Search found 99 matches
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:49 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Poll: Which is the storage system you do use ?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 89827
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:38 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Stratsed/Sedoric differences ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20081
Now I have a question: How do I create a DSK file that is structured with 512 bytes sectors ? Good question ! :-) At that time, I was using real floppy disks formatted under Windows. The only thing I had to do in order to have a bootable disk was to copy the file to the disk and also to write the b...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:34 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: The FDC Floppy Disc Controller
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9123
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:00 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Bigger capacity disc idea
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15217
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:14 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Detecting Disk Drives, Disks, Disk Format and Disk System
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6055
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:19 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Detecting Operating System
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20712
One way to detect The Telestrat is to detect the second VIA by sampling the counter of timer1 two times and looking for a difference. lda $0324 cmp $0324 bne Telestrat This won't work, Jon. On the Oric-1/Atmos, reading location $0324 will indeed read timer1 of the first VIA: you will detect it decr...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:03 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Jasmin boot sequence and disc structure.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19989
So, I guess it is possible to do a Jasmin and Microdisc compatible disc ? What about this structure: - Track 0/sector 1: a Jasmin bootsector - Track 0/sector 2: a Microdisc bootsector (BOOTUP.COM) - Track 0/sector 3: a fake Oric dos directory to run BOOTUP.COM The telestrat will work too with such ...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:01 am
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: DSK file format description
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17065
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:58 am
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Let's talk about a Mini-DOS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 21541
Well, in my idea it was not that is *has* to be MSDOS compatible, more that it has to be *able* to read and write MSDOS discs. That makes a lot of differences. In the same way, this system has to be able to read and write discs using other Oric DOS formats (Sedoric, XL-Dos, Randos, FT-Dos, ...). I ...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:10 am
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Stratsed/Sedoric differences ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20081
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:33 am
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Jasmin boot sequence and disc structure.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19989
Both the microdisc controller and the jasmin controller have electronics to control the MAP and ROMDIS signals on the expansion port. This allows them to switch between the BASIC rom, the overlay ram, and an eprom that reads the OS from the floppy disk. As you said, a difference between the microdis...
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Let's talk about a Mini-DOS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 21541
Obviously, building a new (even mini-) OS is a big task. So I would suggest it should not only ease the task of developing demoes/games/applications, but also improve the transfers between the Oric and the other main platforms. This said, there's not much choice. Even if the MSDOS format is not the ...
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:48 am
- Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
- Topic: WAV2WAV ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25238
- Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:38 pm
- Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
- Topic: WAV2WAV ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25238
Hello Simon, I understand that if you ask for such a tool, it's because you must have a lot of hardware tapes than cannot be converted to .tap images... But, before I write such a converter (not very difficult), have you tried one of the numerous wave tools available for windows ? (I seems to me tha...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:58 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Contiki on Oric Atmos?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 32442