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by Pengwin
Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:46 am
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Are there any english Oric mags left?
Replies: 7
Views: 17249

Re: Are there any english Oric mags left?

Where is Scotland are you from? There used to be a West Lothian User Group. (Long since folded.) I'm currently in Elgin (north Scotland), but I'm originally from the south of England. I was in Devon when I first bought an Atmos. Oric User Monthly was the longest running UK magazine. There were a fe...
by Pengwin
Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:22 pm
Forum: 6502 assembly coding
Topic: Simple multiplication
Replies: 4
Views: 12775

Simple multiplication

Just checking I have understood things. I have written, what I hope is a simple multiplication routine to multiply 2 bytes, returning a word. This could obviously be very useful for calculating screen addresses. Just want to check that what I have come up with is as efficient as possible, so I would...
by Pengwin
Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did Oric ever have a mascot?
Replies: 6
Views: 8872

Re: Did Oric ever have a mascot?

Symoon wrote:No idea, except maybe the bird from the Atmos demo...
The bird is the only one I could really think of.
by Pengwin
Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Did Oric ever have a mascot?
Replies: 6
Views: 8872

Did Oric ever have a mascot?

I was thinking about this today, and I can't seem to think of a single character, from a game, that could possibly be described as a mascot for the Oric. On the Spectrum, there was, at first, Hungry Horace, then they had Miner Willy, followed by Sabre Man, and finally Egghead... each of which could ...
by Pengwin
Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:40 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Murder on the Atlantic (and contest)
Replies: 7
Views: 13830

Re: Murder on the Atlantic (and contest)

Had a brief look at this game, looks really interesting.
Looking forward to to having a proper play with it.
by Pengwin
Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:26 pm
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Are there any english Oric mags left?
Replies: 7
Views: 17249

Are there any english Oric mags left?

Title says it all really.

Is anyone still producing anything (printed or electronic) for the Oric?
by Pengwin
Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:35 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

No need to be optimizing the number of messages. It's not like you were spaming crap on all the forum :) As long as it's interesting and does not propagate false information it's good to have that on the forum, if only because it will later appear in the google results if somebody is searching for ...
by Pengwin
Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:43 am
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

Last post on this subject...honestly :-) By using an include and some very simple conditional compiling, I have now worked out a way to make it even simpler: I have an include file called "header.s" : //Header .byt $16,$16,$16,$24,$00,$00,$80 #ifdef AUTOSTART .byt $c7 #else .byt $00 #endif...
by Pengwin
Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:11 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

Just to expand on what you said DBug, I have had a little play and come up with this: //Header .byt $16,$16,$16,$24,$00,$00,$80 .byt $00 // $80=BASIC Autostart $C7=Assembly autostart .byt >finish,<finish,>start,<start,$00 //Program name .asc "TEST" .byt $00 *=$400 start lda #65 sta $a101 r...
by Pengwin
Sun Jan 13, 2013 3:43 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

I feel like an idiot. Can't believe I didn't think of that myself.

What I can also do is write a quick and dirty console app for OS X that will attach the header for me, including the End Address which can be easily calculated.

Thank you DBug, you are a star!
by Pengwin
Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:51 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

Ok, time to show my complete ignorance of things assembly. I have a very simple program: *=$400 lda $65 sta $a101 rts I use the following command for XA xa -o orictest.o orictest.asm A hex dump of the resulting binary is: 0000: A5 65 8D 01 A1 60 I understand that this is exactly the assembled code, ...
by Pengwin
Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:14 am
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

You'll have to excuse my ignorance. But, am I right in thinking that, for a single source file project, alI need to do is call

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xa source
or

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xa -o ouput source
to create an executable that I can then convert to a TAP file to load into the Oric emulator?
by Pengwin
Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:05 am
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Re: Creating Oric software on OS X

Take a look at the OSDK in http://osdk.defence-force.org/ . In the "bin/make.bat" file is the list of all tools being called to build an Oric program, including the XA parameters. The source code of the OSDK components is available on the SVN server: http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn...
by Pengwin
Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:45 pm
Forum: Cross development tools
Topic: Creating Oric software on OS X
Replies: 15
Views: 23362

Creating Oric software on OS X

I've been teaching myself 6502 assembly, using an Atari 800XL emulator, but I would also like to do some dev for Oric. I am using OS X and have recompiled ATASM and MADS for my Atari development, but I would like to know which cross assembler people here would recommend for developing software for t...
by Pengwin
Fri Nov 09, 2012 1:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 2013 - Oric is 30 years old!
Replies: 13
Views: 17753

Re: 2013 - Oric is 30 years old!

After using my fathers Spectrum, I bought my Oric Atmos in early 1985 (I think). It definitely opened up a new world to me.
Since then, I have gone through Atari 8-bits, Atari ST, PC and Mac, but it was the Atmos that really gave me the programming bug.