accurate to the real Lynx unit but not as enjoyable to see on an emu.

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Thanks! I have been working on Microvaders all weekend. Lots of new music, new sound f/x, new story screens, and new enemies. Very excited to share this with ZPH in a few days once I get the demo ROM prepped.

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My son and I did some research over the past few days, and discovered there is a Python tool called vamos which allows you to execute Amiga programs from a Windows command line / PowerShell. I finally installed it tonight, and it works! Very cool to not have to boot WinUAE if I don't want to. You can find vamos as part of the amitools distribution, which can be installed using pip3. Just follow the README. I noticed that I have a zip file containing all the Handy Amiga tools dating back from 2001. asm is the most common tool I run, but I did just notice asmstrip would have come in handy (no pun intended) to remove the 6 leading and 4 trailing bytes on every asm output file. So here it is. Enjoy! HANDYUTL.ZIP

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Sorry @MichelS and everyone, looks like I am 3 years late to the party. I still run a subset of the Handy toolset as it's the easiest way for me to get asm code from former Lynx devs to build. Working on Microvaders this weekend, in fact, as you can see from the micro_patch.src referenced below... Looks like I have HandyAsm 1.12 even though I've seen references to newer versions. I would certainly like to have a newer toolset if anyone finds one. There are some minor issues I've run into with listings generated by HandyAsm, but the code output itself is fine. I didn't realize anyone cared about the tools, as no one has ever really asked me about them before. HandyAsm is by far the tool I use the most, and only once every few years do I run HandyROM or other tools. I used to own an Amiga and Howard board which I bought from Beyond Games. That's when I acquired the rights to CyberVirus, Ultra Vortek, and Mechtiles. But once I got the code moved over from the Amiga to a Windows PC (what a pain that was ~20 years ago!), I sold the HW. Now I use WinUAE to run it. I'm not an expert on all of the Handy tools, but feel free to ask questions.