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Libs and Pacmans
Sun, 6 Sept 2015
MikeJ
I've been working on moving the existing (old) cores like Scramble and Asteroids over to the new Replay framework. While I was at it, I tidied up the library wrapper which has made the "plumbing" a lot simpler. I've started documentation and work on a webpage for this. I also realized that my Pacman core was a little dated, other people...
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Amiga core update
Tue, 21 Jul 2015
MikeJ
I made a few minor improvements to border sprite behaviour (fixes Banshee AGA). The core is in the Amiga news thread in the forum. I intend to get the release SVN area sorted out in the next day or so.....
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Back from holiday
Sun, 19 Jul 2015
MikeJ
Right, returned from a brief holiday. I've moved all the CAD projects and libraries over to my internal SVN repository. This was necessary to sync the work between the workstation and laptop, so I can get the daughter board and AGA debug board out to production. Focus this week is shipping more boards, I know some of you are waiting patiently.... I'm also...
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Amiga core update
Mon, 6 Jul 2015
MikeJ
I've been testing a new version of my Amiga AGA core. It's checked into the private repository. I'm working this week to make binary releases (and source ASAP) on the public mirror.   The MIST AGA project has received some great updates recently, and I keep getting asked if I will pick up those fixes. The answer is "no" - the code base...
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Survived the worlds biggest party
Thu, 2 Jul 2015
MikeJ
Well, just about. Glastonbury was amazing, but now I've sobered up, flown home and I have been busy testing boards all day. I received an update from the Mist guys (we work on the 68K CPU together) and have updated the Amiga core. Still some issues, but moving forward. I'll be spending the next few days working on the website and sorting...
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Taking a short break
Tue, 23 Jun 2015
MikeJ
I'm off to a music festival in England (Glastonbury) today and I'll be out of email contact for a few days. You can see some pictures from last year here : http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/gallery/ Back to shipping boards, finishing this website and getting more cores released next week. Best, MikeJ...
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Testing continues
Thu, 18 Jun 2015
MikeJ
I've been trying to catch up on the backlog of boards. A number of developer boards have gone out this week. The boards below have all finished functional test and are going onto soak test, final inspection and then shipping to distributors. (sorry for the poor quality picture, snapped it with my 'phone) /MikeJ...
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