Intelligentleman Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 I love my Aquarius setup. I really want to do something different on it. And I think the weird character set for graphics is interesting in a good way. With a complete Aquarius setup, I have this pie in the sky idea to incorporate the printer into an interactive experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 6/30/2021 at 1:27 AM, chjmartin2 said: The attached program waits for the vertical refresh and toggles between two screens to provide 30 Hz additional colors and a pseudo expanded character set because of temporal blending. You effectively get 4 colors per 8x8 block instead of two. Anyway, it runs on Virtual Aquarius perfectly and in sync. Sadly it does not work with AqEmu at least on my machine. When I run it and set the emulator to 100% it just seems to be going slow. Oddly when I completely disable sound it almost works except it skips (for lack of a better term) every second or two. My computer isn't super new so maybe its just not fast enough? I am excited about this emulator because it appears you are working to make it very cycle accurate which for me would be very useful. I know another person is trying to chase the beam to draw higher resolution effective graphics and I had started work on that but dev was so slow because of having to burn to EEPROMs and insert it into the Super Cart. Speaking of the Super Cart, if I could ask for a feature I would love to be able to use 1 meg ROMs that are compatible with Super Cart using bankswitching because then I could share some Aquarius "movies" with others for them to run on your emulator. It also would help with other potential development matching the Super Cart. I have spent far too long away from my friend the Aquarius. xbox360.bin 3.86 kB · 6 downloads I'm also writing a Linux version of AquaLite, weird thing is this works absolutely perfectly on the Linux version but not on the Windows version despite using exactly the same code. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Richard Chandler said: I'm also writing a Linux version of AquaLite, weird thing is this works absolutely perfectly on the Linux version but not on the Windows version despite using exactly the same code. Wow that is pretty wild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 minute ago, chjmartin2 said: Wow that is pretty wild! Wild isn't the word I would choose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chjmartin2 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, Richard Chandler said: Wild isn't the word I would choose... Ha! Infuriating... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (I didn't want to sideline this thread any more, since it's supposed to be a thread about AquaLite and not MAME, so I moved the recent MAME-related posts into an existing thread about Aquarius emulation in MAME.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 On 7/3/2021 at 12:56 AM, jaybird3rd said: (I didn't want to sideline this thread any more, since it's supposed to be a thread about AquaLite and not MAME, so I moved the recent MAME-related posts into an existing thread about Aquarius emulation in MAME.) Incidentally Jay, do you have a definitive answer for the clock speed of the NTSC machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 54 minutes ago, Richard Chandler said: Incidentally Jay, do you have a definitive answer for the clock speed of the NTSC machine? The most definitive numbers that I have are from the original Technical Specification from Mattel/Radofin: "The video timing and CPU synchronization are generated by a custom gate array PLA-1 (U7). The master clock frequency of PLA-1 is 7.15909 MHz and is divided internally in the PLA to provide the 3.579545 MHz CPU clock. The video scanning rate is one eighth of the master clock frequency." (I'm sure you already have the archival scans of the Technical Specification and System Description documents that have been floating around for a while now, but I'll attach them here just in case.) Aquarius - Technical Specification.pdf Aquarius - System Description.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 (edited) the link dont work. where can i get aqualite ? Edited January 23, 2022 by maniaque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, maniaque said: the link dont work. where can i get aqualite ? Try this. One day I'll get a permanent home for it. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar4VkKtk_3JziGhYFfYYjzmr0JD8?e=CYDATR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 thank you this last link works i will try this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Just now, maniaque said: thank you this last link works i will try this Good luck. There is a newer version that I haven't released yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 it says config file missing then it says rom missing. any clue ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 5 minutes ago, maniaque said: it says config file missing then it says rom missing. any clue ? You should unzip AquaLite and the subfolders to a folder. Don't move anything. Config file is missing the 1st time you start AquaLite but it should create one. The 2nd time you run it everything should properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Richard Chandler said: You should unzip AquaLite and the subfolders to a folder. Don't move anything. Config file is missing the 1st time you start AquaLite but it should create one. The 2nd time you run it everything should properly. i did not touch anything. unzipped everything in a folder. start aqualite once , twice , many times always get the same 2 errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, maniaque said: i did not touch anything. unzipped everything in a folder. start aqualite once , twice , many times always get the same 2 errors. I've had issues with this before, try this version. I've also included the entire Aquarius software archive as well. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar4VkKtk_3JziRk-si3pvkPJTNej?e=fxzfse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Richard Chandler said: I've had issues with this before, try this version. I've also included the entire Aquarius software archive as well. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ar4VkKtk_3JziRk-si3pvkPJTNej?e=fxzfse sorry i get the same errors i tried 2 different computers and windows 10 and windows 11 also with admin rights. no luck. Edited January 23, 2022 by maniaque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Ok, I'm looking into it now. I'll release an update shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 alright. try it yourself but i dont think the issue is on my side ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Download this and copy it over the current AquaLite.exe AquaLite.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 same thing again and i got directsound error too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 38 minutes ago, maniaque said: same thing again and i got directsound error too Ok. I know what I did now and this should work (Hopefully!!!) AquaLite.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniaque Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 nope. same issues. once u test it yourself and it works let me know please when u have a working one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Chandler Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Bugfixed version. Tested on Windows 10 & Windows 11 machines running a clean install. AquaLite126d.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jltursan Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Richard Chandler said: Bugfixed version. Tested on Windows 10 & Windows 11 machines running a clean install. AquaLite126d.zip 24.44 MB · 2 downloads Yep, this one works fine. I'm trying to test the MicroExpander emulation but just after enabling the option the emulator hangs with a MVC++ Debug error ""abort() has been called". Do I need the USB Basic rom placed somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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