+Andrew Davie Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 The selected colours for various menu types in PAL-land are somewhat washed out and hard to read. Review all colours/types. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Here are some pictures of V 0.16.0 colours taken from my B&O MX4000 TV running a PAL light 6switch Atari 2600: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 11 hours ago, Bomberman94 said: Here are some pictures of V 0.16.0 colours taken from my B&O MX4000 TV running a PAL light 6switch Atari 2600: Thanks for the pictures. I see you're sticking with the SMALL CAPS font. Is that your favourite? As to the colours - do you have any observations/comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder666 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Looks great on my PVM. S-video modded 7800, into RGB transcoder. A bit muted in the pic, more vibrant in person. "Setup" is fine, camera caught the interlacing. Easy to differentiate the text colours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Thanks for the pictures. I see you're sticking with the SMALL CAPS font. Is that your favourite? As to the colours - do you have any observations/comments? Yes, „Small Caps“ font is (still) my favorite - others look similar except the „Captain‘s“ font which is too wide/not enough space between single characters. Colours look in real (hard to capture with my iPhone) a bit lighter and overall too washed out. The highlighted line colour is not a perfect choice - should be another colour and the light red colour (last picture) is far too light for my taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, Bomberman94 said: Yes, „Small Caps“ font is (still) my favorite - others look similar except the „Captain‘s“ font which is too wide/not enough space between single characters. Colours look in real (hard to capture with my iPhone) a bit lighter and overall too washed out. The highlighted line colour is not a perfect choice - should be another colour and the light red colour (last picture) is far too light for my taste. TY. The fonts are, however, all exactly the same width/spacing -- that is, 3 pixels wide + 1 pixel space. I agree on the washed out colours -- this is partly because every colour you see onscreen is 50% mid-blue (the background colour). I'll be trying to improve the PAL colours for the next release. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Andrew Davie said: TY. The fonts are, however, all exactly the same width/spacing -- that is, 3 pixels wide + 1 pixel space. I agree on the washed out colours -- this is partly because every colour you see onscreen is 50% mid-blue (the background colour). I'll be trying to improve the PAL colours for the next release. Will do a screenshot for every font with same characters onscreen to show how it looks like on my TV with normal antenna connection (to show what i mean - especially regarding Captain‘s font. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I have the same problem with text colors lacking contrast on my PAL TV (2600 composite modded). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 50 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: I have the same problem with text colors lacking contrast on my PAL TV (2600 composite modded). Yes, there's a new version in the DEV branch which corrects all the colour issues. Hopefully @Al_Nafuur will release a new test beta soonish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 50 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: Yes, there's a new version in the DEV branch which corrects all the colour issues. Hopefully @Al_Nafuur will release a new test beta soonish! can you push your changes to the GIT repro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said: can you push your changes to the GIT repro? I thought I did. Can you see what I've done wrong here...? Here's the URL and the commit... boo@Andrews-MacBook-Pro atari-2600-pluscart.git % git config --get remote.origin.url git@gitlab.com:firmaplus/atari-2600-pluscart.git boo@Andrews-MacBook-Pro atari-2600-pluscart.git % gi log zsh: command not found: gi boo@Andrews-MacBook-Pro atari-2600-pluscart.git % git log commit c126fd0e10936118b8967dd6df9cccae04680b33 (HEAD -> dev) Author: Andrew Davie <andrew@taswegian.com> Date: Wed Nov 18 20:41:51 2020 +1000 rework of menu system * paging U/D/L/R function modified on a single page menu... UP will go to previous item on page DOWN will go to next item on page LEFT will go to top of page RIGHT will go to bottom of page on multi-page menus... UP will move up one item or if at top will go last item on previous page DOWN will move down one item or if at bottom will go to first item on next page LEFT will go to first item on previous page RIGHT will go to first item on next page Edited November 18, 2020 by Andrew Davie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 I don't understand where that commit has gone....???? My local history shows it, and I do a diff on it with its parent, and I see all my changes. Should I re-grab the dev branch, and re-do the changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 I *think* somehow I'm on the master branch, when in fact I wanted the DEV branch. But I copied the clone URL from the gitlab page, with the DEV branch selected. I guess it doesn't work like that...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: I don't understand where that commit has gone....???? My local history shows it, and I do a diff on it with its parent, and I see all my changes. Should I re-grab the dev branch, and re-do the changes? now it is in origin/dev with your test commit. did you pushed the first commit ? maybe it has been pushed from your local repro with your test commit Edited November 18, 2020 by Al_Nafuur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said: now it is in origin/dev I'm TOTALLY confused. I did a re-grab, made the changes, did an add/commit/push ... and it told me I was in a protected branch and the commit was rejected. When I look at https://gitlab.com/firmaplus/atari-2600-pluscart/-/tree/dev I don't see any of my changes... time to just chuck it all in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 $ git pull remote: Enumerating objects: 28, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (28/28), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done. remote: Total 28 (delta 8), reused 28 (delta 8), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (28/28), done. From gitlab.com:firmaplus/atari-2600-pluscart a52c4f0..ef352d1 dev -> origin/dev Updating a52c4f0..ef352d1 Fast-forward source/Atari2600ROM/GlacierBelle.asm | 2 +- source/Atari2600ROM/PlusCart.asm | 215 ++++++++++++--------- source/Atari2600ROM/PlusCart.bin | Bin 32768 -> 32768 bytes source/Atari2600ROM/SmallCaps.asm | 4 +- .../.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.prefs | 56 ++++++ .../STM32firmware/PlusCart/Inc/firmware_ntsc_rom.h | 94 ++++----- .../PlusCart/Inc/firmware_pal60_rom.h | 91 ++++----- .../STM32firmware/PlusCart/Inc/firmware_pal_rom.h | 91 ++++----- source/STM32firmware/PlusCart/Inc/global.h | 2 +- .../PlusCart/Src/cartridge_firmware.c | 80 ++++---- source/STM32firmware/PlusCart/Src/font.c | 4 +- 11 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 270 deletions(-) create mode 100644 source/STM32firmware/PlusCart/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.prefs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said: now it is in origin/dev with your test commit. did you pushed the first commit ? maybe it has been pushed from your local repro with your test commit OK, yes--- it's there with my test commit. AFAIK... the comment on the file seems OK. I'm too tired to get up and check the build though. Here's what I think happened... I did an add/commit/push, but through the STM IDE.... and it *silently* failed... because there were remote changes, so first I should have done a pull/merge. But because it silently failed, the git log showed I'd done the commit... but it wasn't pushed (and that was not shown). So when I did the test, I first did a pull, and then I did an add/commit/push And that seems to have incorporated my earlier changes. So it my be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: I did an add/commit/push, but through the STM IDE.... and it *silently* failed... never trust a GUI ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 Just now, Al_Nafuur said: never trust a GUI ? Never again! Back to the command line for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 12 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Yes, there's a new version in the DEV branch which corrects all the colour issues. Hopefully @Al_Nafuur will release a new test beta soonish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 19 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Never again! Back to the command line for me. I can't help, but having to use a command line always feels like last century to me. I much prefer a functional GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) On 11/17/2020 at 1:03 PM, Bomberman94 said: Will do a screenshot for every font with same characters onscreen to show how it looks like on my TV with normal antenna connection (to show what i mean - especially regarding Captain‘s font. Edited November 20, 2020 by Bomberman94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Bomberman94 said: Look at „ESP8266“ - only works well with „Small Caps“ 17 minutes ago, Bomberman94 said: Here are the different fonts: SMALL CAPS: TRICHOTOMIC-12: CAPTAIN MORGAN SPICE: GLACIER BELLE: Edited November 20, 2020 by Bomberman94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 The new colors work much better for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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