[Coco] Mary's arcade game nearing release (Roger Taylor)

Ghislain Harvey ghislainharvey at videotron.ca
Mon Jan 7 13:33:43 EST 2008


Well sorry I don't know how I respond to the wrong thread. I'm probably too
tired.
Sorry for that.
Ghislain

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Envoyé : January-07-08 1:17 AM
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Objet : Re: [Coco] Mary's arcade game nearing release (Roger Taylor)

Are you replying to random threads to post
messages? :) I couldn't figure out how this fit
into the arcade game thread but forgive me if I'm wrong.. it is late here.


At 10:34 PM 1/6/2008, you wrote:

>Just made a discovery. When I POKE the emulator(keil emulator) to run at

>1.79MHZ it doesn’t freeze when formatting.

>Ill maybe try this on my real coco tomorrow. Who knows...

>Ghislain










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>la part de Roger Taylor

>Envoyé : January-06-08 11:01 PM

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>Objet : Re: [Coco] Mary's arcade game nearing release (Roger Taylor)

>

>At 08:47 PM 1/6/2008, you wrote:

> >Roger, when you create the 50Hz PAL version, don't forget to set the

> >50Hz bit in the GIME register $FF98 (bit 3), or the programme will

> >scroll madly on my CM-8 monitor.

> >

> >The above problem was a real hassle when OS9 level 2 came to

> >Australia. It wasn't modified for 50Hz, and for those who had

> >monitors or televisions which had no adjustment for that, it was a

> >no-go. Then some idiot in Tandy came up with a patch to REL, but the

> >patch didn't verify the module, so it became impossible to cobbler a

> >new disk from it. Grrr.

>

>

>Ok this is going to require an extra two menu lines since I want to

>finalize one version of the game. How do you run other CoCo games for DOS?

>I might just use 5) and 6) options in the main title screen to toggle

>those modes. Anything else required besides just setting the GIME bit?

>And if I'm right 50hz is slower, right? :)

>

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