Denial

Mike wrote:I checked ops' repo, and there SJLOAD got integrated into the FE3 firmware, not FE3RD.

Yes, you're right, I wasn't specifically interested in using the RAM disk features. I'm glad Sven is sorting it out.

There's this video from a a scener which usually does 8088 assembler code, showing his adventure to draw ellipses with a generic orientation regarding the screen axes. He did a comprehensive work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ulXJZD0P8 I did a standard bresenham circle for a game, but to comput...

Yes, this issue looks similar to the one I had. I'm attaching an image depicting Mike's instructions. Click on it to see it a little larger. 2023-08-16 (2).png In order to study or use this program, I think there's little advantage compared to the standard FE3 ROM, where it ended up being integrated...

Thank you. I used VirtualDub (same as in Nuvie movies) to convert the video to a bmp sequence. Then a python script for Gimp to resize and convert the bitmaps to black&white images of 14x16 chars (112x128 pixels) for the VIC, and then export to RLA compressed binary files. This is 224 chars, sli...

Name : Tomato Worm Author : Javier Gonzalez Genre : Puzzle Code : cc65 / ca65 Interface : Keyboard Requirements : VIC-20 and 16k RAM expansion, SD2IEC or disk drive CORRECTION: it's actually +24kB memory, not + 16kB Description : It's a conversion of Pico 8 original puzzle game from Jose Guerra. It...

Title : Bad Apple VIC-20 Final Expansion Author : Javier Gonzalez Released : July 1st, 2023, Posadas Party Requirements : PAL VIC-20 + Final Expansion Description : a conversion of Touhou's Bad Apple Instructions : * to play on a real VIC20 with a Final Expansion, use badram7.5.d81. It's a d81 imag...

An update about my Neos mouse: it seems to work well with my Final Expansion Alpha plugged in. Whileas the other day when I was trying it with MCES 37kB RAM (which overlaps IO area) the mouse driver sometimes started fine, but sometimes refused to start and showed the wrong behaviour I tried to expl...

I wasn't capturing the mouse Alt-M, however, it still doesn't work. The values stop increasing but then remain constant.
However, I got a real Neos mouse from ebay and sometimes it works fine, sometimes it just does the increasing coordinates thing.
Anyway, it's cool.

This is interesting. But I was unable to run the sample programs in VICE.
The program displaying the mouse coordinates shows both values incrementing regardless of the device selection in the Control port box.
Maybe I missed some step or something has changed in the emulator.

I tried to watch the stream on friday but I had some difficulties as I'm used to Youtube and Twitch, which lower image quality as long as needed.
Then on saturday evening I was busy and forgot about it, I hope they upload the video somewhere.

I don't know how to enable the FE extension in VICE, I thought it was enough to tick the checkbox "Enable Final Expansion image write back". I've noticed that the extension isn't actually activated, the RAM bank select in the RAM Disk application does nothing, all the writes go to the same...

Thank you, I got the Final Expansion Alpha last year, it's time to take it out of the drawer.

Here's the link to the *.zip of FE3 RAM Disk V1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vin20/files/FE3_RAM_Disk/fe3rd_v1.zip/download I downloaded this project folder and tried to run the application in VICE without success. Then I put the files on a d64 image and try again with the same results, as pic...

A redefined character set would allow larger maps

The maximum columns I got with a 1084 was 27-28. Maybe even 29 columns, but at this point the image width was so narrow that the whole borders fit inside the screen and the edges of the CRT had an uncomfortable white glow. It's better to stick to 26 columns for PAL, anyway regular TVs can't adjust t...