Heaven/TQA #26 Posted December 20, 2009 aem... when reading the doc... maybe Candle will now tell me RTFM... but Rybags... I do not get your 52 0x34 at your beginning... binary it is 110100 so...actually the doc says... bits 1.3 and 1.4 enable and disable the color attribute map? and actually you are disbling it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #27 Posted December 20, 2009 They're defaults anyway and not really needed. I had some corruption early on so put it in to be sure. That first XDL part is only for the 24 blank lines. After that is the colourmap that does 192 lines. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #28 Posted December 20, 2009 (edited) well... look... i am doing this d640: 1 d641-d643: 0,0,0 d647: 0 and my xdl looks like this 00111000,0 0,$10,0 191 0,0,160,0 1,0 so I suspect that my color map is at $5000 in xl ram? but when writing random values at $5000 ff I do not get any results on screen as overlay? Edited December 20, 2009 by Heaven/TQA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #29 Posted December 20, 2009 (edited) and $80 into $d64e as bank #0 at $4000 Edited December 20, 2009 by Heaven/TQA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #30 Posted December 20, 2009 Don't forget $D65F - 5E only selects the address/size, you need high bit set in 5F to enable the window. I don't quite get your XDL stuff... %111000 doesn't seem right as a first entry. Also, you have 4 bytes per attribute - in Gr. 0 you're mainly interested in changing bytes 1,2 for foreground/background. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #31 Posted December 20, 2009 but you are doing 52 as first entry which is imho no good, too? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #32 Posted December 20, 2009 cust corrected 111000 is my first entry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #33 Posted December 20, 2009 (edited) 52= $34 = 0011 0100 = overlay off, map off, repeat set 0011 1000 = map on, map off, repeat set ed - seems the forums screws around your text if you precede numbers with a % sign Edited December 20, 2009 by Rybags Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #34 Posted December 20, 2009 do not get it... why is there a map on and map off switch? instead of toggling the bit??? and why did you set overlay off and map off? or are you enabling that later in your game? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #35 Posted December 20, 2009 (edited) Since multiple options are stacked into each XDL entry... e.g. you might want to run map for a while, then overlay without map. Once enabled, a function will remain active in a screen until you disable it. Also, sometimes you only want an XDL entry to change one or two parameters like scrolling, so it's desirable to have the "status quo" situation, therefore you need seperate bits to turn stuff on/off. It should also make programming easier - e.g. if you had a colourmap affected area that was only in use part of the time, no need for seperate XDLs to do so, you just have to alter the one entry when needed. Why am I setting both off? Like I said, it's only the first 24 scanlines. The second XDL entry turns on the attribute map for 192 scanlines, which means 960*4 entries at the default 8x8 pixel size. Edited December 20, 2009 by Rybags Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #36 Posted December 20, 2009 maybe I spent not much time with your basic programm...but where is your second XDL? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #37 Posted December 20, 2009 7060 DATA 52,0,23 7061 DATA 40,138,191 7062 DATA 0,0,0,160,0 7063 DATA 1,0 Line 7060 - first XDL entry for map off, overlay off, repeated for extra 23 scanlines Line 7061 - second XDL entry. Repeat set for 191 extra scanlines, MAPON set. End of XDL set (2.7), overlay/attribute set (2.3), map address set (2.1) 7062 - map address at VBXE RAM $000000, step size of 160 bytes (40 x 4) 7063 - overlay/map parameters, use palette 0/0, width normal, priority to GTIA objects Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #38 Posted December 20, 2009 I am coding on native machinr otherwise I would post my code here... because I write random values into the color ram and don't see any changes on screen... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #39 Posted December 20, 2009 btw... why did you mention $d65e+$d65f? my doc tells me...nothing there? aaarg... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
electron #40 Posted December 20, 2009 btw... why did you mention $d65e+$d65f? my doc tells me...nothing there? aaarg... Heaven, do you really have latest "vbxe package" - especially FX core 1.20 programmers manual ? try here: ftp://ftp.spiflash.org/files/vbxe/release.zip Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #41 Posted December 20, 2009 cze elc, the zip is corrupted? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
candle #42 Posted December 20, 2009 http://spiflash.org/files/vbxe/release.zip you need to think out of the box from time to time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #43 Posted December 20, 2009 thx candle, I haven't got that one... btw... how do I get sound when connected to 1084? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #44 Posted December 20, 2009 Just make up a short cable that takes the audio & gnd signals from the pins on the monitor port, then have a female RCA plug on the other end... or buy one of the cables on eBay for Atari that breaks out all the signals (then you can run col + luma or composite as well for normal non-VBXE display)... or just make one yourself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
candle #45 Posted December 20, 2009 Gary, problem is that Heaven's monitor port for VBXE is the same one that normal monitor is using Heaven, i thought You'll get Yourself that Stereo upgrade one way or another btw (advertisment time mode on) SimpleStereo boards are ready Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #46 Posted December 20, 2009 yeah, i remember we missed something... but sound is my least problem at the moment... i am still messing with the overlay color map... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #47 Posted December 20, 2009 ok. got it... it was my old doc... now with the new manual it works... and one advice to new VBXE coders... always CLEAR the VBXE RAM... don't assume it is empty... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
candle #48 Posted December 20, 2009 it never is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Albert #49 Posted December 21, 2009 Rybags -- You can now edit the original post and attach the updated file. ..Al Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #50 Posted December 21, 2009 Thanks Al, fixed now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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