Re: [PATCH v4] Implement the Screamer sound chip for the mac99 machine type

[Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

> On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:17 AM, Howard Spoelstra <hsp.cat7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:09 PM Howard Spoelstra <hsp.cat7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The current screamer-enabled builds for OSX and Windows are on www.emaculation.com ;-)
> As you see from testing, there are reasons why the patches from Mark's screamer branch are not in master yet, and these have not all been addressed. There still needs to be testing on Linux and certainly on Windows builds, and from what I mentioned above that might not be plain sailing. 
> I guess I'll wait with providing new builds when the patches for both openbios and qemu are reviewed and in some repo from which I can build easily.
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> Best,
> Howard
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> Hi,
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> There is indeed an issue when building your code for Windows.
> Whereas the current screamer from Mark just plays sound, a build with your patches will not.
> I need to Ctrl-Alt-G to exit grab, click on the command (cmd.exe) window in which the Qemu textual output is showing and then grab the mouse again to get sound. A simple grab exit/grab cycle is not enough, a click somewhere outside the Qemu window will also not do. Only a click to activate the command window and then grab again. Happens with both GTK and SDL GUIs.
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> Command line is:
> qemu-system-ppc-master-screamer-john-v4.exe -L pc-bios -boot c -m 256 -M mac99,via=pmu ^
> -drive file=C:\mac-disks\9.2.img ^
> -sdl -serial stdio ^
> -bios openbios-qemu-screamer-john-v2.elf
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> Took me ages to find this regularity ;-)
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> Best,
> Howard

Thank you very much for catching this problem. Could you send me your Windows binary of QEMU that uses my patch. I would like to see if I can reproduce the problem on my computer.