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In March, Grey^MSB contacted me and asked if I would contribute a demo for Silly Venture 2k11. Well, creating Silly Things took the whole three months of my parental leave for my youngest daughter. Therefore, my immediate reply was: Sorry, I cannot beget another child to have enough time for a new release. Then he told me that he already has two possible entries on VCS and was looking for a third one to hold the first VCS-only demo compo in history. My first thought was: OK, the worst then is becoming third - that's cool. I immediately started coding on VCS, and my first VCS demo, BeamRacer, was released in the Oldschool 4k demo compo at Revision 2011. There, I had the same problem as the two VCS demos in the Sillyventure 2k10 combined demo compo: 4k Amiga demos look more impressive, especially if most people don't even know about the VCS and its restrictions. So it ranked 5th in the compo. Not bad for a first release, though. Also, getting it on the big screen was a lot of trouble. Therefore, I had to tweak the faster and more colorful final NTSC version (first picture) into a slower and less colorful PAL version for the beamer (second picture).
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The JHV (AGM) is over, and here are some impressions. I arrived just in time after getting lost in the "Palz" due to my outdated navigation system. It was a joyful day playing Warlords and impressing people with the preview of my new VCS demo for the Sillyventure 2k11. Later in the evening, mega-hz, hias, and I discussed the top-secret new hardware developments for the 2012 .. and 2013 hardware contests. Thanks to the excellent reaction of mega-hz, the top-secret prototype is hidden behind his hand and a glass of beer.
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One of the Atari 8-bit's most distinctive features is that the program recorder uses one channel for serial data and one for typical sound. This means that you can replay music and spoken words during loading. Based on this feature, Atari released several educational software titles. One of them is the "Atari Speed Reading" course from 1981. In the picture below, you can see Tigerduck and me after we spent the whole evening trying to sample the first tape using a notebook with AudaCity, a hi-fi system, and recoding it back on an audio tape again. It took quite a while, but finally, we found the proper recording and re-recording settings to make it work on the Atari again.
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- A "Credits" tab was added with the list of contributors and related projects like compilers, emulators, graphics, and sound libraries.
- Eclipse 3.6.2 Platform Runtime Binary (50 MB) direct link is now correct and positions correctly within the target page.
- Update of the compiler download archive:
- For MADS 1.9.3, the Mac OS X version for Intel and PowerPC are now included.
- XASM for Windows has been updated from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2.
- ACME 0.90, KickAss V3.21, and TASS 1.46 r38 are now included as preparation for supporting them.
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The content of the website has been split into individual PHP pages. So, instead of editing an HTML document with almost 4,000 lines, I can not update it more selectively and frequently. In case you experience problems with the site now, please get in touch with me.
- The FAQ section on the tab WUDSN IDE has been structured into "Installation, Configuration, Editing, and Compiling".
- .The following FAQs have been added or updated
- When I try to start Eclipse, I get an error like "Failed to load the JNI shared library 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll'". What is wrong?
- Why is WUDSN IDE not available via the update site?
- Why is MADS the primary compiler?
- Why do I get the error "No ORG defined" when compiling the example from the tutorial?
- How do I convert an ATASM source to the MADS format?
- All supported 6502 compilers are now contained in a single download archive. The installation section for compilers has been updated accordingly.
- The download URL for DASM has been changed to dasm-dillon.sourceforge.net because some ... Atari lawyers forced Andrew Davie to shut down www.atari2600.org after 11 years.
- For DASM, the new version 2.10.11 is now included. The Mac OS X PowerPC version is now also included.
- The new version 1.9.3 (source, examples, and Windows executable) is now included for MADS. Executables for other platforms will follow.
- The source example and related screenshots in the section "Creating and compiling an example project" have been updated to the syntax of MADS, which has been the default compiler since 1.6.0.