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@OG - Thumbing through the source code..

The fast blit mode behavior is documented here on 4-41 of the Software Developers Guide:

Fast BLT mode--provided to
enhance master-slave double
buffering. In fast BLT mode,
the system moves data from the
source to the destination as
quickly as possible by:
1. Ignoring the current setting of the transfer mode
(opaque or replace mode is
used).
2. Ignoring the current setting of collision detect
(collision testing is
suspended).
Clipping, if enabled, is performed as usual. The user must
ensure that, after clipping:
1. (DX) bits 0 through 3 are
zero.
2. The first pixel of both the
source and destination rectangles are word aligned.
3. The width of the transferred rectangle is an
integer number of words.

I suspect they added this specifically for cases where the programmer wanted to implement their own double buffering via the set destination buffer command, to make things faster.

Also, is the font/blt string trap taken care of by the existing blitter code? I'm having trouble getting blt string output to display at all.

-Thom

I have implemented fast mode already, but looks like I haven't pushed it yet. There is still a bad bug in the blitter somewhere you can see in popdemo when moving the pie chart segments or in I'm not sure which software with the mouse pointer.

I haven't check what the string stuff is trying to do. I'd have thought it worked, given everything else (and the fact that the blitter does not seem to have anything font-specific).

OG.

I finally got my supercard pro and picked up a PCjr qumetrak 142 drive for writing disks (there are a _TON_ of them out there now because of computer reset, in the thousands, which will hopefully give the eBay drive market a kick in the teeth.), so I will be able to test on real hardware and help you out.

-Thom

Thanks to a SuperCard PRO from cbmstuff.com, a Qumetrak 142 (IBM PCjr) disk drive from Tanner Electronics in Carrollton, TX, a pot of boiling water (to rejuvenate the drive belt), WinImage (to create the cooked disk images), HxCTool (to convert those to flux images), and a bunch of trial and error, I have been able to run my #MINDSET code on actual hardware.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IetIR38uyl8

-Thom

@OG - the plot thickens.

It looks like you're doing the right thing, regarding TV/Monitor mode:

It looks like the color translation that happens via TV/Monitor mode is happening practically at the RGBI port.

If you try to use Monitor mode while connected to the composite port, like I currently am, you get PRECISELY the same behavior I see in MAME:







man, this machine is bizarre.

-Thom

Meanwhile, using MAME and the real hardware is allowing me to proceed at rapid pace with the PLATOTERM port. It's now connecting out to IRATA.ONLINE, and starting to work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0VZveLqMoY

@OG - It looks like the RS-232-C module is an 8250, just in an odd place...what would it take to hook that up in mame?

-Thom

Adding the rs232 is trivial, it's the lack of test methods that slowed me down.

OG.

PS: I'll be gone for a week (biking in belgium), so no change in that time

Waaaait a minute.



That's totally a Mindset FDC. Sure, the knob on the left-hand drive has been yanked off, but it's totally a Mindset. Right?

Source: T2: Judgement Day

Yeah, that's a Mindset expansion unit, sitting on a beige-box PC. It's not sitting right because of the connector coming out the bottom (and then putting a CRT on top of it makes it worse).

@OG I can provide a bin for PLATOTERM when needed. -Thom