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Downloaded the "beast" yesterday, and hoping to have a spare moment this evening to try it!
Thanks Chema, for keeping the Oric alive
Will make a picture when there's some progress!

Great news! No time at all for Oric these days but will try it ASAP. About Joystick - seems you guys are saying opposite things. That's the usual debate between "airplane" commands (pull = up) or "2D" commands (pull = down). Not sure how they're called actually, but hope you'll understand what I mea...

All this is just great ;) About the output signal when CLOADing, I noticed it a while ago (contant "beeeeeeeep") but I'm not sure it happened all the time? Maybe I hadn't typed CLOAD"" every time I plugged the calbes. Never thought it could be useful some day ;) The program looks full of great featu...

I do have double-sided 3" floppy drives, but if I ever play on my real Oric, I'll probably use 3.5" disks. I understand the (very interesting) question is about the existing hardware, but the results might have to be re-examined if you want to decide if it's worth doing a specific single-sided/doubl...

This looks good

Sounds like a good idea, but actually you are reaching the point where I need to go back to books and docs ;) The only possible problem I see would be error handling: you may not be able to know if the disk is finished or if there was a reading error. That would be a pity to encounter a read error a...

I'd say something that reads sectors into memory and copy them to another disk... until the disk is completely duplicated. Well I did that sort of thing for Sedoric, to backup a disk thru the tape port to PC, and build a DSK file from it. a very simple thing in Basic IIRC, using Sedoric commands. T...

Oh, and another question more :) Is there a tool that could be used to duplicate a non-DOS disk from within the Oric? Something that copies sector by sector? Just to add it as a recommendation to backup the game disk. Not that I know of - but I know very little about disk tools as I never used disk...

coco.oric wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:11 pm

i'm sure that this wonderful computer won't be on a shelf

Ah, that would be good news!

Auction ended at 2373€...
Crazy.

iss wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:08 am

- I'll try to lower the Android version to 2.3

Well, in case that was a special one for me... My Android 2.3 smartphone just died without warning!
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I can't recall, but if you can use CHDIR in INIST, then you could reach the file you need and load it (but it makes things more complicated, sure).

I don't think you can Steve. To load your file, you must have them all in the same directory, or actually change directory to the one holding the file you want to load, before loading it. That may be a bit disappointing, but there wasn't enough room left in the kernel (by far!) to change all the com...

I'm going to make new software for Telestrat and sell it 500€ per disk

Let's start with a worm eating apples...

A small idea, in case you really want to waste remaining bytes: if the player has been inactive for a while, as soon as the pointer moves again, the character can say something like "ah, you're back!".