[Coco] Glove Final Release 2...

[James McKay]

"John Kowalski" <sock at axess.com> wrote in 
message news:20070117052855.436337D113 at qs281.pair.com...
> Good news - I tried the new version of Glove on my CoCo 3 and there is no
> more flicker at all!

Excellent news!  Thanks for the quick reply, I can send off the master tape 
ASAP now.

I must admit to being a bit puzzled, the old version waited in a loop where 
it played a bit of sound then checked to see if an interrupt had happened 
(looping if it hadn't, updating the screen registers if it had), so it 
didn't take that long before the registers were set (certainly nowhere near 
the scanline being on screen again).

Unless switching the CPU from slow to fast mode takes a bit of time (the 
audio routine runs in slow mode)...

bye,
James McKay.

> At 11:22 PM 16/01/2007 -0000, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> wrote:
>>Oops...  It's never a good idea to call something "Final Release", so 
>>here's
>>the second (and hopefully final) release.
>>
>>Fixes:
>>* Cassette loading routine made more reliable.
>>* IRQ changed to try and prevent the occasional screen flicker on a CoCo 
>>3.
>>
>>Get it at the usual place:
>>http://www.jmk1.freeserve.co.uk/minigame/minigame.htm
>>
>>On other matters, Cronosoft ( www.cronosoft.co.uk ) will be publishing a
>>cassette version and I've received some excellent inlay artwork from 
>>Graham
>>Richards.  I've now made a master tape which will be sent very soon to
>>Cronosoft, so for those of you who've had trouble with cassette loading or
>>have a CoCo 3 (and have noticed flickering), I'd appreciate it if you 
>>could
>>download this version and tell me (fairly quickly) whether I've made 
>>things
>>better, the same or worse!
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>bye,
>>James McKay.
>
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