RXB Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 3 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: Because everyone full-screens every window, anyway. Have a 4k monitor? Browser is full screen. Without fail. Never once have I ever used Classic99 in full screen mode I have this size screen to play games, but full screen of Classic99 looks like CRAP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Whew.. In Your Face! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 1 hour ago, RXB said: Never once have I ever used Classic99 in full screen mode I have this size screen to play games, but full screen of Classic99 looks like CRAP! I have a simular setup..40in 4k which lets me have 4 1080p size windows in the four quadrents.. without any issues with frames or desk mounts or all that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 2 hours ago, mizapf said: I sometimes see people maximizing their windows, and I really have problems to understand why. Not because I don't like it, I fail to see the benefit. When I click on the maximize button, it is almost always because I missed the minimize button next to it. ... Maybe it´s another world when you have 2, 3 or more displays connected to your PC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 I recall my IBM T41s can run run the LCD, VGA, and S-VIDEO/COMPOSITE all at once, and that's w/o a dock! A nice way to get Classic99 onto a TV. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Keatah said: Whew.. In Your Face! Yeah. I got got. But also this! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 55 minutes ago, Schmitzi said: Maybe it´s another world when you have 2, 3 or more displays connected to your PC. When I did work with computers for a living yes I needed multiple monitors, but not today with gaming it just makes it hard to do playing games. More monitors looks cool but still 98% of you focus will be on center monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 39 minutes ago, RXB said: When I did work with computers for a living yes I needed multiple monitors, but not today with gaming it just makes it hard to do playing games. More monitors looks cool but still 98% of you focus will be on center monitor. yep. For me it always is important to have an odd number of monitors, so that the main desktop can be in the middle, straight forward to me as usual. I have 3, so the left and the right monitor are very nice for using with task that I do not use every second, but the whole day. Like Outlook, Youtube, NetFlix, Security Cams and and and... I think my focus to the middle screen is about 70% 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 10 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: I credit my abhorrence to full-screen applications to my exposure to the Amiga. Windowing in AmigaOS is just so fluid and easy, and there is little need for programs to run full screen. Any program which benefits from its own screen can either open a screen (or "virtual desktop") or be convinced to if it is an MUI program. Limited ChipRAM is also why I tend to close unused windows, now even with AmigaOS enhancements which render icons in FastRAM and even in Windows -- not just an old habit, but also keeps a cleaner work space. I really loved the way AmigaOS handled windowing, multitasking, everything. It was so well thought out. There are a couple of steps forward since then, but so many steps back. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 10 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: This is also a very cool addition. This will allow a program to completely quit out. Now a TI game or program can run more like a native application and exit when it wants. Nice! It is a bit of a mental twist to go from "Classic99 is a development tool" to "Classic99 is a deployment platform". But I don't think there are seriously any other tweaks needed. (Maybe proper F18A, but that'll be in 4.0). I keep toying with the idea of extensions to let you increase the screen size and so on, but I don't seriously think I'd do it... support would be a nightmare. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 9 hours ago, mizapf said: I sometimes see people maximizing their windows, and I really have problems to understand why. Not because I don't like it, I fail to see the benefit. When I click on the maximize button, it is almost always because I missed the minimize button next to it. In the old 4:3 days I used full screen windows a lot, and multi-monitor was mandatory for me, but as I moved to wide screen I found that I really wanted to keep that same aspect ratio, so I could drop two windows side-by-side if they weren't maximized, and needed fewer physical monitors. Now I let them overlap plenty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 9 hours ago, RXB said: Never once have I ever used Classic99 in full screen mode I have this size screen to play games, but full screen of Classic99 looks like CRAP! Same idea here, but I've got two 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 12 minutes ago, Tursi said: It is a bit of a mental twist to go from "Classic99 is a development tool" to "Classic99 is a deployment platform". Perhaps because nobody has done it? I was thinking about these packaged versions of retro games which are built around an emulator (for instance, numerous C64 games packed with Vice*,) and I thought, why not something like for the TI? Why not package up some TI games with Classic99 in AppMode for those who are emulator squeamish and lack real hardware? Even disk-based stuff could be done this way (XB with the auto-load feature.) Heck, with a keyboard queue you might even be able to load up a tape from TI BASIC automagically. 10 minutes ago, Tursi said: In the old 4:3 days I still have two 2001FPs at my desk, connected to my Windows machine, my Amiga 4000, MorphOS MacMini, and composite and S-Video cables over to the side of my desk for TI, C64, or whatever. * Vice has some nice features, like auto-loading a disk or tape file when dropped into the emulator window. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 10 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: It appears that you might have a CAT!? Cats are good... Spoiler ...At getting attention!!!? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 So, I finally figured out how to change register values with the debugger. Yay! The secret is... It must be preceded by a letter C. Who would have guessed? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 34 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: It appears that you might have a CAT!? As a matter of fact, he was rolling around on the carpet in front of me while I was taking that photo. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 13 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: Perhaps because nobody has done it? More because I spent over 20 years thinking of it in the former role and not having interest in others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: So, I finally figured out how to change register values with the debugger. Yay! The secret is... It must be preceded by a letter C. Who would have guessed? Reading...? ==== debugger control ==== xxxx - set base address to view in CPU, AMS, VDP and GROM PC=xxxx - set Program Counter to xxxx WP=xxxx - set Workspace Pointer to xxxx ST=xxxx - set Status register to xxxx Cxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to CPU memory Vxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to VDP memory Gxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to GROM Xxxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...]- write byte or bytes to raw AMS (X=eXtended) CRxx=yy - set CPU register xx to value yy VRxx=yy - set VDP register xx to value yy ARxx=yy - set AMS register xx to value yy DISASM=xxxx,yyyy - write disasm.txt from addresses xxxx-yyyy AMS - dump AMS register summary to debug Note register indexes are always in DECIMAL, all other values are assumed to be hex Edited May 18, 2021 by Tursi 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Hmm, I'm still using... QI399.031 Whenever I press 'HELP', I keep getting this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 I actually had a need to use the debugger this week, I was trying to figure out how TP99 was doing something. Once I looked up the docs, it's like wow, this is super simple to use. Man, it is so nice, to not have to hit a load interrupt switch, at just the right time, and then hope your debugger doesn't trample on your program, and you get things just so, so that you can jump back in to the code and continue to execute... so so nice. Thanks Tursi! ==== debugger control ==== xxxx - set base address to view in CPU, AMS, VDP and GROM PC=xxxx - set Program Counter to xxxx WP=xxxx - set Workspace Pointer to xxxx ST=xxxx - set Status register to xxxx Cxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to CPU memory Vxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to VDP memory Gxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...] - write byte or bytes to GROM Xxxxxx=yy[yyyyyy...]- write byte or bytes to raw AMS (X=eXtended) CRxx=yy - set CPU register xx to value yy VRxx=yy - set VDP register xx to value yy ARxx=yy - set AMS register xx to value yy DISASM=xxxx,yyyy - write disasm.txt from addresses xxxx-yyyy AMS - dump AMS register summary to debug Note register indexes are always in DECIMAL, all other values are assumed to be hex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 10 hours ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Hmm, I'm still using... QI399.031 Whenever I press 'HELP', I keep getting this: Ahh... ah. If, uh, if you have reached that screen I am required to instruct you to call a very specific number and wait for further instructions. You'll have to PM me for the number, I'm afraid. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I believe that number is already on my dialing list! All I got was this... maybe this is the real issue? Note register indexes are always in DECIMAL, all other values are assumed to be hex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 You don't take that facehugger inside, will you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 1 hour ago, mizapf said: You don't take that facehugger inside, will you! What, are you some kind of conspiracy nut?? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Today, I finally figured out why, sometimes when I paste from Windows clipboard, it goes lightning fast, other times, not... ...apparently one of us is forgetting to untick PWWI, while pasting! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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