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Impressive as always Jorodr !

jorodr wrote:The computer is running only in 1 MHz. It's not faster than Atmos and Telestrat and is 100% compatible, just have extended optcodes and address modes. It is useful for that who loves to write in assembler language. I hope there will be interested to find some useful 65C816 cross-assembler.

Ok.

jorodr wrote:I'm working on to add 64K extra, but it seems it's not easy because of the ULA. Will know soon.

I wonder if it would be doable to make it possible to page out the area from $A000 to $BFDF (so about 8192 bytes), that would make it possible to have smooth HIRES animation with double buffering

Technically, a usable solution for programmers would be to have and additional 64k of ram, split in 8 banks of 8kb, each overlapping the same 8kb in the original memory, as long as the ULA and the CPU knows which one to use at any time

This is amazing, I'm completely ready to participate! Much lust!

Dbug wrote:I wonder if it would be doable to make it possible to page out the area from $A000 to $BFDF (so about 8192 bytes), that would make it possible to have smooth HIRES animation with double buffering

That's the idea of second 64K page. I want to double the video memory. I think I know how to do that, but it's too early and there's not enough room on the board for chips extra. I must remove SVideo part, but don't want for now. Maybe on some late stage when I try to integrate FDD controller on board, but then it will be impossible to fit in the case. It will be completely different computer, not AtmoStrat, maybe Oric Tropos, I don't know..

Pretty cool!

Dbug wrote:

jorodr wrote:The computer is running only in 1 MHz. It's not faster than Atmos and Telestrat and is 100% compatible, just have extended optcodes and address modes. It is useful for that who loves to write in assembler language. I hope there will be interested to find some useful 65C816 cross-assembler.

Ok.

jorodr wrote:I'm working on to add 64K extra, but it seems it's not easy because of the ULA. Will know soon.

I wonder if it would be doable to make it possible to page out the area from $A000 to $BFDF (so about 8192 bytes), that would make it possible to have smooth HIRES animation with double buffering

Technically, a usable solution for programmers would be to have and additional 64k of ram, split in 8 banks of 8kb, each overlapping the same 8kb in the original memory, as long as the ULA and the CPU knows which one to use at any time

That's not easy using the original ULA as there will be sync problem, and that the ULA control the memory, and especially the memory refresh.

Unless the DRAM chip are replaced by SRAM, where they don't require to be refreshed, and map the 2 bank of memory on the ULA bus, and not the CPU bus, it won't be easy.

Just a little update. AtmoStrat tries to run in some of Telestrat modes, but I have not 3.5" StratSed disc.
Sorry I don't know if it's HyperBasic or TeleAss.
Could someone send me dsk to jorodr@abv.bg?

Here it is
However I am not sure if you need the STRATORIC cartridge in bank 5 of the Telestrat for it to work... Could be tested on an emulator I guess.

Congratulations for the excellent work!

Thanks to jorodr and Chema I found bug in Oricutron running in TeleStrat mode related to ACIA emulation. Now it's fixed and I'll commit changes to svn.

Me?

Anyway, great!

Thanks chema, thanks iss.

Here you are - AtmoStrat + Stratsed

And big problem! I don't know what to do, I see Telestrat running for a first time. But I am happy that I have made it by myself! Is there HyperBasic manual?
Sorry for the mess of the table

Check here: HyberBasic en+fr or here but only in French.

iss. Thanks for your support!!! I'm waiting you to finish oricutron fixing and modify Dos 8D for 65816

Some pictures of AtmoStrat composite video out...

Nice