Cyclone Fixes

[notaz]

any chances of an updated picodrive for UIQ? (yeah, i have a P800 also)

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Yes, AG is working on that. See my-symbian forums for my preview version.

 

[Huxley]

Great news, cheers notaz

 

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Wow, this is great news. Thank you very much!

 

[notaz]

By the way, Dave originally released Cyclone with Pico library (his genesis emulator part). Pico is written in C, so I took it, added Starscream core from gens (it is known to work well) and built a test emulator for windows.

After testing ~40 various ROMs, I didn't find a single one which would work on Starscream+Pico and would not on Cyclone+Pico. So I felt satisfied and released Cyclone.

 

[DaveC]

By the way, Dave originally released Cyclone with Pico library (his genesis emulator part). Pico is written in C, so I took it, added Starscream core from gens (it is known to work well) and built a test emulator for windows.

After testing ~40 various ROMs, I didn't find a single one which would work on Starscream+Pico and would not on Cyclone+Pico. So I felt satisfied and released Cyclone.

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Reesy wrote a debugger program for cyclone. I would imagine he could run this new core through it to see if there are any bugs.

 

[Franxis]

This could also beneficts MAME GP32 !!!

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Any volunteer to integrate cyclone in MAME GP32???
Franxis ( fjmar 'at' hotmail 'dot' com)

 

[Franxis]

I have it compiled now:
http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/files/cy...80_compiled.rar

If somebody wants it.. ;-)

 

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This could also benefit MAME GP32 !!!

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Whoa, Cyclone in Mame GP32! Thats just what we need! Who can help with this??

 

[Reesy]

Oh Wow. I can confirm that Landstalker and Shining Force now work, nice work notaz. Unfortunately its not a fix for everything as Thunderforce 4 now has problems but I'll merge my changes and notaz's changes over the weekend and see what I'm come up with but basically I think we're looking at a perfect cyclone core. Once I'm finished I'll post the source code.

Anyway amazing stuff Notaz, well done.

Reesy

P.S Beta testers check your email, there *might* be somthing waiting for you.

 

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Skeezix does this sound like something you could use?

 

[Hanz™]

Oh Wow. I can confirm that Landstalker and Shining Force now work, nice work notaz. Unfortunately its not a fix for everything as Thunderforce 4 now has problems but I'll merge my changes and notaz's changes over the weekend and see what I'm come up with but basically I think we're looking at a perfect cyclone core. Once I'm finished I'll post the source code.

Anyway amazing stuff Notaz, well done.

Reesy

P.S Beta testers check your email, there *might* be somthing waiting for you.

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I presume whatever you meant to send you haven't yet?

 

[Horscht]

Yeah, right. I didn't receive anything either, so he probably didn't send it yet.

 

[DaveC]

Oh Wow. I can confirm that Landstalker and Shining Force now work, nice work notaz. Unfortunately its not a fix for everything as Thunderforce 4 now has problems but I'll merge my changes and notaz's changes over the weekend and see what I'm come up with but basically I think we're looking at a perfect cyclone core. Once I'm finished I'll post the source code.

Anyway amazing stuff Notaz, well done.

Reesy

P.S Beta testers check your email, there *might* be somthing waiting for you.

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Cool this is great, perfect core will be fantastic, thanks guys.

 

[triksR4rabits]

so... very... happy

 

[DaveC]

Yeah, right. I didn't receive anything either, so he probably didn't send it yet.

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It will probably come after he merges the 2 fixed cores this weekend I would guess by the post. A 100% core is huge news though, it can be used for many emus now

 

[notaz]

Thunderforce 4 now has problems

This is probably because the Stop opcode was unfinished (it was not stopping the CPU). It is now fixed, I also missed the fact that Cyclone didn't compile with armasm (Microsoft assembler), so I released another version which fixes that.

I don't think this is 100% core though, it still has some timing and flag problems, but it's moving that direction.

The new version can be found at the same location. Please report any problems if you mess with it.

 

[Reesy]

Yeah, right. I didn't receive anything either, so he probably didn't send it yet.

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It will probably come after he merges the 2 fixed cores this weekend I would guess by the post. A 100% core is huge news though, it can be used for many emus now

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Hmm has no one received the email I sent yesterday then? It was sent yesterday 7:58am UK time. Maybe I've got too many people on the distribution list and some email servers are rejecting it as spam I'll leave it for now and mess about with DrMD at the weekend. Then send out a better version, sorry about getting your hopes up people but I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

Reesy

 

[Quiest]

Hey, Reesy, I bet you don`t need any testers anymore?

 

[Hanz™]

Will it actually be 100% though?

 

[Jarska333]

Nothing's ever 100%...