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troed wrote:The bombs after the initial opening texts really does sound like the disk content hasn't been read properly by the bootsector TOS floppy sector read code.
troed wrote:Besides that, that's also the point in time where the demo does all the nifty initialization stuff (checking wakestate, syncing to HBL etc). There's definitely room for strange failures there.
czietz wrote:My MegaSTE currently has a HC CPU. I can test next week, if you like. Or is there a known incompatibility with the MegaSTE in general with the demos mentioned above?
joska wrote:https://atari.joska.no/MOV_0323.mp4
I had to powercycle to get it to display it correctly.
joska wrote:czietz wrote:My MegaSTE currently has a HC CPU. I can test next week, if you like. Or is there a known incompatibility with the MegaSTE in general with the demos mentioned above?
I believe {closure} doesn't work on the MSTE. Atleast it didn't a couple of years ago, maybe troed has released a fixed version?
joska wrote:I had to powercycle to get it to display it correctly. Strange, I have watched this demo a few times on this machine and never seen this before. I don't think it's related to the HC vs TTL CPU issue.
czietz wrote:As for your STE, I suppose you already checked yourself, but just in case: look closely at the contacts of the CPU socket.
czietz wrote:My MegaSTE currently has a HC CPU. I can test next week, if you like. Or is there a known incompatibility with the MegaSTE in general with the demos mentioned above?
joska wrote:Yes, it's most likely the CPU socket. I found a crack and a small piece was broken off.
troed wrote:That's quite uncommon seeing that Shifter wakeup issue on STE actually.
joska wrote:Yes, it was the CPU socket, and yes, it has been fixed
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