RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Yes, it created subdirectories. Allan Ok, that's good. Can you please let me know what "ls -l /Users/allan/7800*" displays? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 More recent versions of MESS, in the last year or so, should have a 'good' palette (~Versions 0.148-0.152). Anything earlier, may likely have some issues. Ah, that's great. I recently upgraded to the latest version (which I hacked to support CPUWIZ >128k formats, so I could test 7800basic support for them in software) and did notice the palettes were different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 -rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 4173674 Mar 1 19:11 /Users/allan/7800basic.0.1beta20140228.zip/Users/allan/7800basic.0.1beta20140228:total 4880-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 614 Feb 28 22:37 7800bas.bat-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 4500 Feb 28 22:37 7800bas.c-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 229944 Feb 28 22:37 7800basic.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 269405 Feb 28 22:37 7800basic.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 360673 Feb 28 22:37 7800basic.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1405 Feb 28 22:37 7800basic.sh-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 13416 Feb 28 22:37 7800filter.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 7612 Feb 28 22:37 7800filter.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 96623 Feb 28 22:37 7800filter.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 17748 Feb 28 22:37 7800header.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 12144 Feb 28 22:37 7800header.Linux.x86-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 9712 Feb 28 22:37 7800header.c-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 115833 Feb 28 22:37 7800header.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 23428 Feb 28 22:37 7800optimize.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 22146 Feb 28 22:37 7800optimize.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 109050 Feb 28 22:37 7800optimize.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 13616 Feb 28 22:37 7800postprocess.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 7961 Feb 28 22:37 7800postprocess.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 110498 Feb 28 22:37 7800postprocess.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 27380 Feb 28 22:37 7800preprocess.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 26041 Feb 28 22:37 7800preprocess.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 111938 Feb 28 22:37 7800preprocess.exe-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 23336 Feb 28 22:37 7800sign.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 18824 Feb 28 22:37 7800sign.Linux.x86-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 18658 Feb 28 22:37 7800sign.c-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 118559 Feb 28 22:37 7800sign.exe-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 7074 Feb 28 22:37 README.txtdrwxr-xr-x@ 6 allan staff 204 Feb 28 22:37 contrib-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 121992 Feb 28 22:37 dasm.Darwin.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 124716 Feb 28 22:37 dasm.Linux.x86-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 210370 Feb 28 22:37 dasm.exedrwxr-xr-x@ 3 allan staff 102 Feb 28 22:37 docs-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 959 Feb 28 22:37 filter.cdrwxr-xr-x@ 14 allan staff 476 Feb 28 22:37 includes-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 2247 Feb 28 22:37 install_ux.sh-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1360 Feb 28 22:37 install_win.bat-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 12114 Feb 28 22:37 keywords.c-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 2274 Feb 28 22:37 keywords.h-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 1006 Feb 28 22:37 license.7800basic.txt-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 1625 Feb 28 22:37 license.bB.txt-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1323 Feb 28 22:37 makefile-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1409 Feb 28 22:37 makefile.linux32-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1477 Feb 28 22:37 makefile.xcmp.osx-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 allan staff 1325 Feb 28 22:37 makefile.xcmp.win32-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 1573 Feb 28 22:37 optimize.lex-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 2751 Feb 28 22:37 postprocess.c-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 4134 Feb 28 22:37 preprocess.lexdrwxr-xr-x@ 9 allan staff 306 Feb 28 22:37 samples-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 129589 Feb 28 22:37 statements.c-rw-r--r--@ 1 allan staff 2126 Feb 28 22:37 statements.h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Ok, I think I get it. You dragged the script into a term window to run it, the script executed from your home directory rather than the 7800basic directory. Because of this, the script thought 7800basic was directly in your home directory. Run the install script again by typing the following into your term window. 1. cd /Users/allan/7800basic.0.1beta20140228 2. ./install_ux.sh After that, open a new term window and try to compile simple.bas again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 So cool! Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 That was it, RevEng. It compiled and outputed the correct files in the Simple folder and I checked the program in MESS which gave me a very appropriate smiley face. So if anyone is using OS X Terminal for the first time, don't drag and drop the file install_ux.sh onto the Terminal window. Use the method below replacing the word 'PERSON' with your OS X User folder name. Type the following into your term window: 1. cd /Users/PERSON/7800basic.0.1beta201402282. ./install_ux.sh Thank you a lot, RevEng. And thanks for making this program. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Nice, Allan! I'll look into adding some sanity checks into install_ux.sh to prevent the same issue, and warn if the 7800basic directory doesn't look right. @all: thanks for all of the positive comments, thanks, and interest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I have been playing around with the .png image in the 'simple.bas' program. I am having trouble compiling with an an edited .png image. 7800bas keeps saying I have too many colors. Is there way in any popular painting program, Photoshop, Window's Paint, Gimp, etc., to limit the number of colors to three? It looks like I have only three colors when I save it as .png but 7800bas spits it out as having too many colors. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 I've been using Gimp, but this should work in many apps: Switch to "indexed" mode, and enter the number of colors. Otherwise the paint app will use rgb and contain tons of unseen colors. I'll add a comment to the guide to that effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I spent a good portion of the morning trying to get Photoshop (gave up after a while) and Gimp to just make a simple change to the smiley face and get 7800basic to compile it. I'm not sure what's going on with Photoshop. It keeps telling me I have to many colors. I was trying to use the 'save for Web' option and tried to limit it to three colors. It wants to count the background/transparancy as a color. When I make it three colors it erases one of the colors giving me two colors and the background/transparancy. In Gimp I spent a lot of time trying to draw with the Pencil. It refuses to let me draw with it. I tried a couple of other pictures with no luck. I finally tried the brush option with the smallest brush size and that worked. Strange. I'll have to see if there is an update for Gimp. Maybe it's some kind of bug. So I finally got it to compile with an altered .png file. This might be a stumbling block for others so hopefully they'll read this and not make the same mistakes. One of these days I will actually get to some programming. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 Its all progress. indexing with 4 colors should actually work fine, so long as one is transparency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I upgraded to Gimp 2.8.10. It's better but it still has bugs. I opened a .png, added a couple of pixels, and saved it as a .png. It kept refusing to save and gave me errors. I tried opening the files with another program and they were empty. I quit Gimp, restarted, and modified and saved a .png file and it worked. Hopefully they can fix the bugs in Gimp eventually. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 (edited) This looks promising! I am going to try to use this to make a game, a remake of an old Atari XL game I wrote back in 1989 called Sky Scraper: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/148369-introducing-sky-scraper-20-years-late/ Some suggestions tho: It would be nice to have commands which could address the POKEY ... for those of us who want to add POKEY sound to the TIA sounds of our games. I can give you specifics on the POKEY chip if you need them. Maybe also the ability to address the TIA using this command: TSOUND channel, freq, waveform, volume This would be very analogous to how I am used to using sound in atari xl BASIC. Also, I know the 7800 has no hardware collision registers, but is there a way to rig up a software collision detect? The idea is, I want a platform type situation where the guy is walking on a platform, and he falls when I step off. And, the platform blocks change color when he walks over it. Also, I want to be able to register collisions between him, and game objects, or the enemy missile or robot sprites I will be using. Edited March 3, 2014 by Synthpopalooza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Nice game! I suck terribly at it, but it's fun. I like the audio command suggestion. It will waste a small bit of rom bytes and cycles changing registers that may not change, but that choice would be up to the basic coder. Pokey support is in the plans, for sure. I wrote about planned features in a blog entry. I'll likely add a box collision check routine at some point, but if you're going to stick to character modes for all of the game bits (like you did in the A8 version of your game) you could get by with just checking whether the ground character was under your player, if the missile was at the same position as the player, etc. Even if you just use sprites for the player and characters for platforms and scenery, you can still check the character map to see if ground is underneath the player, and use if...then with coordinates for soft collision detection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I'll likely add a box collision check routine at some point . . . I hope you'll find the time to add that. Seems like a nice thing to have so it will be easier for those of us who would have a hard time doing it ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I upgraded to Gimp 2.8.10. It's better but it still has bugs. I opened a .png, added a couple of pixels, and saved it as a .png. It kept refusing to save and gave me errors. I tried opening the files with another program and they were empty. I quit Gimp, restarted, and modified and saved a .png file and it worked. Hopefully they can fix the bugs in Gimp eventually. Allan I think you might need an image optimizer like ImageOptim. It really does get rid of unused colors. I use for my gif animations. http://imageoptim.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi RevEng a list of Basic commands would be great Which command must i use to save my work? And which command is needed to load a Sample, like Aventurer. I have only small knowledge about the old Atari 800 Basic and so some commands,which are understood by 7800 Basic would be great.Or how about a Tutorial for beginners? greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I think you might need an image optimizer like ImageOptim. It really does get rid of unused colors. I use for my gif animations. http://imageoptim.com/ Thanks. I'll check that out. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi RevEng a list of Basic commands would be great Which command must i use to save my work? And which command is needed to load a Sample, like Aventurer. I have only small knowledge about the old Atari 800 Basic and so some commands,which are understood by 7800 Basic would be great.Or how about a Tutorial for beginners? greetings Walter Hey gambler172, It's not like Atari Basic. You can't do things like SAVE and LOAD in your program. You write you're program in a text editor, save it, and load the compiler by typing the name of the compiler and the text file that contains your program and it compiles your program. It outputs a .bin file and a .A78 file for emulators. There is more to it but that's basiclly it. Allan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi i have really big Problems with my WINDOWS 7 installing It seems not to work...If i start INSTALLWIN the program installs......but what now?I start 7800BASIC and get a Screen with this 7800basic 0.1 Feb 28 2014 22:36:49 game What now??? how can i get to the SAMPLES Folder and load for example ADVENTURER.BAS ? How can i start a new Project???? Hope someone might help greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi Walter,Here's an excerpt from the guide...Assuming you've completed the 7800basic installations in the previous section, you can compile yourprogram under Windows with the following steps...1. click on Start>Search or Start>Run and type: CMD, followed by [ENTER]2. type: cd \my\project\directory (substitute the directory that contains your BASIC source)3. type: 7800bas.bat myprogram.bas (substitute the filename containing your BASIC source code)Information about the compiling process will be displayed in your CMD window. With some luck, youshould have some new compiled files....try doing this for one of the sample programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 (edited) Hi Walter, Here's an excerpt from the guide... Assuming you've completed the 7800basic installations in the previous section, you can compile your program under Windows with the following steps... 1. click on Start>Search or Start>Run and type: CMD, followed by [ENTER] 2. type: cd \my\project\directory (substitute the directory that contains your BASIC source) 3. type: 7800bas.bat myprogram.bas (substitute the filename containing your BASIC source code) Information about the compiling process will be displayed in your CMD window. With some luck, you should have some new compiled files. ...try doing this for one of the sample programs. Equal what i do,the Screen always Shows a short time and disappears When i enter Start>Run CMD i get an error and the Screen disappears what am i doing wrong?Remember i use WINDOWS 7 How can i start,let us say,i want to Change the adventurer.bas ?? greetings Walter Edited March 3, 2014 by gambler172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi Maybe a step by step Installation could help??? I unzipped the 7800basic file....i unzipped it in the Folder 7800.... then i started install win everything seems to be ok...... then i start 7800basic and the window opens...at the top of the Screen is this text 7800basic 0.1 Feb 28 2014 22:36:49 game then i could write something.....but whatever i do the window Closes I also downloaded GNU sed and put it in my Basic Directory..... what went wrong? Maybe a Problem with Windows 7 ??? Hope someone can help...... greetings Walter PS:how can i load one of the samples???? how can i Change them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi Walter, The Windows platform I test on is Windows 7, so I don't think it's a Windows 7 bug. If you can't open a CMD window it could well be an issue with your Windows 7 install on that particular computer. When you double-click 7800bas.bat and see the window appear and disappear, it's normal. It does that because it's the batch file is meant to be run from a CMD window, instead of being double-clicked. (but I should probably add some kind of detection for this, with a warning message) So the main problem is that you can't seem to open a CMD window. When you go to START->RUN and get the error, do you see the error message, or does is disappear too fast? Is the error on a blue screen with white text, or a black window with white text, or just a regular Windows error message? To load/change a sample basic file, just open the .bas file in the notepad text editor. (start->programs->accessories->notepad) Make the edits you want and save the file. Then rebuild the 7800 rom image again. (once we finally sort out why CMD won't open for you. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi RevEng I was able to open adventurer.bas with the text Editor.So my question is...how do i start a new Project????With the text Editor????not with 7800basic????? when i start 7800basic i tried to enter this start>run cmd and press ENTER the error,i get is too fast,but it is in the window with White text... Hope you can help greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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