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by Dbug
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 21
Views: 581

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Thanks that's very useful. I managed to squeeze a few extra PIO cycles, so we're good for 0x310-0x31B space. Initially it spanned all the way to 0x31F. It will be technically possible to remap the device registers to any other 16 byte aligned address at run time, but that will of course break the u...
by Dbug
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:16 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 21
Views: 581

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

There's a more complete list somewhere, but can't seem to find it, but there you go: https://wiki.defence-force.org/doku.php?id=oric:software:memory_maps#page_3_i_o These are some of the reserved ports for some peripherals, and not being able to use other devices because address decoding is not done...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 21
Views: 581

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

For the menu/setup/select floppy, I guess you could use some additional "hidden ROM" that you only map when you want to show the features of the system, but you would still need to save the zero page, stack, graphic memory, etc... to avoid corrupting the main application running. That bein...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 21
Views: 581

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

A cheap combo disk+tape is what has been missing for a while, looking forward to see how that develops :)
by Dbug
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: French to English Translation
Replies: 8
Views: 303

Re: French to English Translation

As for Oric.org, it has never been clearly defined what defines an entry (pretty complicated actually) - should a single page hold all the languages versions, all the publishers, and so on. So I suspect you'll find different ways of updating software. Different entries are fine, as long as the fiel...
by Dbug
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Help wanted
Replies: 3
Views: 124

Re: Help wanted

coolman66 wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:12 pm I should have said the author is " J.C. BRISTOW ".
So "Jonathan Colin Bristow", aka "Twilighte".
Never heard of that Comm1 program though,.
by Dbug
Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: ULA, bus conflicts and the expansion devices
Replies: 24
Views: 1926

Re: ULA, bus conflicts and the expansion devices

I remember reading some post from someone who worked at Oric support, and one common issue was Oric Atmos and Microdisc not working together, so they would do some tweaks, replace capacitors/resistors/whatever until the two work together properly, then send it back to the customer. Fast forward a fe...
by Dbug
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upgrade Time: Encounter
Replies: 165
Views: 105517

Re: Upgrade Time: Encounter

Glad you both like it.

Regarding easter eggs, that will depend on how much progress I can get on the game, and how much space left on the floppy, but I have a couple ideas.

Now, if that was a reference to Easter next week, I fear I don't have any eggs around!
by Dbug
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upgrade Time: Encounter
Replies: 165
Views: 105517

Re: Upgrade Time: Encounter

And that's what I came up with.
Still not 100% finished, but at least there's no more large expanses of white everywhere!
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by Dbug
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:06 am
Forum: C programming
Topic: Launch c program with parameters
Replies: 5
Views: 579

Re: Launch c program with parameters

As far as I know, neither SEDORIC or TDOS have a way to pass parameters to executables when they are launched. That being said, I did a quick test using a comment after the command, and it seems to still be present in the command buffer in page zero. image_2024-03-16_110350897.png As you can see bot...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Upgrade Time: Encounter
Replies: 165
Views: 105517

Re: Upgrade Time: Encounter

I'm completing the unfinished scenes. This set of views is "blank" on the right, where the player cannot go, and I need to find what to put there.🤔 Could be some fields, some river, trees, smoke stacks of a factory, mountain... What would you see in this British countryside? image_2024-03-...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Microdisc Restoration
Replies: 14
Views: 1536

Re: Microdisc Restoration

Looks very nice :)
by Dbug
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:26 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Loading tape games from disk
Replies: 13
Views: 3174

Re: Loading tape games from disk

Do you have a link to the latest sources for Novalight?
by Dbug
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:03 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Loading tape games from disk
Replies: 13
Views: 3174

Re: Loading tape games from disk

But guys, I just realized that I have already all pieces of the puzzle - the 'improved' ROM1.1 form the #OricExos, the BOOTER (multi-FDC booter (FloppyBuilder will work too)), some glue routines, etc., So, it can be done! Wait for the demo... and give your suggestions which games/apps snapshots to ...
by Dbug
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Loading tape games from disk
Replies: 13
Views: 3174

Re: Loading tape games from disk

Maybe I miss understood something, but why not simply do : CLOAD"Encounter" SAVE"ENCOUNTER" That's what I did with the result below... With Sedoric, yes, but here it's a FloppyBuilder project, there's no DOS, and the system ROM is not initialized. EDIT: Also, I want to load the ...