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CoBB wrote:Blasphemy! Screenshot made with TISShot! :P
*hides*

All the debugging work was done in Pindur! Honest!
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kalan_vod wrote:Well I just meant that could you fill the screen. Like not shrinking it 50% but shrinking it 75% or so?
That's what I tried. The problem is that you lose pixels in doing so; if you look at the SCHIP "Blinky" (Pacman) you'll see the dots and walls are one pixel thick and they end up being erased.
Well I thought it would look ok if that had happened, but you say you tried it and it looks crappy so I don't mind :P. It is still a great program !
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benryves wrote:The best looking method was to scale the entire thing down to 50%, but add an offset of either one x or one y (so four different frames) each loop, creating a flickery greyscale view. For some games this looked OK, for others (such as Ant) it made the graphics a horrible mess.
In the end, I removed that code completely and just use the pan-and-scan method.
The former method sounds interesting. Perhaps you could make that an option in the settings?

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Timendus wrote:The former method sounds interesting. Perhaps you could make that an option in the settings?
I might, but the extra "video modes" added quite a lot of code and were very ugly.
Ben, do you still have no Internet on your own PC?
Nope, no internet access. This is why I only learned about I being modified by the FX55/FX65 instructions today, as the docs I downloaded on Friday evening didn't mention it.
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The reason I hadn't heard about I being incremented after copying the registers to memory was because... it's wrong. ;)

I added scaling the LCD: here's a "before and after" shot :)
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I also reorganised the "ROMs" folder of the zip so it should be easier to find the right files.

I haven't done anything with the sprite routines. I'll probably add more conventional wrapping, and possibly an option to change the interrupt speed, then call it a day (the interrupt is used on the timers - notice how Joust runs at roughly the same speed, whatever options you set. That's because it sensibly uses the CHIP-8 timer).
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I think that resizing effort is very acceptable. With motion, you will never even know!

Im a little bit afraid to ponder about the possibilities for your next project! :).
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sound awesome, I am installing a few files on my calc now. :)


Only problem tho you might want to fix for people who can only use an USB cable: in TI connect only the emulator, IBM and UFO can be sent, all other calcs are flagged as incompatible type. Works fine with tio graph link tho
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xlibman wrote:sound awesome, I am installing a few files on my calc now. :)


Only problem tho you might want to fix for people who can only use an USB cable: in TI connect only the emulator, IBM and UFO can be sent, all other calcs are flagged as incompatible type. Works fine with tio graph link tho
Argh, TI-Connect. It's because the files have lowercase characters in the name. :(

Come to think of it, if you send the 15puzzle file, you won't be able to delete it off your calculator without a RAM clear, as the OS won't display it (urk).
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Amazing- at a stroke you add tons more games to enjoy!
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Very nice scaling! Btw it looks like a litte gs in there?
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kalan_vod wrote:Very nice scaling! Btw it looks like a litte gs in there?
When a black and a white pixel pair are compressed to a single pixel, it is drawn every other frame. Hence the grey, which is very noticable in SCHIP Blinky with the one-pixel wide dots/walls.
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Ahh cool, nice little effect then :D.
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I rewrote the sprite routines to speed them up and allow for wrapping around the screen (title screen of Field, paddle in Brix).

There's a dedicated program to convert CHIP-8 programs included, and I've reconverted all the programs to work with TI-Connect. I also removed X-Mirror (calls 1802 functions) and boot (requires loading at $000 rather than $200). You can also set the speed of the interrupt timer between 0Hz and 255Hz (defaults to the normal 60Hz).

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The ant game looks really good ... and changing the int timer to 0Hz aye? :).

I am also surprised at how you can pump out those informative readme's so easily :D.
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tr1p1ea wrote:The ant game looks really good ... and changing the int timer to 0Hz aye? :).
0Hz is the slowest (in fact, the timer is stopped). The screenshots were taken at 60Hz, with a highish frame skip. I culled every other frame, then extended the delay, but it's still fractionally faster than the calculator... depending on which browser/GIF viewer you use :(
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