Effectus - Action! cross-compiler using Mad-Assembler (MADS)

[Effectus - Action! cross-compiler using Mad-Assembler (MADS)]

Crossover to C64 is very interesting, it could allow a wider audience and multi-platform cooperation.

Is the entire http://freeweb.siol.net/ subdomain down? I get timeouts constantly, while https://siol.net/ is working.

[What STs do people own? Would like to know for developing a game.]

I have 520STM ("short ST") with a few amateur hardware extensions, including hardware overscan - it would be great if you could test your ideas against latest versions of Steem, which allow emulation of 2 types of hw overscan - LaceScan and AutoSwitch on ST/F/M. Actually there are more types of this hack "in the wild", I have one for instance which is (de)activated via YM2149 I/O port A (#14)'s bit 7, and I have preserved by miracle two assembly routines - to switch it on or off, nothing more.

 

I mention this, because the hardware overscans should allow to do the same as software overscan - sync scrolling:

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4357

manipulating their "on/off" state should allow to do hardware scrolling with word precision on ST/F/M. Haven't tried it yet, I was happy to find out that my old ST is still working, and the overscan works too. I doubt Steem would emulate that, not yet.

[Some less known things about TOS, reasons of bad programming of SW]

On 11/27/2019 at 1:33 PM, ParanoidLittleMan said:

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Link for DL: http://www.chillichai.com/atari-st-review/cover-disk-downloads

STREV06_2 .

To add that in my improved TOS, with option to force AES AUTO run, dialog appears when both are in AUTO folder.

Not bad PRG, that ANTIBOMB, and I never heard about.  Too bad that I got used on Steem Debugger 🎃

Just to update link (outdated now) to ST Review coverdisk archives, currently here:

https://www.chillichai.com/atari-st-review/coverdisks

and

http://www.zhell.co.uk/streview.html

Thank you for great food for thought! I've always avoided TOS as much as possible (yes, unclear and missing docs weighed in), but I had to - at some point - not to rewrite a lot of basic functions. Your input on AUTO specifics is very valuable - thank you again.

[Effectus - Action! cross-compiler using Mad-Assembler (MADS)]

Thank you for your excellent work!