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- Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Blake's 7 feedback and review thread
- Replies: 131
- Views: 231128
Re: Blake's 7 feedback and review thread
Here is a patch which swaps up and down directions of the IJK-joystick in Blake's 7: Changes are to be applied on the DSK file using hex-editor. For ver.1.0 at offset $2BD8: $2BD8: 04 01 02 10 08 -> 04 01 02 08 10 For ver.1.2 and the last 1.3 at offset $2BED: $2BED: 04 01 02 10 08 -> 04 01 02 08 10 ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:30 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Need help fixing Oric 1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20958
Re: Need help fixing Oric 1
I suspect I can hack the ROM for NTSC. There must be two places to change. One for TEXT and one for HIRES. Exactly 2 places need to be changed $1E->$1C and $1A->$18. Here is why (from Dbug's Oric graphics in detail ): 24 or 25 Switch to TEXT mode (60 Hz) 26 or 27 Switch to TEXT mode (50 Hz) 28 or 2...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:14 am
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Need help fixing Oric 1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20958
Re: Need help fixing Oric 1
Does anyone know if it's feasible to remove all 8 dram chips and replace it with one SRam chip like 62256. No it's faster and cheaper. I think we can use Ras to latch address. Speaking technically - yes, it's possible such replacement - you'll need 2x 'LS374, 2x 62256, 1/3 'LS04 and lot of enthusia...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:16 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 67037
Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
About using a PC, the only solution I've seen so far is Greaseweazle . @Chema : Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this nice project - it looks great. I've created something similar based on Arduino but it's in early stage, so Greaseweazle will save my time for something else :). Cumana rebor...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:59 am
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Need help fixing Oric 1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20958
Re: Need help fixing Oric 1
Maybe this is a clue. When the prompt is up (before it goes blank), it says "47870 BYTES FREE". I thought it's supposed to be "37631 BYTES FREE" where's the extra coming from? The number is consistent. 47870 BYTES FREE are absolutely OK - simply you have BASIC ROM ver.: 1.0 3763...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:03 am
- Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
- Topic: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
- Replies: 104
- Views: 81335
Re: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
In any case, using a joystick to control a cursor is horrible (keyboard is too, I know). The interesting thing is that using joystick in Blake's-7 is not so bad, actually is very smooth and cursor is very responsible. About the vertical movement: current state is: push - cursor moves down, pull - c...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:28 pm
- Forum: Technical questions
- Topic: Need help fixing Oric 1
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20958
Re: Need help fixing Oric 1
I need to concatenate the binary to fit the space. Is that true, if so can some one tell me how to concatenate it? in windows that is. Use command prompt and type: copy /b diag.rom + diag.rom diag32k.rom In Oric pin1 is connected to VCC, so A14 will be always HIGH which means only the second half o...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
- Topic: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
- Replies: 104
- Views: 81335
Re: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
Here are answers to all questions from above : :) I love the design and how it fits on the back of the Oric. What worries me most is the mechanical stress on the connector... something to worry about? I don't think that should be a problem really, I've seen issues with the connections to the flat c...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 67037
Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Looking at my disks I can expand this a little There is also BD DOS 5.0 with BASIC v3.0 BD DOS 5.0 version 2(?) BD DOS 5.0 with BASIC v3.1 BD DOS 6.0 with BASIC v4.0 (and I now have a DOS6.0 manual to scan !!!) Wooow, this is incredible! :shock: I can wait to have copy of all that stuff! @SteveM : ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Source code repository discussion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15305
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
- Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 67037
Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
@SteveM : Thanks for all your BD-500 scanned docs. I converted them to PDFs and they should appear soon in DF library. ;) For all impatient Oric-hackers here are temporary links: BD-500-DOS-4.0-BASIC-2.0-Users_Manual.pdf ~ 56MB BD-500-DOS-4.0-BASIC-2.0-Specs.pdf ~ 1.8MB BD-500-DOS-4.0-BASIC-2.0-Typ...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Changed of hosting strategy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 530722
Re: Changed of hosting strategy
Thanks, Dbug! I really miss the forum this week. Now it works fine for me, will see how it will go with the new stuff which I've already collected for posting.
- Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:22 am
- Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
- Topic: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
- Replies: 104
- Views: 81335
Re: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
Games often use only one joysticks, if you add the IJK code for all games, this interface will be a revolution in the Oric world! :shock: 8) Thanks, @ kenneth ! Your words are like nice spoiler for my software surprise: all games adapted by Micropuce for PASE interface (i.e. JOYSTICK ADAPTER I &...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
- Topic: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
- Replies: 104
- Views: 81335
Re: IJK-egoist new joystick interface by [raxiss]
I'm very happy to share some pictures:
The quality is really amazing and something foretells me a hardware weekend . Wait for updates...
The quality is really amazing and something foretells me a hardware weekend . Wait for updates...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: New Spanish text adventure!!!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12359
Re: New Spanish text adventure!!!!
Congrats! This is really impressive art work and this is how nowadays all new production for our Oric should look like.
And I already know what ¡Ayuda! means, so it's not too difficult to learn Spanish
And I already know what ¡Ayuda! means, so it's not too difficult to learn Spanish