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agranlund wrote: 14 Jan 2025 20:36 Quite fun to revisit that old Basilisk code and hopefully the work I'm doing now to get it running on Raven will benefit potential support for Vampire too.

If you're digging around in Basilisk, I'd meant to report the latest version on your website doesn't set the palette properly in 256 or TC mode on my Falcon. Previous version is OK.

Only if you're digging around in Basilisk, of course. ;)

BW

Badwolf wrote: 14 Jan 2025 22:20 If you're digging around in Basilisk, I'd meant to report the latest version on your website doesn't set the palette properly in 256 or TC mode on my Falcon. Previous version is OK.

Ah, I didn't know that. I'll see if I can repro in Hatari and make a fix.
I'm not fully up to speed on what my old messy code is doing so it'll take a while to get into the swing of things. The video code in particular is a bit of a disaster in terms of structure :)

A Mac emulation really nice.

Not sure if this is the correct thread for this:

What I found on the ST with images available that SQ4 is not playable beyond the sewer as you can't move forward. The game does not progress.
Your stuck.

Freddy Pharkas was unplayable due to crashes.

Oldskool wrote: 15 Jan 2025 10:28 What I found on the ST with images available that SQ4 is not playable beyond the sewer as you can't move forward. The game does not progress.
Your stuck.

Freddy Pharkas was unplayable due to crashes.

Yeah I was quite disappointed about Freddy Pharkas too (as well as other Sierra + Dynamix titles).
They do run in the Windows version of BasiliskII and I remember strongly suspecting the virtual soundcard driver of the Atari port being the culprit.
But then my brain told me to focus on a ScummST version for Sierra SCI32 games instead but in the end I wasn't able to muster up the motivation for such an endevour :)

I can happily(?) confirm that this gamepad works perfectly fine with Raven:
https://atari.com/products/wireless-cx78-gamepad-atari
Being such an old design it's pretty terrible as far as gamepads go.
Ergonomics is on par with the worst of them (NES) and fire buttons too far apart to make any kind of sense.
But hey, it's wireless and it has an Atari logo! More then enough for me and I've just enjoyed using it in a session of Stunt Car Racer :)

Now it's time to take it apart and re-wire one of those fire buttons to act as dpad-up.

Cool gamepad indeed. Yes you want to have a “jump” button :)

On the Amiga (shapeshifter) the Sierra games also have issues especially on a 030 although on a 060 they run OK at least thats my experience with for instance Larry and Willy Beamish and also there it is something with the sound which causes the problems (without sounds its more stable).

I noticed some Gembench numbers in the beginning of the thread. As I didn’t want to burden agranlund with requests for more stuff, I waited until there some other builds -- perhaps you folks could contribute/answer this: Do you have the figures for …

• Coremark

• 7zip-MIPS (i.e. running "7za b")

?

(This might be impinged that I don’t know of plain (Emu)TOS ports of 7zip, yet, only MiNT or *BSD)

arf wrote: 16 Jan 2025 12:47 I noticed some Gembench numbers in the beginning of the thread. As I didn’t want to burden agranlund with requests for more stuff, I waited until there some other builds -- perhaps you folks could contribute/answer this: Do you have the figures for …

• Coremark

• 7zip-MIPS (i.e. running "7za b")

?

(This might be impinged that I don’t know of plain (Emu)TOS ports of 7zip, yet, only MiNT or *BSD)

Hi,

I could be wrong but I think coremark was done viewtopic.php?p=113700#p113700

@arf , I ran these just now:
I have it configured for writethrough rather than copyback cache.
Copyback is faster of course but at this moment, for me, I don't feel the gain is worth the hassle and uncertainty of what software may or may not crap out because of CB.

medmed wrote: 16 Jan 2025 18:43 I could be wrong but I think coremark was done viewtopic.php?p=113700#p113700

Thanks, I haven’t been able to find this with the forum nor Google search. 221 coremark is quite impressive!