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  1. MarcoJ
    I also noticed this yesterday in my ROMS, especially in folders several deep. The folder structure would show up, but the folders empty.
  2. MarcoJ
    Tried PlusCart 1325. It also says "Firmware download failed".
  3. MarcoJ
    Apologies.i will try again in 12h or so. I tried to find the ID in the System Info menu but couldn’t see it.
  4. MarcoJ
    Hmm, on both of these devices, the PlusStore has said "Firmware download failed". Manually flashing ID 1286 to 2.3.18 worked OK before.
  5. MarcoJ
    Just tried it on another PlusCart. It's works fine, connected to PlusStore. PlusStore is back! I think the board I use for ST-Link has some issues. It had similar bouts of WIFI issues in the past.
  6. MarcoJ
    Thanks, it was able to download and install OK. When running it has trouble finding WIFI access points. When I rolled back to 2.3.17 it was OK. Back to 2.3.18 it couldn't find any Wifi.
  7. MarcoJ
    Hi @Al_Nafuur, do you have the bin version? ST-Link doesn't support ELF unfortunately.
  8. MarcoJ
    I have been able to continue using my PlusCart with the special Offline ROMs download mode whilst the API is being fixed. It's less convenient, but it beats waiting. You either need a USB micro cable or ST-LINK connection for it to work. It involves flashing the ROM file(s) you want to play to a flash sector on the PlusCart, and then scanning for the ROM(s) found in the flash area, and playing them offline. More details here: https://pluscart.firmaplus.de/pico/?Manual#offlineROMS
  9. MarcoJ
    Dear web hoster, please help @Al_Nafuur and all of us out. And give him a beer.
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  11. MarcoJ
    agreed. And very playable. To fit all of this, including music into 4K is incredible. Thanks for posting @splendidnut
  12. MarcoJ
    Nice! Even music too.
  13. MarcoJ
    Hi Littaum. Thanks for your nice comment! Yes, there is a plan for a physical release.
  14. MarcoJ
    A second Atari 7800. I didn't realise what a good 2600 they are. I pretty much only use 7800s now for all my 2600/7800 needs. Wish I knew this sooner.
  15. MarcoJ
    It should behave the same. As long as the music update routine gets its chance (usually once per frame) it should be the same as non-bankswitched. Perhaps on some frames the music routine is being skipped over, or is inside another bank that was not visited that frame?
  16. MarcoJ

    Found a Flashback 9 basic at a flea market cheap. Got the SD slot working with ROMs, does the basic ROM types. Pretty cool.

    1. Intellivision Master

      Intellivision Master

      I used to have the Atari FB 9 with the SD card slot.  

  17. MarcoJ
    Yes, when the bank switch command is issued , the whole 4K bank switches. It's like the code execution falls off a cliff, since the program counter moves onto whatever is next in the bank. It could be anything and may get stuck between an operand series. The alignment of the two banks makes a safe area for bankswitching.
  18. MarcoJ
    Indeed it is hard. They are all great games and one choice seems too little. This is completely opposite to parliament voting; sometimes I can't think of any electoral candidate I want to vote for, and end up picking the least worst candidate to run parliament. Whereas the AHA's are exciting; the voting I am most happy to do and meditate on making the right choice and look forward to seeing the winner. Each of our votes are important and make a difference. The AHA's are a great competition to vote for.
  19. MarcoJ
    Looking forward to 7.0
  20. MarcoJ
    As @JetSetIlly said above, that is a mirror of one of the collision registers. As for the unused "Floating" $3E,$13E etc addresses above, it can vary console to console, and emulator to emulator, flash cart to flash cart. I have found them to read value 0x00 in my consoles. It is better practice to guard code against reading the addresses, even if every console behaves the same. Emulators in developer mode can help you find the situations by selecting the "drive pin to random" function, your program will behave erratic with that enabled. Most developers who will be running on developer mode and when they try out your game it will do weird things like roll the screen, drift sideways, have uneven scanlines, etc.
  21. MarcoJ
    It depends on from who's point of view. From the TIA chip inside the console, yes those are addresses are read as the same address (a mirror). From the cartridge's point of view though, no, those are all different addresses, since the cartridge gets all the 12 address pins. The TIA only gets a limited number of address pins wired to it, so therefore when the unwired pins change state, it doens't see the change and logically the address change is a "mirror". There are a few unused addresses within the TIA space which aren't used by anything, such as $3E,$3F,$7E and $7F. Some bankswitching schemes use them as an agreed zeropage location to switch banks. For example $13E,$23E...$F3E are all separate addresses according to the cartridge.
  22. MarcoJ
    Well deserved
  23. MarcoJ
    Kovi Kovi has been nominated in the 6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards for 3 award categories! - Best Atari 2600 Homebrew (Original) - Best Atari 2600 Graphics (Original) - Best Atari 2600 Music + Sound (Original) To view and vote for your favourite entrants this year please follow the link below. https://forums.atariage.com/forum/203-atari-homebrew-awards/
  24. MarcoJ
    Hey this is a good idea. These boards are cheap and plentiful, I like this direction.
  25. MarcoJ
    Nooooo, that site trained me on 2600 programming. Hope it still continues on. Rebuilding the sources and modding the behaviour is lots of fun and educational.
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