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by bmwtcu
16 Apr 2023, 18:10
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: Moon Patrol [game]
Replies: 4
Views: 1018

Re: Moon Patrol [game]

Outstanding!
by bmwtcu
09 Apr 2023, 22:26
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Nice work! I've never played the original game, but I'm assuming I'm not supposed to be able to jump through walls @2:48. Is the "game over" screen supposed to prompt you to restart the game or is resetting the Gigatron always necessary?

https://youtu.be/0_stoDiZg08
by bmwtcu
02 Apr 2023, 00:35
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

https://forum.gigatron.io/viewtopic.php?p=30#p30 Marcel alluded to being able to do double buffering by sacrificing some horizontal resolution.
by bmwtcu
23 Mar 2023, 14:07
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Looking forward to that too!
by bmwtcu
18 Mar 2023, 22:26
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Works much better!
by bmwtcu
18 Mar 2023, 10:53
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

I think what he's suggesting is to first read all 8 bits of the raw famicom serial data one time into a variable that you can use with follow-up conditionals to parse, which would enable you to theoretically handle all 256 possible combinations of simultaneous key presses.
by bmwtcu
16 Mar 2023, 22:34
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Great work Wayne! I just had a go at playing it. Music takes a while to load but plays fine with latest ROMvX0 and video staying sync-ed. (On a tangential note, I couldn't get the latest BabelFish to work and I had to fall back on the SDROM version.) As Hans reported earlier, you can move Willy the ...
by bmwtcu
12 Mar 2023, 11:09
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

The gtBASIC pdf says RAND is only good for initialisation code. I'm guessing it uses something hardware dependent like initial SRAM state to randomize the value so you won't see variation in the emulator and even in hardware it doesn't change after initialisation. See line 554 in https://raw.githubu...
by bmwtcu
01 Mar 2023, 08:07
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Thanks Hans, at least I know what I need to do now. I'm in the middle of several projects, so will have to figure out the path of least resistance.
by bmwtcu
01 Mar 2023, 01:41
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: gtBASIC
Replies: 435
Views: 101573

Re: gtBASIC

Sorry for the crappy video. Still trying to figure out my new (to me) camera in low light settings. I don't have the latest ROMvX0 loaded (mine is probably from ~May 2022?) and I'm definitely not running it on a traditional hardware setup, but I'm seeing it lose sync once the music starts playing. W...