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  1. there is also a PC version available from Sage

     

    ... which I can put for public if you agree. This converted also includes the player for quick testing on the lynx. Loader Cart and serial converter cable requiered.

     

    Of course, no problem.

     

    BTW. What happend to your Lynx game "Push around the world" ? :)

  2. Here are some more facts about LynxMod, the MOD-Player

    has a replay frequency of 6khz, during development we experimented

    also with 8khz which sounds of course better but needs more memory and

    cpu time. Biggest Problem on the lynx is the small main memory.

     

    During the development of Alpine Games we toyed also with the idea to write a YM-Replay

    Routine (to replay ST Chipsounds) but we went with the mod route instead.

     

     

    The Effects supported are:

     

    11 Position Jump

    12 Set Volume (only supported on Lynx 2)

    13 Pattern Break

     

    Mods must be converted with a special program, it is available for the Atari ST computers,

    there is also a PC version available from Sage

  3. Hello

     

    You should set the Reloadable depth in SPRCTL1, in your example

     

    titleSCB

    dc.b %11000001

    dc.b %00010000 ; <=== Set Hsize, Vsize

    dc.b %00000000

    dc.w 0

    dc.w title_sprite

    dc.w 0

    dc.w 0

    dc.w $100 ; <==

    dc.w $100 ; <==

    dc.b $01,$23,$45,$67,$89,$AB,$EF,$00

     

     

    Regards

     

    Roland / Duranik

  4. The lynx is not the beutiful hardware you make it out to be, had it been so it would have been not just outrageously more expensive than it was, but the games wouldn't have run on the hardware as they do. Even Alpine Games, which you constantly toss around as the lynx's defense as superior hardware had a crappy frame rate and no in game music (except in the figure skating event) due to limited execution time.

     

     

    It is obvious that no one who is so devoted to the false superiority of the lynx hardware as some of the people in this topic would break down and believe these facts. However, I will say it again. The lynx is NOT and NEVER will be as powerful as a Genesis, SNES, TG-16 and ESPECIALLY GBA.

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    What you are saying is totally wrong.

    Almost every event in Alpine Games has transparency effects, which

    requires a constant Framerate and redrawing with 60 or 75 Frames per

    second otherwise you would see a strong flickering.

     

    The Figure Skating for example has transparency effects and plays a 4 Channel MOD

    and is loading and decrunching data in realtime during the game.

    The main problem with not having music during the events is the lack of main

    memory and the lynx not beeing able to nicely access data from the cartridge

    (like all the other consoles do). Playing chipsound music would be no problem

    at all, but the lack of time and a good editor to create chipmusic was a problem.

    Therefore we wrote a Modplayer which is a well known format for music creators.

     

    We never claimed AG is the pinnacle of all Lynx Games, and to stop this discussion

    the lynx is a very nice machine, but of course it is no SNES or Megadrive, compare

    it to GameGear and GB/GBC, thats what it was made for.

     

    Johannes / Duranik

  5. Seriously, i can´t read all those jaguar is full of bugs things any more. What particular

    bugs did you stumble across you had to change your whole design due to limitations or

    bugs of the hardware ?

    In my opinion most of the hardware bugs people are complaining about today are

    not hardware related and just buggy source code. Jaguar is a complex machine, most

    the things should be done in assembler which makes it even more difficult.

     

    We had no problems with bugs when we developed Native a couple of years ago and

    it is using quite a bit of the hardware in the machine.

    Of course there are some limitations and the most obvious error seems to be the

    famous network bug.

     

    There are some bugs in every system, Lynx, Falcon, Dreamcast, all the newer systems,

    I don´t see jaguar to be a lot more buggy then those.

     

    Johannes / Duranik

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  6. the cartridge is not a complete game, nothing we want people to

    spend 20 or 30 bucks, just stuff that is lurking around on our hard

    drives.

    Perhaps you overestimate the lynx market, apart from

    the roms for the emulators, i guess there is no piracy at all.

    Most likely it would be much more expensive to build a cartridge

    like alpine games instead of just buying it. I have never seen

    any of the new releases like Sokomania or Championship Rally

    on any romsites.

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