RedThunder Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Has anyone ever done a "full-size" Altirra mascot, or logo, or branded banner? Something like what WinUAE and MAME have. Some artwork would great. Some sort of friendly compo would be fun. What sizes for a mascot, logo or banner. Only if the Altirra author Phaeron want that of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Well I was thinking of something case-badge sized, case-banner sized, and maybe even like a book cover. Sump'n like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) Just been testing the latest beta and its new comparability engine, so far the only auto recognised 5200 cart that fails is the USA version of Choplifter which crashes, if you turn off the compatibility internal DB and set it manually to one chip it plays fine (I presume its setting to two chip). Anyway, still testing but looking good... I presume there's no way to manually edit the internal db unless you are actually compiling the whole emulator? Edited December 24, 2016 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 Just been testing the latest beta and its new comparability engine, so far the only auto recognised 5200 cart that fails is the USA version of Choplifter which crashes, if you turn off the compatibility internal DB and set it manually to one chip it plays fine (I presume its setting to two chip). Anyway, still testing but looking good... I presume there's no way to manually edit the internal db unless you are actually compiling the whole emulator? Oops, I'll fix the Choplifter entry. You can't edit the internal DB without recompiling the emulator, but you can override it. Any matching entries in the external DB will override ones in the internal DB. You can also grab the source from the internal DB and build an external DB off it -- it's in src\Altirra\data\compatdb.atcompatdb in the source archive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mono Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 @phaeron: Could you add COVOX waveforms view to Audio Monitor? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 santa - santa phaeron ! and how - a gift under a fir-tree? a new stable version not wait? I'm sorry, I'm drunk as a ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Serj, you know Avery on releases finals after the thread page count gets to 40 as does the beta count... Way to early 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) I know it.but I was hoping, and suddenly will. full emulation drives - it is not interesting to me. it would be desirable something new. since 2009 I wait for adding in the emulator of emulation of a turbo 2000. Edited December 30, 2016 by serj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 We all have our wishes, I hope yours come true just as much as mine but we all have to suffer the odd disappointment in the search for perfection... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 (edited) Avery, I downloaded archive "Williamsrom2car.zip" from here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242957-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-info-bits/?do=findComment&comment=3469517 Many of these *.car files lead to the collapse of the emulator. please, fix it. Edited December 31, 2016 by serj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Serj, You are Russian, so I'll forgive you for a complete lack of tact. You do realize that Avery works on this stuff, on his own time, for free, right? This pretty much gives him license to work on whatever part of the code he wants to work on, and you get the results of his hard work, for nothing, meaning, you are not a customer, you can't whine. Tone like this, tends to make a developer not want to work on these projects. The source code is available, so you can make a patch. -Thom 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 (edited) Perhaps he's still drunk, or more probably got re-drunk (since I suppose it's 2017 in Russia now), but a reminder that free software is not an entitlement is a great final take-away thought for 2016. And I'd like to take the opportunity to look back at another year of fantastic improvements to Altirra, and look forward to anything Avery decides to do in 2017. Edited December 31, 2016 by flashjazzcat 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Avery, I downloaded archive "Williamsrom2car.zip" from here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242957-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-info-bits/?do=findComment&comment=3469517 Many of these *.car files lead to the collapse of the emulator. please, fix it. Eh.. The word please has been used and let us all keep in mind subtle tones and attitudes can be lost in text-only communications. I don't really see anything wrong here. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Perhaps he's still drunk, or more probably got re-drunk (since I suppose it's 2017 in Russia now), but a reminder that free software is not an entitlement is a great final take-away thought for 2016. And I'd like to take the opportunity to look back at another year of fantastic improvements to Altirra, and look forward to anything Avery decides to do in 2017. Hear hear! I can't wait either. It's like an ongoing build-out of the ultimate Atari setup. Featuring things and capabilities I never could afford or imagined as a kid. A well-put-together rig sprawling across multiple monitors is the biggest and most bad-ass control center for classic computing! Woot! Woot! Now, I have some DEMANDS and STIPULATIONS for features and fixes and how everything is to proceed in the coming months. Should I post them? Or am'I gonna get booted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuel Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Avery, I downloaded archive "Williamsrom2car.zip" from here: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242957-ultimate-cart-sd-multicart-info-bits/?do=findComment&comment=3469517 Many of these *.car files lead to the collapse of the emulator. please, fix it. Only two of those .CAR files are valid. The rest have incorrect checksums or no CART header. I wrote a small script to fix or add the CART headers. Here's the script: fixcart.zip Here are the corrected .CAR files: Williamsrom2car-fixed.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Eh.. The word please has been used and let us all keep in mind subtle tones and attitudes can be lost in text-only communications. I don't really see anything wrong here. Especially since English is a 2nd language for him. It's best not to try and infer tone in such a case. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 (edited) To be a little fair, he does use a translator, I used to moan at him a long time ago until I realised he is using the translator but yes in general i find Eastern European folk have a more forth right way of speaking but its simply how it works in that country, same as my Somalian neighbour talks to he kids as if they are 10 miles away when they are in the same room. I ask her from time to time to remember its a bit rude to do the same in this country and she apologises. Habit.. If you want this to the extreme look no further than user w1k As for those Williams carts, they are the same ones I posted (in this thread I think) a short while back and I someone kindly posted the fixed set, another words, Serj, you are having the on set of dementia You collect every thing, how did you miss these before Edited January 1, 2017 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 I always think of "Russian politeness" Yesterday I had a look into the hardware reference manual Avery put together... That alone kicks ass! And we would die in 80s to have such a dok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 hmm.Cartridge "ALLEY CAT (WILLIAMS).CAR" does not work correctly. after a jump in the aquarium, the emulator crashes. bug in the emulator or a bad dump cartridge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Some of these do not work Serj, they were up a while back and kindly also fixed for me, you must have had them before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Always distinguish between an emulated machine (6502) crash which puts you in the debugger and an exception or other application error (Windows) which actually causes Altirra to crash. The latter is rare, and emulation is mature enough that the former usually points to an error in the software being run on the emulated machine. We've been debating language and inference here, but "collapse of the emulator" suggests to me an exception error and app shut-down, when in fact the issue was bad CAR headers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serj Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Edited January 2, 2017 by serj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 System->CPU Options->Record Instruction History. Next time the crash happens, click "Debug", then open the history window with Alt+6. Then you can see the most recently executed instructions prior to the crash, and that helps figure out if it's an emulation issue or a bug in the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Alley Cat looks like a bad cartridge conversion. Besides the broken checksum in the CART header, the game jumps into blank cartridge ROM on every emulator I've tried it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoMan Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Hello all! My first post here and i'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year! I am an Atari 800 user (unfortunately i don't own it anymore), who spent countless hours in his youth with Fort Apocalypse, Shamus, One on One, Jumpman, Necromancer, Canyon Climber, Baja Buggies, ... I am using Altirra 2.90-test21 with Launchbox (https://www.launchbox-app.com/) which allows me to pass different command line parameters to Altirra for each game, making running games with different requirements easy. I normally start Altirra in fullscreen with /f but i noticed that when i load a .cas file Altirra reverts to window mode. With .car and .atx files remains in fullscreen mode. Am i missing something? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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