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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-software59 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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ToddChamberlain59 days ago

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. 

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