Baltak Rampage, new MSX2 demo by Traktor (Revision party 2016) | MSX Resource Center (Страница 3/4)

Scribe (7007)

28-03-2016, 17:44

I really missed MSX2 demos, thank you! Not sure if the use of PSG is part of the Traktor's DNA, I mean exploit the machine as it is, but I'm sure the use of the other MSX soundchips would increase the quality of your productions a lot, after all they are part of the MSX standard as well...

By meits

Scribe (6542)

28-03-2016, 18:15

dunno... i guess making a newspost about this is not really needed anymore... the only thing i wanted to add is that they scored a second place out of seven... Very well done

By Lord_Zett

Paladin (807)

28-03-2016, 19:02

you should make a post about it inc. link and score

By bore

Master (166)

29-03-2016, 08:48

Sorry about the delayed response. The roadtrip from Saarbrücken to Sweden takes a while.

Tested it on my NMS8250 and Esaus NMS 8280 during development. Got to test it on another NMS 8280 at Revision.
The things that differ from the hardware we tested on compared to the video capture in this thread is that the characters in the greetings part are offset by one pixel. The VDP source appears to be off if I were to guess.
I don't know what happened with the palette in the second torus part but it is supposed to be the same as in the first torus part.

BlueMSX doesn't have those issues, instead it messes up the transition between the rotating bars and the twister.

By Wild_Penguin

Hero (644)

29-03-2016, 20:22

A very nice demo indeed! I ran it on my NMS8250 - two times in a row. The music is especially impressive, IMO!

p.s. It took me a while to figure out it does not run on DOS2 (or Nextor), except with the help of map.com, it seems to run without issues!

By NYYRIKKI

Enlighted (6067)

29-03-2016, 20:38

Wild_Penguin wrote:

p.s. It took me a while to figure out it does not run on DOS2 (or Nextor), except with the help of map.com, it seems to run without issues!

Just few small tips: All DOS1 software that uses memory mapper (Practically = over 64KB of RAM) needs "map.com" to be executed first. It is just unfortunate that all computers don't support that. Mine does and that is why I have "map.com" in AUTOEXEC.BAT

In older versions of DOS2 you might also need to write SET EXPERT=ON if you want to run DOS1 software directly from floppy without copying it first to DOS2 formatted disk.

By Manuel

Ascended (19463)

29-03-2016, 23:23

bore wrote:

The things that differ from the hardware we tested on compared to the video capture in this thread is that the characters in the greetings part are offset by one pixel. The VDP source appears to be off if I were to guess.
I don't know what happened with the palette in the second torus part but it is supposed to be the same as in the first torus part.

Tickets made for that here: if you have anything to add to them, please do (Especially hints on what is going wrong in the emulation...)

https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/issues/1014
https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/issues/1015

Thanks for the feedback!

By Haohmaru

Paladin (774)

30-03-2016, 23:03

@bore: there was a NMS 8280 at Revision? Somehow I missed that... (:

By Manuel

Ascended (19463)

03-04-2016, 22:19

https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX/commit/5d90d1b3dd2585e4c4... fixes issue 1014 :)

By Manuel

Ascended (19463)

03-04-2016, 22:51

As for 1015 (wrong torus palette): so far I could only reproduce that on the 8250 (and 8255, which is identical except for th extra physical drive) config in openMSX. It works fine in all other configs I tried: 8245, turboR, Pansonic FS-A1F, etc. etc. It seems to depend on the used disk ROM image. If I change it to the diskROM of the 8245, it suddenly doesn't occur anymore.

So, I'm afraid I'm now interested in the diskROMs used in those 8280's bore Could you guys dump them? Using a simple dumper like getrom.bin should be fine.