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[mahen]

Yaqube : first, thanks for your amazing work It made a huuuuuge difference

Here are the features I look forward to (but I see they were already mentioned :

1) subdirectories support (not necessarily alphabetically sorted)
2) second floppy disk
3) a better compatibility (I spotted some issues, for instance : in the shoot them up level of Jim Power, parallax scrollings are not displayed properly, or in demos like Arté/Hardwired/Desert Dreams)
4) would it be possible  to add an option to map the joystick to arrow keybs / numeric pad (as in UAE) : this would be useful with defective pads, or to use the Minimig with the X-Arcade joystick (PS2 joystick on which the keyboard is plugged)
5) some other GFX filters maybe ? (like scanlines)
6) an option (without the need for jumpers) to set the CPU to 14 Mhz
7) an option to speed up the floppy accesses
[ about what I wrote in another thread : would it be possible for the minimig to output a more standard screen resolution, like 800x600 instead of 720x576, not to get some distortion with some screens, like mine ]

I'm conscious my wishes list in not extremely relevant, though

Overall only the 1 to 3 are really important to make it a perfect A500 clone

[mahen]

Yaqube : thanks for taking the time to reply

If the subdirectories support is not done soon, maybe in the meantime there could be a way to scroll through the filelist faster ? (one page at a time instead of one line at a time

You are refering to a "genlock" required to "sync with the line frequency". Do you mean it would require an extra hardware component ?

cheers !

[mahen]

Here are a few games I didn't manage to get working with the current core (PAL, kick1.3, 512Kb or 1Mb of chip, no fast). It may be due to the ADF versions (but I usually tried several for each game).

- Mega Typhoon : black screen
- Captain Blood : guru meditation
- Lionheart : white screen (or black, not sure
- Wizkid 2 : empty menu, can't start the game ?
- Wiz'n'Liz : black screen
- Metal Masters : controls issue (not the right directions triggered)
Edit : actually works with English versions of the game (tried French initially - Maupiti Island : never got to the title screen. The Minimig LED keeps on flickering (but not the keyboard LED)
- Jim Power : works but parallax scrollings flicker on the shoot them up level (after the first boss)
Edit : works with a different version - Worms (Fairlight version) : black screen
- Kid Chaos : some tokens/bonuses tend to flicker a bit when scrolling quickly, but this may be a normal behaviour. The scrollings are perfect and the game 100% playable.

Apart from that, most games work perfectly. Demos generally work with minor gfx bugs.

Thanks for reading this

Edit : oh, also, the competition pro pad behaves really strangely. (depending on the game)

[mahen]

Dwyloc : I would like to add the following question : will further updates necessarily need a PIC reflash ?

[mahen]

Ah, finally, I think I found a game that *really* doesn't work : Arabian Nights.

With all three versions I tried, the game never reacts when I insert the second disk (before getting to the main menu).

Cheers !

[mahen]

yaqube : sorry, it was misleading. The "works with a different version" was only for worms, not jim power

Thanks a lot for testing this