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Bouncer, Cannon Fodder , Chuck Rock , Gods and Heimdall are now working on the Pi, Codelet re-entrancy is now supported and Frame Pacing is re-enabled. Disc swapping issues on BlowPipe and Xenon2: Megablast are now resolved. There's been extensive changes to the way the blitter works, it's now threa...

https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/release/F10065/Art/Cover/cover.png Cannon Fodder (1994) (Krisalis Software) ID: 10065 Version: Unknown Developer: Sensible Software; Jay Butler Genre: Strategy; Real time; War RAM: 2048 CPU compatibility: ARM2 ARM250 ARM3 ARM610 ARM700 ARM710 ARM7500 StrongARM ARMv5+ OS ...

This seems to have resolved the issue of swapping discs, however it now instantly locks the machine when a disc swap happens. I'm currently investigating why and hope it's resolvable I've managed to track down the issue and find a solution. RTSupport is again the root cause of the issue, it looks l...

Three SWI's remain which can't currently be recycled:

• SharedCLibraryAPCS_R
• Sound_Configure
• Vector Claims (OS_AddCallBack, OS_Claim, OS_CallAfter, OS_CallEvery, OS_AddToVector, OS_ClaimDeviceVector)

These need moving to static entry points so the original SWI instruction can be released

Notes on providing 26bit module support Create a stub module header in the JIT RMA Heap and insert into the RMA, this needs to contain the SWI table, Command table and all Module entry points: Init, Start, Exit, Service (coded) All entry points need a managed entry/exit (coded) JIT RMA Heap and code...

Notes on providing WIMP support

1. At all ADFFS entry points, check Wimp_ReadSysInfo 5 or OS_ReadSysInfo 6 DomainId to confirm the current task is one we're handling
2. Spawn a new JIT area for child tasks (created via either Filer_Run or Wimp_StartTask)

Ironically the codelet reentrancy is now causing the Pi to crash. It looks like the IRQ stack is being reset as RISCOS' IRQ handler exits, I need to investigate further. This turned out to be an issue design decision made in the RTSupport module where it resets the IRQ stack when it exits. It would...

There are several reasons why it's difficult to swap discs in some games. The root cause itself is when a game sits in a tight loop waiting for input, be it a key or a disc change. Blowpipe, Chuck Rock and Xenon 2 all sit in loops of less than a dozen instructions; Blowpipe and Xenon 2 continually t...

Finally got around to testing RO5 IOMD and to my amazement a few games actually work. RO5.20 had issues, but RO5.21 seemed better behaved. I'm not sure why that's the case, as I don't recall there being any dependency on bug fixes on IOMD. Both Zarch and Jet Fighter worked, games that write to VIDC1...