Tempest Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 The weekend I was able to burn the current build of Cypher onto a real proto board (thanks to Old Guru), and test it on a real 5200. The results? Well the start-up screen looked nice, but things want downhill after that. For some reason the title graphics worked (it said CYPHER), but after that I got a random string of text and the game froze. I guess there's some problem with my code that makes it not work on a real 5200. I hope to have this fixed soon, but I must admit I'm a bit bummed by this. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEBRO Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: The weekend I was able to burn the current build of Cypher onto a real proto board (thanks to Old Guru), and test it on a real 5200. The results? Well the start-up screen looked nice, but things want downhill after that. For some reason the title graphics worked (it said CYPHER), but after that I got a random string of text and the game froze. I guess there's some problem with my code that makes it not work on a real 5200. I hope to have this fixed soon, but I must admit I'm a bit bummed by this. Tempest Tempest I noticed this when I ran your ROM in AtariWinPlus 2.8 I didn't report it to you because I thought it was a problem with the emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 in a way that saves tempest some time, now he knows that its not his code vs the 5200 its just his code vs itself it should be a little bit faster for him to fix it now though at least, I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Tempest (and other 5200 coders), I have had 2 guys test early versions of Koffi for me on the machine. I am getting my own board and eproms within a week or two (or so I predict), so I still haven't seen my game on the machine myself. However, from what I derive from their comments, if it works on Atari800Win, it'll pretty much work and look the same on the 5200. VSS, as much as I like it as an emulator, is not a 5200 coder's best friend. There are some differences. For one thing, I think that VSS produces more bright colors than the actual machine (hence better looking screenshots). I know for a fact that the colors on VSS vs Atari800Win are different. I haven't explored all aspects of this yet. But for example, 2 brown hues on VSS look red on the 5200 and 800win. Download 800win and get your code working on that. Hmmm .. hold on, I'll do it myself right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Yep, on 800win, the title screen has garbled text and on the game screen, the playfield draws about halfway down then gets messed up. I wonder if its a display list problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Hey Tempest man dont get disapointed by that. it happens to everyone,your smart youll poke around with the code and find soemthing that can be changed to get it to work or add something to the code to allow t0 work. I got faith in you. it is a bit down to hear it isnt working quite like you want it to but iknow youll get it in the long run and youll be happy when you get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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