Matthias
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Hello!
So, assuming the prices are final, one cart + shell would cost 35€ if we get 100 of them manufactured, 30€ if we get 200 of them manufactured, and probably less for more.
Have these prices changed in the meantime?
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello all!
I stopped working with Cinepak movies for my projects years ago when i learned that i wasn't able to create movies where picture and audio keeps in sync during play. Most of my results were, that after some moments the audio was off about 1 second (but kept this lag), and i was not the only one with this problem. While trying to find the reason for this Scott updated his Windows tool several times but it didn't help me too much (in regards to the said out-of-sync problem).
What are your experiences?
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello!
If necessary someone could recreate these tools easily.
- Windows Vista and above no longer include HyperTerminal, but you can use TeraTerm instead.Yeah, that's the problem, there was no standard program anymore, so i kept the old HyperTerminal screenshots as a reference.
- The USB serial port will probably have a different name (i.e. COM3 instead of COM1).You might be able to change the COM-port number in the driver's .INF file or the Registry (or whereever it is stored nowadays). But the COM-port number should be irrelevant because a good Terminal-software should enumerate all possible ports and not just 1-n.
I don't know if anybody actually tested it. Maybe Matthias Domin knows?No, sorry.
I know he visits AtariAge and Jagware from time to time.That's right
But sometimes i forget the Username/Password combo for Jagware...Bye!
Matthias
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Hello all!
If you own the CD-version of Impulse X and a MemoryTrack (and some cables, a Windows-PC,..) you can now read up some info on how to make backups of your "Selfcreated Levels" and how to restore them on your MemoryTrack:
http://www.mdgames.de/impulsexselfcreatedlevels_eng.html.
So you can also start to exchange your level set MT-files with other Impulse X users now
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello all!
Although the game doesn't require it, some of you expressed their wish of having a joypad overlay for Impulse X, so i am now providing a link for downloading such graphics at the end of my Impulse X webpage.
Merry christmas!
Matthias
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Hello,
just a few days ago i have uploaded the webpage with ordering info for the cartridge version of Impulse X.
The game can either be purchased from me (Germany), 16/32 sytems in the United Kingdom or Console5.com in USA.
Meanwhile (after the official release last weekend during Euro-Jagfest) i have tried to get in contact with (almost) all of you who asked to get on my Excel-list to get the cartridge reserved.
@Those who got an entry on that list confirmed:
Please get in contact with me if you are still interested purchasing it from me or if you already have bought it from one of the said vendors. Thanks in advance!
Best regards
Matthias
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Hello,
i am sorry for the delay of the cartridge version of Impulse X, but i am happy to tell you that i have started assembling the PCBs for the cartridges.
The release will happen during the Euro-Jagfest 2013.
Kind regards
Matthias
PS: Attached is a photo showing some of the Impulse X Eproms.
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Hello!
So, how do you plug a mouse to the Jaguar?You just need a simple 9pin-to-15pin-adaptor, a description with software can be found on my Jaguar-page:
http://www.mdgames.de/jag_eng.htm
Kind regards
Matthias
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This is great! Thanks a lot!
Matthias
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Hello all!
I don't think anybody ever tried to modify the Doom serial code.My excuse is:
At the time when the mentioned workaround was discussed i only had one JagLink as i had forwarded the second to another developer, but then i bought a new JagLink package from Nick at Euro-Jagfest 2011, but focussed on getting Impulse X released (and this job is still not finished).
Best regards
Matthias
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Hello Gunstar!
Well, we got RR in 2011, and maybe Blackhole, and was Clicks released in 2011? Last year? Has it been released yet?Impulse X we just got end of 2012 or beginning of 2013.
No, Clicks! isn't released yet, because as you already said, the release of Impulse X was delayed (and still is for the cartridge version).
The rest we are still waiting for and it's 2013. ..But you also got a lot of new games in 2012 as free downloads, plus 'BlackOut' and 'Kobajashi Maru final'
Bye!
Matthias
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Hello!
I won a copy of the CD version of this game at Silly Venture 2012 (for my 2nd place of the game compo, which I entered Elansar jaguar demo)The packaging is gorgeous !
Glad to hear that you like my product
Also great to hear who won one of the 2 copies i had sent towards Gdansk!
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello!
still no "buy" page on the official site, ...Yeah, sorry. I didn't install the page with ordering information as i haven't completed the negotation with a US-vendor by now.
But the conditions will be similar to those for DoubleFeature#1, and if you look at the DF#1-page, it just says "for a purchase from Matthias directly: email him." (or send me a PM) anyways.
Just have put the page with ordering info for the Impulse X CD online.
BTW:
To those who already have the game:
Please don't be shy, post your webcodes with your scores!
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello!
still no "buy" page on the official site, ...Yeah, sorry. I didn't install the page with ordering information as i haven't completed the negotation with a US-vendor by now.
But the conditions will be similar to those for DoubleFeature#1, and if you look at the DF#1-page, it just says "for a purchase from Matthias directly: email him." (or send me a PM) anyways.
... I wonder how much the cartridge version will costCartridge will be about 60 Euro, plus shipping.
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello!
Congrats on creating and releasing this tool, but when i saw the thread-title i thought it was about the Windows-based JagView-tool that was released 12 years ago by a polish developer and that allows to view the graphics (CRY or RGB) in a Jaguar binary. May i suggest that you change the name of your tool before it is widely spread?
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello!
Indeed, it can be found here, in the SOURCE folder.I've looked at Roine's code, it does exactly the same thing as the one in the first post, but it's a bit smaller
But the way you have listed it (values and named registers in one line) makes it much easier to understand
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello,
there are example sourcefiles for this in the JagServer DevKit, filenames are 50HZ.S and 60HZ.S
Bye!
Matthias
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Hello!
Yop ! Hum, quick idea... Is the stop object of your loader program in RAM ?it isnt actually.... its defined within the cart loader program...
Although the OLP-register is a full 32bit-Register, the Link-adresses contained in the objects are only 19+3 bits wide, therefore all of these linked objects need to be placed within the lower 4MB of the Jaguars address space. This might indicate that this restriction is true for the very first object as well, which would mean that the object-list always needs to be placed in RAM.
About the method to set a new object-list address into OLP:
Using the 68000 for this is no problem as long as the writes of the two 16bit-words isn't interrupted, but using a RISC processor is more safe.
Here is some code i got from Bastian Schick that initializes (and shuts down) everything, you can see that the STOP-object is placed at a free memory loacation (address $0):
INIT: move #$2700,sr lea $1000.w,sp lea $F00000,a0 move.l #$070007,d0 ; big endian move.l d0,$210C(a0) move.l d0,$F1A10C moveq #0,d0 move.l d0,$2114(a0) ; stop gpu move.l d0,$f1a114 ; stop dsp move.l d0,$2100(a0) ; disable GPU-IRQs ; disable DSP-IRQs bra goon2 move.l #%10001111100000000,$f1a100 move.l #%111111<<8,$f10020 ; clear and disable IRQs goon2: move.l d0,0.w moveq #4,d0 move.l d0,4.w moveq #0,d0 move.l d0,$20(a0) ; set OP to STOP-OBJECT move.w d0,$26(a0) ; clear OP-Flag move.l d0,$2A(a0) ; border black move.w d0,$56(a0) ; set CRY mode to color/not BW move.w d0,$58(a0) ; background black move.l d0,$50(a0) ; stop PIT move.l d0,$f10000 ; stop JPIT1 move.l d0,$f10004 ; stop JPIT2 move.l #$1F00<<16,$E0(a0) ; clear pending irqs move.w #$7fff,$4e(a0) ; no VI lea dummy_irq(pc),a0 move.l a0,$0100.w bra.s INIT1 dummy_irq: move.l #$1f00<<16,$f000e0 rte INIT1: moveq #0,d0 moveq #0,d1 moveq #0,d2 moveq #0,d3 moveq #0,d4 moveq #0,d5 moveq #0,d6 moveq #0,d7 move.l d0,a0 move.l d0,a1 move.l d0,a2 move.l d0,a3 move.l d0,a4 move.l d0,a5 move.l d0,a6 move.l a0,usp
After this, you are free to start up the Jaguar again
Kind regards
Matthias
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...but all i get is a black screen afterwards (this is on a stub jag)
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I then use the following on a windows machine to put the 8k universal header on the file.
copy univ.k3y/b + program.bin/b ENCRYPTED.ROM/b
Is the bit for showing the spinning cube set in that universal header?
If so: Does the screen go black immediatelly after booting the Jaguar or does the cube show up and the screen wents black after it?
Bye!
Matthias
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Hello!
Hey guys, ive been having a bit of trouble getting my binary programs burned to a cartridge.Ive got a programmer that will burn the chips with whatever i want and verify ok after burning
but all i get is a black screen afterwards (this is on a stub jag)
A stable black screen is a bit unusual, it could just indicate, that your program does a wrong video-initialization.
(But i have no experience with a STUBulated Jaguar)
To check if the whole process of creating the Eprom-content is correct i suggest that you use a ROM-dump of an commercial game and treat it as you did with your own game-program.
Here is the breakdown of how the binary is prepped before burning..I take a binary file that links and compiles at 4000 (ram) and has no header. i use a wrapper program i wrote that compiles and includes this binary file and immediately copys the file to ram an then jumps to the execution point. This wrapper program starts at 802000 and has no header either.
I then use the following on a windows machine to put the 8k universal header on the file.
copy univ.k3y/b + program.bin/b ENCRYPTED.ROM/b
I have verified with a hex editor that the 8k univseral header is added at this point.
I am able to load this file into project tempest emulator and virtual jaguar and run it without issues. It also runs perfectly fine like this on the skunkboard.
Sounds ok for me, but what is the databus-width setting of the "univ.k3"-file?
I then use romsplit.exe (supplied atari tool) to split the rom using the following commandromsplit -w encrypted.rom which gives me a .HI and .LO file.
Now from everything ive seen the hi file goes on the top eprom spot on the cartridge and low in the other.
Even if you mix them up you can check this out easily by swapping the 2 EPROMs.
When i burn each chip the program and chip offset are both 000000. I just get a black screen after following this.Any suggestions? do i need to byteswap the .hi and .lo files? am i missing a step here?
As said above, your process-hanlding sounds ok for me.
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello,
here is what i do when i blitt the char-set letters into the canvas:
; set up for transparent blit!!! moveq.l #0,d0 move.l d0,B_PATD ; Isn't B_PATD a WORD-register? Or a PHRASE? move.l #0,d0 move.l d0,B_PATD+4; Isn't B_PATD a WORD-register? Or a PHRASE? move.l #SRCEN|UPDA1|UPDA2|LFU_REPLACE|DCOMPEN,B_CMD
For complete overwritting, i simply leave out the setting of B_PATD and the DCOMPEN-flag.
Kind regards
Matthias
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Hello Zerosquare and Orion,
thanks for your fast replies!
Kind regards
Matthias