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

[Programmingkid]

> On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:17 AM, Howard Spoelstra <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:09 PM Howard Spoelstra <address@hidden> 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.
> 
> Best,
> Howard
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> Took me ages to find this regularity ;-)
> 
> 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.