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Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:20 pm
by Moggy
Ah understood Mike.
I'm using win 7 and 10 just for reference.
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:48 pm
by mrtinb
MikeW wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:20 am
I'm compiling from scratch with the latest 1.22 source on the web. However, I had to do a fair amount of fiddling to get the development environment running on am M1 Mac with parallels desktop. To make sure nothing untoward is happening I've put together a little Windows 7 machine to compile on.
Looking forward to a port to the M1 Mac.
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:26 pm
by MikeW
mrtinb wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 1:48 pm
Looking forward to a port to the M1 Mac.
lol, Don't think that'll ever happen. Before I said the dev environment was running in parallels, but I spoke incorrectly - I've actually got it running in crossover. So yes, it does (kind of) run on my mac but C++Builder is only ever going to create x86/Windows code. Still, according to the Crossover website C++Builder won't even run on it.
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:23 pm
by Paul
MikeW wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:26 pm
but C++Builder is only ever going to create x86/Windows code
I'm afraid I can't agree here. The actual versions of Delphi and c++builder do create code for Linux, macos, iOS and Android as well.
They are available in a free version c++builder community edition.
The port of the GUI to firemonkey is the hard part. But it's not impossible.
I use the actual Delphi version at work and would be willing to help porting to the actual c++ builder. If there would be a limitation in the free version I could compile the releases on my company versions. It's just too big for a single person. Would you be willing to take up the task together with me?
Kind regards Paul
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:00 pm
by MikeW
OK, wow, that's news to me.
Guess that's what comes from being out of the loop for so long. I thought builder/Delphi was long dead and buried. Something else for me to look into.
Today I was having a little fun... took the picture below and though to myself I never thought an emulator could look so authentic... of course the 15k CRT really helps with looking bad.
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:30 pm
by 1024MAK
Hi Mike
Obviously if you are on a bug hunting mission, the ZX80/ZX81 bugs should be the first to be squashed
.
Over on the
Spectrum Computing forums, some members there talk about some possible bugs with the ZX Spectrum Interface 1 and Microdrive emulation. See
this topic.
Mark
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:02 pm
by mrtinb
Moggy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:10 pm
Printer works ok for me.
Printning works for regular ROM calls, but some of the software with custom print routines doesn’t work.
WordSinc II.3
viewtopic.php?p=18848#p18848
viewtopic.php?p=28731#p28731
This is a word processor with lowercase letters and more than 32 chars per line.
Printing on a regular Alphacom32 works fine, but printing in EightyOne prints garbage.
Re: Can someone confirm something for me?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:03 pm
by MikeW
Well I've spent the day rewriting the sound code.
Got rid of the old multimedia timer and now everything is synchronised to the audio output. `it should make a big difference to the sound outout (he says, now expecting the fall). All I have to do now is plug the actual emolation core sound data into the new DSound code...
I wrote the original sound code as a placeholder, just to produce some noise until I could get round to writing the proper code. I guess 18 years is long enough to wait.