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Updates again!

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Tested on real machines under Linux, macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Windows 10 and Android.

Short list of changes:

Maybe the version number should be changed, or is it still 1.2 ?

May I suggest that the saving/loading of data arrays with STORE/RECALL not working is quite of an important bug in the emulator, and I think it is not yet solved?

Joking apart, you are doing an excellent job supporting Oricutron. Maybe it is time some of us jump in and collaborate at least with some ideas and tests.

I'd love to have some kind of remote debugging support, which should not be that difficult to add. But I am sure that there must be many things which could be improved.

Chema wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:11 am May I suggest that the saving/loading of data arrays with STORE/RECALL not working is quite of an important bug in the emulator, and I think it is not yet solved?

Can you check if it works now? I think it's fixed.

Chema wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:11 am I'd love to have some kind of remote debugging support, which should not be that difficult to add.

I'd love it too, but help me to understand correctly what are the advantages of remote debugger compared to the internal one? I see one - to have normal console window where we can easy copy/paste data (disassembled code or memory dumps), anything else? I'm asking just to know what are the expectations .

If done correctly, it could open the path to source debugging from an IDE such as Visual Studio Code.

Maybe an extension to use the OSDK, similar to this https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/it ... =rosc.vs64

At least having the possibility of querying the memory contents and displaying how it changes while running, generating profiling logs (cycle counts between different points), or dumping how the value of memory locations or registers change during an execution.

Well, maybe just for core programmers

@chema, @iss: regarding the issue with The Quill, I think i found a way.

After loading quill.tap:

1. disable the option "Turbo Tape" in the hardware menu
2. select "Save tape output" and set a file name
3. go back to the quill and save your datas (you can save many times)
4. go to Oricutron menu and select "Stop tape recording"
5. select "Insert tape" and select the ort file from step 2
6. go back to the quill
7. you can load your datas

Disable "Turbo Tape" is required only to save the datas.
Can you tell me if that helps you?

Nice find! Thank you.

Developer builds updated 2019-09-18

Changes: This release has a story - I found the Z-flag bug after long hours in debugging Macadam Bumper! Now it works

Great! Nice work!

Thank you very much for your efforts..

Just to remind you a little mistake at your website.. Its written as "parvetz 8d emulator" where the clone name must be "Pravetz" instead..

peacer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:30 pm..parvetz 8d..

Thanks! Fixed.

Ah, mystery solved for the non-working Macadam Bumper with Oricutron - well done

Actually, an incorrect handling of the zero flag in BCD mode probably caused subtle issues in dozen of games but nobody noticed.

As far as I'm concerned, I use BCD mostly when handling score increments because it's cheaper to store the numbers split two by two on each byte when you want to display to the screen, but there's no reason that would not be used for other purposes, so yeah, well done

Cool. I'll have a play of Macadam Bumper ;o)

There's a small issue I noticed when saving a snapshot. It just saves the filename with no added extension.
(Obviously you can add it, but if you don't the files don't show up when you try and load.)

Hi guys!

I am having trouble helping a friend with porting a game to the Oric. Maybe you can help, because it is an emulator thing (I think).

He is making a game with The Quill, and the first part is ready. He is working with Oricutron (last official version, I guess) and he was never able to save the game to a tap or ort file and load it back, so he used the snapshot facility.

Okay, so now he sent it to me to see if I can help producing a tap file. And I simply don't know how to do it. All I can produce is an ort file, which I don't know how to convert to tap. Also it takes forever to save or load, because it does not seem to work (loading or saving) in turbo mode.

Besides, the snapshot refuses to load with the developer versions posted here. It flags an incorect file type. As it is not compatible with Euphoric, I cannot use it to save the game to tap either...

I would like to create a basic loader, add a presentation screen and put together the two parts of the game all as a tap or disk file, but ort format seems not to be the way to go.

Any guidance?