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Are tracking numbers being emailed to recipients?

Received my Skunk Board Saturday. Was able to upload a ROM to it. More importantly able to upload an early small bit of code i wrote that writes directly to address of current line buffer. More advanced code i had running in Virtual Jaguar, is not working on Skunk, due to Virtual Jaguar not correctly emulating the Jaguar. Really nice to just plug a USB cable between laptop and skunkboard (versus 20-30 year old deprecated port connectors). Anyone having trouble getting the USB drivers to install, make sure you have your PC/laptop audio turned on, and ensure you hear a sound indicating that usb cable is connected. I spent 45-60 minutes trying to debug why USB drivers wouldn't install, only to find out i was using a bad USB cable. Plugged in a good USB cable, heard the sound, and sure enough the drivers installed successfully. Any chance you could share video of you assembling a Skunk Board? Think it would be interesting viewing for some us purchasers. Bob

You holding off on invoices that were requested a few days ago? I'm in no rush. Just want to know if i missed an invoice or not. Bob

Have you tried turning it off and on again? FWIW, I'm from the US. Bob

Believe you just click the Add To Wishlist link (below the orange price box) to get added to waitlist. I'm not Al though. Bob

Can you post the waiting number of specific dates? For example, what waiting list number is on 2020-01-01, 2020-02-01, 2020-03-01, ... 2020-12-01. Might save you some time if you could do this. Waiters wouldn't know exactly where they fall on this waiting list, but would have some idea of where they fall on the waiting list. Bob

Are Nuon controllers available at reasonable price? Or perhaps other controllers can be hacked to work with Nuon enabled dvd players? Controllers looked expensive on eBay.

I will purchase one.

What is the blue screenshot trying to display? I don't see a repeating tile, shifted by one pixel, for each row of tiles, in the screenshot. Is the screenshot produced after blending with the repeated tiles? Also, not the issue, but should UPDA2 be or'd into B_CMD? Bob

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Has there been any update from VladR about the game he intended to release this year? Believe he demoed something at Portland Retro Gaming Expo, a thread got locked, and then i haven't heard anything about it since. Bob

"How do I calculate the correct value of REMAINER field in a vertical scaled object?" Do you need to calculate REMAINDER bits, or just initialize REMAINDER bits? My understanding, from a version of the Software Reference, is: ...that you initialize the REMAINDER bits when create object list and when you recreate the object list after every vertical blank. ...the hardware updates this on a per scanline basis, in between vertical blanks.

Unsure of your experience with Jaguar programming. 1) Have you successfully displayed other image data in scaled fashion? 2) Successfully displayed other image data in non-scaled fashion?

" Some times the OP draw more scanlines(extra scan line with random pixels) " Are extra scanlines drawn before your bitmap, or after your bitmap?

Off topic, if not related, but... Was there any relation between World Tour Racing (WTR) and Checkered Flag (CF)? Thought i read one time WTR started off being named CF2, but that seems odd given that WTR was coded by different development company than Rebellion. Any chance we will ever see source code for WTR? Bob

Any chance we can get photo of vladr and Wave 1 Games next to monitor displaying their games? Would be nice to put face to the game creators. Bob

Any off chance you have a copy of the Primate programming language post? I seem to recall the 32 bit version stepped up to 32 monkeys and an error checking goat. I have searched for that post/text and cannot find it anywhere. -Bob

Is that the same image of cornboy from Jaguar Interactive, from 20 years ago?

What exactly do you want to do? You can pass --alpine command line argument to VJ, and then inspect memory, registers, etc. Bob

Definitely have never seen that bonus round. Like i said, i always got stuck on level 64, so i probably wasn't that good at game. I would play from level 1 as well, intentionally not completing warp/bonus round, so i could garner as many extra lives as possible for level 64. Thanks for links, Bob

Can anyone provide a link to a a correctly displayed version of this bonus round? I'm the original poster. It's been ~20 years since i played heavily, but i don't remember any bonus round other than bacon. Maybe a correctly displayed 'melt-o-vision rings bonus round' video would refresh my memory. What were the conditions that caused a player to enter anything other than the bacon bonus round? I wasn't very good at bacon bonus round, probably completing bacon bonus round less than 10 times. If i recall correctly, i always got stuck on level 64, and wasn't good enough at getting to-and-through the bonus rounds to skip past level 64. Bob

Minute 29. Thought i had copied the current time link, but didn't. Maybe this link will work better: https://youtu.be/8NVLXA05Lx8?t=1741

Am i the only person whom has ever played Tempest 2000 much and not seen the following bonus round? Never beat the game, but i got to at least level 64 numerous times. Bob

Sounds better. Thanks.

Thank you, Bob