Ensjo
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Post by Ensjo on Sept 10, 2019 2:07:51 GMT
OK, I created this thread for discussion about the conversion of AGD to the Brazilian CCE MC-1000. The Spectrum, CPC and Enterprise are using Z80 based engines and the Acorn Atom and Dragon are using 6847 based graphic routines so you need a mix of both engines ...... What has to be done is: - Changing the engine for the CCE MC-1000 - Changing the compiler to produce the right Z80 code In the engine, the graphic-, sound, and keyhandling routines have to be changed for the CCE MC-1000 and the compiler has to be checked for hardware depending Z80 code which will be minimal. Also memory management has to be checked. The MSX engine uses hardware sprites and all the other engines are using bitmapped software sprites. Greetings Kees I downloaded the file MPAGD64v0.7.4.zip from here. I didn't recognize any MSX conversions inside it. Files were suffixed as "CPC", "Nxt", "Tmx" and "ZX". Where can I find the other source codes? Anyway, time to analyse the files and see what I can do. Thanks!
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Post by oss003 on Sept 10, 2019 6:26:02 GMT
The MSX engine is still in development and not yet published by jltursan....
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Post by muriloq on Sept 11, 2019 13:54:34 GMT
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Post by oss003 on Sept 11, 2019 13:59:00 GMT
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Post by jltursan on Sept 11, 2019 19:31:42 GMT
Sadly the 6847 part of the engine is 6809 code so maybe he's not familiarized with it...:-(
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Post by oss003 on Sept 12, 2019 7:32:02 GMT
Ensjo,
if you want, I can help you with creating an CCE MC-1000 AGD port. We have and AGD Slack channel for technical discussions so if you want I can add you to Slack. Perre Serrat (Dragon port), Alan Turvey (AGD guru), Jose Luis (MSX port), Kieran O'Conell (Acorn BBC port) and myself (Acorn Atom and Electron port) are also on Slack. And we have contact with Jonathan of course who has written WinAGD, a windows based AGD editor to create AGD files.
I created suites for several machines for easy compiling, assembling and emulating AGD games, ideal for testing. We also have a lot of test files to check if certain AGD commands are working ok.
Let me know if you want to join Slack ....
Greetings Kees
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Ensjo
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Post by Ensjo on Sept 13, 2019 4:41:31 GMT
Sadly the 6847 part of the engine is 6809 code so maybe he's not familiarized with it...:-( Yes, that'll be a challenge for me too...
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Ensjo
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Post by Ensjo on Sept 13, 2019 4:50:53 GMT
Ensjo, if you want, I can help you with creating an CCE MC-1000 AGD port. We have and AGD Slack channel for technical discussions so if you want I can add you to Slack. Perre Serrat (Dragon port), Alan Turvey (AGD guru), Jose Luis (MSX port), Kieran O'Conell (Acorn BBC port) and myself (Acorn Atom and Electron port) are also on Slack. And we have contact with Jonathan of course who has written WinAGD, a windows based AGD editor to create AGD files. I created suites for several machines for easy compiling, assembling and emulating AGD games, ideal for testing. We also have a lot of test files to check if certain AGD commands are working ok. Let me know if you want to join Slack .... Greetings Kees You mean this -- slack.com? I didn't know it until today. Anyway, yes, the know-how of such a team cannot be dismissed! How do we do it? Should I create an account by myself at the website above or I just wait for you to do something?
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Post by oss003 on Sept 13, 2019 7:51:55 GMT
You mean this -- slack.com? I didn't know it until today. Anyway, yes, the know-how of such a team cannot be dismissed! How do we do it? Should I create an account by myself at the website above or I just wait for you to do something? Yes, Slack is a kind of Facebook but allows you to upload all files and has a decent search option to search text or files in the history. If you send your e-mail address to oss003@zonnet.nl then I will send you an invitation for Slack. Greetings Kees
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Post by Jonathan Cauldwell on Sept 30, 2019 16:04:06 GMT
The MSX editors are working now so I can look at putting some MC-1000 editors in whenever you're ready. I'll need to know the colour and graphics specs and the format in which you want the data presented in the .AGD file.
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