Re: Another JACE build released

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

If you grabbed JACE before 9:50 CST today then there was a display bug
(a reversion actually, not even a new bug!) but now the display looks
okay in GR, HGR and DHGR as it should.  I can finally put away all
those looming changes that I haven't had time to think about in the
past year so now I can focus on other features for a change.  I know
that the video NTSC rendering is kinda hacked (the Y component is not
based on a sliding window, it's just using fixed values) but it looks
pretty good in spite of that.  Things like the color fringes of lo-res
pixels of different colors look like correct approximations.  I
noticed I left myself loopholes to implement Chat Mauve support
(render a DHGR byte in B&W if the hi-bit is set).  Is this a feature
anyone would want?

-B

On Jan 19, 12:39 am, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> JACE finally has a decent amount of updates and I think it's stable
> enough to release another build.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/java-ace/files/Builds
>
> Changes since last build:
> -Better NTSC color emulation
> -Fixes to prevent crashes on start (race condition in video
> initalization)
> -Tweaks to sound timing
> -Experimental raw sound output (activate/deactivate with F7)
> -Help text on start screen now reports correct key shortcuts
> -Lots of other things here and there I've forgotten about (it's been a
> while!)
> -Removed some configuration options that were causing unnecessary
> grief (Program counter shouldn't be a config variable)
>
> I think the most important part is that the configuration seems to be
> pretty reliable (press F4).  There are some unfortunate limitations to
> Java though, especially when it comes to joystick support (or lack
> thereof) and accelerated graphics -- though the Java 2D can work
> relatively well on most platforms.  Next big steps will be conversion
> to a more modular plugin system so that additional modules will not
> constitute compile or runtime dependencies of the core code.  This
> will allow better input/video/output plugins that can utilize things
> like jinput and lwjgl at some later point in time.
>
> -B