Oriculator (WIP)

Xeron · Post by **Xeron** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:37 pm

Oh dear. Development might slow down now... i've been downloading all the old games I used to have on my Atmos and trying them out in Oriculator

They're all working great!

Post by **Dbug** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:49 am

The few things I tried worked fine, great work

acid_head · Post by **acid_head** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:10 pm

For a nice AY emulation library you can try: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libayemu/

ibisum · Post by **ibisum** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:36 am

This is super cool .. the debugger interface looks like exactly what I needed when I was 13 years old to figure out how everything works. Great!

Are you going to release the sources/make a Linux/OSX version?

Xeron · Post by **Xeron** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:25 pm

ibisum wrote:This is super cool .. the debugger interface looks like exactly what I needed when I was 13 years old to figure out how everything works. Great!

Thanks

Are you going to release the sources/make a Linux/OSX version?

I'm going to open source it once i have disk drives working. Maybe sooner if i get stuck with that

I'll still maintain the official version, but will happily give SVN access to interested parties.

ibisum · Post by **ibisum** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:23 am

I'd like to see it running on the OpenPandora handheld gaming console, heh heh .. hope I get mine soon!

maximus · Post by **maximus** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:54 pm

hello Xeron, some news about the sound progress ?

a little demo version ?

JamesD · Post by **JamesD** » Fri May 29, 2009 6:34 pm

Thanks for the great work... the debugger has been very useful already.

JamesD · Post by **JamesD** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:23 am

After spending some time with the debugger there is one suggestion I'd make. Instead of just a memory dump it would be nice if you could display a block of memory and it's contents were updated as we step through the code or while it runs.
I've used this feature on the Virtual MC-10 emulator and it's really nice.
http://www.geocities.com/emucompboy/

It also imports the lst file generated by the assembler so you can see labels in the code as you step through it and some other cool things.

Post by **Dbug** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:16 pm

JamesD wrote:It also imports the lst file generated by the assembler so you can see labels in the code as you step through it and some other cool things.

It's what Euphoric is doing, the label file generated by XA is loader by the debugger so we can have symbols.

JamesD · Post by **JamesD** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:26 pm

Dbug wrote:
JamesD wrote:It also imports the lst file generated by the assembler so you can see labels in the code as you step through it and some other cool things.
It's what Euphoric is doing, the label file generated by XA is loader by the debugger so we can have symbols.

I have Vista on the machine I'm developing on. Running DOSBox just to run Euphoric is inconvenient to say the least.

Post by **Dbug** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:51 pm

JamesD wrote:
Dbug wrote:
JamesD wrote:It also imports the lst file generated by the assembler so you can see labels in the code as you step through it and some other cool things.
It's what Euphoric is doing, the label file generated by XA is loader by the debugger so we can have symbols.
I have Vista on the machine I'm developing on. Running DOSBox just to run Euphoric is inconvenient to say the least.

Well, let's say it was more like a "discreet" hint to suggest Xeron to try to be compatible with the way he handles symbols

Xeron · Post by **Xeron** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:59 pm

Hello everyone.

Well, I haven't had any time to work on Oriculator for several weeks

But I have not given up on it!

Also, I have now released the sourcecode under GPL v2. You can check it out of the SVN here:

http://code.google.com/p/oriculator.

Any patches and improvements gratefully received.

The code in the repositry has the beginnings of disk support, but it is hopelessly broken at this time. I could really use some help with that

Edit: I will try and tidy up and better document the code in the coming week or so.

Xeron · Post by **Xeron** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:04 pm

I've added a memory watch window to the debugger.

I've also refactored and commented parts of the code.

There is a WIP snapshot build in the download section of the google code page, if anyone wants to try it out. It includes disk support, but don't expect it to work, it is still hopelessly broken.

BTW, if anyone wants commit access to the SVN to help out with development, let me know. You need a google account (not necessarily a gmail account).

Torlus · Post by **Torlus** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:45 pm

Hey there, any developer around ?

I'm far from being an Oric expert, but well, I'd be glad to help if I can.
Just tell us on which topics you'd like some help, and I think it would help people to see if they can help (or not).