Forum: Coders. General
Today, 15:31
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Forum: support.WinUAE
Yesterday, 18:23
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Forum: Amiga scene
Yesterday, 00:56
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
24 February 2021, 13:56
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Replies: 10
Views: 379
Ah, of course!
It's just that the bitplanes are...
Ah, of course!
It's just that the bitplanes are delayed by x pixels when using BPLCON1, this hasn't changed from OCS/ECS. Only the maximum delay has. So if you delay by 64 pixels and have a DDFSTRT...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
24 February 2021, 13:07
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Replies: 10
Views: 379
Yes, that's what I'd expect. Oh and by the way,...
Yes, that's what I'd expect. Oh and by the way, your questions aren't dumb - Amiga HW is tricky and all of us had similar lack of understanding at one point. You're already further along than I ever...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
24 February 2021, 12:26
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Replies: 10
Views: 379
Yes, it might be useful to know why you've not...
Yes, it might be useful to know why you've not actually noticed any problems. The reason for that is that your example doesn't actually show any bitplane GFX in the left most part of the screen. The...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
23 February 2021, 00:05
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Replies: 215
Views: 29,805
Yes, that's the one. And then I picked...
Yes, that's the one. And then I picked https://github.com/prb28/vscode-amiga-wks-example/releases/download/0.21/vscode-amiga-wks-example-windows_x64.zip
Not quite sure what went wrong then,...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
22 February 2021, 23:34
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Replies: 15
Views: 604
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
22 February 2021, 22:28
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Replies: 15
Views: 604
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
22 February 2021, 19:42
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Replies: 215
Views: 29,805
Ok, that does work.
Strange... I only first...
Ok, that does work.
Strange... I only first downloaded and installed the extension/example two days ago and it most definitely didn't work at the time. At any rate, it works now so thanks for the...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
21 February 2021, 23:08
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Replies: 823
Views: 134,483
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
21 February 2021, 15:19
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,291
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
21 February 2021, 13:12
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,291
Ah, nice. Thanks!
I must admit that I tend to...
Ah, nice. Thanks!
I must admit that I tend to underutilize the Sxx instructions in particular. I didn't even remember that I didn't use the overflow flag in the code, which is indeed quite logical...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
21 February 2021, 12:26
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Replies: 215
Views: 29,805
I've recently become re-aware of this and tried...
I've recently become re-aware of this and tried it out. It seems to work well enough, but I can't get the WinUAE debug (or run) to work. Only FS-UAE seems to work, the WinUAE configurations give the...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
20 February 2021, 13:30
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Replies: 228
Views: 16,372
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Forum: Coders. C/C++
20 February 2021, 02:22
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Replies: 23
Views: 937
Huh, I didn't even realize the graphics library...
Huh, I didn't even realize the graphics library Copper structure worked like that. That's actually quite nice. There's lots of nice things like that in the OS. Not bad for a system from 30 years ago...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
20 February 2021, 01:08
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,168
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Forum: Coders. C/C++
19 February 2021, 15:06
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Replies: 23
Views: 937
TBH, that feels like pure luck to me. Amiga OS...
TBH, that feels like pure luck to me. Amiga OS does not have memory protection, so if your code writes outside of it's allocated bounds no errors are thrown. Well, unless you happen to overwrite...
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Forum: Coders. C/C++
19 February 2021, 01:01
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Replies: 23
Views: 937
If the OS is running, you may need to use the...
If the OS is running, you may need to use the OS's Copper functions. I'm not entirely sure what happens if you have just a single screen showing, but it could be that the OS still wants to use the...
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Forum: Coders. C/C++
19 February 2021, 00:29
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Replies: 23
Views: 937
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
18 February 2021, 21:48
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,438
That's a quite nice result, 82 scanlines is...
That's a quite nice result, 82 scanlines is pretty darned good considering how big the GFX are. Kind of makes me feel that AGA 64px HW sprites are more useful than I've been led to believe. Even if...
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Forum: Amiga scene
18 February 2021, 14:32
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Replies: 479
Views: 27,417
Yeah, it's all much more complicated than it...
Yeah, it's all much more complicated than it looks. Admittedly, I'm less worried about the performance impact - though there will be at least a minor one to be sure. I'm more worried about keeping it...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
17 February 2021, 20:36
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,438
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
17 February 2021, 19:43
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,168
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
17 February 2021, 15:01
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,168
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
17 February 2021, 01:43
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,168
AFAIK there was a point at which the GCC...
AFAIK there was a point at which the GCC optimisations suddenly became much better on the M68K branch. Not sure if that was version 8, 9 or 10 but I remember seeing a video about Amiga demo coding in...
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
16 February 2021, 23:06
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Replies: 1,089
Views: 60,501
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
16 February 2021, 22:40
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Replies: 1,089
Views: 60,501
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
16 February 2021, 14:27
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Replies: 1,089
Views: 60,501
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Forum: Coders. General
16 February 2021, 10:43
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Replies: 76
Views: 4,947
Regarding auction prices, it seems to me that...
Regarding auction prices, it seems to me that it's not just about historical value or fun factor etc, but also about supply vs demand. The Amiga was vastly outsold by the PC from day one, which...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
15 February 2021, 16:54
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Replies: 9
Views: 523
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
15 February 2021, 15:27
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Replies: 78
Views: 4,168
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Forum: Coders. General
15 February 2021, 15:16
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Replies: 76
Views: 4,947
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
15 February 2021, 13:37
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Replies: 1,089
Views: 60,501
This is only possible on an Amiga 1200 with 32...
This is only possible on an Amiga 1200 with 32 bit Fast RAM installed. Any program running on a stock A1200 (i.e. one with 2MB of RAM and no expansions) will always have wait states for RAM access,...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
15 February 2021, 12:48
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Replies: 272
Views: 19,791
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
15 February 2021, 11:11
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Replies: 272
Views: 19,791
It's just never good enough for some it seems.
...
It's just never good enough for some it seems.
I'm actually of the opinion that it's quite proper to reconsider some of the control options for these old games when re-releasing them. It's not the...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
15 February 2021, 02:07
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Replies: 5
Views: 607
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
14 February 2021, 15:14
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,438
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
14 February 2021, 01:02
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Replies: 5
Views: 607
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 February 2021, 00:50
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Replies: 479
Views: 27,417
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