Atari-Forum

@kotafaj: If youre in the US, you may as well try Best Electronics.

@krupkaj: Thanks for confirming.

Hi Sarnau,

Just a question: Can 'standard' MIDI leads be used for this game, or do you need the slightly different ST ones? (IIRC ST MIDI had thru on an unused pin?)

Seems to be a lot of love for MIDI Maze 1/2.

ThomasI wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 6:28 pm (In case you wonder: the 4-player adapters are sold out )

Ahh..thats a shame Thomas. I think I have an Amiga one, but not for the Atari. Could have done all 6 players with that and one more jagpad!

Another option: The thread is actually STe/Falcon games. Ive got a team tap which SHOULD work on these machines.

Were there any games that took advantage of the enhanced joysticks AND 4 of them at that?

Oh I see serblander already mentioned Leatherneck.

I think MIDImaze would be the one to go for. Leatherneck wasnt the best game in the world. (IIRC)

Plus if we dont have the 4 player adapters then there will be a bunch of guys huddled around a keyboard...personal space and all that!

@viking272: I see what you are doing here ;) One I remember which doesnt seem to have been mentioned yet (as well as being one of the first ST games I ever played) was Leatherneck. It was a 4 player Ikari Warrior type of game. Im sure it required the printer port 2 extra joystick dongle for 4 players.

Yep. So like viking272 said, Im looking into (and probably will commit) to hold a retro computer show in the New forest in the last weeks of September 2022. Full details of the thoughts so far are in that link. If you dont want to sign up there (the topic is stickied and viewable when not signed in ...

Of course!

Well, Rajah Lone, who is a member here, has several GEM games (written with GFA BASIC) on his site (along with the SOTB demo): https://ptonthat.fr/category/atari-games/

And I cannot find a link for GEM Elite, so have included it here.

Let me know how you get on.

I wish I had the time to set up the Vampire V2+, but for those who have a V2/V4 with the latest core/EmuTOS in easy reach... Has anyone tried the Gem games/demos? (i.e. GEM Elite and the GFA demos with SOTB scroller). I wonder how GEM compliant they are and whether they will fully/partially work on ...

And another time, i stumbled upon a code snippet, were i cannot convince Pure-C to produce the exact code i want. Long shot, as Pure C isnt something I use regularly, but what about trying a different version of Pure C? Maybe they made some subtle changes with data handling through CPU registers.

Hey Guillaume, thank you for your help so far. I dont want to completely derail your thread, so will attempt to use the words in the way you have described, if I can parse the input file arrays into an appropriate order. Maybe I will PM you instead with any further questions, if thats ok with you?

However, it gets more complex when I read in array data in 'tiers' and use an array from (e.g.) tier 1 in tier 2 arrays. So for example: Array2(Var5,Var6,Var7,Array1(Var1,Var2,Var3,Var4)) or even all dimensions being arrays as is often the case. Oh ! what a simple thing... :wink: If your arrays hav...

FORTH has not multidimensional arrays in standard, but that can be programmed. How "multi" would it be ? Two dimensions? Three ? I could add the feature.. Guillaume. Well, I was not expecting you to program this in at all as its not quite that simple.... The arrays I use can have up to (a...

Hello, The English manual has arrived! Simon worked a lot on it but... while he was working, I made tons of changes in FORTH. I can't help myself... You are a perfectionist, eh? :wink: Great effort there. I for one am very grateful. I dont have time to learn GEM/AES coding for my projects, so I exp...

Guillaume, I LOVE what you have done here! (I pretty much say this on all your stuff, I guess, because we seem to have several similar interests). Such a phenomenal set of FORTH Words being created for the Atari range. Looking forwards to the English manual. (So I must also thank Simon for his effor...

Well, if we are talking JUST Devpac here I can help!

Those options are for debug and extended debug in Devpac:

Probably just me being 'out there' lol... But all the above seems overcomplicated/high learning curve, if you just want to start asm. Mainly I have coded directly on a TT with Devpac 3 (as theres not much that can help with seeing the actual true results of contorting the TT shifter other than the r...

I forgot about this thread!

Great job oliverg.

I wonder if theres a drop in pin compatible replacement for the Fujitsu DA<>AD IC? Something more professional noise wise and/or higher sample speed? (For boosted STs/TTs that can do the faster throughput).

Im so sorry Doug.

My deepest sympathies to both of you.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Appreciated.

Actually we can ask Anima to add support for 565 format. He is active here. I dont really want to take anyones precious time by going to any kind of effort for this, as what Im doing may not actually work out. However, if theres already something out there that does the job (or near enough for me t...

Hi mrbombermillzy , I think this should be achievable with VISION by developing a small .vcs file that will invoke the optimg LDV module in VISION. Have a look at SCRIPTS/ldvopt256c.vcs which converts images to 256 colors TIF images. But unfortunatly, for 16 color dithering, it will end-up with a g...

The closest I got was with Animas colour conversion browser utility. Unfortunately, it applies a more standard setup than whats needed here (i.e. STe 12bpp/16cols or STFM 9bpp/16cols) and also applies a temporal dither. Its an amazing tool, but not for this use case. Which Anima's tool do you mean?...