SpritesMind.Net

Fair point. Well, if I can find something that seems right that uses FM only, I can use it. There's a lot of cool stuff on 8bc. However, if you get the timing right, the sample rate high enough, and suitable source material, I think DAC music can be usable. Both are options. I just don't want to exc...

For music, I can use anything - not necessarily FM or tracked, even. There are some constraints, but I'm planning to only use DAC for audio. I think the music influences the design quite heavily. Anyway, even if I knew what the design was going to be ahead of time, I don't have the artistic skill to...

I've been working on a bunch of demo effects on Genesis and I think I have enough to put together a reasonable production. Problem is, I have absolutely no artistic or musical talent. Everything I have now is programatically generated (which looks OK), ripped, or is 'programmer art'. Anyone interest...

Using two layers is the "easy" way out. Yup, you're right, it was pretty easy to implement. I kind of had a different goal in mind though. I'd like to be able to put arbitrary colors next to each other rather than be constrained to using a fixed set of 15 colors within a single block. My idea is to...

I wrote my own command line tool to do this (and a bunch of other tile munging stuff). It works OK, but I need to find better palette selection algorithms. I might try the NeuQuant algorithm that mic_ linked to. Here's what I get right now... Layer A: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9499/planeb.p...

Sounds like he's saying that yes, they still have that documentation and that they will give it to you for a big pile of money, if and only if they believe that you won't distribute it, and that if you do, they'll beat you to death with the lawyer stick.

Are you offering to be our sacrificial lamb?

ROM memory based on m29w640, it is flash, 8mb, but only half of this chip used for ROM That is a 3.3V supply part with an absolute max supply voltage of 4V. I assume you've used a 3.3V regulator for supply, but I don't see any level shifters in your pictures and the IO isn't 5V tolerant. How does i...

Have you tried ebay?

I started with the leaked official docs, and it seemed pretty much obvious to me. I thought it was the recommended way to do things.

Another thing I documented a long time ago.

Any chance that documentation is available for us to read?

Many GPL'd libraries (such as newlib and libgcc) include explicit clauses in their copies of the GPL that permit distribution of code linked against them in binary form for any purpose. The GCC docs even says explicitly that code compiled with GCC (the output of the compiler) is not automatically GP...

When exactly do you change the SAT address in VDP register ? I change it shortly after the VINT, although I don't have an exact cycle count. However, I only change it once every 30 frames or so. I assumed that even if my change was too late to make the current frame, it should get picked up for the...

I've been experimenting with updating the sprite table mid-frame. I'm trying to prod the sprite attribute table base address register during the frame. I have been getting odd, partial results so I did a quick experiment. I have four, statically generated sprite tables in VRAM, one at each of 0xD000...

I got it working but only tested in the emulator. My ability to run on real hardware is a little hampered right now, so I never got around to testing. I do have all the relevant kit, though, so I can get it all back together. I'll probably be able to give it a shot in a couple of weeks. I'll post ag...

Yup, missed that post. Beta 4 lasted what, 3 hours. Good to hear you're making progress on the performance. I'm pretty tempted to go out and get one of these things just to play around with this.