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I'm finding Dice Wars a very absorbing game and am becoming slightly addicted. The AI presents quite a challenge... I thought I had the strategy all worked out and then got beaten several times in a row. I did notice a slight weakness in the AI when the game reaches a point where there are surplus d...

Bosco wrote:Also I noticed on Bitly I'd had a download from French Polynesia

That's pretty cool You have officially become a global phenomenon

If the synchro problem between the two clocks is 'hardware' related ... maybe it could be changed? I won't mind to add a daugther board if necessary! To get two clocks to run in sync would need someone with far more skill than me to figure out. Though if a daughterboard is OK, then an easier soluti...

Sorry pser1, I didn't mean to write off your TV. I misunderstood what kind of movement you were referring to. Are you talking about the annoying sawtooth patterns that travel up and down vertical edges? Unfortunately this is a standard feature of Dragons. The problem here is the video display is tim...

It's not a bad start. The mismatch doesn't look obvious in the photo. The problem with older TVs is they are not really designed to display images from computers. The sides of the screen bend in response to the wild changes in beam current. More modern digital TVs should be better as they are contro...

pser1 wrote:I have tried Tano with XRoar and have got the same flickering

Hmm. I must have got lucky. My laptop gives a nice smooth display with the Tano Dragon but I've just tried my PC at work and the display is nowhere near as nice. My laptop must have the right 60Hz by chance.

Yes, a pity the SG24 doesn't work so well, though it could be the monitor. Is it a CRT? The display can be distorted by bright areas so the two frames don't line up properly. I've just discovered that it is possible to switch between Dragon 64 & Tano Dragon from the menu in xroar without changing th...

So, if we want to have two different colors in a byte, red and blue for instance, we will always get them darkened. If they were in different bytes they could be the normal ones.Do you see any way to get around this problem? Perhaps just try all darkened colours first, to see what the higher resolu...

I'm not sure how successful it would be without sync as you would no longer be in control of when each frame is displayed. The base address can only change once per frame but the colour set can change anywhere so you could end up with some very strange results. SG24 has got me thinking... What if on...

I like the mixed colour sets even more. It should be possible to make some nice looking landscape images with those colours.

As you say, there's some work to convert images for display. I suppose something like photoshop could be used to do a colour depth reduction to the new palette.