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country-bumpkin-software114 days ago (1 edit)

Hi Todd thanks so much.

I've been busy on my website creating detailed examples to get people started.  Take a look and let me know how you get along or if anything can be made clearer.  I'll be spending this evening testing them on the A6000 (just finished tests with the Mac).

I really look forward to seeing what you can make with Fred80.

While you wait for your v4 you cant still mac games on the windows or Mac version and they would still work on the vampire once you get it.  It might work on the v2 I just haven't tested it on those versions as I don't own one.

Also there will be a new release in the coming days too which will allow you to create a distribution package so you can share with friends any games you make or post it to itch too so the players of the game wont need fred80 to play it.

Have fun!

https://fred80.dev/examples.html

Here are the examples ^

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ToddChamberlain112 days ago

Hi again. OK, I downloaded the Windows version to start figuring it out. Is there a forum somewhere to ask questions? or is there a section on the Apollo discord?  I couldn't see how to save programs. Probably something simple, but I couldn't see how. Also, I couldn't figure out how to get the examples from the example.html page in to see what they  look like -- I assumed I could cut and paste, but that only worked one line at a time, which didn't seem correct.  Anyway - where us there a user community forum for help/instructions. Thanx.

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country-bumpkin-software112 days ago (2 edits)

Hi Todd,

to save you press Control + S, to run Control +R.  I dont have a windows device to throughly test on just my sons laptop (which I rarely get access to)  if you run into any issues with the saving etc let me know and i can wrench the laptop form him and check.

The examples you would have to type in but they are quite small.  I tested them so they definately work

I can set up a discussion forum in this itch.

With the copy paste of the examples into Fred80 - ive been considering that.  I can try to implement that this weekend and send it to you if that makes things easier while you experiment with fred80.

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ToddChamberlain112 days ago (2 edits)

OK - I wouldn't be surprised if Apollo would give an area on their discord. They have a thread for #ApolloBoot (which I don't think is an official internal project? Maybe? May be Not?🤷) and so them maybe adding a thread for #Fred80 would be a nice, convenient place too? It feels like a #Fred80 thread on the Apollo Discord would be seen by EVERYONE with an Apollo accelerator (and those considering an Apollo accelerator/board)

And yes, I would think that Cut & Paste would be very valuable, vs typing with my old eyes. 😁

I do also have a few suggestions - but I probably should try to find a manual... CRTL-S and CTRL-R are probably already documented somewhere which I didn't see yet. :)

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country-bumpkin-software99 days ago

Hi Todd,  Ive been quite busy but Ive implemented the copy paste feature you mentioned.  Ill try to upload the new version this weekend!

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ToddChamberlain99 days ago

Thanks. And also happy to hear that the built-in screen saver is configurable, or has a longer timeout as well.  10 seconds was way too short. :)  

But thank you again for being so responsive to the community... that's awesome

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ToddChamberlain60 days ago

OK - my V4 Ultimate is here, and I've downloaded Fred80 onto it.

Is the screensaver configurable for timeout somehow?

Also - the download doesn't contain any example carts - where can I download them? Thanks!

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country-bumpkin-software60 days ago (1 edit)

Hey Todd congrats on getting the v4 that sounds awesome!

About the screensaver you can  drop a fred80.cfg next to the FRED-80 binary to override defaults. So create that file next to the fred80.m68k file.

Set ss_timeout (in seconds) to change it, or set it very high to effectively disable it. 

# fred80.cfg ss_timeout = 30

Let me know if that works for you!

If you look at https://fred80.dev/examples.html there are a bunch of examples you can copy paste into fred80.  Ive not tried copying and pasting from the website into fred80 on my v4 before though!

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ToddChamberlain60 days ago (1 edit)

OK - thanks, creating that fred80.cfg with the line

ss_timeout = 300'

worked to extend a longer timeout.  Thanks.

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country-bumpkin-software60 days ago

thats great Todd!

Any idea what sort of game your wanting to make? If you have any trouble or need a hand or want some extra features just shout out and i can do my best to make it better!

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