Stone

Why are you all obsessing over main-powered TVs? Ingredients required to test this: (1) 12V lead-acid battery (car battery will do) (1) Jaguar (1) hand-held colour telly with 12V input (1) Jag-type power supply plug (4) crocodile clips Get my point? Stone

It's even better in the implementation used in my TV - just turning the Jag on will automatically tell the TV to switch channels to the RGB input OK, so I'm lazy Stone

Not all JagCDs have socketed BIOSes, so replacing it would mean desoldering the old one and replacing it with a socket. There isn't space inside the shell to run a 'piggy-back' setup like with BJL. It's not the EPROM that's the problem, in other words. It's hacking around inside an expensive piece of kit that could get fried by poor soldering skillz that people are concerned about Stone

I would have to disagree with you there...personally I loved the PC music and was quite disappointed that there was nothing on the Jag version. It does make it more suspense-filled, but then that's not really the point, IMO. It's an action game - having the insistence of the PC music really transformed the game from a slick one into one that was pure pulsating wobbly coolness. Ahem. Ah well Mmm...I'd love to see 'Thy Flesh Consmued' (the extra episode in Ultimate Doom) on the Jag...some incredible levels in there. Actually, scratch that, while I'm dreaming I'd love to be able to load PWADs off the JagCD and play some proper user-created levels Stone

It's not easy to overload the sprite hardware. I did it by running the Sinister Developments MOD-player on the DSP while rebuilding the object list on the 68K each frame, in which I moved and scaled 9 objects simultaneously. After I'd pretty much given up on that demo I thought of a different way to do it with around half the clock cycles...ah well Mind you, taking the mod player out would have been a better place to start Stone

Is this a joke or is this for real? Is it really that advanced and complicated? There's a custom chip in there running the network code, and the only way to reverse-engineer it would be a complete logic analysis, which would likely take months even if automated. It's not going to happen. Making a small box with all standard video / audio outputs on it is trivial (simply point-to-point connections) but the networking functionality is not going to be duplicated (ie, 100% backwards-compatible) in the near future. Stone

Not true! SCART is RGB, as I keep saying You may have trouble getting an official SCARt cable: I've seen some extremely home-made-looking ones (floppy disk drive connector, ribbon cable). The shielding on these is non-existant, which explains why the signal->noise ratio is infinitesimal. Go with S-Video, people know what it is and SCART people can always use an adaptor Stone

He was asking if a binary linked to run from $4000 existed. AFAIK, it won't until someone creates it The CD-bypass ROM is a cart program that reads the toc, reads the boot track, then boots it (ignoring encryption). He wanted the same thing, only running in RAM as with a BJL setup. I want the same thing, just in case I don't get ProtSE for my birthday Stone

Bomberman never got licensed, so unless the source were found and the name/characters changed it probably wouldn't get past Hudson's legal department, much like with BHH and the NHL. Wasn't Jeff Minter working on Centipede? Stone

Are you using RF output from the Jag? If so, it's not unfixable: the fix is to buy a new video cable RF is bad, Composite is good, S-Video is better. SCART/RGB is best, but you'll only be able to use that on a European TV, and I don't know where you are geographically. Composite cables cost very little on eBay, have a look around. If not someone here can probably hook you up (haha) Stone

Beg for source! Surely someone can do something creative with it Stone

Why me? I think you mean with the cable bunched up and tied (no, there's no easy way to say that in one word in English ). Stone

Mine is 535B018268. Stone

Doom sprites are like this, unless of course you have the 32X version (hence the 32X Doom mode in NBA Jam...hilarious ). I never understood why there was only one death angle though..even just having 4 would make it look lots nicer. How does a voxel sprite work? Stone

Look at the serial on the back of the controller: ones starting B (earlier models) have thinner cord and black button rubber, and the text on the keypad is a different font. Serials starting G usually have thicker cable and grey buttons, but there are a coupla variations in the two stocks. Probably about 4-5 variants in all, not including the grey/blue ones. Stone

There were a few PC games using them, but they ran into problems for a couple of reasons. Firstly, with the coding techniques then in use, they looked pretty crap when used for anything but landscapes They also went wild when inverted...huge crashes in the math engines and so on I don't know whether these things are fixed in more modern implementations...there was a modern wargame (name escapes me) that used them for the landscape and standard polys for the players, looks pretty slick. As for the coding side of things, i have no clue why or how they work, so don't ask me Stone

Matthias: You should know you can't split an unencrypted FlashROM image and put it on an EPROM cart to play it in a production Jag The problem is that (in my image at least, a [the?] pure BIN one) the code doesn't start until $4000 into the image (so $804000) Same here... Well, I don't know for certain since I've not got an EPROM cart yet (never got around to fixing my burner), but I'm sure my image (from the original site where it was released) has nothing but $FF until $4000 into the image. I could be wrong...will check it out when I get time. It was my understanding that the Jag would crash when it tried to run from a location with $FF in it... Stone

'Honestly officer, I can't get around this massive bug that keeps displaying that object upside down. It's meant to be a stylised representation of a bunch of flowers, obviously!' Technically, yes it is their property, mind you I doubt they have a) the ability to run the code b) people permanently scouring the net to find infringers c) a care in the world? You could ask them (phrasing it in the time-honoured 'but this is great advertising, honest!' approach) or just ignore the issue. Which option I would take is left as an exercise for the reader Stone

Yes, it would appear so :wink: Guess YaBB got confused with my multiple windows It already exists, look up "BJL atari jaguar" in your favourite search engine. Stone

I wasn't aware of that...maybe I'd have given it more of a chance *goes off looking* No hard feelings over slating your fave game btw True...but then I'm still of the opinion that a game (any game!) is not worth spending time on if the defaults are what I would define as unplayable. As for patience I did give HS a good hour or two to impress me, and while it may look like a (nice-quality) rendering of a ground view from PC Total Annihilation (great game btw, and my first thought on seeing HS in action) there's no denying that it moves like a geriatric snail crawling uphill through a mountain of treacle, which isn't what I personally would expect from something professing to be an action game. Still, opinions are opinions, and yours are no more or less valid than mine, so I'll shut up now Regards, Stone

No problem. The manual has the same art as the front of the box btw, but I figure this page will take long enough to load as it is Stone

My bad, it does. Still, it's a hell of a lot faster than texturemapping the crap out of every available surface Stone

That could be HS *or* BHH I got the CD version with my JagCD and it genuinely blows. No way I'd spend cash on that, let alone £40 when it came out. I shudder to think a worse version exists Well, maybe I could use the casing if I had the cart version...all I have with the CD is a drinks mat This has been discussed before, but how much more playable do you think it could have become with less eye-candy? I think Battlemorph is the prime example of how decent (sparing!) use of textures as highlights and flat-shading the rest improves the speed so much...I can only get 10-15fps on HS:UL and Battlemorph at that speed would suck just as badly Just my $0.02 Stone

Higher-quality pics below Apologies for any reflections, I leave the shrinkwrap on all my new games and open them from the top. I don't know if the back of the box is the same...so here's your chance to find out The sides just have the Jag logo, the 'shiny' PDR logo and the Rage Software emblem on them. BTW, the back of the cart doesn't have ATARI on it, just in case cnyone's does Regards, Stone