I've had a think about it, and realised that there are at least three possibilities for how video addresses > &8000 are handled. So I've written, via the...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jun 2, 2001 5:31 pm
220
I have tried this on my real Electron and can confirm that it jumps from side to side just as it does in the emulator. The only difference seems that on a real...
simonirwin@...
Jul 4, 2001 7:24 am
221
I can't get electrem going. I have tried on win95 sr-2, and linux rh-7.1 In both cases the configuration gui comes up, but when I return to electron I get a...
Philip Wells
philipwells@...
Jul 4, 2001 9:09 am
222
... electron ... It seems either you do not have, or ElectrEm cannot find, the BASIC ROM which at this time is not included with the emulator (although I am...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 4, 2001 5:22 pm
223
Thomas - I've found beta 8a buggy with GUI problems when selecting files to use on my Win 98 SE system. These problems weren't in beta 8. Am I alone? Is a new...
Mike Diack
mike_diack@...
Jul 5, 2001 8:57 am
224
Success! Subject: Re: [electrem] help for non-starter ... persuing ... it ... I was confused because, if I remember correctly, my real-life electrons have one...
Philip Wells
philipwells@...
Jul 5, 2001 9:38 am
225
... There certainly was a bug in beta 8a. When you enter the GUI the cursor state from last time you were in the GUI is assumed to still be valid, even though...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 5, 2001 8:25 pm
226
... The only sound one I know of is the Project Expansions one, it was based on the SN76489 sound chip. Hardware Mode 7 wise, there was the Jafa ones - mark 1...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Jul 5, 2001 8:44 pm
227
... Thats fair enough. The SN76489 is a very easy chip to emulate, especially since most of the framework is already in the emulator, it'd just be a matter of...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 5, 2001 10:33 pm
228
... Yes, this got quite annoying when I was playing Exile. On the subject of Exile, I ran into a couple of problems which may only make sense if you've played...
david@...
Jul 6, 2001 3:09 pm
229
... [cut] I've not really played Exile seriously, but there may quite easily be bugs remaining in the flag setting of some opcode instructions (there almost ...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 6, 2001 5:48 pm
230
... Fair enough. They are going to be quite subtle. ... I don't know about the ROMs, I was just curious to know whether you'd implemented a native solution....
david@...
Jul 7, 2001 3:02 am
231
I'm uploading now, to the usual place, http://electrem.emuunlim.com . A summary of the changes since the last release : - the Electron system ROMs are included...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 7, 2001 3:48 pm
232
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the electrem group: Addition of which feature should be given most priority? o emulation of a Mode 7...
electrem@yahoogroups....
Jul 7, 2001 7:48 pm
233
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the electrem group: Addition of which feature should be given most priority? o emulation of a Mode 7...
electrem@yahoogroups....
Jul 7, 2001 7:49 pm
234
The first bug report revealed that the volume slider was having the reverse effect when combined with 'high fidelity' sound emulation, under all operating...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 7, 2001 10:44 pm
235
The Electrem site's Electron Technical Information page asks for info on the Elk's ACIA. I dug out my notes from a few years ago ... There's no ACIA chip in...
Mark Shackman
mark.shackman@...
Jul 9, 2001 3:34 pm
236
... Yes it's the 2681, Pace produced a serial cartridge (with built in Comstar and usually packaged with the Pace Nightingale modem) based on an Acron design -...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Jul 9, 2001 3:45 pm
237
Hi Thomas, I have had a quick look at your new Version of your Electrem Emulator, it gets better every time but I have com across one or two problems with it...
Peter Van Ek
vanekp@...
Jul 10, 2001 1:46 pm
238
I'm uploading 9a at this moment, which is primarily a bug fix. Specifically it fixes bit multiplexing (which was broken in beta 9), various potential crash...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 10, 2001 1:52 pm
239
[Warning: need rotating] http://www.jml.net/~hick/misc/electron/mode7mk2-000_1.jpg http://www.jml.net/~hick/misc/electron/mode7mk2-000_2.jpg ...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Jul 10, 2001 2:38 pm
240
... the ... click ... back ... Assuming you weren't using Dare Devil Denis (the multiplexed version) as your test file, the crash sounds like a memory...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 10, 2001 6:55 pm
241
... I had a glance at the mode 7 manual, and it contains two important pieces of information - firstly that a valid mode 7 display is kept at the correct place...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 10, 2001 8:57 pm
242
Shows how well I can read! The hardware solution uses mode 4 with some colour overlays (like the ZX Spectrum's attributes, I assume), whereas the software...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 11, 2001 3:20 pm
243
You may remember that whichever beta it was that I first implemented tape output sounds in made clicking noises when it started up, which I blamed at the time...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 11, 2001 3:24 pm
244
Thomas, However, as for the 'could not load OS rom', this could be a symptom of using an electrem.cfg inherited from a previous version. In previous versions I...
Peter Van Ek
vanekp@...
Jul 11, 2001 3:54 pm
245
... Presumably you mean including the blank screen if you then explicitly start the emulator in the same folder as the executable? I know I hardly helped...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 11, 2001 7:06 pm
246
I've just uploaded CleanUEF, the utility which searches through UEF files in order to patch up and stick back together any ROM format files recorded so as they...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Jul 11, 2001 7:12 pm
247
... [you correct yourself later on] ... I'm confused, what clash and what MRB ROM are you after ? You already have a copy of the Slogger OS....
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Jul 11, 2001 7:35 pm
248
... 2, I wrote such an emulator for use with Viewdata systems (Prestel) long before John Wike's version - I remember showing John Wike it at at an Acorn show. ...
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