Gigatron Hackers

It's pretty simple, git clone or download the gigatron-rom repo, type "make dev.rom" on Linux or MacOS. For Windows you'll need a Linux/Unix compatible make to do the same thing, (or you could convert the makefile to nmake format and use nmake), I used chocolatey to download equivalent Lin...

@axelb Great stuff!

@lb3361 CMake would solve a lot of your non Linux build issues.

I managed to compile it, I got the gtBASIC.exe working (I tried to compile the invader.gbas file and it runs fine with the on-line emulator). I used the cmake from the command line, since cmake_gui can't find Visual Studio -> I have the Visual Studio 2017 community installed. Good stuff. However th...

In my reading of various docs and other source code I am coming across conflicting information such as: $24-$2B sysArgs SYS Call 8 Arguments $2A Background Colour $2B Pen Colour I have used £2A and $2B successfully in a Tiny Basic program so this must mean the sysArgs above does not use those 8 byt...

Thank you for the information. I understand now. At the moment I am trying to understand how to program the Gigatron. I recently obtained the Pluggy Reloaded adapter that makes the Gigatron much more usable. I compiled and am playing around with your gtemuAT67.exe but am struggling to get a basic p...

I am looking to soft change it within a program for graphic tiles/characters for the game. Trying to determine if the character definition from the ROM is loaded to RAM where it could be changed. I think there might be a pointer in page 0 to the character definition in which case I can create a rep...

First : the Picture option doesn't show a picture at a time: instead, the three images are smaller than the screen, overlapped (you can see the three images on the screen, sometimes more times every images... do you know the pictures of your son/daughter on your fridge? LOL) and endless scrolling f...

Very cool!

Once again, awesome!

bmwtcu wrote: ↑29 Jul 2021, 20:07 @at67 I think he's using the NOROM BabelFish which should work with the v5a ROM.

Ahh I missed that bit, cheers.