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by Dbug
Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

But this Atmos is so loud! To do really long soak testing, I'll have to add some kind of volume control. Is there a recommended mod for that? What do people do? I've tried passive muting with pillow and sock, but it's just not enough. I don't remember the details, but there is something involving p...
by Dbug
Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:31 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Regarding the source code, I forgot to change the link on the page, you probably prefer git I guess?
https://github.com/Oric-Software-Develo ... heEnvelope
by Dbug
Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Cool, nice progress! If you want to brute-force stress-test your loading code, you can try my slide show, "Pushing the Enveloppe", it basically continuously loads images and music without stopping, should give an easy way to test the reliability over time. https://defence-force.org/index.p...
by Dbug
Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upgrade Time: Encounter
Replies: 166
Views: 106226

Re: Upgrade Time: Encounter

Not much "game" progress, but I've done most of the French localization, some vocabular words are still missing but all the descriptions are now properly available in both English and French. I've also updated the web page to have both languages (selectable like on Blake's 7) - https://www...
by Dbug
Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:25 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Encounter solution?
Replies: 3
Views: 113

Re: Encounter solution?

I looked at it, that matches what I had, and as far as I can see, there are no alternative solution (there are different ways of getting rid of the dog or thug, but that's about it).

Thanks!
by Dbug
Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Encounter solution?
Replies: 3
Views: 113

Encounter solution?

Does anyone know if there is a complete solution of the Oric version of Encounter, with all the alternate ways indicated? I found one for the Spectrum, but it seems that the Oric version is slightly different, and there were hints of different ways to achieve the objective, it's just to make sure I ...
by Dbug
Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

As a side note: Having a way to boot directly on the Oric ROM even when the Microdisc is connected would have been very nice, you can't do that on a normal Oric :)
by Dbug
Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Interesting that you get the ORIC EXTENDED... as well as the "insert system disc". In my experience, when the system boots on the Microdisc, the BASIC ROM is not initialized, or at least I never saw the normal stuff you get on booting on BASIC. I would expect something like that: image_202...
by Dbug
Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Sodiumlightbaby wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:25 pm So for progress, could I possibly be the happiest person to hit this usually dreaded error? 8)
As people say "The car could not have crashed if it did not actually start!".

It's a good start :)
by Dbug
Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Quick update. Emulated BIOS ROM is working and now the Microdisc device ROM runs upto the point where it starts to access the FDC register emulation stubs I currently have there. This should be past some of the overlay RAM initialization, so we got some indication that is working as well. Time to s...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:14 pm
Forum: 6502 assembly coding
Topic: Cannot change OSDKADDR value
Replies: 2
Views: 411

Re: Cannot change OSDKADDR value

I tried with $400 without any problem.
Have you tried the osdk_showmap?
by Dbug
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

Thanks that's very useful. I managed to squeeze a few extra PIO cycles, so we're good for 0x310-0x31B space. Initially it spanned all the way to 0x31F. It will be technically possible to remap the device registers to any other 16 byte aligned address at run time, but that will of course break the u...
by Dbug
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:16 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

There's a more complete list somewhere, but can't seem to find it, but there you go: https://wiki.defence-force.org/doku.php?id=oric:software:memory_maps#page_3_i_o These are some of the reserved ports for some peripherals, and not being able to use other devices because address decoding is not done...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

For the menu/setup/select floppy, I guess you could use some additional "hidden ROM" that you only map when you want to show the features of the system, but you would still need to save the zero page, stack, graphic memory, etc... to avoid corrupting the main application running. That bein...
by Dbug
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project
Replies: 43
Views: 1651

Re: CUmini - my Oric storage emulation project

A cheap combo disk+tape is what has been missing for a while, looking forward to see how that develops :)