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Post by elmer on Nov 25, 2019 21:36:50 GMT
Very cool stuff! It looks like you'll soon be ready to use your converter do a high-quality update to you old HuVideo insertion test. FYI, with the accelerated-read hardware in the Turbo Everdrive, we can stream video from SD card to RAM at pretty-close-to 1Mbyte per second! If only Krikzz would make a couple of tiny changes to the mapping of his registers on the card, then we could stream video directly into VRAM, which would be awesome.
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Post by turboxray on Nov 25, 2019 21:55:54 GMT
I've been out of the loop. What new things does the TE have? Is there a nice high resolution timer with an irq to the cart port (IRQ 2 I think)? Indirect registers like the arcade card but for rom or ram (card addressable memory)? Preferably indirect registers that have an auto inc/dec feature like a phase accumulator. Or reserve some banks that take data and create an interleaved STx opcode set that the cpu can just called and execute? One can dream haha
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Post by dshadoff on Nov 26, 2019 0:19:58 GMT
Wow, I don't think I saw that Bubblegum Crisis HuVideo demo before ! You need to be careful about the extreme darks and the amount of detail in the picture, but it looks really good !
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Post by turboxray on Nov 26, 2019 1:22:19 GMT
Wow, I don't think I saw that Bubblegum Crisis HuVideo demo before ! You need to be careful about the extreme darks and the amount of detail in the picture, but it looks really good! It's only doing 16 colors per frame, although each frame has its own set of 16 colors, but it didn't come out too bad! I purposely applied a little shift gamma on the images and kept pure black from showing. It gave it a softer look, but it looked much better. I still can't believe how the 'lights' actually look like light with only 16 colors per frame haha. elmer: Yessss one of these days.
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Post by elmer on Nov 26, 2019 1:49:22 GMT
I've been out of the loop. What new things does the TE have? Is there a nice high resolution timer with an irq to the cart port (IRQ 2 I think)? Indirect registers like the arcade card but for rom or ram (card addressable memory)? Preferably indirect registers that have an auto inc/dec feature like a phase accumulator. Or reserve some banks that take data and create an interleaved STx opcode set that the cpu can just called and execute? One can dream haha Errr ... to answer your questions in strict order, "no", "no", and "no"! At this point, AFAIK, there hasn't been a single homebrew game or other finished project that uses *any* of the features of the Turbo Everdrive. That doesn't exactly give Krikzz any incentive to add features to the hardware, or even to work to add the missing Arcade Card functionality that some of us would love to see. In the meantime ... having 4MB of RAM, and a fast way of loading data from an xxGB-sized SD card currently exists, if there were only active developers that wished to use those capabilities.
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Post by turboxray on Nov 26, 2019 1:52:28 GMT
I lost the card that I had during moving. Is there anything I should know before buying another one? Revision stuffs?
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Post by elmer on Nov 26, 2019 2:15:28 GMT
I lost the card that I had during moving. Is there anything I should know before buying another one? Revision stuffs? Earlier versions of the TED2 were unstable with some of the hardware region-hacks, but that was fixed in v2.4 many years ago. If you have a hardware-hacked PCE with one of the electronically buffered data ports (rather than the very old mechanically switched region-hacks), then you may still need to do a power-supply hack to the buffer chip in order to get everything working. That's really not Krikzz's fault ... that's an issue with the region-hack. With Black Friday approaching, you're at the right time to buy another one ... but the most-useful capability of the TED2 (from my POV), is the USB-transfer capability between the PC Engine and a PC. Krikzz doesn't even sell TED2 cards with that capability enabled anymore, but you can add it to any of the current TED2 cards by soldering on the missing USB connector and FT245R USB-to-FIFO chip to the blank pads on the board when you get it. I'm still looking for someone with the keen eyesight, steady hands, and devil-may-care attitude to pay to upgrade my spare-TED2 that I purchased in 2018!
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Post by gredler on Nov 26, 2019 2:21:27 GMT
but the most-useful capability of the TED2 (from my POV), is the USB-transfer capability between the PC Engine and a PC. I can't agree with this enough. It's easy to debug and test in an emulator, but being able to quickly push builds to my coregrafx or turboexpress is really nice. It's largely novelty but being able to see my art on the hardware quickly after making changes never gets old - and it reminds me of the workflows I use to test art at work. Art change, build and run, art change, build and run. So nice to have.
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Post by elmer on Nov 26, 2019 2:44:56 GMT
It's largely novelty but being able to see my art on the hardware quickly after making changes never gets old - and it reminds me of the workflows I use to test art at work. Art change, build and run, art change, build and run. So nice to have. Ahhh yes, fun, useful but maybe a bit of a novelty for artists and most developers ... but IMHO absolutely-critical for anyone really pushing the hardware. The Develo board is an alternative, but *much* less usable.
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Post by dshadoff on Nov 26, 2019 2:57:21 GMT
I'm still looking for someone with the keen eyesight, steady hands, and devil-may-care attitude to pay to upgrade my spare-TED2 that I purchased in 2018! I'd do it (I have enough practice now), but you'd be shipping it across borders both ways (which is sub-optimal). The Develo board is an alternative, but *much* less usable. There's also PCEMon... I was looking at Chris' modified multi-tap which switches over to PCEmon, and I had an idea to make it a little more compact, and I thought about adding Develo capability, but I need more info on the software side of Develo...
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Post by turboxray on Nov 26, 2019 15:55:32 GMT
Hmm.. my soldering skills are decent. I'll try it out and let you know haha. Also, does mednafen emulate some of what TeD does? At least the extra ram? elmer Aren't you in the states? dshadoff Oh yeah I forgot about PCEmon.
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Post by dshadoff on Nov 26, 2019 17:43:13 GMT
Just tweeted: discounts for everdrive on black Friday. Twiiter
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Post by gredler on Nov 26, 2019 20:30:16 GMT
Just tweeted: discounts for everdrive on black Friday. TwiiterHas anyone asked Krikzz if he would do a specialization to an order to add the usb to it before shipping? He might have just delisted the option and made it a special order request only?
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Post by turboxray on Nov 28, 2019 5:37:07 GMT
Thanks for the tip. I just picked one up
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Post by elmer on Nov 28, 2019 6:22:23 GMT
Also, does mednafen emulate some of what TeD does? At least the extra ram? I've currently got my personal copy of Mednafen hacked to provide 1MB of RAM in cartridge space so that I can debug TEOS, but I've not gone as far as adding full, or even partial, TED2-emulation support to Mednafen properly. It wouldn't be horrible to do, but I've just not needed it (yet). elmer Aren't you in the states? Yep, Southern California. My, too, which is terribly unfair of me after all of the lovely work that Chris has put into it ... it really does look great, and it's a very clever solution to the problem.
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