writing disk images for a real Oric
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:57 am
Hi folks,
New here, nice to see the Orics still have support in 2016
I own http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk and am trying to resurrect my Oric 1s and Atmos' for an upcoming exhibition in the UK and have to admit I'm struggling with getting my machines to do anything other than boot SEDORIC V1 or *nearly* load a game from tape, though I'm impressed that out of 5 machines only 1 has any sort of failure with a dead ULA.
All my stuff has been stored indoors in boxes so it was nice to see the Cumana floppy interface and twin drive burst into life last weekend. Pity that none of the games I remember are on disk and won't load from tape but I HAVE downloaded the TOSEC Oric bundle and am trying to work out how to get disk images and/or TAPs back onto a floppy. I've got an old Cyrix x86 PC that I installed Win98 on today - 32 whole megabytes of RAM - and added a 1.2mb HD 5.25" floppy drive. Reading a lot of posts here I've copied over the OSDK for utilities like WriteDsk and tap2wav but there's something missing.
On the PC I can format disks to 720k by spoofing the BIOS to think the floppy drive is a 720k 3.5", that works and I can write DOS things to disk but can't make the PC do a floppy boot, not a problem I hope. I can initialise floppies on the Atmos using INIT B but the PC can't read them, nor can the Atmos read 720k disks formatted on the PC. WriteDsk just coughs after a few seconds.
Am I missing something fundamental or should I concentrate on getting tap2wav working? I NEARLY got Hunchback working last night off my laptop.
Cheers!
Witchy
New here, nice to see the Orics still have support in 2016
I own http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk and am trying to resurrect my Oric 1s and Atmos' for an upcoming exhibition in the UK and have to admit I'm struggling with getting my machines to do anything other than boot SEDORIC V1 or *nearly* load a game from tape, though I'm impressed that out of 5 machines only 1 has any sort of failure with a dead ULA.
All my stuff has been stored indoors in boxes so it was nice to see the Cumana floppy interface and twin drive burst into life last weekend. Pity that none of the games I remember are on disk and won't load from tape but I HAVE downloaded the TOSEC Oric bundle and am trying to work out how to get disk images and/or TAPs back onto a floppy. I've got an old Cyrix x86 PC that I installed Win98 on today - 32 whole megabytes of RAM - and added a 1.2mb HD 5.25" floppy drive. Reading a lot of posts here I've copied over the OSDK for utilities like WriteDsk and tap2wav but there's something missing.
On the PC I can format disks to 720k by spoofing the BIOS to think the floppy drive is a 720k 3.5", that works and I can write DOS things to disk but can't make the PC do a floppy boot, not a problem I hope. I can initialise floppies on the Atmos using INIT B but the PC can't read them, nor can the Atmos read 720k disks formatted on the PC. WriteDsk just coughs after a few seconds.
Am I missing something fundamental or should I concentrate on getting tap2wav working? I NEARLY got Hunchback working last night off my laptop.
Cheers!
Witchy