Re: NVG/samcoupe.org Accessability Project

2005-01-31 Thread Andrew Collier
On Jan 20, 2005, at 11:42 am, Dan Dooré wrote: Gents, I have now completed trolling through GoodSAMC, my collection and various others from those who have helped me in this endeavour. I've just been going through the demobase, which links to nvg for most of the files, and will upload the

Re: Newbie would like help ... Please!

2005-01-31 Thread Edwin Blink
Welcome to the SAM-users and this list ! The manuals should be no problem. Stephen Parry-Thomas did some excellent PDF-alization of most of the manuals made for SAM. To get started I recomend to get the SAM Users' Manual and SAM Drive Users Manual to get a understanding of SAM Basic and DOS You

RE: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-01-31 Thread Simon Owen
Last week I wrote: there should be an updated version available sometime tomorrow... Later than planned, I've updated the source and Win32 builds: http://www.simonowen.com/sam/simcoupe/ This should fix Dan's problem with the Atom path being forgotton, and the scanline garbage a few people

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-01-31 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: I need to move (video) memory on Sam, what's the fastest routine? Despite its unfinished state, the SimCoupe debugger can be used to time blocks of code. Whenever you enter the debugger the T-diff value in the bottom right of the display shows the number of _real_ tstates that

Re: NVG/samcoupe.org Accessability Project

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Dooré
Andrew Collier wrote: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/demos/MNEMOtech/ MnemotechMnemotextDemo.zip I don't particularly object to it being up there, but I'd be interested to know where it came from? It was never exactly released... It was in GoodSAMC IIRC which means that it

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
Thanks! I did some tests on my own, and the profiling says that the most slowest part is the text scroller. I already tried many LDI's and PUSH/POP system on my own, but unfortunately the process of changing SP makes PUSH/POP slower than sequence of LDI's. You know, the TASM doesn't support clever

RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
I think the best one to start with is a Sam Coupe users's Guide. It's excellent, and it'sa vailable in a PDF format from ftp.nvg.ntnu.no server (and possibly also www.simcoupe.org - I'm not sure). /--- Aley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
I really miss some features in that debugger, and documentation as well. U regularly use ZX Spin emulator. It can't emulate Sam Coupe, but contains a very strong debugger, and also assembler compiler. But, of course, I use SimCoupe to develop my new demo. It has so tight timings, that I wonder

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
Title: Zpráva Sorry, it should stay **I regularly use...**, obviously not you. Aley-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aley KeprtSent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:20 AMTo: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: RE: Fastest memory transfer (on

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-01-31 Thread Ian Spencer
Hi Si, yes I like the new version a lot and it does fix the problem with the Atom path which I had but I now notice that if you turn off 'Use RGB/YUV Overlay' then this is forgoten when you exit the program (I haven't checked the other items in the list). Also although not in 'options' but in

Sam memory contention - I am totally confused

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
A SimCoupe source code comment says: // if we are in the main screen area, or one of the extra MODE 1 contended areas: // CPU can only access memory 1 out of every 8 T-States // else // CPU can only access memory 1 out of every 4

Re: Sam memory contention - I am totally confused

2005-01-31 Thread Andrew Collier
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Aley Keprt wrote: A SimCoupe source code comment says: // if we are in the main screen area, or one of the extra MODE 1 contended areas: // CPU can only access memory 1 out of every 8 T-States // else // CPU

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And what about ZX Spectrum memory contention - just to compare with Sam

2005-01-31 Thread Aley Keprt
I know this is not Spectrum users, but I must ask: how does Spectrum memory contention work? How is it possible to run Spectrum software on Sam, when it [Spectrum] definitely uses very different memory contention scheme? I remember that memory 16384-32767 seemed to be the only contended area.

Re: And what about ZX Spectrum memory contention - just to compare with Sam

2005-01-31 Thread Stuart Brady
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Aley Keprt wrote: I know this is not Spectrum users, but I must ask: how does Spectrum memory contention work? How is it possible to run Spectrum software on Sam, when it [Spectrum] definitely uses very different memory contention scheme? I