Strange artifacts when using PiStorm32

[Sim085]

Just received the pistorm32 and playing around following whatever tutorials I can find on the Internet.

While doing this I noticed strange artifacts in Workbench which do not show up when I do not use the pistorm. In summary, some drawers seem to be extended. I have attached an image to show what I mean.

Did anyone has the same and maybe know how to resolve this (if at all possible)?

[Sim085]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

Remember this thing is still being worked on on a daily basis

Yes.. I am not complaining just noticed it and was wondering if anyone else had this and knows of a fix.

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

As soon as I downgraded to a 11th July 2023 all the issues had disappeared. Possibly a buggy Emu86 file you’ve encountered

How do you do that? In the tutorial I followed I had to clone a git repository and then build from that? I checkout an older commit?

[Sim085]

Thank you a lot for that

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

That’s a very old tutorial…

It’s just a website, download a zip file and use a PC to transfer files over to a FAT32 partition now-a-days..

I followed 10Marcs guide here;

[ Show youtube player ]

[redblade]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

Had something similar on my PiStorm32 but using a mediator and Voodoo3. In the end it was down to the nightly build file I was using (Latest at the time for me was 31st August 2023). As soon as I downgraded to a 11th July 2023 all the issues had disappeared.

Possibly a buggy Emu86 file you’ve encountered. Try a different file is my advice. Remember this thing is still being worked on on a daily basis. But love mine, especially now I can play Doom, Doom 2 and Quake in fast FPS modes now.

What is fast FPS modes? 50 frames minimum??

[derSammler]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

But love mine, especially now I can play Doom, Doom 2 and Quake in fast FPS modes now.

Try Quake 2. That manages to run even better than Quake 1.

[Sim085]

Just to confirm that the artifacts no longer show any more after following the tutorial and using the July release

[Dunny]

Get yerselves into https://discord.gg/by8JfhUHQx if you haven't already. New builds with new fixes and speed improvements are happening every few days right now.

There's just been a MAJOR fpu breakthrough that enables loads of demos (Black Lotus included!) to run much, much better than before. Honestly haven't been this excited about new Amiga hardware for decades.

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by Boing-Ball

Good shout. Are these being included into the nightly release builds off the GitHub page?

They are when the maintainers commit the fixes to the main branch yeah. Otherwise temp or interim builds can usually be found in the Emu68 testing chat.