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Yes and no. In the power-up testing that I've done, RANDOM ($D20A) is not typically random on power-up as POKEY typically powers-up either in init state or with the LFSR locked up. The value sequence after POKEY is initialized is also fully deterministic and so cartridges can't rely on this.

 

Executables are a bit different because it depends on what medium you load them from. Auto-boot the executable from a cart and it will be fully deterministic. Loading from disk is non-deterministic, however, and the value in RANDOM is based on the number of machine cycles after leaving init mode. Even then it's not fully random -- keyboard scan can only report keys on specific cycles, for instance.

 

I'm OK with adding an option to do this, as it comes up often enough that it'd be worth leaving on even. But I'd have to think about how to do it because not everything is completely randomized -- VCOUNT is synced in some cases due to a wait on vertical blank due to a timed out SIO command. I can either put in a random 0-1 frame delay or warp the polynomial counters, not sure which is better yet.

 

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7 hours ago, mr-atari said:

I have perhaps a very stupid question, but I can not find it or figure it out....

 

How do I change the memory map?

I would like to change D500-D5FF from mode --R to ARW

So it can be used as normal RAM

You can't just change the protection on an address space range, something has to provide RAM at that address. One way is to write a custom device that has a memory layer to map 256 bytes of RAM there.

 

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13 hours ago, phaeron said:

You can't just change the protection on an address space range, something has to provide RAM at that address. One way is to write a custom device that has a memory layer to map 256 bytes of RAM there.

 

How do I write a custom device?

Is there a template I can download/use?

I know my way around in 6502, that's about it....

 

OK, I cut/paste your example of 8k cartridge and changed to this:

It does something, any good like this ???

 

Thanks!

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 option "name": "256b D500-RAM";

  Segment ram: {
      size: 256,
      source: "d5ram.bin"
  };

  MemoryLayer wina: {
      name: "D500-RAM",
      address: $D500,
      size: $100,
      segment: {
        source: ram,
        offset: 0,
        mode: "rw"
      },
      cart_mode: "left"
  };

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1 hour ago, mr-atari said:

How do I write a custom device?

Is there a template I can download/use?

I know my way around in 6502, that's about it....

The help file has the full spec. You've basically got it, but you don't need the file source as you don't need to init the RAM data:

 

option "name": "256b D500-RAM";

Segment ram: {
    size: 256
};

MemoryLayer wina: {
    name: "D500-RAM",
    address: $D500,
    size: $100,
    segment: {
      source: ram,
      offset: 0,
      mode: "rw"
    }
}; 

 

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28 minutes ago, Yaron Nir said:

is the latest altirra 4.0 test in the first post? or where there updates in following post?

looking to test the newest 4.0 version there is...

Scroll backwards through the thread and download the first thing you run into.

 

Appears to be this one:

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/308053-altirra-390-released/?do=findComment&comment=4581908

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3 hours ago, tane said:

What is the equivalent in assembly code for?:

 

Altirra> r a 0

 

The following by itself doesn't do the trick:

  lda #$00

 

LDA #0 does set A=0 as "r a 0" does, but LDA also sets the N and Z flags. There isn't a way in assembly to only set A without the flags.

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1 hour ago, phaeron said:

LDA #0 does set A=0 as "r a 0" does, but LDA also sets the N and Z flags. There isn't a way in assembly to only set A without the flags.

 

1 hour ago, StickJock said:

You could do this to preserve the flags: 

PHP

LDA #$00

PLP 

 

 

Thank you, but it didn't work after adding the previous code:

 

- Here is a saved state, it only shows the image after a "r a 0": Game with image.atstate2

- The xex, when you get to the "Bridge 2", you get to the same position: Game with image.xex

- A description of the purpose is in this forum.

- The code where the changes were made: code.asm

 

Code.asm: before launching the image with jsr $2c00 is the suggested code to replace the "r a 0". Beyond my knowledge of hardware, the idea is to break out the loop waiting for the VBI. I'm guessing is not in the right position.

  php
  lda #$0
  plp

 

However such changes made no effect, still is required a "r a 0". At the end, the idea is that it must show the image after exit the game, but the game is still making processes.

  icl "sys_equates.m65"
  icl "sys_macros.m65"

  org $8000
  lda $62         ;original code
  sed             ;original code
  adc #$00        ;original code
  sta $62         ;original code
  lda $61         ;original code
  adc #$00        ;original code
  cld             ;original code
  sta $61         ;original code
  inc $2e         ;original code
  lda $62
  cmp #$02
  beq newchange
  jmp $a500       ;Else: Back to normal code

newchange
  lda #$00                                    ; disable the display
  sta DMACTL
  sta SDMCTL
  lda PORTB                                   ; disable BASIC on XL/XE
  ora #$02
  sta PORTB
  ClearSystem			              ;sys_macros.m65
  CopyMemory $82B6,$2000, ($908C-$82B6+1)     ;sys_macros.m65: move image from $82B6-$908C to $2000-$2DD6
  php
  lda #$0                                     ;(not working), it breaks out of the loop waiting for the VBI
  plp
  lda #$38                                    ;puts PORTB into data direction mode
  sta $D303
  lda #$FF                                    ;configures all PORTB bits as outputs
  sta $D301
  lda #$3C                                    ;puts PORTB back into i/o mode
  sta $D303
  jsr $2c00                                   ;INI image
  jmp $9ff6                                   ;JMP $9ff6 launch game again

 

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http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test6.zip

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test6-src.zip

 

  • Add new advanced configuration variable system for editing under the hood parameters. Currently only has a few dark mode colors, but the intent is to add more here that can be tweaked if necessary for unsupported parameters that don't need a full UI.
  • Add additional startup logging.
  • Centralize startup randomization. Randomization is now all chained off of a single seed, which is now exposed in the UI. You can lock to a specific seed to repeat the same behavior on each boot for debugging.
  • Disks now have randomized starting rotational positions.
  • Add load timing randomization option for executables, defaulted on.
On 7/18/2020 at 1:29 PM, Mr Robot said:

Wine version 5.7

 

Here's the output from test5

I ran it for all the previous test versions and I get almost exactly the same output, just the timings and a few hex numbers in the fixme's change, I can post them if you like.

Try on -test6 with /startuplog:hostui,hostdisp. Something is going on in display pane init and there's more logging in this version to narrow down what's triggering the problem.

 

25 minutes ago, tane said:

Thank you, but it didn't work after adding the previous code:

 

- Here is a saved state, it only shows the image after a "r a 0": Game with image.atstate2

- The xex, when you get to the "Bridge 2", you get to the same position: Game with image.xex

- A description of the purpose is in this forum.

- The code where the changes were made: code.asm

 

Code.asm: before launching the image with jsr $2c00 is the suggested code to replace the "r a 0". Beyond my knowledge of hardware, the idea is to break out the loop waiting for the VBI. I'm guessing is not in the right position.

  php
  lda #$0
  plp

 

However such changes made no effect, still is required a "r a 0". At the end, the idea is that it must show the image after exit the game, but the game is still making processes.

 

What you're doing with the debugger is impossible in code as it requires the 6502 to run two pieces of code at the same time: you're trying to execute code to set A=0 at the same time as the loop that is waiting for RTCLOK to increment. You could run an interrupt to do this, but that would be silly compared to just editing the code to skip the loop that you don't want.

 

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12 hours ago, phaeron said:

Try on -test6 with /startuplog:hostui,hostdisp. Something is going on in display pane init and there's more logging in this version to narrow down what's triggering the problem.

 

» ChoccyBook:Altirra-4.00-test6 >wine64 Altirra64.exe /startuplog:hostui,hostdisp
[ 0.000] Startup logging enabled.
[ 0.001] Initializing OLE.
0009:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub ()
[ 0.006] Initializing themes
[ 0.006] Loading config var overrides
[ 0.007] Loading options
[ 0.008] Loading settings
[ 0.008] Running instance
[ 0.008] Preloading DLLs
[ 0.025] Registering controls
[ 0.025] Initializing frame system
[ 0.025] Initializing commands and accelerators
[ 0.025] Applying options
[ 0.025] Initializing filespec system
[ 0.026] Initializing UI panes
[ 0.035] Initializing logging
[ 0.035] Initializing native UI
[ 0.035] Creating main window
0009:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow (0x1005a 00000000): stub
0009:fixme:win:UnregisterTouchWindow (0x1005a): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x1005a 00000000 1 0x21e510 12): stub
[ 0.168] Restoring main window
[ 0.223] Initializing WinSock
[ 0.223] Initializing simulator
[ 0.229] Initializing game controllers
[ 0.239] Initializing menus
[ 0.339] Initializing debugger
[ 0.339] Initializing compatibility system
[ 0.339] Initializing display UI
[ 0.415] Loading profiles
[ 0.415] Loading current profile
[ 0.417] Initializing native audio
0016:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0016:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0016:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0016:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
[ 0.613] Loading ROMs
[ 0.613] Restoring pane layout
0009:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow (0x100b8 00000000): stub
0009:fixme:win:UnregisterTouchWindow (0x100b8): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x100b8 00000000 1 0x21e560 12): stub
[ 0.620] HOSTUI: Creating display window
Assertion failed: sz > 0, file ../../../wine/dlls/dbghelp/stabs.c, line 118

 

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14 hours ago, Mr Robot said:

 


[ 0.620] HOSTUI: Creating display window
Assertion failed: sz > 0, file ../../../wine/dlls/dbghelp/stabs.c, line 118

 

Hmm... that's code that shouldn't have changed. Try this version with /startuplog:hostdisp,hostui,hostwinmsg /gdi:

 

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test7.zip

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test7-src.zip

 

This will log all window messages as well as attempt to do a manual crash dump to bypass Wine's busted dbghelp.dll. The log will be longer than usual, but only the part after "Creating display window" is needed. We'll see if this is enough to pin down where exactly the crash is occurring.

 

(For anyone else -- test7 doesn't contain changes other than diagnostics for the above issue, so you can skip it.)

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3 hours ago, phaeron said:

Hmm... that's code that shouldn't have changed. Try this version with /startuplog:hostdisp,hostui,hostwinmsg /gdi:

 

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test7.zip

http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-4.00-test7-src.zip

 

This will log all window messages as well as attempt to do a manual crash dump to bypass Wine's busted dbghelp.dll. The log will be longer than usual, but only the part after "Creating display window" is needed. We'll see if this is enough to pin down where exactly the crash is occurring.

 

(For anyone else -- test7 doesn't contain changes other than diagnostics for the above issue, so you can skip it.)

I´m having the same issue since test 4. With test7 I got this:

 

Sascha@Digistar-5-Mac ~ % wine64 /Applications/Atari/Altirra-4.00-test7/Altirra64.exe /startuplog:hostui,hostdisp
001b:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\wineusb": c0000142
000f:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"wineusb" failed to start: 1114
001f:err:display:macdrv_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1920x1200x32 @60!

[ 0.000] Windows 6.1.7601
[ 0.000] Startup logging enabled.
[ 0.000] Initializing OLE.
0009:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub ()
[ 0.003] Initializing themes
[ 0.003] Loading config var overrides
[ 0.003] Loading options
[ 0.003] Loading settings
[ 0.004] Running instance
[ 0.004] Preloading DLLs
[ 0.013] Registering controls
[ 0.013] Initializing frame system
[ 0.013] Initializing commands and accelerators
[ 0.014] Applying options
[ 0.014] Initializing filespec system
[ 0.014] Initializing UI panes
[ 0.018] Initializing logging
[ 0.018] Initializing native UI
[ 0.019] Creating main window
0009:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow (0x1005a 00000000): stub
0009:fixme:win:UnregisterTouchWindow (0x1005a): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x1005a 00000000 1 0x21e510 12): stub
[ 0.118] Restoring main window
[ 0.206] Initializing WinSock
[ 0.206] Initializing simulator
[ 0.211] Initializing game controllers
[ 0.232] Initializing menus
[ 0.581] Initializing debugger
[ 0.581] Initializing compatibility system
[ 0.581] Initializing display UI
[ 0.690] Loading profiles
[ 0.690] Loading current profile
[ 0.698] Initializing native audio
0032:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0032:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0032:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
0032:fixme:coreaudio:ca_channel_layout_to_channel_mask Unhandled channel 0xffffffff
[ 0.935] Loading ROMs
[ 0.937] Restoring pane layout
0009:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow (0x100b8 00000000): stub
0009:fixme:win:UnregisterTouchWindow (0x100b8): stub
0009:fixme:win:SetGestureConfig (0x100b8 00000000 1 0x21e360 12): stub
[ 0.941] HOSTUI: Creating display window
[ 0.943] CRASH: Code: C0000005  PC: 00000001`400BD8FE  ExeBase: 00000001`40000000
[ 0.943] CRASH: [ 0] exe+000B1FCE
[ 0.943] CRASH: [ 1] exe+000B1FA0
[ 0.943] CRASH: [ 2] exe+000B1FA0
Assertion failed: sz > 0, file ../../../wine/dlls/dbghelp/stabs.c, line 118

 

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» ChoccyBook:Altirra-4.00-test7 >wine64 Altirra64.exe /startuplog:hostdisp,hostui,hostwinmsg /gdi:
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[ 0.614] HOSTUI: Creating display window
[ 0.614] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000024 0000000000000000 000000000021DEC0
[ 0.615] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000024 0000000000000000 000000000021DEC0 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.616] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000081 0000000000000000 000000000021E170
[ 0.616] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000081 0000000000000000 000000000021E170 -> 0000000000000001
[ 0.617] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000083 0000000000000000 000000000021E090
[ 0.617] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000083 0000000000000000 000000000021E090 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.619] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000001 0000000000000000 000000000021E170
[ 0.620] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000001 0000000000000000 000000000021E170 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.620] CRASH: Code: C0000005  PC: 00000001`400BD8FE  ExeBase: 00000001`40000000
[ 0.620] CRASH: [ 0] exe+000B1FCE
[ 0.621] CRASH: [ 1] exe+000B1FA0
[ 0.621] CRASH: [ 2] exe+000B1FA0
Assertion failed: sz > 0, file ../../../wine/dlls/dbghelp/stabs.c, line 118

 

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10 hours ago, Mr Robot said:

» ChoccyBook:Altirra-4.00-test7 >wine64 Altirra64.exe /startuplog:hostdisp,hostui,hostwinmsg /gdi:
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[ 0.614] HOSTUI: Creating display window
[ 0.614] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000024 0000000000000000 000000000021DEC0
[ 0.615] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000024 0000000000000000 000000000021DEC0 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.616] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000081 0000000000000000 000000000021E170
[ 0.616] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000081 0000000000000000 000000000021E170 -> 0000000000000001
[ 0.617] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000083 0000000000000000 000000000021E090
[ 0.617] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000083 0000000000000000 000000000021E090 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.619] HOSTWINMSG: S 000100C4 00000001 0000000000000000 000000000021E170
[ 0.620] HOSTWINMSG: R 000100C4 00000001 0000000000000000 000000000021E170 -> 0000000000000000
[ 0.620] CRASH: Code: C0000005  PC: 00000001`400BD8FE  ExeBase: 00000001`40000000
[ 0.620] CRASH: [ 0] exe+000B1FCE
[ 0.621] CRASH: [ 1] exe+000B1FA0
[ 0.621] CRASH: [ 2] exe+000B1FA0
Assertion failed: sz > 0, file ../../../wine/dlls/dbghelp/stabs.c, line 118

 

This is unfortunately the same problem that someone else reported earlier: your macOS-specific version of Wine is not setting up the Windows thread/process environment control blocks correctly and this is causing the core thread creation function in the C runtime library to fail.

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10 hours ago, phaeron said:

This is unfortunately the same problem that someone else reported earlier: your macOS-specific version of Wine is not setting up the Windows thread/process environment control blocks correctly and this is causing the core thread creation function in the C runtime library to fail.

So I stick with 3.90until a new version of wine-dev is released and try again. Thanks for looking ?

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I have trouble with 4.0-test7 and loading Rambit Turbo Tapes. The standard part loads fine, but the turbo signal is never recognized.

 

Steps to reproduce:

 

0. Setup the emulated computer to plain PAL 800XL with 64KB of RAM and original ROMs

1. In cassette settings, set Turbo to "Interrupt Sense", no filtering, no inversion of the signal.

2. File>Cassette>Load... (and select the attached file)

3. Boot from cassette (START+OPTION)

 

The standard part loads fine; the turbo part never loads. The OSD never shows T-Play, only Play.

Notes: Tried inversion of the signal, doesn't work either.

The last Altirra version where this works fine for me is 3.20. Version 3.90 doesn't work either.

 

 

rambit-test.7z

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16 hours ago, baktra said:

I have trouble with 4.0-test7 and loading Rambit Turbo Tapes. The standard part loads fine, but the turbo signal is never recognized.

 

Steps to reproduce:

 

0. Setup the emulated computer to plain PAL 800XL with 64KB of RAM and original ROMs

1. In cassette settings, set Turbo to "Interrupt Sense", no filtering, no inversion of the signal.

2. File>Cassette>Load... (and select the attached file)

3. Boot from cassette (START+OPTION)

 

The standard part loads fine; the turbo part never loads. The OSD never shows T-Play, only Play.

Notes: Tried inversion of the signal, doesn't work either.

The last Altirra version where this works fine for me is 3.20. Version 3.90 doesn't work either

 

Okay, I think I see what happened here, it affects the proceed/interrupt modes since they don't have switchable turbo and don't replace the data on the SIO data lines. You won't see T-Play because there is no switch to turbo mode, the turbo data is always sent on proceed/interrupt. I'll post a fix in the next 4.00 test release.

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