Amazing!
How many titles (games or demos) may fit this cartridge?
Awesome! By the way, instead of thinking of my complete wish list, if you can make a device like this a reality on the Oric that would be super:
That depends if you mean titles that fit on an unextended Oric or not With this, you can easily fill up the whole thing with one game if you want to, only your imagination is the limit Why not make a 4 megabyte game for the Oric.
Ah, interesting. I wonder if this could be done from floppy... FloppyBuilder has built in decompression and disk access is quite fast. I know this is a demo of your device, but just curiousiss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:09 am ...
Are the demo frames being streamed as a video or is something rendered by software: In BadApple (made by @rax!) all frames are LZ-compressed (~400K) and they are decompressed directly to video memory. The sound is PT3 (~8k). Interesting is that during playback there is kind of synchronization between video and audio - just like in real players!
Thanks for the info - the C64 hardware and software are really great. Hopefully one day Oric will have something like Ultimate II+ or maybe even better .
I think it will work from floppy too. When the time allows I'll give it a try but maybe it's worth to be implemented some optimizations like delta frames.
First - as vertical the board size will be to small to place and route all chips, an alternative is 4-layer PCB but then the price jumps exponentially. We thought about vertical design but with 2 small PCBs as sandwich where the first PCB is "mother" and the second is only the memory (exactly as @Dbug wrote in his post previously) but we rejected the idea because more connectors make the whole thing more unreliable. And second the horizontal design was exactly the @rax wish BTW, I forgot to mention that the cartridge will have a 3D printed shell.
We absolutely agree to keep it simple as much as possible! For loading content from PC - there is something that I call "flash-pump" but more on this bit later .
Oh, that sounds complicated. I was thinking only to put the connector rotated so the board goes up, even if it goes beyond the height of the Oric. But surely you already considered that...iss wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:18 pm First - as vertical the board size will be to small to place and route all chips, an alternative is 4-layer PCB but then the price jumps exponentially. We thought about vertical design but with 2 small PCBs as sandwich where the first PCB is "mother" and the second is only the memory (exactly as @Dbug wrote in his post previously) but we rejected the idea because more connectors make the whole thing more unreliable. And second the horizontal design was exactly the @rax wish BTW, I forgot to mention that the cartridge will have a 3D printed shell.
Not sure if you ask about ORICART (most probably yes) or Dandanator! Mini. In any case, I *think* the former is not, because it does not seem to have a second expansion connector But the latter does. It has a second edge connector, so you can plug an extra device there. It can detect if a device is trying to use the same addresses and deactivates itself automatically.
And that is exactly why I can perfectly understand why as a developer 'keep it simple' is the best way to go, but that I as potential user have some thoughts on it