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Arculator v2.2 is now available. Apropos of nothing... I noticed this bug while using the game CONQUEROR : The tank controls ( key H to move left tank track forward and key K to move right tank track forward ) do not work if using ARTHUR 1.20. Certain other keys do work, though, which suggests that...

Great attention to detail. Excellent to see assembly source for Archimedes games becoming available (whether decompiled, or new projects).

This is quite impressive, especially given the RAM limitations.

Tech investigation of the C64 version of the game Exile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh24hlZpgCQ

Seems like a useful enhancement Tricky.

gfoot wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:53 pm Coincidentally this just popped up today: https://hackaday.com/2023/11/18/bringin ... -software/

Cool. Seems to be a nice CRT shader library, albeit NTSC focused.

I would have thought pulling in a hardware based shader effect from another source would be fairly simple, but I don't know SDL! Doesn't MAME support various effects and as it now supports the beeb except a few 6845 issues, it might be good to experiment with. Ultimately, Tricky, yes a proper shade...

B-Em currently has a scanlines mode, though it is not as advanced as you describe here. To try it: Settings->Video->Display Type->Scanlines Yeah - a controllable percentage would be nicer, since I think a "full" black scanline is overly harsh in appearance. But thanks for pointing me to t...

BeebMaster wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:43 pm Perhaps I don't understand the terminology, but why does the higher percentage dark scanline produce a lighter scanline?

Perfectly good question. It's arguably just as valid to invert the percentage. Swings and roundabouts!

Anyone have a hankering to enhance a BBC Micro emulator with pseudo "scanline" effect? In lieu of a sophisticated "CRT filter emulation" graphical layer, one conceptually easy way is: A. Use a line-doubling approach. B. Apply a percentage bias with the "raster" displaye...

Quite slick.

( I personally do not like dithering, though. Much prefer solid colour areas, if possible. One's milage may vary! )

tom_seddon wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 6:14 pm I do intend to fix this at some point!

--Tom

That will be great if/when it gets implemented!

joachim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:37 pm Why not "magic rewind frame"?

In addition to these? Actually, yes, you're right, that would make sense too!

BeebMaster wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:51 pm Yes, emulating known faults with hardware, as I first proposed here 364 days ago.

Interesting idea.

Below is a "pseudo-amalgamation" of many common feaures of emulators. "Our" crop of Acorn 8-bit and 32-bit emulators cover some... but not all of these items. Is there any emulator capability that is on your personal wishlist ? :?: ( My wishes are CRT shaders and monitor barrel d...

SarahWalker wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:09 pm Yes, screen size is fully configurable.

Thanks Sarah.

For the VIDC screen modes targeted to standrd monitor type, can these be customised (via registers) to reduce the memory footprint used? In other words, use fewer rasterlines (vert) or narrower lines (horiz) ? I know that the Beeb's CRTC can do this, but I'm not sure about the Archimedes's VIDC capa...

tom_seddon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:51 pm There's another pre-release available, that fixes the wonky colours when copying to clipboard on Windows: https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releas ... prerelease

--Tom

Copy-to-clipboard fixed !

tom_seddon wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 5:37 pm Are the red and blue channels swapped, or does it look weirder than that?

--Tom

Pasted image (on the left) from B2 clipboard buffer copy (on the right).

Yeah it seems that the blue is now red... and looks like other mappings (yellow/cyan) might be off too...

https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releases/tag/b2-20230709-202623-906acc3-prerelease should fix the screenshot-when-paused issue, and I added separate options for screenshot filtering/aspect ratio. I also put in copy screenshot to clipboard, which I've wanted for a while. This will become the next r...

I like the graphics posted so far.

It's probably theoretically possible to write HostFS for RISC OS 2, but it'd be more difficult both to develop and to use. Good explanation, thanks to you. I guess if one was to programme code for Arthur / RISC OS 2 ... you would simply develop against RISC OS 3 (i.e. to benefit from th HOSTFS tran...

SarahWalker wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:45 am No. RO3 only.

Right. Thanks for the clarification.

Time for a stupid question:

Should HOSTFS work with Risc OS 2 ?

Cool. Nice music in particular.

SteveF wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:41 pm No problem! I've given this a quick test in Arculator and it appears to work. Seeing the "Chocolate" image was a real nostalgia blast, I probably hadn't seen that in 20 years...

Works perfectly. Ahhhhh the memories! Thanks Steve.

SteveF wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:16 pm Is this just a reminiscence thread, or are people actually looking for a copy of Arcol? I have a disc which claims to be it that I could upload if it's of interest.

If you could upload an ADF of Arcol, it would be appreciated!

tom_seddon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:43 pm I'll get this fixed somehow.

Cool !

paulb wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:08 pm I think quite a few people were fond of Arcol.

Yeah, it was a 'sweet spot' between the rudimentary !Paint and more sophisticated packages like Revelation.

paulb wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:22 pm Was it ever released in some form on a cover disk?

Good question. I don't recall. I've never seen a copy listed on eBay either...