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What do people think of the idea of a DSP upgrade for the Falcon? In terms of difficulty, expense, and benefit. Aside from people overclocking their DSP's (up to 64mhz) it hasn't really had the same attention over the years as what the CPU has! It seems the DSP 56k family didn't stop development unt...

I have accelerated DSP and everything worked fine so far (stock CPU/BUS speed) Great to know, this backs up Doug's answer - the DSP can be much faster and everything will still work. It seems it would not be worth his effort though, to throw more work at the DSP if it's detected running faster so t...

Bumping an old thread but just curious, why implement DSP in VHDL/FPGA when real 56k DSP chips are not very expensive? At least, looking on NXP/Freescale/Motorola's website they still seem to be selling DSP's in the 56k / Symphony family for $5 - $10 per unit. Sorry if it's a stupid question, I don'...

Do you think there is any scope to take advantage of overclocked DSP's? I assume you have manually balanced the workloads between the CPU and DSP in their stock form (and rightly so) and having a faster DSP can't really be taken advantage of, but just curious. I remember people OC'd their DSP's with...

Very impressive result!

Well, yes, I think "beat dis" can be beaten. However, the current approach aims for flexibility and is meant to be useful for game development. In fact, the routine is able to display 20 sprites without restoring the background (clear only), so it's already quite fast I guess. I think you've alread...

Nice work. I'm curious, after writing this demo has your opinion changed since you made this post? It looks like your blobs are 16 colours, which in my opinion would mean you beat dis (you did use the blitter, but yours and leonards opinion previously was that the CPU routine would be faster)

Congrats on the release, can't wait to fire it up!

I asked Ppera (seeing as he hacked around with it a bit and made a hard drive, more compatible version). He doesn't post here anymore.
He said it definitely doesn't use any STE features.

I should add, in Steem I have a weird screen-wrapping behaviour with the mouse. If I move the cursor out to the right side it will appear on the left, BUT the buttons no longer work so you can't click on anything. The first time I loaded the game it was ignoring my clicks and I just restarted it, bu...

No worries. I'm playing it now, Easy levels are very.... easy But love the concept, going onto harder levels now!
It seems to work with 2MB also.
So min reqs are TOS 2.06 + 2MB of ram

OK, works with that config. Sorry, I played with ram and TOS versions but must have missed that combo.

Hi, I tried to run this in Steem but get some issues. Tried 1MB, 4MB, Tos 1.62, 2.06

This post looks a lot like spam bro, the short URL could be anything and there's not much of a description of the link! Anyway, for other peoples benefit I cautiously took a look. A New Speccy Is coming Fall in love again Relive the experience of opening a box and getting a brand new Spectrum that f...

MMy old HP 19 inch LCD is on a stand and easily rotated 90 degrees (in fact this is how I have it right now when used as a second screen on my PC. Goes next to the 27 incher, it's about the same height when on its side)

I'm curious, with all the reverse engineering of the shifter etc lately, and the fact that the custom ST chips are emulated in FPGA in MiST etc.... what does this board do? Does it contain original, custom ST chips?

Atari74user wrote:Out of interest, do you recall what used IIRC, never used it, and can't recall coming across it on the Atari? Interested to know!

IIRC = if I recall correctly

Umm - dare I say it, that website could possibly do with a teensy bit of a design overhaul. The links all seem to suffer from random sizes and highlighting and it's not entirely clear to the casual visitor what they should be clicking on. There are far too many links that go straight back to Steem ...

Steem Authors wrote:We've added some links to steem.atari.st and github as suggested.

Cheers
Ant (Steem)

Thanks a lot! This will no doubt also help Steem SSE's google rank a bit also!

I want to make it joystick controlled so that you can run left/right and jump, and then I'll use up the rest of the (512K) memory with more scenic objects. I've no idea about sound. If anyone wants to volunteer a simple tune and tell me how to play it I could add that, memory willing. Very impressi...

I have emailed every email address I could find (from the steem.atari.st site, and the github) suggesting they put a note in the steem download page that steem 3.2 is 12 years old, and SSE Steem is a currently maintained branch of it.

Looks great, just ran in Hataroid on my phone but will put it on a real St soon!

Great post Galax, I actually had been going to make a video about some of these SOTB demo's "one of these days", but I wasn't aware of the PP53 one! Will hold off until joefish makes this contribution as well

Watching with interest, Joefish!

What country, no international posting I assume? Because for me a search for "atari stacy" on ebay results in a few parts, literature, but no STacy