Mclaneinc Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Slightly confused, is this newer than test 10 or older? Logic says older but you released this today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 That was a bug in test-8 -- the MyIDE-II mods were causing the original MyIDE emulation to leave the IDE device in reset mode. Fixed version: http://virtualdub.or...-2.20-test9.zip http://virtualdub.or...0-test9-src.zip Excellent - thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 MyIDE fix works beautifully - thanks again Avery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St(r)yker Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 SIC Cart 512KB rom... does not work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 I tried the 512 one that Ivop posted and found it worked as a 31 512 megacart. For some reason you briefly see 'boot error' when you press start but the games work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St(r)yker Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Yes, use the 2nd one on the rom type choice 31 512K Megacart Works for me here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St(r)yker Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 (edited) .... ALtirra 2.00 - 512KB - SIC! choice Altirra 2.1 & 2.2 - SIC!(recommended) 128,256 KB bin cart... and where the 512 ?? Edited November 10, 2012 by St(r)yker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 (edited) The only SIC cart image I have is the 32 - 1 by Ivop, maybe his image isn't a correct one.. One for Phaeron as I have so little to test on. EDIT: Found some atr images to flash the cart, flashed it under Altirra, the Menu screen loads but the games all have issues. They either crash or have graphic problems. EDIT 2: if you flash the cart on Altirra and once done simply hard reset altirra the cart runs and some of the games appear to try and work, BC's quest had corruption but got to a normal looking screen Bruce Lee however had garbage on the screen but what is interesting is that if I flash the cart under Altirra and then save the firmware the actual saved cart works less than the newly flashed cart from the ATR that has just been reset. Ie it seems that what is saved out differs from the freshly flashed cart that has just been reset. Either way its not working correctly and does not get recognised as a SIC cart on the mapper. Edited November 10, 2012 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Re-added missing 512K size mode to SIC! cart detection: http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test12.zip http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test12-src.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St(r)yker Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 thx and my Netbook & WINXP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Strange, didn't see that on either of my systems (Win7 x64 set to Japanese, and WinXP set to US English). It was caused by some extra tabs that weren't being trimmed off. Oh well, fix: http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test13.zip http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test13-src.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACML Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 When is Altirra 2.2 Release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 When Phaeron is happy with it.. And as you have the latest beta's you actually already have Altirra 2.2 to play with, just not the 'final'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I'm just curious (sorry, a little bit OT): Anybody an idea what is so special with this title: http://atari.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=4413 that Altirra fetches the first required press on the RETURN-key , but Atari800 and Atari++ seem to hang? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 It's because Atari did something unspeakably lame in their splash screen. This BASIC line is the problem: Altirra> .basic_dumpline 20f4 4 POKE 53774,16: POSITION 9,13: ? "{A0}{D3}{C3}{C8}{CC}{CF}{D3}{D3}{A0}{C4}{C5}{D3}{A0}{C7}{D2}{C1}{D5}{C5}{CE}{D3}{A0}{A0}": POKE 752,0: POKE 580,1 {end $215A} What's 53774? It's IRQEN. They did a direct POKE from BASIC into the IRQ enable register to lock out keys, and then rely on the next read from the disk to restore the IRQ mask from POKMSK. The reason for the hang is that Atari800's SIO patch handler doesn't emulate all of the things that SIO normally does, which in this case is enabling and disabling IRQs using POKMSK as the shadow register. The result is that you get into the game with the keyboard IRQ locked out. Altirra does update IRQEN from POKMSK, which is why it works... although it looks like the POKMSK handling could be improved. For another example of this bug, start the title version of Galahad and the Holy Grail in Atari800WinPLus 4 with SIO patch enabled -- you'll get into the game with a tone stuck on. This is because the SIO patch isn't clearing the POKEY channels like real SIO does. (On a side note... anyone willing to fix the window focus problems in the Atari800 debugger on Windows?? It's almost unusable when the debugger loses focus after every step....) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 (edited) >anyone willing to fix the window focus problems in the Atari800 debugger WTF - You don't use Altirra? :-) Edited November 27, 2012 by JAC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 why Altirra dont have config.ini file or something.. if i reinstall windows, settings in altirra is gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 if i reinstall windows, settings in altirra is gone You could just export the settings in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\virtualdub.org\Altirra" from the registry. Just as good as copying an .ini file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 It's because Atari did something unspeakably lame in their splash screen. This BASIC line is the problem: Thank you very much for the explanation - very insightful. Wouldn't it make sense to put something similar into the Acid800 test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 yes, but sometimes i dont have time or i forgot save registy.. config.ini will be helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Thank you very much for the explanation - very insightful. Wouldn't it make sense to put something similar into the Acid800 test? No, because this is an OS level problem and not a hardware-level problem. Acid800 is already quite big as it is. I have thought about making an OS test suite at some point. yes, but sometimes i dont have time or i forgot save registy.. config.ini will be helpful INI files have many shortcomings, which is why Altirra defaults to the Registry. However, you can create Altirra.ini and that will be used for settings instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 W1k, start Altirra from a command line with the switch of /portable and that will create and use an ini file rather than use the registry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) @Phareon I just came up with what seems to be an issue with Altirra tonight. This is the config: D1: Atari DOS 2.5 with Hias's HiSpeed Patch. D2: A scratch disk in enhanced density Disk speed is set at 288RPM, 128kbps high speed No cartridges and the computer is set as 320K Rambo XL/XE Disk drive is enabled with Burst option checked. The system boots as expected and the DOS menu is displayed but when I do a disk copy from D1: to D2 reads from D1: are much faster then writes to D2: which seems to occur at normal SIO speeds. I ran RWTEST to verify it and the results are attached. The same config on the real hw with a 130XE connected to the laptop with AspeQt does not behave like this. Both reads and writes are in high speed. Do you have an idea why this may be happening with Altirra (version 2.2-test6) I tried this more than once restarting Altirra in between, the results were the same. And oh, the H: drive was also present with Enable Burst I/O checked. Edited December 6, 2012 by atari8warez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Transfer speed was OK, but write commands were being gated by a rotational check even if accurate sector timing was off. Try this version: http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test18.zip http://www.virtualdub.org/beta/Altirra-2.20-test18-src.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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