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Hi everybody, my name is 6012972 and I'm an Einstein serial number. Sagittarius, I love cats and hoi-sin sauce. Preferably together. I originally came from B&H computer's new-old-stock. I have a brother, goes by the name '256' but his full name is 15100826. I'd love to stop and play but I've just se...

Great to have another enthusiast on board!

I'll be happy to discuss matters of development

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jltursan wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 3:28 pm

Obviously the Einstein was conceived as a bussiness machine...

Yes, that's what I think.

I mean. Why? Why didn't they do that? It's the _single_ most important interrupt in any gaming type application! The mind boggles

The einy doesn't pass on the vsync from the VDP as you probably know. You can read the interrupt bit from the VDP though, which helps.

Have a look here. It's not perfect but may well be a good start.

You need to edit the keyboard input buffer on disk so when the dos loads the keyboard buffer is pre-loaded with the name of the program you want to run. It's detailed in one of the books, either 'Albert Revealed' or 'The Source'.

It was a foolish mistake that confused a return code indicating that there were no files on the disk with an error

Fixed now

GitHub has the latest code and binaries.