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.
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.
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. :)
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!
Thanks!
I used to do a LOT of programming back in the day... back in the 80's and 90's -- but really nothing since Amiga went away. I mainly used compiled languages - HiSoft Basic back in the day, as well as PowerBASIC & PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PBCC) for PC Applications (PowerBASIC is a very VERY fast complier, with very good compact code output)
Anyway - I'm going to take some time to get up to speed.. so we will see. I'm thinking of a strategy game, but would probably want and 800x600 screen, or a 1024x768 screenmode... so maybe having more flexibility on the SAGA screenmodes might be a feature.
It would be nice if all those example carts could be in a single download file, a zip or lha or something. It'd be good to learn by seeing what has already been done with Fred80, and so if there was a way to bundle up a directory of Carts (rather than manually cutting-and-pasting and putting them on a MicroSD card one at a time. So, I'd find it useful if we could send source code, or even if the Fred80 download would include a bunch of example carts, rather than having to cut-and-paste or type each one in manually.
That would be a useful thing I think.