+mizapf Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) The end tag ( : ) is missing. Go into EDITOR, add the following line: : SOMEONE FORGOT TO ADD THIS LINE Save as DIS/FIX 80. P.S.: This autoreplace with smileys is really getting annoying! Edited August 13, 2015 by mizapf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 Thanks for a quick reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I'm not very good with disk images. Tried to copy the EA3 file to a disk image, but it sure behaves a bit strange. Maybe I'm at fault. mine.dsk Thanks, I'll try it when I'm home tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) Thanks. I'm not very good with disk images. Tried to copy the EA3 file to a disk image, but it sure behaves a bit strange. Maybe I'm at fault. Simplescreenrecorder is the tool I was searching for ... :-) Edited August 13, 2015 by mizapf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 (edited) Added a few sounds. Version 0.5 Program name: MINE File and program name: MINE Edited August 14, 2015 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Just tried it on the hardware - very nice, very playable. I would be great if you could find a good solution for playing it on a one button joystick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 (edited) Just tried it on the hardware - very nice, very playable. I would be great if you could find a good solution for playing it on a one button joystick. Thanks. Yeah, I thought about that. If you don't need flags one could play with a one button joystick straight, no flags. A bit more difficult, but not all impossible. You had to like remember where you wanted the flags. Actually I thought I had joystick support in there, but the code is testing one key at a time (no table lookup or clever stuff), so I dropped the joysticks, since ESDX is often mirrored to the arrowkeys in emulation. One solution could be that the first press sets a flag, one more press (on a flag) reveals the square. You couldn't remove a flag and probably ended up pressing fire an awful lot. Another solution would reveal a list of choices when you press and hold fire. You'd then navigate the list and release fire when you got your choice: 1. Reveal square 2. Flag (set or clear depending on current state) (3. Exit (do nothing and default selection)) Again an awful lot of stuff to do (as you're playing the game). I also thought about adding the keys IJKL as extra arrowkeys. More natural these days as opposed to the old ESDX. But then people with real iron should be used to ESDX ? Edited August 15, 2015 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 A case study into splash screens. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 (edited) Just tried it on the hardware - very nice, very playable. Endnu engang tak, Rasmus. Ganske vigtigt at spillet virker - og godt - sådan i det virkelige liv. Giver ligesom det ekstra spark der skal til, for at få gjort spillet færdigt og komme i gang med det næste. Edited August 20, 2015 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Funny how Google Translate turns "Rasmus" into "Robert" when translating from Danish to English or Dutch... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Nah, looks like klingon to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Splash screen added. I hope you will like it. Minimalistic and slick, - good use of eye-catching white space, - though it's all a matter of taste. We're now at 55.4% of 8K cartridge capacity. Lots of white space, and I'll probably leave that as is. So on the software front, there's only a few things left to do. Timer and high score update Fine-tune the use and choice of sound-effects Testing, burning and debugging And then it's moving on to the marketing department. Got a few ideas. And remember, any feedback is much appreciated ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Nah, looks like klingon to me. taH pagh taHbe'! You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon. [Chancellor Gorkon] 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 taH pagh taHbe'! You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon. [Chancellor Gorkon] Ah, Wil'yam Shex'pir! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sometimes99er Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) Splash screen and timer added. Version 1.0 Program name: MINE File and program name: MINEInstructionsThe object of the game is to find all mines without being "blown up".The location of the mines is discovered by a process of logic. Clicking on the game board will reveal what is hidden underneath the chosen square or squares (a large number of blank squares may be revealed in one go if they are adjacent to each other). Some squares are blank but some contain numbers (1 to 8 ), each number being the number of mines adjacent to the uncovered square. To help avoid hitting a mine, the location of a suspected mine can be marked by flagging it. The game is won once all mines have been flagged.Keys1, 2 and 3 generates a new game at the corresponding level (1=Beginner, 2=Intermediate and 3=Expert).E, S, D and X moves the cursor around.Q reveals a square.W sets or removes a flag. Timer The timer works with MESS and Classic99, but apparently not with Js99'er. And hopefully it works with the real iron ? Good luck ! Edited August 20, 2015 by sometimes99er 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 PS. The timer part works with MESS and Classic99, but not with Js99'er and Win994a. A nice challenge. When I first implemented Js99'er I asked for examples of programs using the 9901 timer, but did not get any reply, so this is the first program I'm aware of that I can use for testing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) Great game! I just played a few rounds, and couldn't find any bugs so far. I'd love to see the source code. Edited August 20, 2015 by Dexter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Nicely done Jacques Groslouis (may he RIP) had done many years ago a c99 conversion of Lucie Dorais' mineweeper as well. It's an EA5 program with the program file being SWEEPA. TIsweeper.dsk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Sliiiiick, sometimes!!! Lovin' it!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 A nice challenge. When I first implemented Js99'er I asked for examples of programs using the 9901 timer, but did not get any reply, so this is the first program I'm aware of that I can use for testing. I tried to implement the timer in js99er.net based on Thierry Nouspikel's documentation, but I'm having a bit of problems with the timing . Basically it's much too fast and irregular. Could you give me a few clues about how you're using the timer? Are you using the interrupt, for instance? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 I tried to implement the timer in js99er.net based on Thierry Nouspikel's documentation, but I'm having a bit of problems with the timing . Basically it's much too fast and irregular. Could you give me a few clues about how you're using the timer? Are you using the interrupt, for instance? I use Thierry's code, and method 1 to time intervals. If you start a game by revealing a square and not hitting a bomb, the timer starts to run. >833a seconds >833c one tenth of a second >833e cycle counter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I wonder if there is a mistake on Thierry's page? http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/tms9901.htm It says: "Placing the TMS9901 in I/O mode again will resume updating of the Read register. However, if any bit between 1 and 14 is written to while in timer mode, the decrementer will be reinitialized with the current value of the Clock register. This is nice because it means that it is not necessary to reload all 14 bits in the Clock register: since they haven't changed, writting one of them (such as the least significant one) is enough to reload the whole data word." Should the text I have marked in bold read "I/O mode" instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 I wonder if there is a mistake on Thierry's page? http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/tms9901.htm It says: "Placing the TMS9901 in I/O mode again will resume updating of the Read register. However, if any bit between 1 and 14 is written to while in timer mode, the decrementer will be reinitialized with the current value of the Clock register. This is nice because it means that it is not necessary to reload all 14 bits in the Clock register: since they haven't changed, writting one of them (such as the least significant one) is enough to reload the whole data word." Should the text I have marked in bold read "I/O mode" instead? Well, just glancing through the page, and I couldn't say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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