No graphics other than border colour which fills the whole window about speccymac

[shaymanjohn]

Hi @hippietrail - thanks for posting!

Which branch are you running? On my M1 Mac running Monterey, version 12.5 (21G72), and running the dev branch, I get this when running:

I'm running on Xcode 13.4.1 (13F100)

Sounds like the emulatorScreen object in the Main storyboard isn't working correctly. Is your Main.storyboard file showing any source control changes? If so, discard any changes and retry...

Other than that I'm puzzled...

[hippietrail]

I didn't try building from source. I've got so many windows and tabs open that I doubt XCode would open.

About says "Version 0.5 (20170902)". I can only see one release of the app as opposed to the source. Is there a way to get the current version as a built app? Or is there debug info to see in the Console?

(I was actually looking for a Mac project with with bitmap graphics and no SDL2 to learn from the source how to do old school graphics.)

[shaymanjohn]

Ah ok, that makes more sense.
I've added an M1 / Monterey release here: https://github.com/shaymanjohn/speccyMac/releases/tag/v0.8
Fingers crossed.

[hippietrail]

Thanks!

The new version resets like a Speccy and shows the copyright. But now when I choose any game nothing happens. Nothing happens when I click the mode button either. The about box tells me version is now: Version 0.8 (20190929)

I tried first installing it, then running it straight from the Downloads folder. No difference.

[shaymanjohn]

Ah ok, looks like a problem with release archive.
Can you try this one when you get some time, it's built for M1:
https://github.com/shaymanjohn/speccyMac/releases/tag/v0.8

[hippietrail]

Version 0.8 (20190929) is the same but now it seems to work great.

The mode button doesn't seem to change anything. And sometimes there are many thin horizontal lines in the border/background when it's changing colour. Are those expected?

[shaymanjohn]

Yeh, the mode button is very subtle so that's ok.
The many thin horizontal lines is a bug caused by me failure to get the border working correctly - I recently moved from only having one border colour, to the border being composed of many lines (this was to be able to emulate games that actually split the border colour deliberately, etc) - but there's a problem with my code somewhere...

[hippietrail]

Thanks then it seems the problem is solved. I may add some more issues now that it's working and will play with the source later.