Thanks dZ. Mission accomplished. John ________________________________ From: DZ-Jay <dz@...> To: intvprog@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 14, 2011 9:20 pm
I've attached the first beta version of the demo of my Caves of Kroz intellivision game. I've only tested it on my operating systems (Vista and XP) using the...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 15, 2011 3:29 am
Please disregard the last attachment. It was an older version of the demo that does not work properly. This attachment contains the proper rom. John...
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Carl Mueller
lardlad48081
Mar 15, 2011 2:25 pm
Is there a version of the Intellicart loader that supports ROM files? To: intvprog@yahoogroups.com From: johnwadoherty@... Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:29:47...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 15, 2011 3:32 pm
Carl, Ironically, none that I know of, despite the fact .ROM is the actual wire format for the Intellicart. You may be able to get it to load by doing this: ...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 15, 2011 3:55 pm
Included is a .bin version of the game. In future releases I'll include both .rom and .bin files. John ________________________________ From: Joe Zbiciak...
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Rick Reynolds
rickreynolds_se
Mar 15, 2011 4:01 pm
John, I love this kind of game! I hope you'll be able to finish it and/or get it put onto a cart. I've been doing a lot of playing in Old Skool High on my...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 15, 2011 4:11 pm
Thanks Rick. Caves was truly fun to make and really a great programming experience. I plan on making 32 levels, but it will have to wait a few ...
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DZ-Jay
dzfoo
Mar 17, 2011 8:58 am
... John, Works fine in the Mac OS X version of jzIntv. It looks great, too! I only played it for a bit, without reading the manual and without knowing what...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 17, 2011 3:22 pm
Thanks for the input DZ! The white transporters actually do redraw the screen. They're there as the official level 'reset', other than walking through the door...
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DZ-Jay
dzfoo
Mar 17, 2011 6:41 pm
John, Is there a specific reason why you need to redraw the entire screen, instead of, say, resetting sprites and certain items? -- Sent remotely from my iPod;...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 17, 2011 7:28 pm
The levels are just a 12x20 matrix of decles (except the doors, keys and bits of crown). I don't keep track of the objects attributes other than their initial ...
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DZ-Jay
dzfoo
Mar 17, 2011 7:34 pm
... Are you using Color Stack mode? I had that problem before using that mode, and it was due to the bus being asserted when a BUSQ interrupt arrives in the...
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JD
johnwadoherty
Mar 17, 2011 7:54 pm
... No. I'm not using the Color Stack mode. However, experience is telling me that it must be related to a conflict with the interrupt. I have not delved at...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 17, 2011 9:31 pm
John, Another common cause is too many non-interruptible instructions in a row (ie. shifts, MVOs, PSHRs). This is independent of whether you have interrupts ...
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 17, 2011 9:39 pm
Thanks Joe -- That's highly possible. I'll look at it tonight and see if a few NOPs might solve the problem. John ________________________________ From: Joe...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 17, 2011 11:30 pm
John, If you bring up your game in jzIntv's debugger and enable history logging, it'll let you know when it detects long-running non-interruptible sequences....
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David Harley
dharley5
Mar 17, 2011 11:43 pm
Joe, do you have all the debug commands documented and maybe commented? I do not see it with my jzIntv install. Thanks!...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 17, 2011 11:54 pm
David, Just type ? at a debugger prompt. --Joe -- We sell Spatulas, and that's all! http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/ http://sdk-1600.spatula-city.org/ ...
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a_chevallier
Mar 18, 2011 12:11 am
Here's a rather interesting article explaining how original Intellivision source code was archived in a non-standard 5 1/4-inch disk format after Mattel...
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a_chevallier
Mar 18, 2011 12:29 am
... disk Ok, that was a non-standard "8-inch" format, not 5 1/4. My bad. -- A....
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John Doherty
johnwadoherty
Mar 18, 2011 2:51 am
Problem solved, and it was what you thought, Joe. It was caused by a series of MVOs I'd set up to zero-out a bunch of veriables at the start of the level. I...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 18, 2011 3:14 am
I actually own an 8" drive. I lent it to Tim Lindner who was going to use it with a Catweasel (if memory serves) to archive some other old 8" floppies. I ...
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Shawn Holwegner
shawnholwegner
Mar 18, 2011 3:19 am
... Finally, somewhere I can contribute! The CatWeasel uses its own system to read/write any data, so even if we can't 'use' it now, a sector by sector copy...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 18, 2011 5:02 am
That's pretty much what I was thinking. If we can get filesystem images, then at least we've preserved the data even if we can't interpret it yet. And given ...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 18, 2011 5:05 am
Ok, I admit I hadn't read the article earlier. (It being St. Patty's Day, I may've been, erm, preoccupied.) It *sounds* like Keith & co. got everything moved...
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DZ-Jay
dzfoo
Mar 18, 2011 8:54 am
... Oh, I've find out that it is invaluable. And now the debugger has a ton of features that make things even easier, like automatic symbol expansion. You...
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Ed Thwaites
ed_thwaites
Mar 18, 2011 4:21 pm
Unrelated to the archiving process, just a bit of nostalgia. The last time I saw an 8" floppy drive was 1983. My buddy's dad had a dual 8-inch drive setup on...
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JD
johnwadoherty
Mar 22, 2011 7:01 pm
What's the best way to set up a non-sequential set of values as branch conditions? For instance, when using a counter, I want the program to branch to ...
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Joe Zbiciak
intvnut
Mar 22, 2011 7:46 pm
You could do something like this: MVII #@@tbl, R4 B @@first @@tbl: DECLE 1, @@ChoosePoison DECLE 2, @@LoadScreenShake DECLE 3, @@WiggleMan DECLE...
