[Request] Real machine test

[TmEE co.(TM)]

I have always forgotten to tell the results of testing...

it works always, but on first run, it has screen location issues... after reset, things are fine again. in A button screen, doing something results in CRAM DMAd every line and reset will not help to get out of it (something is bad...). all else works fine.

PS: I've done fair bit of testing on the undocumented VDP ports. the most interesting thing is seeing sprites pushed onto right overcan, with Y value being functional only. I'll try to take some pics of that

[TascoDLX]

it works always, but on first run, it has screen location issues... after reset, things are fine again.

Flag uninitialized.

In the VINT routine:
(I don't have the source but here's the pseudo)

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if flagbyte != 0
  write scroll value to VSRAM 0002
  flagbyte = 0

Naturally, the scroll value is uninitialized too.

The whole upper half of base RAM is never cleared so you must watch out for uninitialized stuff.

[Jorge Nuno]

Thanks for the input


Don't bother with 'A', I'm only looking onto that after 'C' (should be 2D rotation, lool), but first I need to code the ArcTangent function, and I'm not sure if I should use the commented method* (heavy on MULS, DIVS and lots of regs) or some kind of LUT + linear interpolation.

The entire variable section (E0FE00~E0FFFF) is cleared now.


Changed src compression to RAR and now the screen 'A' mapping is generated and decompressed on loading (saved ~12kB)

Reupped bin and JorgeSrc.zip (It was very outdated)

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;ArcTg: Gives the angle, 0~FF, both catets in d2(yyyy:xxxx), adjacent is in lower word;
; 		Must be signed values to give out correct angle
; Theta = ArcTg(Y/X), Z = Y/X
; 
;            { (609Z+164Z³) / (15+9Z²) , Z & [-1,1]
;ArcTg(Z) ~= { 64 - ArcTg(1/Z) , Z > 1 
;            { -64 - ArcTg(1/Z) , Z < -1
;
;(binary angle: 0=0º; 64=90º; 128=180º; 255=359º)

EDIT: Little update 8/02/2k09 (fixed some bugs in the rotation code, but it doesn't revolve around properly yet )