ADFFS future feature testing

[Vanfanel]

@Jon: Eveything is ok now, except for:
-Technodream is still hanging on exit sometimes. I would say 1/4 times or more.
-Rick Dangerous is still leaving the mouse pointer in automatic-movement mode sometimes, not always.

The rest seem to be fixed on Pi1 at least.

EDIT: "The Last Ninja" is hanging on boot again.

[JonAbbott]

-Technodream is still hanging on exit sometimes. I would say 1/4 times or more.

Is this after running something else or straight after a clean boot. ie 1 in 4 times after a clean boot the game hangs?

-Rick Dangerous is still leaving the mouse pointer in automatic-movement mode sometimes, not always.

Are you talking about the mouse pointer at the desktop after using CTRL-SHIFT-F12? If so, everything is shutdown and memory put back in the spare heap.

"The Last Ninja" is hanging on boot again.

I've been unable to reproduce this. I've put the debug Modules up, if you'd like to try it under them to find the address it's hanging at. I'll need to know the PC address.

[JonAbbott]

Sensible Soccer - palette issue

This is fixed with updated Modules and latest obey.zip

EDIT: Although it appears to hang during the intro on Pi2/Pi2, but works on Pi3
EDIT2: QTM is crashing when converting the tracker samples although, the root cause could be the DTT shim module. I can't fathom out why it works on Pi3 through
EDIT3: Should be fixed with the updated DTT Module I've just copied up

[JonAbbott]

I've finally managed to work my way through all the reported issues, the only game that's directly affected by the PLL VSync is Pysanki, or more specifically it's music. I suspect there will be other games where the music is affected, but it's expected when games hang their music code off VSync instead of TickerV.

Of the issues that are outstanding, Blitz! and SWIV are running the game under an IRQ, so need their code modifying to work. The alternative is to implement a proper Paravirtualized CPU, which I've put off to date as its a lot of work for a few games. Blitz! is also missing the disc protection, so isn't worth looking at until I can locate an original to image.
Command Ship's issue is related to a bug in its code, which is relying on a Page Zero access to work.
Dune II is an issue in CLib, where unhandled IRQ's are causing stack unwinds. I'll deal with this when we test localized APCS-R
Finally Elite, I'll be dropping support for as it needs full WIMP support to work.

I'll sort out the next test build and detail the games that need testing under it soon.

[JonAbbott]

The localized APCS-R build is up on the dev site, before it will work you need to copy the CLibAPCS-R Module to the extras folder.

Games that need testing are:

• Alone In the Dark
• Asylum
• Battle Chess
• Burn 'Out
• Command Ship
• Dune II - Battle for Arrakis
• Empire Soccer 94
• Fish!
• Gribbly's Day Out
• Inferno
• The Pawn
• Populous
• Quest For Gold
• Quest For Gold [Learning Curve version]

I've already noticed that CTRL-SHIFT-F12 doesn't work with any of these games, which I'll investigate.

[Vanfanel]

@Jon:

Battle Chess: OK
Burn Out: OK
The Pawn: OK
Glibbly's Day Out: OK
Fish!: OK
Inferno: OK

Asylum: Works very slowly
Alone in the Dark: Crashes: Uncaught trap - Internal error, undefined instruction at &2027459C
DUNE2: Crash on blue screen
Command Ship: Stalls in PLEASE WAIT banner
Quest for Gold: Seems to work OK, but pressing ESC during a game results in "undefined instruction at &202BB61C"
Empire Soccer 94: Crashes after tittle screen
Populus: Hangs when clicking on STAR GAME

Also, "The Last Ninja" is now showing: "undefined instruction at &FC0174C4"

[JonAbbott]

CTRL-SHIFT-F12 doesn't work with any of these games, which I'll investigate.

Resolved with the latest Modules

Asylum: Works very slowly
Command Ship: Stalls in PLEASE WAIT banner

Known issues I need to look at.

DUNE2: Crash on blue screen

I've been unable to reproduce this, although it does generate a blue screen when you click exit. At what point does it crash?

Empire Soccer 94: Crashes after title screen

Oddly, this works if you use *ADFBootFloppy from the commandline. It does however crash if you quit via ESC.

Quest for Gold: Seems to work OK, but pressing ESC during a game results in "undefined instruction at &202BB61C"

ESC quits the game, this will be resolved with the updated Modules

Alone in the Dark: Crashes: Uncaught trap - Internal error, undefined instruction at &2027459C

This looks like the same issue as before, its on the list to investigate

Populous: Hangs when clicking on START GAME

I'll investigate.

"The Last Ninja" is now showing: "undefined instruction at &FC0174C4"

I'll need more detail, as I've tried this on Pi1, Pi2 and Pi3 at 50hz and 60hz and have been unable to get it to crash.

[JonAbbott]

-Command Ship: hangs on mission select screen. Sometimes it hangs earlier on the "Please Wait" banner.

This is hopefully fixed with the latest obey.zip.

I've added your APCS-R issues to your post on page 1, if you notice any changes, please update that post.

[Vanfanel]

@Jon:
I updates modules/obey
-Command Ship seems to work well now!
-Last Ninja doesn't crash anymore (no idea why, but it's ok now!)

No changes in the other APCSR affected titles.
As for DUNE2, I get a blue screen when I press the mouse button on the Eclipse logo. In tha blue screen, I see an "Abort on data transfer at &01245F6C", among a lot of other information. Do you want an screenshot of that in case you can't replicate it?

[JonAbbott]

DUNE2, I get a blue screen when I press the mouse button on the Eclipse logo. In tha blue screen, I see an "Abort on data transfer at &01245F6C", among a lot of other information.

Could you try commenting out the line that runs the intro and see if it still crashes. The Abort tells me where it's crashed, but not which app.

If it works without the intro, uncomment the intro and comment the main game, then see if it crashes when skipping the intro.