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Tursi

Member Since 1 May 2007
OFFLINE Last Active May 23 2012 7:21 PM

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In Topic: Skunkboards on Ebay (incl. protos), and large Sinistar Vinyl sticker :)

Wed May 16, 2012 5:26 PM

View Post83skillz, on Tue May 15, 2012 12:24 PM, said:

Any idea where i can get the right usb cable?

Anywhere that sells USB cables. There's nothing special about it, just a standard mini-B (data) cable. I would recommend a shielded cable, not the cheapest possible Chinese knock-off, but otherwise, yeah.

In Topic: Skunkboards on Ebay (incl. protos), and large Sinistar Vinyl sticker :)

Sun May 13, 2012 4:22 PM

I still have plenty of labels (well, six left ;) ) at $5 each or 3 for $10. I can probably spare a shell, I dunno what it's worth though - I'll say $5 because it makes the shipping much more of a hassle than the labels, which I can just drop in an envelope. ;)

You would still need to get a USB extension cable that fits the Skunkboard's port, and you'll have to do some mods to the shell to fit the cable and the Skunkboard (the ones that I sold had the USB-A ports removed so that they would fit cleanly in the shell, otherwise you have to cut holes for them to fit, as they make the board slightly too thick for the shell to close.)

In Topic: Skunkboards on Ebay (incl. protos), and large Sinistar Vinyl sticker :)

Mon May 7, 2012 8:24 PM

Last board is gone, thanks to the bidder who inched at least ONE of my boards up above the value of completely broken ones. ;)

Remember that brand new white Skunkboards are still available with box and manual from GOAT: http://www.goatstore...rd_Rev_3_Ghost/

In Topic: function DSRLNK error... someone can help ?

Sat May 5, 2012 2:54 PM

Yes, but if my pseudo DSR detects whether the reserved VDP memory has been modified by a program while files are open (or that the pointers were modified at all), I can throw a warning as that will break on the DSRs that do use that space. That way, programs that don't care still run, and programmers who do care can check for the warning.

As far as scratchpad usage goes... we used every byte that was documented as safe in the E/A manual for our scratchpad E/A#5 loader project, I thought. AFAIK that worked on the real machine...? If you use areas that are not documented as safe, then you're taking a chance of different hardware configurations (which Classic99 is just a different one) breaking.

In Topic: function DSRLNK error... someone can help ?

Thu May 3, 2012 8:35 PM

View PostWillsy, on Thu May 3, 2012 4:15 AM, said:

Classic99 can catch you out, because its 'virtual' disk controller has no VDP memory requirements... One for the lesson books!

This one has been a real lesson for me, really. I'd like to release a DSR peripheral that works like Classic99 does and has no VDP RAM requirements, but so many people have proven that anything written on it is going to fail on systems with a standard disk controller, because people will forget to honor their needs. There has to be some kind of failure mode so that people will write compatible code (which I do view as important :) ).

Maybe I should add a warning to Classic99 when you overwrite the DSR buffers, so that you know it will fail on a real disk system...

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