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by Symoon
Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CEO meeting june 2011 report
Replies: 8
Views: 11418

I have never been very interested in this project, so the best way to learn about it is to visit the page by André, great contributor (but in French):
http://andre.cheramy.net/super/super.htm
by Symoon
Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CEO meeting june 2011 report
Replies: 8
Views: 11418

CEO meeting june 2011 report

Hi, Nice little meeting yesterday. 8 at the restaurant, about 13 at the meeting place. Demo and tests with the Hxc floppy emulator http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ (requires a controller card) I also let the demo of Skool Daze run for a while, and showed an official Spanish version of L...
by Symoon
Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:59 pm
Forum: AY sound chip
Topic: "music" in Xenon meteors noise
Replies: 22
Views: 42748

Thanks to all for the replies. Wow, do I have bionic ears? :shock: :wink: Another (and last) test: I copied the higher "bell" from the meteors sample (IMO the easiest to hear), didn't do any signal modification, and simply pasted it 4 times in the following (short) WAV file. http://mercena...
by Symoon
Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oric Atoms
Replies: 4
Views: 7486

Wow, too bad I don't have such "museum condition" Orics!
But mine are "historically used at the golden age condition", I wonder if they're not worth more £$ actually ;-)
by Symoon
Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:25 pm
Forum: AY sound chip
Topic: "music" in Xenon meteors noise
Replies: 22
Views: 42748

"music" in Xenon meteors noise

This is a very old story. When I was young, playing Xenon 1, I kept telling my brothers that in the meteors noise (level 3), I was hearing lost in the noise a small music, like bells. They claimed they didn't hear anything. The music consists of 4 notes repeating about every 3 seconds. Years later I...
by Symoon
Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu
Replies: 17
Views: 41058

Another mistake: - page 48, byte 67 is not listed. Used in ROM 1.0 to set fast/slow tape speed loading. Fast = 0, slow = any other value - page 58, byte 24D is listed as "unused". This is wrong, used in ROM 1.1 to set fast/slow tape speed loading. Fast = 0, slow = any other value These byt...
by Symoon
Mon May 23, 2011 4:22 pm
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu
Replies: 17
Views: 41058

Well there are many things there, too!
http://www.stratix.fr/base/Stratixlivres.html

But we are off-topic, Dbug is there a way to move this discussion about scanning to another topic? :oops:
by Symoon
Mon May 23, 2011 12:40 am
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu
Replies: 17
Views: 41058

Re: Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu

How about a scan of this book? :) Kamel Don't ask me :( It's an old and neverending story. I know at least 1 or 2 books were given away to people who offered to scan it and never did it. Then someone else made it, but didn't want to release it without the original author's agreement. Which he never...
by Symoon
Sun May 22, 2011 11:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "mistakes in books" discussions
Replies: 0
Views: 7912

"mistakes in books" discussions

Hi all, I begun a new topic on in the books section. The idea would be to list, bor each book we use, the mistakes we've found (1 topic for each book that needs corrections). So this is a collective effort to correct the mistakes, and everyone can read them immediatley and rather easily. Good/bad id...
by Symoon
Sun May 22, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: Mags and books
Topic: Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu
Replies: 17
Views: 41058

Mistakes in books: l'Oric à Nu

Page 270, tape routine "prendre la longueur d'un créneau", there's a mistake in the comments. Unlike what's stated, C=1 for a short period on tape (bit 1), and C=0 for a long period on tape (bit 0). The other routines are commented correctly, so the mistake was limitied to this page it see...
by Symoon
Sat May 14, 2011 8:06 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: HowTo: Multiplayer on-line gaming on oric!
Replies: 5
Views: 9845

Good luck with the idea. I had the same kind with my never-finished audio link. One thing I can tell you: you can load an Oric program from a tape hundreads miles away with programs like Ivisit (never tried Skype as I don't use it). So internet communication with our Orics is possible in any way our...
by Symoon
Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:54 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Microdisc replacement project
Replies: 183
Views: 199263

I'm afraid the CEO abilities mainly rely on Thierry (and maybe Jean?). He's already spending much of his spare time for various repairs, so the decision of such an organisation would first require his agreement. And obviously it would be better if there was more than one single man involved in the m...
by Symoon
Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:33 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Microdisc replacement project
Replies: 183
Views: 199263

Not so good news from the web page: http://retromaster.wordpress.com/cumulus/ "Update: Due to unbelievably stupid and unfair new regulations implemented by Turkish Customs, apparently it has become virtually impossible for me to personally import small quantities of the components and parts req...
by Symoon
Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:41 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric main loop
Replies: 11
Views: 14646

Symoon wrote:Could it be the SEI in the beginning, should I remove it? Or am I doing something wrong ?
Tried without the SEI, same symptoms.
Not much time to do more these days, will resume ASAP!