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by Xeron
Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:54 am
Forum: AY sound chip
Topic: "music" in Xenon meteors noise
Replies: 22
Views: 41247

Re: "music" in Xenon meteors noise

Oricutron also has accurate AY noise (or should ;-) )
by Xeron
Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:22 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

Wow, iss! Nice work! Glad someone has time to work on Oricutron while I'm too busy :-)
by Xeron
Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:03 am
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: New tape fileformat (.ort)
Replies: 29
Views: 50640

Re: New tape fileformat (.ort)

No, it doesn't need to encode that. Normal Oric data is stored in decoded bytes (same as .tap), so the fast/slow encoding has been stripped off. You could re-encode it as fast or slow if you like. Other data is encoded as a waveform, so again no "fast" or "slow" really applies to...
by Xeron
Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:48 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Development of Blake's 7 (was OASIS development)
Replies: 600
Views: 550985

Re: OASIS development

Thats awesome, and the end result looks really great!
by Xeron
Fri Jun 24, 2016 12:31 am
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: writing disk images for a real Oric
Replies: 8
Views: 16719

Re: writing disk images for a real Oric

Hey witchy! Glad you got it working. Fun to see you on another forum.

- Xeron, aka Lumpbucket ;-)
by Xeron
Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:22 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

That mean that Dos-8D will never work if someone replace the 6502 with a CMOS version, clever! Depends on the instructions used. Some are the same on 65c02. The Apple II users learn that the hard way when Apple switched (and some user too) from the NMOS 6502 to the CMOS 65C02 version. But the Oric ...
by Xeron
Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:08 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

I don't entirely agree.

I think the current compile-time option should be made a configuration option. Oricutron is attempting to emulate a real piece of hardware, including quirks.

A better solution than not emulating illegal opcodes would be adding options to select 6502, 65c02 or 65816 emulation.
by Xeron
Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:39 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

Hmmm... according to the documents I could find online, opcode 04 is essentially a "nop", but it should consume an immediate operand. Looking at the code, I made it count the cycles correctly, but not consume the operand. No need for a message box. If you make all the "DOP" instr...
by Xeron
Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:15 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

Whoops! Thanks for the heads-up. I merged the fix from Godzil.
by Xeron
Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:02 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

The official Oricutron repository is now here https://github.com/pete-gordon/oricutron.

The google code page redirects there.
by Xeron
Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:02 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

Gitlab has all the above, and it also can be converted to a private local repo at ease (run Gitlab locally) if its needed .. Also, GitLab has a less-restrictive free-use account level, while GitHub is a tad more intrusive. Its easier, for example, and cheaper, to have free private repo's on GitLab,...
by Xeron
Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:00 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)
Replies: 214
Views: 220960

Re: Oricutron 1.0 (EDIT: Now 1.2)

I didn't want to move it to github, because although I love git, there was no good Amiga git client.

Now we have simplegit, I no longer have a problem with using github, so I plan to migrate it there, unless anyone has any serious objections?
by Xeron
Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:55 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Oricium feedback and review thread
Replies: 83
Views: 106247

Re: Oricium feedback and review thread

A nice video review of Oricium.

Just a shame he got the name confused with Oricutron :-)
by Xeron
Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:44 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Jasmin ROM
Replies: 8
Views: 27840

Re: Jasmin ROM

I would be surprised if there was any updates to the Jasmin ROM. Unlike the Microdisc, the creators of the Jasmin (sensibly) kept the complexity of the ROM to an absolute minimum. It reads a boot sector and executes it. You can then load the real "ROM" into the overlay RAM, and it means yo...
by Xeron
Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:18 am
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Vector graphics on the Oric
Replies: 8
Views: 19442

Re: Vector graphics on the Oric

I thought about a technique to do really fast horizontal line drawing, but it would (probably) only be good where you are not doing adjacent or overlapping shapes (so I'm thinking of an x-rotator effect, or with precalculated slices a chessboard wobbler for example). This is where you draw the first...