+karri Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 I was wondering why Reiko's robot run hangs. It has something to do with Chipper. When the code tries to switch from the intro to the actual game the sound and the Lynx hangs. There is initialization done twice which is not a good thing. When I remove sound the game works. A closer look at the game code revealed that the interrupts continue operating on the music file even though the content has changed. I wonder why the real Lynx does not crash. It should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 (edited) @karri that's an interresting test case. Save it somewhere for investigation btw I have funny feeling that most of crashing games should also crash on real lynx but for some reason they don't. When I was writing support for comlynx I was terrorized by the RedEye misbehave and I don't know how it manages to work... Edited November 16, 2021 by laoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, laoo said: When I was writing support for comlynx I was terrorized by the RedEye misbehave and I don't know how it manages to work... We all come to the point to believe that. But actually it is not misbehaving If properly done, it can even be emulated properly enough to run most of the games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 (edited) @sage There is an old saying that if something seems stupid, but it works, then it's not stupid... But I saw the logs what RedEye was doing to comlynx wire and it was anything but pleasing view Edited November 16, 2021 by laoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 19 hours ago, laoo said: @sage There is an old saying that if something seems stupid, but it works, then it's not stupid... But I saw the logs what RedEye was doing to comlynx wire and it was anything but pleasing view single wire protocol, what do you expect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 Alas! New release of Felix is out. And a bigger one, because it's glorious v0.5.0! So we are half way through ? New cool thing inside. Among others: Shiny GUI powered by Dear ImGui. Having user interface I could implement custom key remapping and add some configuration. There is preliminary gamepad support. Currently not configurable, but we will see how it behaves and what to do next with it. Some bugfixes permits few more games to work. Some debugging features, but it's not visual debugger yet (but hopefully soon). Please take a look and return with feedback! BTW. I can be reached from tomorrow till sunday in Gdańsk on Silly Venture demo party, so see you there. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, laoo said: BTW. I can be reached from tomorrow till sunday in Gdańsk on Silly Venture demo party, so see you there. I am jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingouin Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, laoo said: it's glorious v0.5.0! So we are half way through ? Yes, but was that the small half or the big half? Thanks for the update! Edited December 8, 2021 by Pingouin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 17 hours ago, laoo said: Alas! New release of Felix is out. And a bigger one, because it's glorious v0.5.0! So we are half way through ? New cool thing inside. Among others: Shiny GUI powered by Dear ImGui. Having user interface I could implement custom key remapping and add some configuration. There is preliminary gamepad support. Currently not configurable, but we will see how it behaves and what to do next with it. Some bugfixes permits few more games to work. Some debugging features, but it's not visual debugger yet (but hopefully soon). Please take a look and return with feedback! BTW. I can be reached from tomorrow till sunday in Gdańsk on Silly Venture demo party, so see you there. Can't wait to return home and test it, thanks! Unfortunately at Silly Venture 2021 I will be only a voting sofa scener. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 On 12/8/2021 at 6:36 PM, laoo said: Alas! New release of Felix is out. And a bigger one, because it's glorious v0.5.0! So we are half way through ? New cool thing inside. Among others: Shiny GUI powered by Dear ImGui. Having user interface I could implement custom key remapping and add some configuration. There is preliminary gamepad support. Currently not configurable, but we will see how it behaves and what to do next with it. Some bugfixes permits few more games to work. Some debugging features, but it's not visual debugger yet (but hopefully soon). Please take a look and return with feedback! BTW. I can be reached from tomorrow till sunday in Gdańsk on Silly Venture demo party, so see you there. Would be possible to include the Lynx icon in the Windows exe file? Currently I see a generic one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 15 hours ago, Cyprian said: Would be possible to include the Lynx icon in the Windows exe file? Currently I see a generic one. Of course it's possible. I was thinking about it already and there is only one issue: what icon? I can't draw it myself. I also don't want to get anyone angry by taking some icons I like, so as the name of the thread suggests: I need some help with it. I like stylized "X" used originally (and it's the only common letter ?) but I don't know whether it would be legal. Besides: it's already used on https://atarilynxdev.net. @Igor what is the status of this icon? Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I would like to have support for 4 ROM banks in the emulator. Is it there already? Bank 0: CART0 strobe Bank 1: CART1 strobe Bank 2: AUDIN + CART0 strobe Bank 3: AUDIN + CART1 strobe This would be very helpful while I develop my Wizzy game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 3 hours ago, karri said: I would like to have support for 4 ROM banks in the emulator. Is it there already? Give it a try. Should work. I've implemented some scheme in analogous way as Handy does it, but I don't remember I had big enough cartridge image to test it. Attach a screenshot of cartridge's properties windows so I could see how Felix handles it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 1 minute ago, laoo said: Give it a try. Should work. I've implemented some scheme in analogous way as Handy does it, but I don't remember I had big enough cartridge image to test it. Attach a screenshot of cartridge's properties windows so I could see how Felix handles it. Thanks! I am still in the process of writing the driver for the cc65. I do have one 2MB compiled binary. But it did not work on the real cart. Now I have a small batch of 20 carts in production. I did discuss the logic with sage and I believe we agreed of the idea that the AUDIN pin is the highest address pin. So the logic would be: Blocksize 0 image Blocksize 1 image And with AUDIN on Blocksize 0 image Blocksize 1 image But obviously my thoughts were wrong. In Alpine Games they extend the memory by using AUDIN to extend every block instead. Sigh... My guess is that Handy and Felix implements it by extending the block size. Could anybody confirm this? What I do not like in this scheme is that the directory gets split to two ROM areas. Especially as both areas need some strange space for the bootloader before the directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, karri said: I did discuss the logic with sage and I believe we agreed of the idea that the AUDIN pin is the highest address pin. So the logic would be: Blocksize 0 image Blocksize 1 image And with AUDIN on Blocksize 0 image Blocksize 1 image But obviously my thoughts were wrong. In Alpine Games they extend the memory by using AUDIN to extend every block instead. Sigh... Maybe it's time to allocate some spare bits in LNX header to define banking scheme? Edited January 2, 2022 by laoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 10 minutes ago, laoo said: Maybe it's time to allocate some spare bits in LNX header to define banking scheme? It may also be my bad dumper program that assembled the file wrong. My suggestion is to go for one scheme and modify the file dump to match it. The Lynx does not care what the address bits mean. It should be the same with the emulators. PS. I believe that EOTB was using 1024 or 2048 bytes per block for the rom and 64 bytes per block for the RAM for saves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 OMG! I am currently running a "failed" 2MB image on Felix. Without problems. So the error was in my first cart design. I really hope the image works in my next design! At least I have a reference that can play this! Thanks!!!!! Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B Aux Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B AUDIn Used? Yes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 4 minutes ago, karri said: OMG! I am currently running a "failed" 2MB image on Felix. Without problems. Could you attach the cartridge's properties window how it was detected by Felix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 I was not able to get a screenshot but it looks like: Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B Aux Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B AUDIn Used? Yes I can also confirm that Felix uses AUDIN as the highest address pin in the file. Splits at 1MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 2, 2022 Author Share Posted January 2, 2022 6 minutes ago, karri said: I was not able to get a screenshot but it looks like: Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B Aux Size: (256 + 256) * 2048 B = 1048576 B AUDIn Used? Yes I can also confirm that Felix uses AUDIN as the highest address pin in the file. Splits at 1MB. Ok, Felix handles whole 2 MB image. Funny thing is I forgot what "Size" and "Aux Size" mean. I got to make it more verbose 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 20 hours ago, laoo said: Of course it's possible. I was thinking about it already and there is only one issue: what icon? I can't draw it myself. I also don't want to get anyone angry by taking some icons I like, so as the name of the thread suggests: I need some help with it. I like stylized "X" used originally (and it's the only common letter ?) but I don't know whether it would be legal. Besides: it's already used on https://atarilynxdev.net. @Igor what is the status of this icon? Any other ideas? The LYNX trademark was never renewed by Atari so anyone can use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 16 hours ago, laoo said: Maybe it's time to allocate some spare bits in LNX header to define banking scheme? I think we did. handy core (e.g. the one in retroarch) supports it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 I just spent hours looking for a glitch in my graphics the vertical non-graphics lines in the lower screen. On a real Lynx and on Felix these lines do not exist! But making HFLIP in Mednafen produces random 1 pixel errors for 16x16 tiles. Thanks for a great emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laoo Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 (edited) @karri This seems like a bug in Suzy sprite drawing loop. It's surprising that Mednafen has such bugs given it's improved upon Handy and I was writing Felix using knowledge accumulated in Handy. Nevertheless I'm happy to read that and it gives me more energy to continue with version 0.6 that will have visual debugger. Edited January 25, 2022 by laoo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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