Gigatron Hackers

Cheers guys.

RetroCode wrote: ↑08 Jul 2020, 19:14 There's a lot to take in in this thread, but one question I immediately have. Are any of these still available, by any chance?

I'm fairly sure Norgate still has some stock available, hopefully he'll get in contact or see this thread soon.

I've added some screenshots of features I've added to the Emulator over the past few months that I never really talked about; they can make your development with the Gigatron significantly simpler if used properly. CTRL-H toggles the help screen. Terminal, (CTRL-T toggles): - Allows you to control a...

Anyway, just on the unlikely off-chance anyone is interested, I updated my blog (it's more for my own records than anything) with my experience so far with the Gigatron - most of which I discussed here first. https://retrocode.uk/gigatron.html I checked out some of your blog article's, clear, conci...

The slight delay was there, but not very noticeable. The first thing I tried after upgrading to 5a was loading PucMon_ROMv5a.gt1 for an almost side-by-side comparison. It definitely runs a lot smoother, pretty much flawless from what I observed. CALLI ftw :-) If you put them side by side or play th...

I had a re-think about how I was drawing the ghosts and managed to save around 1500 bytes by drawing the ghosts skirts as an extra 12x1 sprite draw call, (effectively 9x1 with overlap), instead of the 12x9 whole sprite frame switch I was doing previously. This has allowed me to add the sound effects...

Ver 1.0.1B, (Beta) - Added rect clear to 'CLS', e.g. 'CLS <address>, <width>, <height>' - Added [Comms]:Enable to loader_config.ini , this toggle enables/disables communications to a suitably configured Arduino connected to real Gigatron hardware. - Fixed the 'LSL' and '<<' commands not emitting co...

That is really cool at67, I didn't know your emulator could do that! I just tried it and it works if I enter the loader manually on my Gigatron first. However, if it is at the main menu it navigates to WozMon (instead of Loader) and attempts the upload there. Was just wondering if there is somethin...

Awesome pics and setup.

I am super jelly!

CALLI is a ROMv5 instruction yeah? Yup, currently only ROMv5a and DEVROM support it. I figured I'd avoid those for now and go with what's going to ship with my kit. Does the LDWI/CALL pattern mean not having a pointer for every function and instead loading a pointer into the zero page right before ...