Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
On 31/07/2012 00:34, Simon Owen wrote: On 30/07/2012 17:39, wayne wrote: Tried to build Simcoupi on my recently aquired RPI. There was a missing component in the SourceForge path, fixed now! The newer distro also simplifies things slightly, so I'll post updated instructions when I get a chance. In the meantime, try this updated binary built on Rasbian: http://simcoupe.org/files/simcoupi-r1439.zip You might get the odd sound underrun reported in the console when entering and leaving the GUI, especially if you're running it from within X. I've never seen the error you reported, though I misread your message and didn't try the old binary. OpenGL SE support is still a work in progress, but should hopefully give a bit more speed, and options for 50Hz sync (with audio resample). Si Simon.. Yep that one works, Thanks! Sound works out the box too. Will keep my daughter happy playing the Manic Miner demo anyway. Wonder how many more ported emulators will crop other the next few months. Also being a QL fan I'd like to see uQLx on there, though I suspect it will be rather sluggish. Wayne...
One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
Tried to build Simcoupi on my recently aquired RPI. No luck from Source but then tried Simons pre-prepared Binary. That crashes on Raspian Wheezy with the following error. http://fdos-design.com/temp_files/2012-07-30-162759_1184x624_scrot.png Something missing somewhere? The error I was getting via SSH session from my Windoze PC was segmentation error That same binary runs quite well under Puppy Linux on the Raspberry Pi at least. http://fdos-design.com/temp_files/prodos-simcoupe-rpi.png Any pointers? Wayne
Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
Managed to find a link to the sqeeze distro hidden away on the rpi site and Simcoupi runs fine on that. So seems some vital libraries have changed between squeeze and wheezy. Wayne...
Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
On 30/07/2012 17:39, wayne wrote: Tried to build Simcoupi on my recently aquired RPI. There was a missing component in the SourceForge path, fixed now! The newer distro also simplifies things slightly, so I'll post updated instructions when I get a chance. In the meantime, try this updated binary built on Rasbian: http://simcoupe.org/files/simcoupi-r1439.zip You might get the odd sound underrun reported in the console when entering and leaving the GUI, especially if you're running it from within X. I've never seen the error you reported, though I misread your message and didn't try the old binary. OpenGL SE support is still a work in progress, but should hopefully give a bit more speed, and options for 50Hz sync (with audio resample). Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:28, Simon Owen wrote:
On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:13, Andrew Collier wrote:
It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my contributions to
the Sam scene was to necessitate accuracy in the emulators :)
Getting the textured scroller right in part 2 of MNEMOdemo1 was definitely a
grail moment, where everything had to be right. Even now, if you build
SimCoupe on the Mac and use Clang rather than gcc the scroller is wrong!
I've not put any effort into tracking that down yet, but it's almost
certainly a compiler issue (gcc and MSVC are fine).
I was intrigued by this, so I had a look:
CPU.cpp: 84
#define PORT_ACCESS(a) { (g_dwCycleCounter += 4) += ((a) = BASE_ASIC_PORT)
?abPortContention[g_dwCycleCounter7] : 0; }
I don't have a copy of KR to hand, but I reckon this is ambiguous (i.e. the
value of g_dwCycleCounter7 depends on the whether this is evaluated before or
after the += 4. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that the left hand side is an
lvalue at all...). Substituting a clearly non-ambiguous version cleans up the
problems, so I've checked in the change.
Andrew
Re: SimCoupi
On 25 Apr 2012, at 15:23, Andrew Collier wrote: I don't have a copy of KR to hand, but I reckon this is ambiguous (i.e. the value of g_dwCycleCounter7 depends on the whether this is evaluated before or after the += 4. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that the left hand side is an lvalue at all…). I don't remember how it came to be like that, but I'd suspect it was fastest with VS6 back in the day. It was pretty nasty, so good riddance to it. Thanks for the fix! :) Si
Re[2]: SimCoupi
I've received my email from Farnell and they've taken payment. Apparently more will be shipping today so could have mine in the next few days to a week if lucky. Well done on getting yours so early Simon! (and I was up at 6am on the Farnell site) Andy Monday, April 16, 2012, 12:13:41 PM, you wrote: Simon No special treatment, just some luck in getting an order Simon through on the Farnell website (just before 8am). Perhaps enough people Simon switched to trying phone orders when they opened that the Simon website recovered very briefly? It was pretty much inaccessible before and Simon after that, as anyone that tried will remember! Simon Si Simon On 16 Apr 2012, at 11:51, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: That's very cool! :-D God knows how long it'll take before they start shipping RPs to general customers though, after all the promo stuff with schools and such... how'd you get hold of one this early? :-D Quoting Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16/04/2012 16:17, Tommo H wrote: Versus running it on a normal computer, do we get genuine 50Hz output? Setting an option in /boot/config.txt overrides the auto HDMI mode, so it's be easy to force 50Hz (it'd be even better if it could selected on demand at runtime). Composite defaults to NTSC but can be configured as PAL too. I'll probably still need to implement some sound scaling to keep it in sync with the vsynced video. I'll also need to adapt the existing OpenGL code to use OpenGL ES for hardware acceleration. Regular OpenGL seems to be stuck in software mode (glxgears gets just 16fps!). The bundled GL ES demo ran perfectly smoothly, of course. On the sound side, the current ALSA driver is still very buggy. Using it gives a kernel 'oops' when anything tries to use it, so we might have to wait a bit longer for that. Si
RE: SimCoupi
From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: dinsdag 17 april 2012 23:13 On the sound side, the current ALSA driver is still very buggy. Using it gives a kernel 'oops' when anything tries to use it, so we might have to wait a bit longer for that. Just connect a SAMdac... hmmm usb version perhaps? ;-)
SimCoupi
Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si
RE: SimCoupi
Its alright for some I cant get hold of one at the moment :( -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 16 April 2012 11:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: SimCoupi Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si
Re: SimCoupi
That's very cool! :-D God knows how long it'll take before they start shipping RPs to general customers though, after all the promo stuff with schools and such... how'd you get hold of one this early? :-D Quoting Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si
Re: SimCoupi
No special treatment, just some luck in getting an order through on the Farnell website (just before 8am). Perhaps enough people switched to trying phone orders when they opened that the website recovered very briefly? It was pretty much inaccessible before and after that, as anyone that tried will remember! Si On 16 Apr 2012, at 11:51, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: That's very cool! :-D God knows how long it'll take before they start shipping RPs to general customers though, after all the promo stuff with schools and such... how'd you get hold of one this early? :-D Quoting Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16/04/2012 11:29, Simon Owen wrote: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si I just get a 403 error following that link.. Do you have some .htaccess rule in there somewhere?
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 Apr 2012, at 15:48, Wayne Weedon wrote: I just get a 403 error following that link.. Do you have some .htaccess rule in there somewhere? Oops! In case of caching, try this instead: http://simonowen.com/simcoupi I renamed the album title and that must have changed the link somehow. A missing slash in the .htaccess also broke the shamview link a few days ago, so I've not been doing too well overall. Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 April 2012 11:29, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. Oooh! Nice. It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my contributions to the Sam scene was to necessitate accuracy in the emulators :) Andrew
Re: SimCoupi
Having managed to get hold of a Raspberry Pi differentiates you from 99% of the world; using Google+ differentiates you from 99.9%. Looking good though! Versus running it on a normal computer, do we get genuine 50Hz output? On 16 Apr 2012, at 08:04, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 16 Apr 2012, at 15:48, Wayne Weedon wrote: I just get a 403 error following that link.. Do you have some .htaccess rule in there somewhere? Oops! In case of caching, try this instead: http://simonowen.com/simcoupi I renamed the album title and that must have changed the link somehow. A missing slash in the .htaccess also broke the shamview link a few days ago, so I've not been doing too well overall. Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:13, Andrew Collier wrote: It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my contributions to the Sam scene was to necessitate accuracy in the emulators :) Getting the textured scroller right in part 2 of MNEMOdemo1 was definitely a grail moment, where everything had to be right. Even now, if you build SimCoupe on the Mac and use Clang rather than gcc the scroller is wrong! I've not put any effort into tracking that down yet, but it's almost certainly a compiler issue (gcc and MSVC are fine). Even before MNEMOdemo, the mode-switching scroller in E-Tunes Player was a challenge! Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:17, Tommo H wrote: Having managed to get hold of a Raspberry Pi differentiates you from 99% of the world; using Google+ differentiates you from 99.9%. The images were uploaded from Picasa, to something which used to be called PicasaWeb. It looks like Google have pulled that into the Google+ brand, with a nag for non-G+ users. I do have an account but don't actually use it. So just the 99% then ;) Looking good though! Versus running it on a normal computer, do we get genuine 50Hz output? That's something I'm aiming for too, as it'd make a huge difference to the experience. Si
Re: SimCoupi
On 16 April 2012 16:48, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:17, Tommo H wrote: Looking good though! Versus running it on a normal computer, do we get genuine 50Hz output? That's something I'm aiming for too, as it'd make a huge difference to the experience. Sounds good! It might even give me an excuse to upgrade my TV (currently 4:3 CRT and a bit of a dinosaur, but at least scrollies look great on it!) Andrew
Re: SimCoupi
Quoting Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Wowzers!
