Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi

2012-07-31 Thread Wayne Weedon
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

Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi

2012-07-30 Thread Simon Owen
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

Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi

2012-07-30 Thread Wayne Weedon
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...

One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi

2012-07-30 Thread wayne
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
On 25 Apr 2012, at 15:23, Andrew Collier wrote: > I don't have a copy of K&R to hand, but I reckon this is ambiguous (i.e. the > value of g_dwCycleCounter&7 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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Collier
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 w

RE: SimCoupi

2012-04-17 Thread Stefan Drissen
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 fo

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Owen
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 NTS

Re[2]: SimCoupi

2012-04-17 Thread Andy Chandler
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread david
Quoting Simon Owen : Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Wowzers!

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 April 2012 16:48, Simon Owen 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 mig

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Owen
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Owen
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Tommo H
: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 s

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 April 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. Oooh! Nice. It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my contributions to the Sam

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Owen
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 s

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Wayne Weedon
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Owen
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

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread warren
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 : Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberryp

RE: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Adrian Brown
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

SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Owen
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