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Docs/Trouble
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Archimedes World » AW-1996-08.adf » !6502DEm_6502Dem |
| Filename: | Docs/Trouble |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0452 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
6502Em: Troubleshooting ======================= The Emulator runs too slowly ---------------------------- The emulator can be speeded up by turning off the 'Exact Speed' and the 'Sound' options. Turning on the 'Scroll Hack' option may also speed up some games. Game will run from Tapefile but not from Virtual DFS ---------------------------------------------------- Although VDFS does not need memory from &E00 TO &1900 some games corrupt the extended vector workspace in &D page which is necessary for Sideways ROMs to work. The 'Disable Tape' option can sometimes cure this. Screen is corrupted ------------------- You can press f10 to refresh the screen. Screen flickers and colours change rapidly ------------------------------------------ Some games change the palette half-way down the screen which is not supported by the emulator. A partial solution is to turn off the palette from the options menu. You can then press f10 inside the emulator until you get a desirable set of colours. I can't change drive -------------------- You must use a command like '*DIR ADFS::0.$' to change drive
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You can the| 000003a0 6e 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 66 31 30 20 69 6e 73 69 |n press f10 insi| 000003b0 64 65 20 74 68 65 20 65 6d 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 20 |de the emulator | 000003c0 75 6e 74 69 6c 20 79 6f 75 20 67 65 74 0a 61 20 |until you get.a | 000003d0 64 65 73 69 72 61 62 6c 65 20 73 65 74 20 6f 66 |desirable set of| 000003e0 20 63 6f 6c 6f 75 72 73 2e 0a 0a 49 20 63 61 6e | colours...I can| 000003f0 27 74 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65 20 64 72 69 76 65 0a |'t change drive.| 00000400 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d |----------------| 00000410 2d 2d 2d 2d 0a 0a 59 6f 75 20 6d 75 73 74 20 75 |----..You must u| 00000420 73 65 20 61 20 63 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 20 6c 69 6b |se a command lik| 00000430 65 20 27 2a 44 49 52 20 41 44 46 53 3a 3a 30 2e |e '*DIR ADFS::0.| 00000440 24 27 20 74 6f 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65 20 64 72 69 |$' to change dri| 00000450 76 65 |ve| 00000452
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