JavaCPC Desktop available as BETA!

[TFM]

Working and experimenting with emulating the screen-curvature!

Using Java3D here... And the result already has 50fps!

Nice Helloween effect, also good for a demo effect - short before the CRT explodes. ...

But honestly... have you ever seen a real CPC screen?

[Devilmarkus]

I wrote that I am experimenting
This is not the final result!

[TFM]

Never mind

[Gryzor]

I think the outer curve is very pronounced, but the screen itself looks about right

But why 3D?

[Devilmarkus]

Java 2d is too slow...
So I create a 3d sphere, and set the CPC display as texture...

[Devilmarkus]

Few more shots:

[TFM]

Markus, IMHO you should make your emulator faster instead of wasting time with surealistic experiments. That's just IMHO and you can kick my butt if you feel better then. But that's my 9 Cents ;-)

[Devilmarkus]

Well, for me it's fast enough

Perhaps you can reduce the texturesize from 1024x1024 to 512x512 later, when I release this...
(3D Display will be optional then!)

[Devilmarkus]

I think my curvature is almost accurate!
Let's compare...
(thanks to SyX for this nice screenshot!)

[SyX]

You are welcome Markus

I have my CPC attached to a 14" Samsung TV by scart and my TV has "heavy round corners" 

Notice that in this configuration, my CPC show 2 scanlines more, 272 instead 270, it's very clear in the TotO signature

[Devilmarkus]

Yes I know about the 272 lines
JavaCPC hides them because the monitor mask... Will pixel a new mask (just rounding the edges) for the 3d panel, soon.

[TFM]

Well, for me it's fast enough

Ok, if my one year old $4000 Laptop with 3.6 GHz has serious problems to hold 50fps and drops more often down to 20fps (for reasons I still can't understand) then it's not fast enough for me. But if you are lucky with it then it's all good

[redbox]

I have no speed issues on my Intel Quad Core. I like the way Java CPC focuses on different things to other emulators - means you have a choice instead of them all being the same!

[TFM]

I have no speed issues on my Intel Quad Core. I like the way Java CPC focuses on different things to other emulators - means you have a choice instead of them all being the same!

You miss the point here.

[Devilmarkus]

Ok, if my one year old $4000 Laptop with 3.6 GHz has serious problems to hold 50fps and drops more often down to 20fps (for reasons I still can't understand) then it's not fast enough for me. But if you are lucky with it then it's all good

Since the update it's all good!!!! Thanks!

Hmmmmm!?!?!?

[Devilmarkus]

Well anyway...
I pixeled a new mask and now the result looks more realistic:
http://cpc-live.com/screen_curvature

Sadly the display sometimes flickers... need to check out, why....
With half texture size it's stable!

[TFM]

Markus, nimm das jetzt bitte mal nicht ernst, ich sag's mit einem lächelnden Auge: Langsam wird mir klar wie ich die Leute mit meinen andauernden Kommentaren über FutureOS genervt haben könnte. Manchmal ist weniger eben mehr 

[Devilmarkus]

Och Du nervst net Ich weiss ja, von wems kommt

[TFM]

Och Du nervst net Ich weiss ja, von wems kommt

Da spricht wahre Weisheit aus Dir 

[TotO]

I pixeled a new mask and now the result looks more realistic

Nice job. The mask size allow to use it in full screen ? (1280x960 4/3 ratio ?)
Also, I think your mask is a bit too much blurry compared to a real CTM.

[Devilmarkus]

Well the mask is not blurry It's the enabled PAL effect but can be disabled.

Later the screen will be with the correct aspect ratio also on widescreen monitors (I'm also using 1920x1080 pixels here)

Actually I'm fiddling out, why JavaCPC denies it's work on TFM's PC
Seems that he has 64 bit Java installed.

Please make sure you use 32 bit Java!
http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=56697

[TotO]

Well the mask is not blurry It's the enabled PAL effect but can be disabled.

PAL effect is nonsense. In 50Hz the picture is not blurred, but the lines are more closed than 60Hz display. That all.
Nobody using a "PAL" CPC get that ? 

Later the screen will be with the correct aspect ratio also on widescreen monitors (I'm also using 1920x1080 pixels here)

Great ! 

[Devilmarkus]

without PAL effect it's much clearer!
Let's compare the screens: (Too less FPS actually because I'm still rendering both the same time: 2d and 3d display, will change that soon...

[TotO]

OK, so the "problem" is not the PAL filter, but the scanline mode with too much space between lines. (unlike on NTSC)
So, if you use both effects, you got a blurry NTSC and not a fake PAL screen.

[Morn]

This looks wonderful, Markus! I actually like the slight blurriness. If anything, on-screen characters in emulators always look unrealistically crisp. And dithered graphics in games were meant to be seen a little blurred. That's also the main reason for emulating arcade monitors in MAME I think.

Well anyway...
I pixeled a new mask and now the result looks more realistic:
http://cpc-live.com/screen_curvature

Sadly the display sometimes flickers... need to check out, why....
With half texture size it's stable!