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Hey everyone, The party is getting set up and there is a livestream on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgFR4CqpDQs or SceneSat here: https://scenesat.com/video . Watch me drink beer in real-time! I will post a link to the new Bitshifters demo as soon as it has been shown at the Retro c...

Oh hai! :D Alas the terms of Apple II source code release on GitHub, on which the port is based, make it very clear that there can be nothing vaguely construed as commercial release, as all rights are retained by Ubisoft. That wouldn’t stop anyone from making their own “boxed copy” using an old flop...

Great work Tricky, it looks lovely & smooth! If only you'd been doing these conversions in the 80's you'd have much fame & fortune.

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Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:08 pm

If you port Stunt Car Racer to the Beeb I will write you into my Will.

I did a genuine LOL on the train this morning reading that!

The talk of REVS on the "Most disappointing conversions..." thread made me yearn for Stunt Car Racer . It had an original release on C64 and was recently ported to 8-bit Atari . Given that Geoff Crammond started on the BBC Micro, perhaps it's time for a conversion?! EDIT: The 6502 source code for th...

Now, about that Beeb with shadow and sideways ram conversion....! :wink: =P~ :lol: You’d need 5x banks of SWRAM as it uses all 64K in the Master plus all of ANDY and HAZEL (minus a couple of pages for the DFS.) Actually during development I did ponder what an enhanced Master version might look like...

Here's a quick photo.

Just received the latest edition of Retro Gamer in the post and PoP gets a very positive (if a tad brief) review in the homebrew section :D =D> Cool. Thanks Rob. I just got home to find my copy on the door mat. They didn't warn me but nice it got a high score 94% and their "sizzler" mark! Perhaps n...

Witchcraft, I tell you! :D I'm still slightly confused about one detail. The CPU is still only running at 2MHz so, even though you have a perfectly precomputed instruction stream, you've still only got 39936 cycles/frame so can write a maximum of 9984 bytes/frame which is far less than the MODE 0 sc...

Amazing work! I love the idea of someone plugging in a massive cartridge back in the 1980's and playing the Bad Apple video like this. It'd undoubtedly have been both physically massive and massively expensive as well..!! Shall we all chip in and buy Chris a decent phone to record a video on? ;) We ...

Who can say but I doubt that outcome personally. Skype is a consumer product that is way past its prime. GitHub is for developers and Microsoft knows that developers are a tough audience to please and difficult / impossible to advertise to. Long-term I would expect more integration points with the M...

Disclaimer: I also work for Microsoft (not that far away from VectorEyes actually!)

I found this article to be most illuminating and from a very independent source: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/mi ... -reaction/

I'm still not clear as to exactly when the CRTC is comparing the Vertical Character Count against Vertical Total (R4) which I think is at the root of my issue. Is this only when VCC is incremented or cleared? My take on it is that the comparison is probably performed at the beginning of the last sc...

I feel like this can also be explained by the same issue as tricky's problem, here . Have I understood right that you have a bunch of single line, single row CRTC frames (R4=0, R9=0), and then a block of rows to make the PAL frame up to 312? In the other thread, we have the observation that R4 need...

With the diversion on restoring 'normal' CRTC conditions, I think I've lost the discussion here! Kieran, can you explain again what problems you're seeing now on real hardware, compared to emulation? During the demo (and also during the transition)? Just to make sure I understand your code well eno...

Would it be "safer" to add a total adjust (R5) of 8 scan lines and then change your mode in that section, with 38 rows and vsync one row earlier? If I understand what you are doing, and I might have missed it, this would make everything match as well as supporting any 6845s that don't add the extra...

I feel like this can also be explained by the same issue as tricky's problem, here . Have I understood right that you have a bunch of single line, single row CRTC frames (R4=0, R9=0), and then a block of rows to make the PAL frame up to 312? In the other thread, we have the observation that R4 need...

After Leicester when we were talking about injecting code into the Tube memory window I did a proof of concept and got Bad Apple running at 640x512 (yep not 256) 50 fps in mode 0 with 2x2 ordered dithering and the Japanese version digital audio playing back at 22kHz via the Tube port... on an other...

Gah! I’m not likely going to be able to make this one as it’s my father-in-law’s birthday that weekend. Will have to see nearer the time if I can make it for a day.

Thanks for the photos everyone - looks like a great weekend! Sorry I wasn’t able to make it in the end - my short business trip to Egypt earlier in the week has left me somewhat incapacitated, I’ll just leave it at that. Amazing to see SCUMM running on a Master but I’m still intrigued as to what cmo...

A non-sequitur, I will be attending but on Sunday only. As I’m relatively local I’m hoping to get over early doors and stay for the duration.

Look forward to seeing everyone there!

Yay! Great to have you join the forum. The 8088 MPH demo is a legendary piece of work from the last few years. One of those rare instances of genuinely new techniques being uncovered on such an old platform. I’m hoping this will mean more BBC demos (or maybe some Archie ones?!) from CRTC since it se...

Hi all, I know it's a bit niche for many but NOVA, the only UK demoparty, is back on again down in the lovely seaside town of Budleigh Salterton in Devon, running over the weekend of 22nd to 24th June. Details and registrations can be found here: novaparty.org/ Tickets aren't a problem but recommend...

A hearty welcome to the forum! Are you planning to put any of those software development skills to use in an 8 or 32-bit capacity?

Seems like this was a popular passtime in the 80's. Here's Kevin Edwards talking about it: https://twitter.com/KevEdwardsRetro/sta ... 09632?s=20

I feel like this can also be explained by the same issue as tricky's problem, here . Have I understood right that you have a bunch of single line, single row CRTC frames (R4=0, R9=0), and then a block of rows to make the PAL frame up to 312? In the other thread, we have the observation that R4 need...

This would imply that, for some 6845s, you could set R12/R13 at different scanlines within the first character row of a new frame and get a change of address midway through a row. Doesn't it? Not that this is related to your problem, but it's probably worth considering all the same, if it's true. I...

I also have an Apple IIe that I have (shamefully :oops: ) never attempted to turn on since obtaining it from eBay. If there is going to be a small Apple II corner then I will bring this along as well, if that's OK? (This is assuming I make it to ABUG at all, it's a bit touch & go with work at the mo...

I struggle to imagine how it could be much better than it already is. However I do have a practical suggestion, which is whether it could be ported to the 6502 second processor. This would free up a lot of memory which could be used for more sound samples perhaps? That's an interesting idea, whethe...

If it were up to me, I'd have a separate Exile subforum! :) :D Without wanting to trigger a mega-thread, VectorEyes & I were discussing what an Exile 2 might look like, perhaps if it was Master only... or whether the original game is considered the beautiful pinnacle of 6502 game engineering (on th...