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by Euphoric
Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:06 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Announcing... the AtmoStrat !
Replies: 41
Views: 49298

Re: Announcing... the AtmoStrat !

It's good that George and Ivan have joined the discussion, I'm not sure I could cope with all the questions... :lol: About the ULA "cache" question : - the ULA does maintain a state : current video mode (TEXT/HIRES), frequency (50Hz/60Hz), current address in memory, normal/alt characters, ...
by Euphoric
Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:37 am
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Announcing... the AtmoStrat !
Replies: 41
Views: 49298

Re: Announcing... the AtmoStrat !

And the PB6 which drives the tape relay is used to select which video page to be displayed :). Does that switch both the video memory AND the character sets? That's true...when PB6 is 0 all the ULA's video memory accesses are in $00xxxx (including those character sets memory cycles), and when PB6 i...
by Euphoric
Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:52 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Announcing... the AtmoStrat !
Replies: 41
Views: 49298

Announcing... the AtmoStrat !

Hi everybody, George Dramcheff has given me the honor to announce his magnificent baby : the AtmoStrat ! A beautiful red motherboard that is much more than an Oric clone... Here are a few quick specs : - 96 KB of ROM giving access to 4 configurations thanks to a rear switch : Oric Atmos, Pravetz 8D,...
by Euphoric
Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: South of France Meeting in Vieumikro (4 and 5 of October)
Replies: 32
Views: 31290

Re: South of France Meeting in Vieumikro (4 and 5 of October

Ah, Kenneth, I forgot... Here is the reference for the 36-pins edge connector :

http://www.rs-particuliers.com/WebCatal ... 12238.aspx

Cheers,

Fabrice
by Euphoric
Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: South of France Meeting in Vieumikro (4 and 5 of October)
Replies: 32
Views: 31290

Re: South of France Meeting in Vieumikro (4 and 5 of October

Hello guys,

I really enjoyed meeting old friends at this Vieumikro, and new ones like Kenneth (who incidentally is as old as me :wink: )

Vieumikro is definitely the place to be in October, maybe other oricians will make the journey next year ! :D

Cheers to all,

Fabrice
by Euphoric
Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:18 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Stuttering Atmos
Replies: 18
Views: 26200

Re: Stuttering Atmos

Hi Chema, hi Mike, yeap I have a faulty Oric board where the ULA is ok, and it is mounted on a socket, so I can use this replacement. Unfortunately, Patrice's board has a soldered ULA, and i don't have a good unsoldering station (and even with an unsoldering station it is often difficult to correctl...
by Euphoric
Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:31 am
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Stuttering Atmos
Replies: 18
Views: 26200

Re: Stuttering Atmos

Hi guys, I didn't know that Patrice was going to post here, thanks for your interest... Unfortunately, you didn't look closely enough at the screen... :wink: (but I must admit I didn't notice it at first too, and my first conclusions were about the same : the ram is ok otherwise the Basic won't be a...
by Euphoric
Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Retiring from the Oric scene...
Replies: 8
Views: 14646

Retiring from the Oric scene...

Bye bye, "Internet Oricians", I'm retiring from this "Oric community on the Internet"... After about 10 years of service on the Internet, I'm going back to the way I was Oric-ing before, doing Oric stuff for my use only. Maybe I will come back in a few years, maybe in a few month...
by Euphoric
Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:47 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Page fault when pressing F1 on version 1(0.99q in Historic)
Replies: 6
Views: 13284

As usual, on http://oric.free.fr ... Also, this build i believe has a windows installer, which is not ideal for my VPC DOS environment No, there's no windows installer, the distribution is in zip package that you extract wherever you want. Windows users then execute the setup.js script, this is not ...
by Euphoric
Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Call for participation: 256 bytes collection
Replies: 10
Views: 20252

Was wondering if we can directly load a 256 bytes program in zero page, and the answer is definitely yes... Jon has a large experience of this: a program executing in zero page saves space (no need to initialize variables as they can be inserted as the operands of immediate instructions). So, here a...
by Euphoric
Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:23 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Euphoric's latest build
Replies: 24
Views: 44451

Hello Maximus, your tutorial seems fine, I like the book cover "Euphoric for the dummies" :-)

(just a small typo: the javascript file for the setup is setup.js not .jz)

Cheers,

Fabrice
by Euphoric
Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Call for participation: 256 bytes collection
Replies: 10
Views: 20252

Of course, we can't base on a big OpenGL or Direct3D library like most of those PC demoes... But on the other hand, 6502 code is more compact than 80x86, so those minigames like Tetris, etc. are easily reachable IMHO. Will do something when I have finished the current works... but does this mean tha...
by Euphoric
Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:07 am
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Isometric Graphics using 3:1 Aspect ratio
Replies: 21
Views: 60930

u mean the 2:1 drawer won't keep sliding open as much? With the different angle and gravity implemented, yeap, it could even happen that drawers can't be kept open... Lol :-D i still think it looks dead cool aspect Your graphics are completely astonishing, Jon ! I can't believe you don't already ha...
by Euphoric
Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:45 pm
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Isometric Graphics using 3:1 Aspect ratio
Replies: 21
Views: 60930

Since we are talking about aspect ratios... don't forget the real pixel ratio of the Oric on a TV screen is 5:4, so all the bitmaps that we show here would be more flat on a real Oric. This means that the 2:1 isometric graphics would appear as 5:2 on a real Oric... somewhere between the 2:1 ratio an...
by Euphoric
Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:43 pm
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Fast sextet shift techniques for the hires ?
Replies: 6
Views: 22395

Fast sextet shift techniques for the hires ?

I'm posting this subject here but it is related to Chema's question about moving big software sprites in the (so-cumbersome) HIRES mode of the Oric. As you already know, the HIRES screen is made of 200 lines of 40 bytes, but only six bits of each byte are actually displayed. As soon as you want to s...