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by retroric
Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:31 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

Here is the info about the dsk formats: https://wiki.defence-force.org/doku.php?id=oric:hardware:dsk_disk_format Thank you very much for the link Chema, it is much clearer now !! However I doubt adding Oric DSK support is as straightforward as you think, otherwise Keir would have long done it I thi...
by retroric
Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:33 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

EDIT: good news about the possibility to update the FlashFloppy driver in the Cumana Reborn device: Piotr just gave me te procedure which is quite simple: copy update file to pendrive insert pendrive into powered off Cumana Reborn maintain encoder button pushed and power the device on then release ...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

Thanks Chema for the info, so really, if we were to convert to HFE, we would have to: first decode the HFE file to translate it as a stream of raw data bytes then just use the 'old2mfm' utility to convert it to the new DSK format ? But what I fail to understand is you are speaking of file encoding, ...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:59 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upcoming brand-new Oric text adventure
Replies: 23
Views: 12079

Re: Upcoming brand-new Oric text adventure

Well xahmol, I was a bit biassed myself in pretending French is so simple, of course there are many exceptions, but for starters you don't have to bother with accentuation as in English, and second there are (I think) much fewer 'exceptions' to the basic rule that all basic blocks are always pronoun...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:11 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

To be honest I know as little as you about the DSK format. But I was under the impression (from the discussion in the GitHub issue) there was an "old" format, and a "new" format. So I'm not sure if this is related to having a specific format for Jasmin and another one for Microdi...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:45 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Upcoming brand-new Oric text adventure
Replies: 23
Views: 12079

Re: Upcoming brand-new Oric text adventure

It looks cool !! I feel like Robinson Crusoe trying to survive in a desert place. Unfortunately, my english level is a bit too weak for me to feel confortable with this kind of text game. But I must admit it is attractive and seducing. It's the first time in my life that i play a text adventure gam...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:35 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

As to possible future DSK support in FlashFlopp: A request was submitted to ask for the Oric DSK format to be added to FlashFloppy and it is being seriously considered by the FlashFloppy author -- see the discussion in the GitHub issue here: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/issues/144 . However,...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:30 pm
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!
Replies: 34
Views: 31262

Re: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!

Thanks xahmol for creating a new separate Cumana Reborn DSK support topic to discuss these issues!
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:26 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Cumana Reborn DSK support
Replies: 99
Views: 39941

Re: Cumana Reborn DSK support

Well done xahmol, thanks for creating a new separate thread to discuss Cumana Reborn and DSK support issues :wink:

I'll add a comment in the "Oric Explorer" thread to point users discussing DSK Support in Cumana Reborn to this thread :-)
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New source code repository on OSDN.net
Replies: 18
Views: 7713

Re: New source code repository on OSDN.net

Just FYI, as for forumactif.oric.org, a simple "miniserve site:oric.forumactif.org" Google query (https://www.google.com/search?q=miniserve+site%3Aoric.forumactif.org) allowed me to identify 9 posts using URLs with this subdomain, so if I add comments to these posts with the correct URLs I...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New source code repository on OSDN.net
Replies: 18
Views: 7713

Re: New source code repository on OSDN.net

Ah, OK, I think I remember now you published the account of your woes with that motherboard on Twitter and we had an exchange about it... Fair enough then, RIP Miniserve and let's track any URLs that need updating... Is it feasible with BBEdit to run a query on the database to locate the posts conta...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:43 am
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!
Replies: 34
Views: 31262

Re: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!

Hi there, About this HFE vs DSK pain in the bum: the reason the Cumana Reborn uses the HFE format instead of the DSK format is that it uses the FlashFloppy emulator software internally as mentioned by @Chema above. Sadly, FlashFloppy doesn't currently support the Oric DSK format (though it handles ...
by retroric
Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New source code repository on OSDN.net
Replies: 18
Views: 7713

Re: New source code repository on OSDN.net

Thanks for your replies ibisum and DBug, and apologies for getting back to you so late, I was quite busy at the time returning to work after a long off-period and was quite busy and didn't visit the forum in a long time and just forgot about this thread !! Anyway, many thanks for enlightening me abo...
by retroric
Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!
Replies: 34
Views: 31262

Re: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!

Hi, Just want to say a big thanks to Damien for taking up the challenge of continuing development of Oric Explorer, although I must apologise for the state of the source code :oops: Cheers Scott Hi there Scott ! You have nothing to be ashamed of, quite the contrary, we will never thank you enough f...
by retroric
Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:18 pm
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!
Replies: 34
Views: 31262

Re: Oric Explorer v2.0 is up for adoption!!!

Hi there, About this HFE vs DSK pain in the bum: the reason the Cumana Reborn uses the HFE format instead of the DSK format is that it uses the FlashFloppy emulator software internally as mentioned by @Chema above. Sadly, FlashFloppy doesn't currently support the Oric DSK format (though it handles t...