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Hello! As it happens, you are probably the first person having tried to use scanf in the OSDK since we switched to XA instead of FRAsm. Basically we forgot to convert the syntax for the scanf.s and sscanf.s files in the lib folder. I just fixed that, but until I release a new version of the OSDK you...

Then its only the custom metal lines that make up the "Paul Johnson designed" HCS10017 specific logic that we'll need to wait for the silicon surface photographs (i.e. die shots) to reveal the placement of. I'm really hoping to arrange for such photos to be made over the coming weeks. A decap of th...

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Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:37 pm

forum.defence-force forum is OK in china
oric.org is not allowed. same for oric french forum

Interesting, I wonder why

3) plug the usb mouse in usb port, and the hardware will return delta X & deltaY from the last access to the chip, (coordinates must be read from page 3) Driver must be written too :) This option looks like it would be much lighter on the Oric since the deltaX/Y would be read directly by the machin...

"Quite hard to read" is subjective. Considering that complexity is one of the parameters that makes things difficult to understand, I would say that the two lines of IF are not much simpler to decode, and despite being almost idiomatic leave the room for errors where the second variable does not mat...

If you look at the episode of Upgrade Time I published last Sunday, you'll see that I'm not far from releasing a new version of Bas2Tap that natively handles labels, without any memory or performance penalty compared to native line numbers

I even mention Maximus in it

Something to not forget, is that many of the disk image file formats we are using today have been inherited from the first emulators written in pre-pentium time, when people considered a 486DX66 to be the fastest thing around. Clock cycle accurate emulation was not doable for the processor, the vide...

So, the solution is to do a negative check and use THEN ELSE: 11370 IF (S$="TWI" )AND (TW=0) THEN PRINT"CROAK":GOTO11407 11371 IF (S$="TWI") AND (TW<>0) THEN PRINT"You don't have any":GOTO10000 becomes IF (S$<>"TWI") THEN ELSE IF(TW=0)THEN PRINT"CROAK":GOTO11407 ELSE PRINT"You don't have any":GOTO10...

Episode 15 of Upgrade Time is ready:

On the menu: Using labels instead of line numbers, and dealing with multiple IF THEN ELSE on the same line

I found a solution

Well, there are two different things to consider with your issue: - The actual storage of things in the ORIC - How to display them It would technically possible to convert anything into DATA lines, with line numbers, etc... (it's actually what Bin2Txt does, see http://osdk.org/index.php?page=documen...

I'm just a silent lurker, it's interesting to follow, but I don't really have anything to comment on

I committed the code change for Bas2Tap 1.2, it now can correctly convert the previous episode's source code.
The binary is in the SVN repository:
http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/ ... as2tap.exe

Imo, the way to go is to do what Jonathan and Chema have done: They more than ported games, they also extended them, and made them more playable than the originals. (case in point, I never managed to finish Stormlord or Impossible Mission on the Atari ST, I did manage to finish the Oric versions)

Episode 14 of Upgrade Time is now available:

Today's topic was about how to handle (or fail at) code complexity and fix bugs.