exxos's DFB1 trials

[exxos]

@exxos, there's a test for your new found working board! viewtopic.php?p=93269#p93269 :lol:

OK need to patch up my previous FPU clock line.. Any particular one you want me to try first ?

EDIT:

Is there some other files other than those listed in the zip ? I have no idea how the game is set up unfortunately. I'm also limited what I can fit on a 1.44 floppy.. So if any other additional files are larger than that than I currently have no way to get them over to my Falcon hard drive :(

[Badwolf]

Is there some other files other than those listed in the zip ? I have no idea how the game is set up unfortunately. I'm also limited what I can fit on a 1.44 floppy.. So if any other additional files are larger than that than I currently have no way to get them over to my Falcon hard drive :(

Ah, yeah, you need Doom. That ain't going to fit on a floppy, I'm afraid!

How does AceTracker go for you? I can't get a VGA screen lock here with DFB1.

And I concur with your squeezing a few MHz out of the FPU thing. Hence why I'm happy to run at 25 (or even 16). You've still got 32 bit access which is better than the onboard.

BUT I put in the second footprint as there will always be that guy.

BW

PS: that guy is normally you. ;) :lol:

[dml]

Is there some other files other than those listed in the zip ? I have no idea how the game is set up unfortunately. I'm also limited what I can fit on a 1.44 floppy.. So if any other additional files are larger than that than I currently have no way to get them over to my Falcon hard drive :(

BadMooD is a full game project with big files, requires 60mb of HD space, so a floppy isn't going to cut it :)

I normally use PARCP to get big things transferred to the Falcon. A CFLASH or uSD card between PC-Falcon will work fine of course.

[exxos]

BadMooD is a full game project with big files, requires 60mb of HD space, so a floppy isn't going to cut it :)

I normally use PARCP to get big things transferred to the Falcon. A CFLASH or uSD card between PC-Falcon will work fine of course.

Bugger :( I tried to get the SD card to behave between the Falcon and the PC, I mentioned it as can the help a week or two ago in my blog but I gave up in the end.

[exxos]

How does AceTracker go for you? I can't get a VGA screen lock here with DFB1.

I can try it, but I only have a RGB TV setup.

[Badwolf]

I can try it, but I only have a RGB TV setup.

Mine showed a picture, but was still screwy on RGB.

BW

[exxos]

@Badwolf I guess if you have some freeware Windows program you could clone your CF card and I could restore it on a spare CF here..

Failing that I could probably just send you a spare CF to copy the files on..

Of course it would be too easy to have a PC ST capable transfer going here.. But after messing around with it for a few hours I gave up. It seems when files were recognised on both when I copied them from Windows it corrupted the card somehow. Don't really have time for endless messing about with this stuff :(

[Badwolf]

Of course it would be too easy to have a PC ST capable transfer going here.. But after messing around with it for a few hours I gave up. It seems when files were recognised on both when I copied them from Windows it corrupted the card somehow. Don't really have time for endless messing about with this stuff :(

I use SD cards myself, rather than CF.

I also use a variety of tools to get things onto the Falcon. The first is my old Hydra/EtherNEC network card. Can work for reasonable sized things, but I find it generally unreliable and slow on large transfers.

Second technique I use is a virtual linux machine & Hatari. You plug (in my case) your SD card into your computer, you tell your virtual machine software you want taht SD card to be passed through to linux then you boot up hatari with a gemdos drive configured and the SD card as an IDE drive.

You then just copy from the local filesystem to your SD card in Hatari.

The same technique would work if you had a USB CF-card reader.

I don't think you can mount whole drives driectly in Hatari under windows (you theoretically can under macOS, but I've not had any luck doing so), so I use the virtual linux box to that end.

Of course, if you use EmuTOS, you can just boot off a windows-formated SD/CF card, but you lose the truecolour VDI.

I've been thinking of ways to square this circle.

BW

[exxos]

Does anyone remember how the hell you get the file selector up on ACE TRACKER or something ?!

EDIT:

I figure it out, I have to click the almost invisible text near the bottom left above the logo. Then do some gymnastics to hold down shift while clicking load module :roll:

EDIT2:

So it only seems to want to load AM modules :WTF: Now need to go on a hunt to find one which will fit on floppy now then :roll:

EDIT3:

https://modarchive.org/ Can't even find a single AM file on there. :roll: Why does everything have to be such a rigmarole all the time :roll:

[Badwolf]

Does anyone remember how the hell you get the file selector up on ACE TRACKER or something ?!

It's a very non-obvious interface, IMO.

Once you've loaded one, see how long it takes for you to figure out how to play it!

It only loads AM files as it's not a MOD tracker, it's an Ace Tracker. ;)

Here are some:-

http://newbeat.atari.org/main.php?page=ace_tunes

BW