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mozzie
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Posted: 08:21pm 27 May 2025

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G'day,
Peter, think you may have got the threads mixed up...

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In the manual I find nothing about controlling the brightness,

or are you trying to tell me something...

(I could be brighter)

Volhout, thanks for testing, can you try setting:

option colourcode off

And testing again, works ok in colour but not in monochrome.

Edit: Also affects HDMI in monochrome.

Regards,
Lyle.
Edited 2025-05-28 06:38 by mozzie

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Lyle,

I can confirm, with option colourcode off , the mouse cursor is 8x16, and does not line up with the text in the editor.
Colourcode off .. who would have thought of that one. I never used It since colourcode was introduced.

Peter… a small one for you to fix probably..

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I actually like the mouse. Going to adapter Some games for It… or port some of William Leue's CMM2 games. Some of these can only be played with mouse.
Edited 2025-05-28 15:41 by Volhout

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Posted: 07:27am 28 May 2025

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Harm

Please can you check if this fixes it? If not I will probably block the mouse completely in the editor when colourcode is off

PicoMiteVGA.zip

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Hi Peter,

I can tonight. Currently on customer visit.

Volhout
P.S. Is colourcode off really different from colourcode on? I had imagined that the only difference is that the tiles do not change color, but stay black/white.
Edited 2025-05-28 17:42 by Volhout

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@Peter,

Yes, that fixed it. Now the mouse cursor is correct on both colorcode ON and OFF.

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V6.00.02RC25 is available on

https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite/PicoMite_Beta.zip

Fixes 3 small bugs in the editor

mozzie
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G'day,
Thanks Peter and Volhout for sorting that out, another one squashed

Also apologies for the poor attempt at humor above, comedian I aint

Regards,
Lyle.

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RC25 Updated due to F2 in editor not working

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G'day Peter,
Hope you don't mind me asking this here.

Can you please confirm the mouse functionality in the latest firmware versions is strictly VGA / HDMI and is not going to be extended to the parallel LCD panels?

As Volhout mentioned, I didn't miss the mouse functions before, but now we have them its hard to go back.

Looking at display options for a project and if the SSD1963 is still worth looking at, they are a good display but getting pricey and limited options for IPS etc.

Thanks again for the time and energy you put into this project.

Regards,
Lyle.

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Quote Can you please confirm the mouse functionality in the latest firmware versions is strictly VGA / HDMI and is not going to be extended to the parallel LCD panels?

Yes

Quote Looking at display options for a project and if the SSD1963 is still worth looking at, they are a good display but getting pricey and limited options for IPS etc.

They are great if you need speed but the physical displays tend to be old and poor viewing angles/brightness

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G'day Peter,
Thanks for the clarification, I guess this means with the price and availability of HDMI TFT/IPS displays and the useful addition of the mouse functions in the HDMI firmware, these have become the better option.

After a reasonable amount of searching, it would appear 1024x600 resolution has become fairly universal in 7"/8"/9"/10" (and some 5" and 12") LCD's in both TFT and IPS versions, even some "daylight readable / high brightness".

With this in mind, assuming the RP2350/PicoMite is capable of generating HDMI at 1024x600 within the HSTX module, would you consider adding support for this resolution in a future version of the firmware?

I realise you are just wrapping up 06.00.02 and I am in no way asking for it to be included in this.

Thanks again.
Regards,
Lyle.

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Quote With this in mind, assuming the RP2350/PicoMite is capable of generating HDMI at 1024x600 within the HSTX module, would you consider adding support for this resolution in a future version of the firmware?

Would be prepared to do this but have no idea what the parameters would be: back-porches, sync pulses, front porches as this isn't a standard resolution in any standard I'm aware of

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G'day Peter,
Thanks for even thinking about it, must be looking forward to a well deserved break after getting 060002 so close to finished

Time for me to do some home-work, I assume we need to know the parameters in relation to a known implementation (say 1024x768) for comparison.

Any chance you can point me at what section of the source code sets up the HSTX module, if I know what I'm looking for it'll help.

Regards,
Lyle.
Edited 2025-06-02 03:20 by mozzie

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Function HDMICore in PicoMite.c

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Posted: 07:06pm 01 Jun 2025

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it's getting too complicated, not a clue for ages. where did the fun go?

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Quote it's getting too complicated, not a clue for ages. where did the fun go?

How does that contribute to getting the firmware to display in 1024x600 format?

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matherp said

Quote it's getting too complicated, not a clue for ages. where did the fun go?

How does that contribute to getting the firmware to display in 1024x600 format?

that's the point, not a clue and makes me feel useless I can't contribute.
2 colours?

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Don't bother about it, Stan. I lost touch with programming ages ago. In fact, you are *way* ahead of me in graphics programming. :)

It'll get a lot easier for the likes of us when the new manual is ready. :)

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Mixtel90 said Don't bother about it, Stan. I lost touch with programming ages ago. In fact, you are *way* ahead of me in graphics programming. :)

It'll get a lot easier for the likes of us when the new manual is ready. :)

I thought you were way ahead of me sir!
I posted before mmbasic was dynamic...ephemeral, capable of change ie versatile
. all great stuff but trying to keep up is getting more difficult... for me at least. I'm NOT moaning!
The review of the new manual I started reading. noticed the simplified sound filter but I bought 5 chokes so using that circuit.
what happens if you don't use a filter and just plug it into an amp.. with speakers...and tweeters?
I'll leave it for the brainy guys and thank them very much.
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stanleyella said trying to keep up is getting more difficult... for me at least

The same for many of us but for me, it's a "happy problem"

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