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thwill

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Posted: 12:12pm 17 Apr 2023

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Volhout said Sorry Tom...

enabling was the wrong word. "commented out" should be the wording.
Yes, ATARI caused the SETPIN error on GP15

Volhout

OK,

I think Mick's comment is "irrelevant"

, though the important consideration about the PicoGAME VGA (which is what I developed on) is that it has hardware pull-ups on all the controller pins - and my code is probably relying on that.

Just to be clear, is the behaviour that:

1. If NES controllers and ATARI joysticks are uncommented then it "hangs"
2. If the NES controllers are commented and the ATARI joysticks are uncommented then it reports the GP15 error - though I thought I was suppressing errors from the controllers using ON ERROR IGNORE.

If that's the case then the game thinks that one of the (missing) NES controllers is holding A, B or START down (low) and is hung waiting for it to be released. Probably enabling software PULLUPS on GP1 and GP4 would workaround that.

Which specific PCB is this, I may have to invest further

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Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2023-04-17 22:17 by thwill

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Posted: 07:15pm 17 Apr 2023

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Hi Tom,

Items 1/ and 2/ are well formulated. This is exectly what I see.

This is the PCB:

Peter's 1.7 VGA picomite design

It has all pins used except GP0...GP5, GP22, GP26,27,28 and these are open pins (no pullup/pulldown)

Volhout
Edited 2023-04-18 05:16 by Volhout

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stanleyella

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Posted: 08:23pm 17 Apr 2023

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I used a touch screen for the buttons. ps always hated atari joysticks They were hits.

Edited 2023-04-18 07:00 by stanleyella

thwill

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Posted: 11:24am 18 Apr 2023

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Volhout said Items 1/ and 2/ are well formulated. This is exectly what I see.

OK, did you have to comment out the ON ERROR IGNORE line in ctrl.poll_single%() to get it to display the GP15 error ?

Volhout said This is the PCB:

Peter's 1.7 VGA picomite design

I think Peter sent me (an earlier version of) that PCB, but is seems to have gone AWOL, no doubt it will turn up in a couple of years to perplex me.

Best wishes,

Tom

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