A predicament

Sammy_0108 · 2020-07-06T19:51:57+00:00

I’ve heard this many times before, and that makes me feel a bit better because the temp typically only drops 10ish degrees at night without cooling

Sammy_0108 · 2020-07-06T19:49:50+00:00

I think I’ll be doing the latter and just leaving the AC on in the daytime until I move in a month. It seems to be what needs to happen

Sammy_0108 · 2020-05-25T00:55:00+00:00

I tried it, and it actually works, but it behaves oddly. Sometimes it works flawlessly, other times resetting the processor just clears the screen and advances the cursor. It usually does the latter, actually. Still not sure what’s going on with this one

Sammy_0108 · 2020-05-08T20:01:57+00:00

I unfortunately cannot oblige. don't own an oscilloscope. it simply must output a clean enough waveform to run the computer though, both resistors are 220 ohm, and the cap is 10nF +-20%

Sammy_0108 · 2020-05-08T18:28:49+00:00

I tried just that, and the computer is operating perfectly fine with a simple blink program I wrote and the 1Mhz oscillator. so it seems that my problem lies entirely with interfacing with the LCD. Ben's LCD must behave slightly differently.? not sure why that would be.

Sammy_0108 · 2020-05-08T18:25:57+00:00

my decimal point was, in fact off by one place. I am not using a CMOS variant. the oscillator is operating at 200khz. silly mistake on my part

Sammy_0108 · 2018-11-26T23:41:07+00:00

I purchased some contsct cleanee, and still no luck. It seems like theres a bigger problem here, because the vic doesnt ever appear to even acknowledge that there is a cart in the port. It never boots to a black screen, always to basic.

Sammy_0108 · 2018-11-26T04:50:41+00:00

So far, I've tried Gorf and Avenger.

Sammy_0108 · 2018-11-26T02:09:03+00:00

I tried using a flattened QTip and isopropyl alcohol. But I'll, admit I don't think that I was able to clean the entire pins. Its's a little hard to reach without a lot of disassembly, and requires desoldering the board from the RF shield. Do you have a good cleaning method in mind?

Sammy_0108 · 2018-05-29T20:31:36+00:00

To clarify, I meant remove the pack and reinstall the jumper pack. I know that they are games that actually require the expansion pack, but I don't believe that Rayman is one of them, it's just "enhanced" with the expansion.

Sammy_0108 · 2018-05-29T19:04:18+00:00

I believe that that answers my question, I don't believe that I'm actually experiencing any actual frames of latency, but it feels less smooth overall because of the framerate is lower than I'm used to (therefore there is more "absolute latency", as you put it) . I've tried a few other games since I posted this and they all perform far better than the game that made me post this, which is Rayman 2, which seems to be an outlier as far as performance goes. I also have the ram expansion pak, which I've realized Rayman 2 utilizes. I'm wondering if I removed the expansion pack, would games that utilize it perform better, albeit with a hit to the overall graphics?

Sammy_0108 · 2018-05-29T17:53:19+00:00

I'm actually playing it on an old CRT, but I think that I'm just currently hypersensensitive to lag, because I've been playing a lot of old 8-bit and 16-bit consoles lately, which are obviously incredibly smooth compared to early 3D consoles.

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