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I was wondering about this. I am somewhat handy with photoshop/gimp, even simple paint stuff, but no good trying to draw something freehand from scratch, especially at low pixel resolutions. Although there are ways you can use graphics tools like gimp to take a higher resolution image and blur it do...

Thanks again for the clear explanation. I haven't decided which work I would split out to the slave, but thinking about ob1's SuperVDP method :) . For now I've found that slave function and moved it out into it's own slave.c just for my own memory's sake. I assume there is something similar on the M...

I'll go out on a limb here and say that if you wanted basic terrain that could be just a simple loop that draws a pattern of tiles? This is what I was doing in early versions of my 32x demo see this thread So to draw a floor made of a single tile that was repeating was something like this: for(backg...

So far my experimentation has been using a single 32X SH2 CPU for running my entire demo. Based on the example code I have, the MD and slave SH2 are idling in loops in asm code. I want to get to the point where I have simple C programs running in the MD and slave CPU. I just don't really have a good...

Weren't there some posters who actually knew ASM but not C? I remember being surprised by that.

Good luck with your search. I initially searched for some similar stuff about sprite rotation. But I got lost in the mechanics of just drawing a straight forward image to the 32X Framebuffer

Thanks ob1!, that is just the kind of summary context I need to process this thread.

I haven't yet done any coding using DMA or second cpu. I am feeling very positive now.

I don't know if this has already been mentioned in this thread, just a few comments on dependencies. I am trying to rebuild the toolchain on clean install of Ubuntu 12.04. By default that distro comes with gcc 4.6.3. It is also missing the makeinfo package which is a dependency of the toolchain buil...

Don't forget ob1's rewritten pdf version of Sega 32X manual:
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I agree the title of the article is click-bait. I do think there is some aspect in nostalgia where it's not quite the same as you remember it to be. That doesn't mean it is a bad thing, or that those of us who spend the time learning about the inner workings of the 32X or an old Cadillac are wasting...

So since I guess many of us on these forums are nostalgic around 16-bit and "retro gaming" generally that when i read this I wonder how others felt. Crippled by Nostalgia: The Fraud of Retro Gaming: Does gameplay drive our love of vintage games, or is it something else entirely? By Damien McFerran P...

Every few months I return to these forums and try to reread this thread, hoping I'll understand better after having learned more on my own about programming a similar kind of demo for a while now. I still can't make heads or tails about what is going on here. :( Perhaps I miss some other discussion ...

That's interesting thanks.

One of the things I wanted to explore (maybe after sound ) was drawing some of the backgrounds with MD as some games did. Maybe I could take advantage of this structure to be able to that in C.

Can you use SGDK with these?

I found a bmpsplit some years ago...don't know the url... And this one : http://retrospec.sgn.net/game/tiler Thanks for the link. TileExtractor seems to work... but it's UI is very, very retro Windows 3.1. Did they intentionally do it that way :? :edit: it appears to be unstable for me too. It cras...

Just curious, have you changed the linker scripts at all? If so what's different?

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a tool that would be able to read a bitmap file, and based on the size of tile you wanted, split the image and create small bitmaps for all the tiles produced. I have found this online http://imagesplitter.net/, which lets you upload a file at a ...