[uae] Re: Mission: Adjust e-uae for convenient HTPC use
- From: "daniel åkerud" <daniel.akerud@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 22:44:37 +0200
On 7/7/07, daniel åkerud <daniel.akerud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/2/07, daniel åkerud <daniel.akerud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm on a mission to make e-uae work good from my sofa on a Sony Bravia
> LCD TV, with nothing but a pair of gamepads in my hand and occasionally a
> keyboard. The goal is to have as few reaches for the keyboard as possible. I
> use MythTV as front-end to my HTPC and the mythgame plugin works perfectly
> with e-uae. Here are my current identified problems (some solved, some not):
>
>
> Problem 1 - Resetting and especially shutting down e-uae using the
> gamepad (SOLVED)
> Reaching for keyboard (R12+Q) is tedious. I solved this one by hacking
> into the sdl/joystick code. A combination of keys is needed so that it is
> not reached by accident. I actually tried very hard to do this properly, but
> I gave up after a few hours. The qnd solution was to hijack
> jd-sdl/joystick.c/read_joy() and keep all the states by myself. I would love
> some advise here. Is there already support for this deep somewhere in the
> code? I'd love to make a _proper_ patch with some guidance.
>
> Problem 2 - Proper fullscreen (SOLVED)
> This one is already solved with a quick and dirty hack to sdl/opengl
> code. It actually makes the texture larger in order to stretch the
> amiga-screen as large as possible. It is a very ugly hack. I'm very
> interesting in what Drummond is doing in this area. ( Hi! :) )
>
> Problem 3 - Insert Disk 2... (UNSOLVED, tonights problem!)
> Some games doesn't use secondary drives. Reaching for F12+F1-4 is
> acceptable, but using the mouse is not. MythGame automatically senses that
> the game has N disks and inserts all into the proper drives. My idea is to
> have a combination of keys to cycle the drives. Drive n becomes n+1, etc
> (Only cycle drives with diskettes inserted). I will use the code from
> Problem 1 here, but I need to find out how to cycle floppys in code.
> Tonights challenge! Any hints appreciated.
>
> Problem 4 - Changing input (UNSOLVED)
> Some games wants you to use JUST those keys that you conveniently have
> mapped to emulate a joystick on keyboard. And some games want to you press
> right mouse button when you have a joystick there... My idea here is to
> somehow be able to cycle input-system for port0/1 with the gamepads.
>
> Problem 5 - On-Sreen-Display, OSD (UNSOLVED)
> Most of these problems could benefit from OSDs. That is, cycling
> diskettes in drives or input-systems could really benefit from some feedback
> to the user (hey that's me!). A temporary solution perhaps could be to
> launch KDE's (or another WMs) OSD functionality. I think KDE has a
> command-line program to show OSDs, although this is very far back in memory.
> I will try to delve into this ASAP. Perhaps Drummond is thinking about this
> already, with the reworked graphics API? I'm thinking OpenGL and transparent
> stuff :-D
>
> Anyone has any more interesting stuff to add, please do! e-uae with
> mythgame is wonderful already and can only become better :-)
>
> BR/D
>
>
I am now more or less finished with my mission, except number 4 which I no
longer consider a goal since I just spoiled myself with two new gamepads.
Here is a screenshot where the game Chuck Rock asks me for disk 2 in drive
0. I press <magic combination> on the gamepad to cycle the disks and you get
feedback on the On-Screen-Display. Moments later I press fire to continue
and the game continues to load. Perfekt!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9794374@N07/748041265/
Richard, I need some help. In gfxsdl.c, how do you find out the actual
current amiga screen width/height and also the width of the borders (seems
not to start drawing at (0,0))? I currently have it #defined, and it works
in many games but not all (seems to change...). I'm not well versed with
amiga hardware but it seems it doesn't only have one resolution :-)
BR/D
I want to clarify the question above. I have a picture here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9794374@N07/749852158/
This is fullscreen on a 1280x800 screen with my hack disabled. How do I find
out where the amiga screen starts, from top left, and the width and height?
From there, I can stretch properly in OpenGL. Like I said before, currently
I have #defines for this but it only seems to work for most of the games,
not all.
Thanks,
Daniel
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