On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:59 PM, B. Watson wrote:
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> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Adam Thornton wrote:
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>> But can you really call the Space Invaders two-shot behavior a
>> "frying" behavior,
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> Eh. No, I wouldn't call it that. I was answering the other half
> of your post...
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>> since it does not depend on the state of the RAM,
>> but only on the fact that Reset is held down while power is engaged,
>> and it's completely repeatable and consistent? (It would also be
>> really cool if Stella tracked the state of Select and Reset when you
>> turn on the (virtual) power, if it doesn't already.)
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> It doesn't... but you're right, it should.
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> Kind of difficult though: Every control causes an SDL Event... if you
> hold down the joystick button (or a key on your keyboard), then start
> Stella with it held down... Stella won't ever see the "button pressed"
> event, because it wasn't running yet when the button was pressed.
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> Actually that might be one of those platform-dependent things...
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> We could add -select, -reset, etc. command-line options, and/or "hold
> down reset/select" GUI options (you toggle them, then reset the
> emulator).
-select and -reset on the command-line, and then a power switch on
the GUI. Turning it off doesn't exit the program, just terminates
whatever Stella is running. Then you "insert a cartridge," get the
other switches the way you want, and turn it back on.
Adam
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