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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: cable DDI-1 for CPC 6128

Last post by SerErris - Today at 12:37

Checked it again in the service manual.

Odd PIN numbers are all signals and even are all GND.

In normal shugart or PC connectors those pins would be 2-34

SHGT or PC
2 /DCD or /Density
4 /INUSE or NC
6 /DS3 or NC

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Games / Re: The Key, a A "full" point ...

Last post by XeNoMoRPH - Today at 12:22

how it was made

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Programming / Re: My 2D platformer in BASIC

Last post by IndyUK - Today at 12:07

Shift+F4 gives you 1000x.
Dunno if it is fixed or depends on your CPU.

That's too much and makes it completely unplayable. Besides, as I stated, this type of boost also affects the sound interrupt therefore speeding that up as well. I think the turbo option is perfect, I just need to balance things. I'll be working on getting vertical platforms and maybe moving enemies. Once I have these working, then I can look at balancing things out.

As I side note - I'm looking into the FastBasic compiler to convert into machine code to help speed things up. Having some issues with that at present but will probably create a new post for that as I'm unfamiliar with it's workings. 

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Programming / Re: My 2D platformer in BASIC

Last post by VincentGR - Today at 11:27

Shift+F4 gives you 1000x.
Dunno if it is fixed or depends on your CPU.

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Programming / Re: My 2D platformer in BASIC

Last post by IndyUK - Today at 11:23

How much turbo it need?

Not sure of the value as I use the Turbo option in Winape. Even this is beginning to get a bit slow because I keep adding more features but, still playable. Boosting the frequency will take care of the slowness but, that affects the interrupts and so everything is uplifted by the same ratio, making it unplayable. I think once I have all the features working, then I will reduce the number of screen assets to something more manageable. 

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Games / Re: Fruity Frank Steve Wallis

Last post by eto - Today at 11:15

too sad the CPC version is so bad - the concept seems to be fun. 

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Games / Re: The Key, a A "full" point ...

Last post by ||C|-|E|| - Today at 07:44

It looks really amazing, I have been itching for something like this in the CPC.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: CPC 6128 - white screen, b...

Last post by McArti0 - Today at 07:12

Have you often confirmed that pin1 244 is 0?

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: Interview with James Higgi...

Last post by andycadley - Today at 06:57

Interesting read, seems like a very modest guy. A few interesting tidbits about the development of the GX and it's games too.

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General Discussion - Introductions / Interview with James Higgins

Last post by XeNoMoRPH - Today at 06:10

«In Ocean I realized everything I still had to learn. "It's been almost 40 years and I'm still learning new things."

https://www.retromaniacmagazine.com/2024/04/en-ocean-me-di-cuenta-de-todo-lo-que.html

English & Spanish text,  Author: @Dubliner