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[Rybags]

I don't see the point.

The keyboard is always present, so to get the game you'd need Shift-F5 and F3 at the same time.

It'd be just as easy to use the pulldown and lauch the ROM.

I'd prefer the addition of more RAM configs, like Rambo/Compy 320K, and maybe smaller sizes like 24 and 32K.

[phaeron]

Disk logging is now off by default in 2.00-test builds but is configurable:

Altirra> lfl
DISK        off  Disk activity
DISKIMAGE   off  Disk image load details
DS1305      off  DS1305 real time clock accesses
HOOKSIO     off  OS SIO hook messages
IDE         off  IDE activity
IDEERROR    off  IDE interface errors
MODEM       off  Modem activity
PCLINK      off  PCLink activity
V3021       off  V3021 real time clock accesses
Altirra> lfe disk
Enabled logging channel: DISK
DISK: Reading vsec=  1 (1/1) (trk=0), psec=  0, chk=b7, rot=0.02 >> 0.83.
DISK: Reading vsec=  2 (1/1) (trk=0), psec=  1, chk=3b, rot=1.28 >> 0.67.

I might throw in XEGS support for the heck of it... it'd be a nice break from debugging HSCROL timing.

[serj]

nice, I look forward to
only, with one small amendment.
whether it is possible to make support systems XEGS as a separate bios and not "other.rom"?
let's say this:
http://imageshack.us.../823/romsg.jpg/

Edited by serj, Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:55 PM.

[.....]

A feature I would like to see is an ability to save the palette settings you make, as a file and be able to reload them when wanted.

[Mclaneinc]

serj, on Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:10 PM, said:

And it is possible though somewhere to look as the machine is loaded and run real XEGS?
Can be somewhere eat video with loading real XEGS, it would be interesting to me to look at differences from other systems.
Avery, can will add support bios xegs, all the same altirra it is positioned as the high-precision emulator atari.

Sergey, but what does the XEGS do that makes it different to existing hardware apart from have Missile command built in.

Altirra already runs its carts, apart from some hardware changes that Avery has mentioned isn't it just a version of one of the already emulated machines in Altirra?

[serj]

author decides to let himself.
but this option would be more accurate (closer to the real atari).

[Mclaneinc]

serj, on Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:10 AM, said:

author decides to let himself.
but this option would be more accurate (closer to the real atari).

You know me Sergey, I'm always looking at requests from both sides, to me the XEGS just seemed like an XL / XE with Missile command built in, as we can already play that game and run an XE / XL it just sounded like a clump of extra work for a very little difference.

But as always its down to Avery to do as he pleases, we merely supply the bugs and suggestions

[carmel_andrews]

Just noticed another pause feature (apart from the autopause and the F8 key), i think i pressed the f11 key and it stopped (pressing the f11 key again resumes emulation, i think this is part of the debugger's breakpoint feature)

[Mclaneinc]

carmel_andrews, on Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:18 AM, said:

Just noticed another pause feature (apart from the autopause and the F8 key), i think i pressed the f11 key and it stopped (pressing the f11 key again resumes emulation, i think this is part of the debugger's breakpoint feature)

Have the riots left you bored Carmel?

[phaeron]

F11 is single step in the debugger; it's not a pause button.

[Tezz]

Is it possible in the input mappings to assign "turbo mode" to a button on my game controller? It's something that was useful to me previously with A800Win+ skipping through things when testing.

[phaeron]

Tezz, on Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:14 PM, said:

Is it possible in the input mappings to assign "turbo mode" to a button on my game controller? It's something that was useful to me previously with A800Win+ skipping through things when testing.

Yes, you can. In Input > Input Mappings, create or edit an input mapping with a "Console" controller and map its Turbo trigger to a button. Use Normal as the mode if you only want turbo when the button is held down and Toggle if you want it to stick.

[Tezz]

phaeron, on Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:46 PM, said:

Yes, you can. In Input > Input Mappings, create or edit an input mapping with a "Console" controller and map its Turbo trigger to a button. Use Normal as the mode if you only want turbo when the button is held down and Toggle if you want it to stick.

Great, thanks! I've set that now. Is it possible to assign pause also?

[phaeron]

Tezz, on Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:23 PM, said:

phaeron, on Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:46 PM, said:

Yes, you can. In Input > Input Mappings, create or edit an input mapping with a "Console" controller and map its Turbo trigger to a button. Use Normal as the mode if you only want turbo when the button is held down and Toggle if you want it to stick.

Great, thanks! I've set that now. Is it possible to assign pause also?

Not currently -- the controllers aren't polled unless the simulation is running.

[atx4us]

....., on Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:59 AM, said:

A feature I would like to see is an ability to save the palette settings you make, as a file and be able to reload them when wanted.

Altirra 2.00-test31 can export color pallettes now. But, saved palettes can't be reloaded yet. I hope that's coming soon.

[flashjazzcat]

Can I just say I finally set up the automatic listing/label loading with MADS and the Altira debugger is just incredible. I couldn't have got these right-threaded binary trees debugged without it!

Edited by flashjazzcat, Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:58 AM.

[Tezz]

flashjazzcat, on Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:57 AM, said:

Can I just say I finally set up the automatic listing/label loading with MADS and the Altira debugger is just incredible. I couldn't have got these right-threaded binary trees debugged without it!

I must check that out tonight, that would be very helpful.

[flashjazzcat]

Tezz, on Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:11 AM, said:

flashjazzcat, on Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:57 AM, said:

Can I just say I finally set up the automatic listing/label loading with MADS and the Altira debugger is just incredible. I couldn't have got these right-threaded binary trees debugged without it!

I must check that out tonight, that would be very helpful.

I had to fiddle on with the compiler options some in WUDSN to get the listing and label files to go into the H: folder I like to use as a target location:



It's a very powerful setup, and integration between MADS, WUDSN and Altirra is excellent.

[Tezz]

Thanks for that Jon.

[flashjazzcat]

This is what I've spent much of the day looking at:

[snicklin]

flashjazzcat, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:09 PM, said:

This is what I've spent much of the day looking at:

GUIDev.png

"This is what I've spent much of the day looking at:" - a screenshot of your screen? How boring!

[flashjazzcat]

snicklin, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:23 PM, said:

"This is what I've spent much of the day looking at:" - a screenshot of your screen? How boring!

Of course... it beats doing any work.

[carmel_andrews]

flashjazzcat, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:26 PM, said:

snicklin, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:23 PM, said:

"This is what I've spent much of the day looking at:" - a screenshot of your screen? How boring!

Of course... it beats doing any work.

Is this the famous GUI that you've been going on about (that's probably had more posts then the AvC thread)

[popmilo]

flashjazzcat, on Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:21 PM, said:

...
I had to fiddle on with the compiler options some in WUDSN to get the listing and label files to go into the H: folder I like to use as a target location:
...
It's a very powerful setup, and integration between MADS, WUDSN and Altirra is excellent.

That looks really handy!

Thanks for showing those settings. Now just to get to home dev machine and try it out
I have some gtia code that begs for better debugging with Altirra ...

[flashjazzcat]

carmel_andrews, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:53 PM, said:

Is this the famous GUI that you've been going on about (that's probably had more posts then the AvC thread)

Yes - the very same. It's one of the most viewed topics on the forum, but by no means are all the posts mine.

popmilo, on Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:56 PM, said:

Thanks for showing those settings. Now just to get to home dev machine and try it out
I have some gtia code that begs for better debugging with Altirra ...

Most of my frustration getting this to work was down to forgetting to put a backslash between ${outputFolderPath} and ${outputFileNameWithoutExtension} in the WUDSN compiler options. It was difficult to break free of my usual "routine" using the monitor in Atari800Win, but now that I've succumbed to Altirra's way of doing things, I couldn't go back. The only thing I think I miss is a "Find string" facility in Altirra's disassembly (or perhaps more sensibly in the "Go to source code" window).

Edited by flashjazzcat, Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:21 PM.