Amiga BREAK! - The Poor Persons Action Replay? and How Can I Improve It?

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I picked this up a while back, and was curious exactly what it could achieve for such a simple looking device. Attached to it is a variable resistor and a switch, and with that you can freeze and selectively slow down games playing. But how does it work? And can we improve it? Well, in this video we'll take a closer look
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📖 Chapters
(00:00) The Plan
(00:20) Unpacking
(01:20) Installation
(01:58) First Experiment
(02:12) First Test - A Demo!
(03:00) Next Experiments
(03:08) Lemmings
(03:46) Lotus Turbo Challenge II
(04:22) Qwak (shocker!)
(04:56) Super Twintris
(05:21) 68000 CPUs are also in the Megadrive
(06:21) Sonic the Hedgehog II
(07:39) It's What I Do
(08:01) How Does It Work? (Theory)
(10:42) Electronic Test
(11:34) More Action Replay (Introducing HRTMon)
(12:07) Modding for Level 7
(13:28) Testing HRTMon
(13:53) Summary
🎧 Music Used
• "Raving Energy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Blippy Trance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Shiny Tech" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Fluffing a Duck" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Chipper Doodle V2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Aerosol of my Love" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "One Sly Move" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "The Builder" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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• "Depth Fuse" French Fuse
• "Push Fuse" French Fuse
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Пікірлер: 39

@sacredbanana 29 күн бұрын

You triggered my level 7 interrupt when I saw this in my subscription feed

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

😂😂 thanks for watching

@Jaw0lf 28 күн бұрын

Another amazing investigation into how it works! Nice job

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

Thanks

@wimwiddershins 28 күн бұрын

Just the kind of shenanigans I like. Great stuff mate 👍

@Lyvarious 20 күн бұрын

I do not know why KZfaq recommended this video but I'm happy that it did.

@RobSmithDev 20 күн бұрын

:) we all have to trust that the ‘magic’ algorithm knows what it’s doing - glad you liked it

@bjarkeistruppedersen8213 29 күн бұрын

So it is just PWM'ing the halt pin - that's a neat trick 😃

@RobSmithDev 29 күн бұрын

Sure is, very simple!

@mrkitty777 28 күн бұрын

But not Agnus, but the official Action Replay also controls Agnus

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

There’s a deep dive into the Action Replay here - they both trigger using a Level 7 Interrupt, and the rest, we’ll take a read jvaltane.kapsi.fi/amiga/howtocode/actionreplay.html

@phillupson8561 28 күн бұрын

Maaaaaaaaaan I'd forgotten about super twintris, my mum and I spent so much time playing that against each other when I was a kid, good times!

@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343 28 күн бұрын

This is something that my brother & I could have used back in the day for Test Drive. We wanted to build a steering wheel, instead of using the joystick. We didn't know anything about electronics or have access to the resources to learn anything. But we thought if there was a way to make turning the wheel left or right pulse the left/right joystick input at a variable rate, it might achieve what we wanted. A small turn would result in short pulses and the full turn of the wheel would be like holding the joystick left/right. We made a steering wheel, gas/break pedals, and a makeshift shifter. It just didn't work as well as we hoped.

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

I looked into that type of circuit after and it’s actually quite a common approach although I’d never seen it before. When I was younger made a steering wheel for lotus although it was very basic and used a home made tilt switch to detect the rotation (was literally a marble wrapped in tin foil moving around in a cardboard tube) kinda worked but not as good as your idea

@RavenWolfRetroTech 28 күн бұрын

I like seeing projects like this that could have been done back in the day. I love my RGB2HDMI but it just has a little too much pie!

@RobSmithDev 27 күн бұрын

This is actually really old! I think it was probably sold about 20 years ago

@more.power. 28 күн бұрын

Hi Rob I have learnt so much from your video's they are great. Cheers

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

Thank you

@claudiurus7307 21 күн бұрын

Cool and simple. I never own an Atari nor a Amiga. Seeing so many videos about them I almost convinced myself to buy one but then I have realized that for me its a train that left the station. Anyway nice video!

@RobSmithDev 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching. Emulation is probably your best option these days if you did want to try it out.

@ColdRFusion 28 күн бұрын

I wouldn't have exposed wiring directy from the CPU outside the case, some sort of housing would be good for the resister & switch.

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

It’s only a temporary mod - it’s not like I’ll leave it connected - if I was I’d build a case for it

@gbraadnl 28 күн бұрын

7:00 Circuitbending... 9:00 however this does not change the clock-frequency... interesting yeah.

@moshly64 28 күн бұрын

You can do the same thing on the C64 or any 6502 by applying the same signal to the RDY pin (wait state input). There was a cart that had a 555 timer PWM circuit.

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

Cool!

@Jdbye 27 күн бұрын

Thought it would just be hijacking the clock signal, like how the GBAccelerator works. But this is kinda more interesting. And perhaps more reliable, as hijacking the clock signal could lead to a desync between the CPU and other components.

@RobSmithDev 27 күн бұрын

Indeed and it’s probably why the rest of the hardware behaved so well with it too. I was expecting it to be messing with the clock signal too

@skeleton_craftGaming 27 күн бұрын

Yes, but this also leads to crashes if you turn her up too high.

@ryanfurness8943 28 күн бұрын

Yet another cracking video Rob, keep 'em coming mate. On a totally unrelated note, can you please tell me - 1. What are the names of the music tracks you used in this video ? 2. Have you / are you planning to appear on TWIR (This Week In Retro) podcast ?

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

All of the tracks I use are listed in the video description. Two are from the KZfaq music library, the others are from here: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

@RobSmithDev 28 күн бұрын

And TWIR? I think someone has to suggest me to them for that to happen

@ryanfurness8943 28 күн бұрын

@@RobSmithDev Thanks Rob, sorry I missed the show notes - Doh. I'll see if I can make the suggestion to the guys at TWIR (Hope I don't need to be a fully fledged Patreon to make the odd suggestion).