Well the upgrade to ECS threw some spanners into the code I'd been working on - A day of debugging and thinking brought it all back into line again..
Piru's setup - as I expected - worked flawlessly, and I narrowed the problem down to a few differences that I'm glad surfaced... first was the way I was setting the DMA, fine under OCS, but didn't take into account other bits that would be used later - this was a major one as it caused it to crash. The other minor issue was my checking for the vertical blank period - once I narrowed both down to test/change exactly what I needed, everything worked fine. I should have payed closer attention rather than 'do it till it works'.
The upside was that this gave me time to work on some graphics above and beyond 'test drawings' (which are usually a handfull of one color shapes to see if something works) - so once I got the everything up and running, I had some pretty pictures to work with.
Graphics aren't my strongest hand, but being a one-man-band at the moment gives me time to improve - on my side I have patience, as I'm usually doing the graphics while I either think or have the machine tied up doing something else.
Now I have to start the lengthy weekly back up of the Amiga to the PC, and work tomorrow. So over this coming week I'll run it through the emulator and get some screen shots of what little I have going so far.
I have some much needed vacation time coming up soon - so progress should accelerate through that time.
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