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Forum: Amiga scene 19 April 2024, 10:10
Replies: 47
Views: 3,767
Posted By hooverphonique
This looks like 6 bitplanes in half-brite mode...

This looks like 6 bitplanes in half-brite mode due to the fact one of the circles is always a darker shade of the other colors.
Forum: support.Hardware 05 April 2024, 16:54
Replies: 14
Views: 451
Posted By hooverphonique
Not sure what specs you're referring to, or if...

Not sure what specs you're referring to, or if it's in general?
Forum: support.Hardware 05 April 2024, 11:29
Replies: 14
Views: 451
Posted By hooverphonique
TME suggests this alternative:...

TME suggests this alternative: https://www.tme.eu/dk/en/details/nte2333/npn-tht-transistors/nte-electronics/

Their shipping fee is generally lower than farnell, rs-online, digikey and mouser.
Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion 27 March 2024, 13:07
Replies: 67
Views: 3,247
Posted By hooverphonique
Example: What if you "borrowed" some video from...

Example: What if you "borrowed" some video from your uncle's desk drawer and uploaded that? YT wouldn't be able to know it's (C), but some time later your uncle notices and files a (C) claim? So...
Forum: Coders. System 22 March 2024, 14:31
Replies: 70
Views: 9,233
Posted By hooverphonique
I agree.. Not that it isn't an interesting topic,...

I agree.. Not that it isn't an interesting topic, but that story isn't really for a reference manual.. well, unless you use it as a preface or something.
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 21 March 2024, 15:11
Replies: 23
Views: 991
Posted By hooverphonique
I don't think I've ever seen the displacement...

I don't think I've ever seen the displacement being an address register...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 March 2024, 09:58
Replies: 13
Views: 1,045
Posted By hooverphonique
thanks, guys. the code I was assessing was...

thanks, guys.

the code I was assessing was only using move,or,addq,lea and the occasional lsl, but it was indeed a 12 cycle or I had mistakenly counted as an 8 cycle or :nuts

at least I now...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 17 March 2024, 23:22
Replies: 13
Views: 1,045
Posted By hooverphonique
Hmm.. thanks for confirming that it's probably my...

Hmm.. thanks for confirming that it's probably my calculations which are wrong.

@a/b did you mean you count dma slots used and subtract from total to get cpu cycle estimate?
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 17 March 2024, 20:17
Replies: 13
Views: 1,045
Posted By hooverphonique
Assessing cpu cycles available on A500 with slow mem only

I was trying to do a ball-park assessment of if a piece of code would be able to complete in a single pal frame (20ms).


With only a little copper dma (display setup) and a single lo-res...
Forum: Coders. System 17 March 2024, 19:23
Replies: 70
Views: 9,233
Posted By hooverphonique
@Thor Do you document how all those things you...

@Thor Do you document how all those things you mention work for all major kickstart releases (e.g. 1.3,2.0,3.0,3.2), or just 3.2?
Forum: support.Hardware 14 March 2024, 18:24
Replies: 5
Views: 474
Posted By hooverphonique
The passthrough is like the port on the amiga,...

The passthrough is like the port on the amiga, except for the SELx pins moved one place over so the next one in line uses the same pin, but is in fact the next drive..
E.g. pin 21 on amiga is SEL1,...
Forum: support.Hardware 14 March 2024, 16:29
Replies: 5
Views: 474
Posted By hooverphonique
If the "other" drive (i.e. not currently acting...

If the "other" drive (i.e. not currently acting df1) just needs to be passive, you can switch the SEL1 (pin 21) to go to either drive using an SPDT switch.
Forum: support.Hardware 12 March 2024, 09:46
Replies: 7
Views: 588
Posted By hooverphonique
I think it is mainly because ISA slots provide...

I think it is mainly because ISA slots provide -5V, thus big box amigas with ISA slots need this rail.
Forum: Amiga scene 11 March 2024, 14:09
Replies: 68
Views: 4,771
Posted By hooverphonique
I agree with this. Watching the demo on Amiga...

I agree with this. Watching the demo on Amiga Bill's stream last night, I first thought the protagonist was waving a white sheet or flag or something :D
Forum: Coders. General 09 March 2024, 20:35
Replies: 15
Views: 877
Posted By hooverphonique
You could try suggesting it over here:...

You could try suggesting it over here: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=116023
Forum: Coders. General 07 March 2024, 20:47
Replies: 15
Views: 877
Posted By hooverphonique
If you can't see it in an editor, it's not...

If you can't see it in an editor, it's not encoded in any regular encoding (e.g. ascii).

Are you sure Ira understands what's code and what's (ascii) data without some help?
Forum: support.Hardware 04 March 2024, 15:40
Replies: 6
Views: 427
Posted By hooverphonique
_EXRAM has a pull up, so if you leave the jumper...

_EXRAM has a pull up, so if you leave the jumper floating, you explicitly say no to expansion ram.
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 27 February 2024, 18:08
Replies: 3
Views: 360
Posted By hooverphonique
Thanks for the tip, that seems to have done the...

Thanks for the tip, that seems to have done the trick :great
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 26 February 2024, 23:18
Replies: 3
Views: 360
Posted By hooverphonique
VS Code Amiga assembly extension and vasm+vlink

I don't know if it was always like this, but the mentioned extension builds using vasm+vlink, i.e. it assembles the source files using "vasmm68k_mot -m68000 -Fhunk -linedebug" (or whatever you...
Forum: Coders. General 22 February 2024, 17:43
Replies: 239
Views: 28,673
Posted By hooverphonique
@agermose @reassembler prb28 has provided a...

@agermose @reassembler prb28 has provided a solution to the syntax verification step problem in the github issue already, in case you didn't notice.
Forum: Coders. General 21 February 2024, 09:38
Replies: 239
Views: 28,673
Posted By hooverphonique
Not true! If you don't see much...

Not true!


If you don't see much degradation when turning off caches, it suggests that you haven't adapted your code to take advantage of them, so there's probably something to be gained there ;-)
Forum: Coders. System 14 February 2024, 10:21
Replies: 31
Views: 1,636
Posted By hooverphonique
Are you sure the workbench window has focus?...

Are you sure the workbench window has focus? Using input.device, whatever you do would affect the currently focused window, right!?
Forum: support.Hardware 05 February 2024, 15:30
Replies: 69
Views: 3,738
Posted By hooverphonique
In the case of Ross, you need to wait for him at...

In the case of Ross, you need to wait for him at the brink of the Rubicon, however :p
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 24 January 2024, 12:41
Replies: 10
Views: 663
Posted By hooverphonique
There's nothing wrong with using a NewWindow...

There's nothing wrong with using a NewWindow structure, but as already said by everyone in the thread, the values of the globals are read where you initialize your struct. The struct definition...
Forum: Coders. Scripting 24 January 2024, 10:23
Replies: 5
Views: 815
Posted By hooverphonique
Often times, informational output is printed to...

Often times, informational output is printed to stderr, so maybe you need to redirect that :confused
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 23 January 2024, 15:00
Replies: 10
Views: 663
Posted By hooverphonique
your winlayout structure is initialized *before*...

your winlayout structure is initialized *before* you call read_icon(), which means that it is initialized with the default value of 0 from the scr* globals.
Forum: support.AmigaOS 22 January 2024, 13:13
Replies: 4
Views: 422
Posted By hooverphonique
Yes, there are keymap editors available (which...

Yes, there are keymap editors available (which were heavily used for assigning cli commands to function keys on packdisks back in the day), but I doubt that it'll work in this case - they most likely...
Forum: support.AmigaOS 22 January 2024, 11:56
Replies: 4
Views: 422
Posted By hooverphonique
Presuming Janus uses intuition or input.device to...

Presuming Janus uses intuition or input.device to receive keystrokes, you are looking for a piece of software that will allow you to install an input.device handler that filters out specific keys. If...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 January 2024, 17:03
Replies: 18
Views: 1,216
Posted By hooverphonique
The Amiga assembly extension assembles the file...

The Amiga assembly extension assembles the file on save to alert you of any syntax errors, etc, so if this causes referencing of unknown symbols, you get errors. You can probably disable it somehow....
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 19 January 2024, 11:11
Replies: 18
Views: 1,216
Posted By hooverphonique
This is generally good advice for macros...

This is generally good advice for macros (especially in C/C++) because otherwise you might get bitten by operator precedence and other nasty things as the macro gets expanded :great
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 18 January 2024, 18:27
Replies: 18
Views: 1,216
Posted By hooverphonique
If you assemble each file individually without...

If you assemble each file individually without xdef/xref the symbol, I don't understand why it sometimes would assemble at all, since PLANE_LENGTH is completely unknown (both the symbol *and* its...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 18 January 2024, 18:04
Replies: 18
Views: 1,216
Posted By hooverphonique
Ahh.. so you need to tell the assembler, the...

Ahh.. so you need to tell the assembler, the symbol will be found during linking..

try "xref PLANE_LENGTH" in source #2, and perhaps "xdef PLANE_LENGTH" in source #1 .. I'm not sure if that only...
Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware 18 January 2024, 18:01
Replies: 18
Views: 1,216
Posted By hooverphonique
Why would using PLANE_LENGTH EQU 8960...

Why would using PLANE_LENGTH EQU 8960 work as a workaround? If PLANE_LENGTH is not defined, you should get an error regardless of if you declare it as a number, or an arithmetic...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 13 January 2024, 17:12
Replies: 21
Views: 2,295
Posted By hooverphonique
This is from the cia documentation: /*...

This is from the cia documentation:
/* interrupt control register bit numbers */
#define CIAICRB_TA 0
#define CIAICRB_TB 1
#define CIAICRB_ALRM 2
#define CIAICRB_SP 3
#define CIAICRB_FLG 4...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 12 January 2024, 13:13
Replies: 6
Views: 658
Posted By hooverphonique
Yes, interleaved bitmaps can support blitting all...

Yes, interleaved bitmaps can support blitting all bitplanes in a single blit when the dimensions of the source and destination bitmaps are different (when they are the same dimensions,...
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 11 January 2024, 16:46
Replies: 21
Views: 2,295
Posted By hooverphonique
Yes, except that he isn't trying to add a VERTB...

Yes, except that he isn't trying to add a VERTB ISR ;)
To add a cia ISR, use cia.resource AddICRVector()
Forum: Coders. C/C++ 11 January 2024, 10:08
Replies: 21
Views: 2,295
Posted By hooverphonique
If you're not taking over the hardware, you...

If you're not taking over the hardware, you should probably use OS functions to install your ISR. It's been many years since I last did this, but I think you can use cia.resource to make sure the...
Forum: Coders. System 06 January 2024, 13:39
Replies: 17
Views: 1,531
Posted By hooverphonique
That doesn't really matter much since the dos...

That doesn't really matter much since the dos documentation explicitly specifies not to rely on IoErr when an operation returns success.
Forum: Amiga scene 04 January 2024, 16:43
Replies: 112
Views: 14,053
Posted By hooverphonique
"Torben B. Larsen", is that the same guy who...

"Torben B. Larsen", is that the same guy who co-developed Hybris and Battle squadron back in the day?
Forum: Coders. General 03 January 2024, 09:54
Replies: 31
Views: 3,281
Posted By hooverphonique
Zone works for me.. Did you somehow get your zone...

Zone works for me.. Did you somehow get your zone group membership removed?
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