chewy Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 On 8/28/2016 at 10:44 AM, SpiceWare said: With Bus Stuffing we can now create displays with 18 unique background colors per scanline. NTSC PAL60: Sadly the parrot image never uses 18 unique colors per scanline, so here's a color bar test pattern: NOTE: At this time you can only run these on real hardware using a Harmony cartridge. The specs for BUS are not finalized, once we've done that I'll be submitting BUS support for Stella to stephena. It's probably the spec will change enough that these won't work when Stella officially supports BUS, but since the driver is part of the ROM they'll always work on the Harmony. WARNING: While we don't expect any problems, I've been testing this on my own system after all, this code is potentially dangerous to the Atari. As such, run it at your own risk. parrot_bus_NTSC.bin 32 kB · 85 downloads parrot_bus_PAL.bin 32 kB · 63 downloads test_bus_NTSC.bin 32 kB · 62 downloads its possible to write "dangerous code"? like a game when you mess up it destroys your atari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 51 minutes ago, chewy said: its possible to write "dangerous code"? like a game when you mess up it destroys your atari? Ask @ZeroPage Homebrew about "rage quit" - he's highly experienced with the dangers to hardware... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 5 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Ask @ZeroPage Homebrew about "rage quit" - he's highly experienced with the dangers to hardware... Seriously - it can destroy my Atari? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, Bomberman94 said: Seriously - it can destroy my Atari? ? Not without using extra hardware. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Just now, Thomas Jentzsch said: Not without using extra hardware. So, executing this bin with my Harmony cartridge on an unmodified Atari 2600 causes no damage? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Harmony is extra hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 10 hours ago, chewy said: its possible to write "dangerous code"? like a game when you mess up it destroys your atari? The disclaimer was a CYA as we were exploring new territory*, it wasn't because we though it would destroy your Atari; after all, we'd tested it out on numerous systems of our own before posting it. Also, @batari did some testing before we pursued bus stuffing. While the CPU's temperature increased a little bit it stayed well within tolerance levels. You can read about that on the first page of this topic: * it wasn't really new territory, it was just new to us. As seen in the above topic Bus Stuffing was going to be used back in the 80s for The Graduate. The link in that topic to The Graduate info is dead, but you can view an archive of it via Wayback Machine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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