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by Symoon
Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:08 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

Tried this, but the Oric hangs (definitely) and nothing happens even with input signal: 78 SEI A9 00 LDA #00 8D 0D 03 STA #030D A9 D0 LDA #D0 (11010000) 8D 0E 03 STA #030E AD 0C 03 LDA #030C 29 EF AND #EF (11101111) 09 10 ORA #10 (00010000) - set detect positive edge 8D 0C 03 STA #030C 2C 0D 03 BIT ...
by Symoon
Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

BTW, for our readers, when Twilighte says "page 38", he refers to the Oric Advanced User Guide (by Leycester Whewell). The setup routine for this new interrupt routine will need to be done in machine code so that we can disable interrupts whilst setting it all up. First we need to add CB1 ...
by Symoon
Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:49 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

Thanks a lot, this is so far on the edge of my knoledge but I'm reading and learning ;-) I especially have problems with ASM syntax which I don't know well (my way of programming in ASM is by simply poking the op codes and values I want), but as the programs are not that complicated, that's OK. In t...
by Symoon
Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:56 am
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

Sure, but then I believe you have a program running, it's not just waiting on the Ready prompt from the BASIC, correct? Well no, actually I'm pursuing my tape-protocol idea, and as a frist try (to learn more about interrupts and to do some tests), I want the Oric to be able to detect a "warnin...
by Symoon
Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:30 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

What I'd be interested in, actually, is the time it takes for the main loop, including interrupts. The idea is that I want to send a short audio signal to the Oric, the shortest possible. The Oric should detect it with an interrupt checking CB1 state. So to be 100% sure the audio signal is detected,...
by Symoon
Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:16 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

Oric main loop

Hi, OK I'll sound like a newbie again, but anyway ;) When an Oric has started, i guess it enters a permanent loop with, AFAIK: - flashing the cursor - look for pressed keys - other tings? I have 2 questions: 1- are there many "other things"? (I guess so of course, but how many ?) 2- how lo...
by Symoon
Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:05 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Microdisc replacement project
Replies: 183
Views: 199311

Just discovered there are now some Wifi or Bluetooth SD cards.
Do you think this could be used with our Orics, or would the drivers be so complicated or memory/CPU hungry that our good old machine will never be able to use them?
by Symoon
Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:25 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Microdisc replacement project
Replies: 183
Views: 199311

Oooooh lucky one ;-)
Please tell us your first impressions soon!
by Symoon
Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:51 am
Forum: Games
Topic: OType
Replies: 88
Views: 125466

Go, Twilighte, go!
Finished StormLord a few weeks agos, we need another game when we finish 1337 and IM ;-)
by Symoon
Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:49 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Microdisc replacement project
Replies: 183
Views: 199311

by Symoon
Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:38 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: 2010 Games
Replies: 6
Views: 16279

I think it's illogical to have the same rank for oldies ans news We compare things so different and you will have automatically the new games in the TOP5. What's wrong with that ? There are 2 TOPS, one more technical where the most recent and technically impressive games will TOP, and that's absolu...
by Symoon
Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:36 am
Forum: Games
Topic: 2010 Games
Replies: 6
Views: 16279

Ah, nice to see the comments ! :D
I have myself not noted 1337 yet, I consider I haven't played enough (only the 1st and 2nd training missions), not because of lack of interest but because of lack of spare time.
by Symoon
Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:36 am
Forum: Games
Topic: 2010 Games
Replies: 6
Views: 16279

2010 Games

You can now vote and leave a comment on http://www.oric.org for the games that were released in 2010:
- O-Thrust
- Stormlord
- 1337
- Impossible Mission

Go to the software section, search for year 2010.
Some of the ratings I've seen so far are rather disappointing IMHO. Your turn ;-)
by Symoon
Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy New Year 2011 !
Replies: 7
Views: 10219

Yeah happy new year to all oricians !
by Symoon
Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:57 am
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: In The Beginnig...
Replies: 7
Views: 17897

How did you detect an error: by checking the listing, or with WAV2TAP's saing "error at..." ? If WAV2TAP warned you, then it means the error is in the signal you recorded, not on the disk. You can try saving the program again and converting again. Beware also, the error detection from the ...