Tursi Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 Gonna force me to update Classic99 at this rate 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 3 minutes ago, Tursi said: Gonna force me to update Classic99 at this rate And I might have to fork out for a f18a myself as well soon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 5 minutes ago, Tursi said: Gonna force me to update Classic99 at this rate Yes please, that would make it a lot more attractive to spend time developing for the F18A. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 21 minutes ago, Tursi said: Gonna force me to update Classic99 at this rate I do have a rather long list of demos covering most aspects of the F18A that you could use for testing. If I wanted to provide support for the V9938/58 in JS99er, which I have often considered, the lack of demos would be my concern. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 This is the only thing that I know of that does more than 80 columns or extra VRAM. Maybe some Geneve ports... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 8 minutes ago, TheMole said: This is the only thing that I know of that does more than 80 columns or extra VRAM. All written in BASIC, I guess, since it's so slow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 Yeah, and apparently there was an issue with Mess emulation leading to palette issues back then, I recorded that 10 years ago so that is likely fixed by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 There's this as well, of course: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/365816-release-gif-99-viewer-for-v993858-systems-v105-by-opa/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 That 64 byte change honestly makes a huge difference in the feel of the game! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 5 minutes ago, Vorticon said: That 64 byte change honestly makes a huge difference in the feel of the game! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 1 hour ago, Asmusr said: I do have a rather long list of demos covering most aspects of the F18A that you could use for testing. If I wanted to provide support for the V9938/58 in JS99er, which I have often considered, the lack of demos would be my concern. I wrote one graphics demo for v9938 that goes through some of the built in commands they 38/58 offers for drawing boxes, lines, scrolling the screen, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 2 hours ago, Asmusr said: I do have a rather long list of demos covering most aspects of the F18A that you could use for testing. If I wanted to provide support for the V9938/58 in JS99er, which I have often considered, the lack of demos would be my concern. Yeah, I used to have a mandlebrot generator which was the only test app I had for the 9938 when Classic99 used to support it. But I don't really want to support it going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: I wrote one graphics demo for v9938 that goes through some of the built in commands they 38/58 offers for drawing boxes, lines, scrolling the screen, etc. These demos make me swear I must have talked to you in Ottawa. I attended some kind of TI meet between 91 and 94, where I saw these demos running and briefly talked to someone about how the 9938 had hardware support for drawing the lines. I also /almost/ bought a dead Geneve but it was trading the ability to buy food for tech I might not be able to fix, and I eventually passed. A friend bought it and apparently detected a simple fault they fixed while still at the show. (Somehow. I kind of doubt that story these days ). I really wanted a TIM back then. The only one I knew who had one was Lucie Dorais, and I reallllly wanted her machine. Edited May 8 by Tursi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 11 minutes ago, Tursi said: These demos make me swear I must have talked to you in Ottawa. I attended some kind of TI meet between 91 and 94, where I saw these demos running and briefly talked to someone about how the 9938 had hardware support for drawing the lines. I also /almost/ bought a dead Geneve but it was trading the ability to buy food for tech I might not be able to fix, and I eventually passed. A friend bought it and apparently detected a simple fault they fixed while still at the show. (Somehow. I kind of doubt that story these days ). I really wanted a TIM back then. The only one I knew who had one was Lucie Dorais, and I reallllly wanted her machine. Could be I attended the Ottawa fairs and user group meetings on regular basis even tho I was in Toronto they had a stronger group and would organize fairs. The 9t9 one in Toronto never did got some reason. If you have any photos from back then would love to look through them. Out of all the fairs and shows I attended there not much photographic wise of me, many others but I only see two photos of me taken from shows, wish I could find more as I have no personal photographics at all before 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 22 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: Could be I attended the Ottawa fairs and user group meetings on regular basis even tho I was in Toronto they had a stronger group and would organize fairs. The 9t9 one in Toronto never did got some reason. If you have any photos from back then would love to look through them. Out of all the fairs and shows I attended there not much photographic wise of me, many others but I only see two photos of me taken from shows, wish I could find more as I have no personal photographics at all before 2008. Nah, I've got no pictures. I am not sure why not... maybe I didn't think to take the camera with me. Maybe I didn't have film that week. It must have been in the earlier half of that, though, cause I only remember one ever happening, and I was with the OTIUG till the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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