Enigma/Phenomena graphics corruption

Hi,

In the demo Enigma by Phenomena the text displays between demo parts are corrupted, see the attached image. This occurs with WinUAE 0.8.8R9, 0.8.21R2 and also 0.8.21R4. I've downloaded the demo from three different websites and all have this graphics corruption. Is this a bug in the emulation, or are all of the downloaded diskimages corrupt? Thanks for any help.

Sorry, forgot to attach the image. Here it is. The text should be: "Yes!!! Let the demo begin with a weird cube"

No, havent't tried it with Winfellow (I also don't have winfellow installed). If people want to give it a try, here's a link to this cult demo:

http://www.marktallee.de/ada/showdemo.php3?id=182

[Toni Wilen]

Known UAE bug. Easy workaround: tick "immediate blitter"

I'd say over 95% of current graphics problems are caused by wrong CPU/blitter speed emulation.

I am slowly adding cycle exact blitter and cpu emulation (there is no other way to fix this) to future version(s).

[Sune Salminen]

I've downloaded the demo and transferred it to my A500. It seems to run OK. It's a really cool demo by the way!

So you can rule out disk image corruption.

Yes the inmediate blitter fixes the problem! Thank you for pointing that out Tony Sune als thanks fot testing the diskimage on your A500; it is indeed a very nice demo

Additionaly ticking inmediate blit solved another problem which I was suffering lately. With SlamTilt the screen would fade to white after selecting a table and then everything would come to a halt. Ticking the inmediate blit also solves this.

Tony, you said that you are slowly adding cycle exact cpu and blitter emulation, which is very good indeed. Do you have any indication if current high end PC's, say AthlonXP 1500+ and DDR memory, will be fast enough for handling cycle exact Amiga emulation? Thanks.

[thomas]

I vaguely remember the demo looking like this on a real Amiga, too.

[Toni Wilen]

Tony, you said that you are slowly adding cycle exact cpu and blitter emulation, which is very good indeed. Do you have any indication if current high end PC's, say AthlonXP 1500+ and DDR memory, will be fast enough for handling cycle exact Amiga emulation? Thanks.

I now have crude and totally unoptimized cycle-exact code in place.. I was quite surprised because it "only" requires about 50% more CPU power. My Athlon XP 1400+ with DDR can run most A500 programs full speed in cycle-exact mode.

Blitter seems to run with correct speed (if Hardware reference manual's blitter cycle usage chart is correct.. I don't want to waste time by doing some experiments with my real A500) CPU timing still needs tweaking.

Great . I believe there are still some of us with a real Amiga in the closet somewhere, so if there's testing/benchmarking to be done with the real hardware then just give a shout. I don't think we would consider that to be a waste of time

[Sune Salminen]

Originally posted by Roderick
Great . I believe there are still some of us with a real Amiga in the closet somewhere, so if there's testing/benchmarking to be done with the real hardware then just give a shout. I don't think we would consider that to be a waste of time

Right on!

So...I hereby volunteer for the blitter testers panel!

Testing equipment:

PentiumIII-600
256MB Ram
Geforce2 Titanium
Soundblaster Live

Amiga Explorer from Cloanto and twisted serial cable

Amiga 500 with 512Kb Ram expansion
Two external floppy drives
1024S Monitor