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

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Mon Jan 7 01:16:58 EST 2008


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