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Forum: Amiga scene 06 March 2024, 15:37
Replies: 25
Views: 2,246
Posted By DanielAllsopp
There's not a lot wrong with Lotus 2 for me, not...

There's not a lot wrong with Lotus 2 for me, not a lot at all.



Are you sure?

https://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/temp/lotus2.png

I see green, white, brown and blue colours here. ;)
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 08 February 2024, 01:11
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
No, as much as I think it looks awesome, I could...

No, as much as I think it looks awesome, I could never get it to work properly and it’s a bit overkill for what I need. I do use a 68k extension for the syntax highlighting and VASM integration for...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 07 February 2024, 22:45
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Ah, I have a nice little plan for the police car...

Ah, I have a nice little plan for the police car for each level. It’s already in there as a 16 colour sprite, I just haven’t written the code yet, and so with no sharing palette's with the main...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 07 February 2024, 18:09
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Update 14

Update #14

Tiny update regarding progressing the later stages. These have necessitated a few small tweaks to the tile engine and the format of the maps, so it was a good shout to look at this now...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 31 January 2024, 22:42
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
The original port of RoboCop on the Amiga was...

The original port of RoboCop on the Amiga was pretty bad, but I think that was due to time constraints and/or it being a straight up port of the Atari ST version. Perhaps even compromises made to...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 15 January 2024, 11:58
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Thanks for all the kind comments everyone! I...

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone! I appreciate it.





This is an excellent suggestion; I already have the graphics ripped for all of the levels and there are some vertical scrolling...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 13 January 2024, 23:22
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
RoboCop AGA Update

Update #13

I can't believe it's been over a year since I last updated this blog, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on RoboCop AGA; it's more along the lines of not updating you because...
Forum: project.EAB 31 October 2023, 11:05
Replies: 117
Views: 10,218
Posted By DanielAllsopp
:bowdown Thank you, all back to normal now!

:bowdown Thank you, all back to normal now!
Forum: project.EAB 29 October 2023, 20:46
Replies: 117
Views: 10,218
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Spoofing as anything doesn’t make a difference to...

Spoofing as anything doesn’t make a difference to me. iPad gives me the same redirect, only iPhone works.
Forum: project.EAB 27 October 2023, 12:56
Replies: 117
Views: 10,218
Posted By DanielAllsopp
I’m getting 301 moved permanently responses on my...

I’m getting 301 moved permanently responses on my macOS machine, actually all three of them, which then redirects me back to my IP address. It’s fine on my phone though.

UserAgent for macOS been...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 20 September 2023, 10:49
Replies: 11
Views: 713
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Shifting the setting of those colours from my...

Shifting the setting of those colours from my copper has already given me back probably about 5 or 6 scanlines when measuring the time taken to draw a simple static scene! I guess I need to not be in...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 20 September 2023, 00:19
Replies: 11
Views: 713
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Dude... how do you do that? Amazing detective...

Dude... how do you do that? Amazing detective work! :D I was including a copper bin file with all 256 colours at the very start of my copper list:


Copper:
dc.w FMODE,$000d

dc.w...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 September 2023, 23:50
Replies: 11
Views: 713
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Do you have an email address ross? I could try...

Do you have an email address ross? I could try and email something from my spare account? My main emails are all on my server too :( Send me a DM with it and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks!
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 September 2023, 23:44
Replies: 11
Views: 713
Posted By DanielAllsopp
That was my first guess yeah, but according to...

That was my first guess yeah, but according to the debugger a6 is fine, and I can actually go in and set it before setting the colour registers and the result is the same unfortunately.
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 September 2023, 23:18
Replies: 11
Views: 713
Posted By DanielAllsopp
AGA COLOR00 Glitch

Hey!

I'm getting myself into a right fettle trying to figure this latest issue out, and I'm getting nowhere fast! I'm wondering if anyone can think of a reason why setting COLOR00 with the CPU in...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 17 July 2023, 12:26
Replies: 26
Views: 2,698
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Thanks! It's a compromise going from 8 sprites...

Thanks! It's a compromise going from 8 sprites and a smooth copper gradient to 6 sprites and a dithered drawn gradient. However, if I can work the rest out, that also means that I can go from a 256...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 17 July 2023, 00:12
Replies: 26
Views: 2,698
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Right... gotcha! Building it dynamically would be...

Right... gotcha! Building it dynamically would be a good idea, but as you've just said, I will also need to update every line every time I move the parallax layer which seems like a hell of a lot of...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 16 July 2023, 23:09
Replies: 26
Views: 2,698
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Sorry for the dumb question, but in the context...

Sorry for the dumb question, but in the context of what I'm doing with my copper list, what do you guys mean by "copper unrolled code"?
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 16 July 2023, 22:40
Replies: 26
Views: 2,698
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Sure, here it is in all of its glory dc.w...

Sure, here it is in all of its glory


dc.w FMODE,$000d

dc.w DIWSTRT,$2c89
dc.w DIWSTOP,$2cb9
dc.w DDFSTRT,$2c
dc.w DDFSTOP,$cc
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 16 July 2023, 21:20
Replies: 26
Views: 2,698
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Copper Loop with Rainbow

Evening all!

FML... this is doing my head in, and I'm hopeful someone can point me to a solution. Ok, so basically I'm doing a copper loop to multiplex some sprites across the screen, which is all...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 05 July 2023, 18:47
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Unfortunately not, didn't even know about it....

Unfortunately not, didn't even know about it. Maybe next time!
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 05 July 2023, 16:38
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
No, sorry. This is something I want to do in my...

No, sorry. This is something I want to do in my own time and figure out on my own. As harsh as it may sound, I didn't do this for the community; I did it purely to learn the inner workings of the...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 05 July 2023, 15:27
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Maybe a week's worth of decent days, spread over...

Maybe a week's worth of decent days, spread over the course of June, July and August! :laughing
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 05 July 2023, 13:26
Replies: 166
Views: 41,339
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Sorry, I'm just busy with other things at the...

Sorry, I'm just busy with other things at the moment; work takes priority I'm afraid. :(

However, that doesn't mean work on RoboCop has completely stopped, and as has already been said (thanks...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 23 June 2023, 17:45
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Struggling to make this work; changing the...

Struggling to make this work; changing the SPRxPTR will make the next SPRxPOS display the sprite data at the new memory location?

For example, in my copper loop:


dc.w $00a1,$00fe

dc.w...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 23 June 2023, 13:08
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
As a/b mentions, you have to leave them empty in...

As a/b mentions, you have to leave them empty in your code and then poke the address of CopperLoop2 into those positions in the copper list during run-time.

Question for you a/b... do you know if...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 23 June 2023, 10:02
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
You would have to update both the SPRxPOS and the...

You would have to update both the SPRxPOS and the SPRxCTL values as the latter controls the vertical stop position.
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 22 June 2023, 02:26
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Setup a copper interrupt which flips the COP2LCH...

Setup a copper interrupt which flips the COP2LCH pointer between two small copper list loops, and fixed a few horizontal waits here and there and...
...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 21 June 2023, 01:25
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Meh, I'm going to bed. :sleep I've made some...

Meh, I'm going to bed. :sleep I've made some progress:

https://www.the-snakepit.co.uk/assets/eab/multiplex_loop_2.png

Changed the corresponding BFD bit as outlined in my previous question by...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 21 June 2023, 00:57
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Yeah, messing about with that now and get some...

Yeah, messing about with that now and get some strange, but different results that might point me in the right direction. Nevertheless, it's progress.

Cheers for pointers and code!
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 20 June 2023, 23:59
Replies: 17
Views: 1,899
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Copper Loop Sprite Multiplexing

Hey! So I'm messing around with some horizontal attached sprite multiplexing using a copper loop; a technique I've had somewhere else and works up to a point. Point being lines > 255.

Basically...
Forum: support.Hardware 05 June 2023, 16:12
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Yeah, it's a pain in the arse alright! I assume...

Yeah, it's a pain in the arse alright! I assume it's something to do with the bottom drive head as it's not returning any good sectors now, they're all bad. Maybe I did connect something up wrong...
Forum: support.Hardware 05 June 2023, 15:38
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
TD/DR; something went bang! So, after a...

TD/DR; something went bang!

So, after a couple of weeks:

- testing
- different existing cables
- new cables
- swapping between A4000 and A1200
- jumper settings
- external drive tests
Forum: support.Hardware 19 May 2023, 17:31
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
How much faith should I put into this 'Amiga Test...

How much faith should I put into this 'Amiga Test Kit' software? It says all of the CIA timings etc are good. Thing is, there's no documentation at all for it so I'm just going in blind.

I will...
Forum: support.Hardware 19 May 2023, 11:39
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
They're not socketed on an A4000 are they? I'll...

They're not socketed on an A4000 are they? I'll open it up later and see what's what.
Forum: support.Hardware 18 May 2023, 23:51
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Sorry, I should have mentioned that it’s been...

Sorry, I should have mentioned that it’s been fully recapped and the battery was removed probably 20 years ago now and replaced with a lithium coin battery.

It doesn’t have its original PSU...
Forum: support.Hardware 18 May 2023, 12:25
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Thank you, will take a look at this today!

Thank you, will take a look at this today!
Forum: support.Hardware 18 May 2023, 09:36
Replies: 13
Views: 1,130
Posted By DanielAllsopp
A4000D Floppy Drive Issues

I'm having some issues with my A4000; both the internal HD drive and the external CUAMA drive that's attached to it. Only a month ago the external drive would read and write to floppy disks no...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 04 May 2023, 15:54
Replies: 45
Views: 5,057
Posted By DanielAllsopp
Well I hold my hands up and admit I was 100%...

Well I hold my hands up and admit I was 100% wrong! You can choose any of the 16 colour banks for your sprites with BPLCON4. My apologies.

On the upside, this is now a major boost for my project...
Forum: project.Amiga Game Factory 02 May 2023, 21:27
Replies: 45
Views: 5,057
Posted By DanielAllsopp
I know, I never mentioned EHB, I’m writing a game...

I know, I never mentioned EHB, I’m writing a game in 6 bitplanes on AGA hardware right now; you can’t have a 6 bitplane screen, or 64 colours, and then add another 16 colours (making 80) just for...
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