eshu Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I'm just going to post this up - I don't get to work on it often at all - I'm hoping to have it finished for 2017 for the 40th aniversary of the 2600 but even that is looking unlikely......It's not much beyond the display kernel at the moment, you can make selections on the menus but that's about it...... You'll have to select EFSC in Type under Cartridge to get it running in Stella. long005.bin 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 OMG! that is awesome!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 That looks absolutely amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodmot Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 HOLY SHIT! You, my friend, are God. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjoppen Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Impressive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stephena Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I'm just going to post this up - I don't get to work on it often at all - I'm hoping to have it finished for 2017 for the 40th aniversary of the 2600 but even that is looking unlikely......It's not much beyond the display kernel at the moment, you can make selections on the menus but that's about it...... You'll have to select EFSC in Type under Cartridge to get it running in Stella. For some reason, your ROM is coming out at 65534 bytes, which is two bytes shy of a full 64K (65536). I suggest looking at the compiler options used and see if you can generate a full 64K. That way, there's a good chance the autodetection in Stella will set this as EFSC for you automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) I see more than one color per line on the playfield and sprites. Is this just super custom kernel mangling of balls, bullets and sprite0/sprite1 or does the EFSC standard somehow enable bitmap graphics? Edited March 12, 2012 by theloon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshu Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 I see more than one color per line on the playfield and sprites. Is this just super custom kernel mangling of balls, bullets and sprite0/sprite1 or does the EFSC standard somehow enable bitmap graphics? I guess it's a "super custom kernel mangling of balls, bullets and sprite0/sprite1" - try alt-z,x,c,v,b,n in stella to see roughly how it's working.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshu Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 I'm just going to post this up - I don't get to work on it often at all - I'm hoping to have it finished for 2017 for the 40th aniversary of the 2600 but even that is looking unlikely......It's not much beyond the display kernel at the moment, you can make selections on the menus but that's about it...... You'll have to select EFSC in Type under Cartridge to get it running in Stella. For some reason, your ROM is coming out at 65534 bytes, which is two bytes shy of a full 64K (65536). I suggest looking at the compiler options used and see if you can generate a full 64K. That way, there's a good chance the autodetection in Stella will set this as EFSC for you automatically. ahhh cool - i'll take a look when i get a chance - i'm just using the standard -f3 on dasm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stephena Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 ahhh cool - i'll take a look when i get a chance - i'm just using the standard -f3 on dasm Alas, Stella still won't see it has EFSC. It correctly detects the 'SC' part, but not that it's 'EF'. How are you switching banks (what specific opcode sequence are you using)?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshu Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) A few different I think: LDA $1FEE NOP $1FEE LDA $1FEE,Y They could all be NOPS - but I started off using LDA and then needed to preserve all registers at one point so it uses an illegal NOP BTW: I'm really looking forward to Stella with blaarg filters, so don't want you to look at this 'til that's released but I mentioned to you a while ago about a bug in debugger mode when codes running out of zero page - you can see that here, the sprite drawing and bottom menu bar code both run out of zero page and theres a weird bug where the debugger doesn't seem to see the high byte of addresses being accessed by LDA $ABS,Y. Edited March 12, 2012 by eshu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stephena Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I won't have Blargg filtering finished for 3.6, since I have to release 3.6 in the next few weeks (as it contains support for 2600-daptor II which is due to be released soon). I would say it's over 50% done, but I'd rather wait until it's fully working and tested before releasing it. So it will be pushed to the first week or two in April. As for the debugger issue, I actually do remember that report, but will have to push that for 3.7 as well. Currently I only have about 10 hours/week to work on Stella. EDIT: OK, I tweaked the autodetection to see it as EFSC if you fix the 64K issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 This just looks totally unlike a 2600 display screen. Beyond being a nice 2600 screen, this would be a welcome display on a 7800 or 5200/8-Bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junosix Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 That is stunning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I'm still not convinced this is a real Atari 2600 game. I did an ALT-O in Stella to disbelieve the starving orphan souls. Sacrificing orphans to get more colors is cheating! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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