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matherp
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Posted: 03:24pm 06 Mar 2022

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V5.07.03b4

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Should significantly reduce system load when the screen is not being changed and also during pause statements as long as no interrupts are set.

Michal
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Posted: 06:32pm 06 Mar 2022

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Excellent

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Posted: 06:57pm 06 Mar 2022

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@Peter

The efficiency increased significant. But you tuned it a bit to far, If you run the fft program and press "w" a few times slowly (do not repeat too fast) the graphics driver stops before it is finished drawing.

The top graph is drawn partially.Also some text is not drawn.
When you repeat the "w" fast and regular, the drawing completes. I guess you have an algorytm to sleep the drawing engine that could be tuned.

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P.S. this is MMBasic on Wine. Maybe this does not happen in W10/W11
Edited 2022-03-07 05:00 by Volhout

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Posted: 09:23pm 06 Mar 2022

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Likewise here on native Windows10
Switching to mode 10 seems to be the worst.

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Posted: 10:16pm 06 Mar 2022

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Does this fix it?

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Posted: 11:20pm 06 Mar 2022

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Fixed it for me...

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Posted: 07:41am 07 Mar 2022

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Yes Peter,

That fixed it for the FFT demo program, tested on Wine(linux) and W10.

Thanks

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Posted: 08:09am 07 Mar 2022

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@Peter,

I am trying to find out why Wolf3d on CMM2 and MMB4W is behaves different.
At first I thought the Left Control key (to fire a weapon) was not handled correctly in MMB4W, but that seems to work on W10 (not sure about Wine/linux though).

I do get a (low volume) "shot" sound, but on CMM2 the gun makes a small movement while firing. This seems not happening on MMB4W. I have to double check tonight (MMB4W on W10 in the office, CMM2 at home).

How does sound volume work on MMB4W. There is an individual volume in each play command (i.e. "play sound"), and then there is a "play volume L,R" command. Is this similar of individual gain settings for the different players, and a master volume ?

I guess this is a RTFM question .... (RTFM = Read The F*cking Manual)..

And then there is the issue of the face in the lower part of the screen. The eyes move at a frightfull speed. Maybe that is poor programming from Mauro, who is runnign at the top speed of the CMM2, and MMB4W is much faster on a recent PC.
Edited 2022-03-07 18:11 by Volhout

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Posted: 08:35am 07 Mar 2022

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I finally got around to testing MMBasic for Windows.

The last versions that work for me (under WIN10) are 5.07.03a1 and 5.07.03a. With all versions after that a white and a black window opens and closes again after a few seconds without any error message - that's it...
All beta versions do not work for me (same behavior).

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Quote The last versions that work for me (under WIN10) are 5.07.03a1 and 5.07.03a.

All versions after a3 implement sound support. It sounds like you are missing the 32-bit winmm.dll or something similar

Quote How does sound volume work on MMB4W.

Should be the same as CMM2. The only difference is that it implements a logarithmic volume control which is also now in CMM2 but post-dates Mauro's code

Quote Maybe that is poor programming from Mauro,

Ouch

Mauro controls the overall frame rate but probably not small movements. The gun it probably moving between frames, likewise the eyes

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Posted: 10:25am 07 Mar 2022

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Hmm, winmm.dll is on my system - but it takes longer until the windows just close when I copy the DLL to MMBasic for Windows...

Too bad !!!

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Good morning Peter,

Thanks to your recent changes I've almost got my unit-test framework up and running and things are mostly green.

However here's a blocker for running the entire suite in a single command.

Setup:

1. MKDIR "execute-run-test"
2. CHDIR "execute-run-test"
3. Create a file "one.bas" in this directory:

Print "One"
Execute "RUN " + Chr$(34) + "two.bas" + Chr$(34)

4. Create a file "two.bas" in this directory:

Print "Two"

Now observe the following:

On the CMM2 this would have worked and output:

One
Two

This is because on the CMM2 when you run one program from another the relative path to the new program is "correctly" resolved from the directory containing the running program, whereas on MMB4W it looks like it is resolved from the current working directory.

EDIT: Though for the life of me I can't make head or tail of the CMM2's file opening code, does your keyboard only have the letters i, p & q on it

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2022-03-07 21:07 by thwill

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Posted: 10:50am 07 Mar 2022

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matherp said
Ouch

Mauro controls the overall frame rate but probably not small movements. The gun it probably moving between frames, likewise the eyes

Sorry, that wasn't meant to hurt (neither you neither Mauro), just to say that it is work in progress, and this may not be finished.

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Posted: 11:14am 07 Mar 2022

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thwill said On the CMM2 this would have worked and output:

One
Two

Ignore me (for the moment), I may be wrong about this as it seems to fail in the same way on the CMM2 ... something else must be in play.

EDIT: It honestly looks like I "made this sh*t up" in MMB4L, very strange. I wonder how/why ... I must have assumed it was the behaviour of the CMM2 and just implemented it. I guess I'm not sleeping enough .

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2022-03-07 21:30 by thwill

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Posted: 11:34am 07 Mar 2022

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Back in the land of sanity (I hope), is MM.INFO$(PATH) not implemented ?

Best wishes,

Tom

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Posted: 12:11pm 07 Mar 2022

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MM.INFO$(DIRECTORY) may help??

thwill

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Pluto said MM.INFO$(DIRECTORY) may help??

I'm afraid not.

MM.INFO$(DIRECTORY) returns the current working directory (like CWD$ but not identical in all circumstances).

MM.INFO$(PATH) retuns the directory containing the currently running program, i.e. the parent of MM.INFO$(CURRENT).

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2022-03-07 22:50 by thwill

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Posted: 01:13pm 07 Mar 2022

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mm.info(current) gives the current program with the full pathname. If I implement mm.info(path) do you want the final "\"?

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matherp said mm.info(current) gives the current program with the full pathname. If I implement mm.info(path) do you want the final "\"?

Yes please Peter, because that is what the CMM2 does.

Best wishes,

Tom

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Posted: 01:48pm 07 Mar 2022

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