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By the way, if you are interested there's an easy way to get almost 1 kilobyte of free memory: Instead of using standard text, use alternate text, and overwrite the standard text with whatever you want :) Deffo interested but how would that work? I still have to load the new font data of size X. Pr...

Also, if you change SET OSDKADDR=$500 to say $400 in your osdk_config.bat, you get 256 more bytes available.

By the way, if you are interested there's an easy way to get almost 1 kilobyte of free memory: Instead of using standard text, use alternate text, and overwrite the standard text with whatever you want

I wanted to do some changes, but then I noticed there was a bunch of problems: - the program does not switch to hires so all the screen is garbled - when using the cursor to select the position that makes the screen to scroll did I do something wrong? Is there something fancy to do with the 'loader'...

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 ...

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...

I have all my work/oric/demo/oracle folders in the Avast exclude list because it kept quarantining perfectly valid files.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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? ...

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

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...

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/...