Chess TV (test)

Rayman

Here's a test of a chess board on TV with pieces made of 3x3 tiles...

I'm having trouble finding the settings that make it look right (square) and centered.

These settings appear to kinda work, but although the board is centered, the screen isn't.· This might be OK, but I'd like to draw a border around the screen and add some text too...

If anybody finds better settings, I'd appreciate it!

Rayman

I guess what I need is TV driver settings that give square pixels....

Coley

Ray it looks great on my TV, 16:9 widescreen in 4:3 mode
Nice and square but a little off centre to the right.

Cool!

Regards,

Coley

Edit, took some pictures....

PAL60 isn't square because I've altered the tv metrics in tv.spin but NTSC looks good

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Post Edited (Coley) : 6/15/2008 9:57:03 PM GMT

Rayman

Thanks. And, thanks for the screenshot. I wanted to do one, but was lazy...

But, although the board is centered on the screen, the upper-left corner of the board is tile coordinate 0,0. There should be 6 tiles to the right of the board and 4 below.

So, I can't do what I wanted to do and draw a nice border around the board...

Anyway, this will work, I suppose...

Rayman

I have some actual chess game code from another platform that I intend to port over to the Prop so we can play chess agains the Prop...

I'm debating whether to port from C to Spin or try out the new Imagecraft C compiler...

I used to have a robot arm that I rigged to move chess pieces. But, that didn't work out so well because of alignment issues... Anyway, I trying to think up a better way to move chess pieces around...

Baggers

Rayman, looks really good, quick question, why don't you move the board, so you can draw the border you want to do?

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Rayman

If I try to increase "v0" more than 9, the TV won't sync... Maybe it doesn't matter the TV driver does paint a background color around the board anyway...