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by Dbug
Thu Dec 05, 2013 5:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cumulus Preorder Thread
Replies: 272
Views: 424728

Re: Cumulus Preorder Thread

Is it just me, or has this thread prompted a lot of Oric-1/Atmos owners to come out of the woodworks? ;) Don't imagine that the Defence Force forums are the only place where you can find active Oric Users :) We have people from different circles, which may or may not overlap: - Defence Force forum ...
by Dbug
Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:51 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: OSDK : Virus in Bas2Tap.exe ????
Replies: 11
Views: 16424

Re: OSDK : Virus in Bas2Tap.exe ????

So why do you use avast? Regular check with combofix is usually enough. I use nod32 too. Because it used it without any problem these last 9 years and issues only started like one or two months ago. Generally just reporting the false positives fixes the problem, but this time it seems to be more de...
by Dbug
Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:17 am
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: OSDK : Virus in Bas2Tap.exe ????
Replies: 11
Views: 16424

Re: OSDK : Virus in Bas2Tap.exe ????

I have all my work/oric/demo/oracle folders in the Avast exclude list because it kept quarantining perfectly valid files.
by Dbug
Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:08 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)
Replies: 268
Views: 316910

Re: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)

There's a number of places where you suffer the 'death by a thousand cuts' problem. For example you have: void checkincroute(){ if ( players[a][b] == 0 ) incroute(); if ( (a == 5) && (b == 5) && (players[a][b] == 4)) incroute(); if (( piecetype == 3 )&&(tiles[a][b] == 4 )) in...
by Dbug
Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:57 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Re: Bootsector format?

Hi Dbug, the task you started is real challenge. I follow discussion with big interest and I'm ready to help with Pravetz compatibility. Unfortunately the structure and the whole "architecture" of Dos8D is completely different from Sedoric. Technically we do not care about Sedoric at all,...
by Dbug
Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:24 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Re: Bootsector format?

Symon: I will dig in the documentation, is there some master index of all the articles of all Ceo mags somewhere :D ? I did some attempts, I now have a floppy that boots both on Microdisc and Jasmin - at least in emulators. You can find it here: DualBootFloppy.DSK Now of course it's only the boot, s...
by Dbug
Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:02 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)
Replies: 268
Views: 316910

Re: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)

You know, you could have a 'teacher' mode that shows hints to the player on what he should play/should avoid, perhaps drawing small numbers in the cells indicating recommended/advised locations, so players can learn to play :) 500 bytes left... :? Maybe in the disk version (TBD if I ever can) a men...
by Dbug
Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:04 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Re: Bootsector format?

Interesting! The beginning of the datas you're trying to analyse looks a bit like a file descriptor (see Sedoric à Nu p. 497). As far as I understand, there are two special files with their own special directory on boot, so this might be some minimal informations to load at least one of the files? ...
by Dbug
Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:42 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)
Replies: 268
Views: 316910

Re: The Return of Viking Chess (Hnefatafl)

You know, you could have a 'teacher' mode that shows hints to the player on what he should play/should avoid, perhaps drawing small numbers in the cells indicating recommended/advised locations, so players can learn to play :)
by Dbug
Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:20 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Re: Bootsector format?

Many modern motherboards are not even able to handle 42 tracks/3" floppy drives anyway, so the problem is getting less and less relevant :) Assuming you have a 3.5" drive, you can probably do the equivalent of the MSA format on the Atari ST, and for example store the DSK file on the 80 tra...
by Dbug
Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:36 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Re: Bootsector format?

I'd like to do something like Fantasmagoric, but the code will be different for a number of reasons, one being that for fast loaders 256 bytes sectors are much better than 512 ones (plus I could not care less about MSDOS compatibility). So basically, as soon as I have the code working for Microdisc/...
by Dbug
Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cumulus Preorder Thread
Replies: 272
Views: 424728

Re: Cumulus Preorder Thread

Marq wrote:If the 3D printing doesn't work out could you at least make the STL files available, so people can print their own cases?
That's in the plans, it will be put available with the rest of cumulus details at http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/ ... e/cumulus/
by Dbug
Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:31 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Bootsector format?
Replies: 14
Views: 26261

Bootsector format?

Hi, I'm currently working on a better version of the 'Defence Force Floppy Builder', which will become a standard part of the OSDK and will provide an easy way to create floppy based games. It is already possible to make these using Tap2DSK, but it is not very efficient for games or demos because it...
by Dbug
Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Looking for an Oric Atmos
Replies: 11
Views: 16766

Re: Looking for an Oric Atmos

It's rare to not have a week without one possible to find on either ebay or leboncoin.fr: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oric-Atmos-En-boite-Boxed-bon-etat-/131055557422?pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Ordinateurs_Ordinateurs_de_Collection&hash=item1e83851b2e http://www.leboncoin.fr/informatique/484704891.htm?ca...
by Dbug
Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:41 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Native OSDK for Linux and OSX possible?
Replies: 14
Views: 25397

Re: Native OSDK for Linux and OSX possible?

bin2c - well known utility to convert binary file to c - source code. dxa (disassembler), file65, ldo65 and reloc65 are parts of XA . Then they must be part of the new XA development, not from the branch we started from 10 years ago - they are different code bases, and most probably not 100% compat...