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by Dbug
Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Microdisc Restoration
Replies: 14
Views: 1672

Re: Microdisc Restoration

Regarding Microdisc and Gotek, I wrote an article about that on my blog some time ago, including how to switch A<->B easily

See: https://blog.defence-force.org/index.ph ... &ref=ART67
by Dbug
Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Microdisc Restoration
Replies: 14
Views: 1672

Re: Microdisc Restoration

My experience with Microdisc units is that the drive may need grease, and the PSU tends to have problems (be careful with the polarity of the connector, it's a standard 4 pin molex but the +12/+5/gnd are not in the same order as on PCs). I never had a problem with the caps on the disc controller boa...
by Dbug
Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Demos
Topic: No Problem by IRIS
Replies: 26
Views: 7156

Re: No Problem by IRIS

There is a calendar of all parties on https://www.demoparty.net. There's no real protocol, basically in general you need a nickname and a group name, mostly because most "compo systems" will need that for the purpose of showing the prod and recording votes. Regarding the party it helps tar...
by Dbug
Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Which Oric character to use for a mural?
Replies: 5
Views: 1604

Re: Which Oric character to use for a mural?

The French importer of the Oric, ASN, was using a lion in most of their early advertising material, not sure why.
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by Dbug
Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Which Oric character to use for a mural?
Replies: 5
Views: 1604

Re: Which Oric character to use for a mural?

Hunchback exists on C64, it was a Ocean game on more than one machine.
I need to think about it :)
by Dbug
Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy New Year!
Replies: 10
Views: 2505

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody,
may your personal life and all your projects coexist happily and satisfy you :)
by Dbug
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Just checking IJK/PASE pinouts.
Replies: 7
Views: 1468

Re: Just checking IJK/PASE pinouts.

You may be interested in this article: https://osdk.org/index.php?page=articles&ref=ART17

Generally speaking, PASE should be avoided because it corrupts the sound when the joystick is used by the player, IJK is the only sane option really.
by Dbug
Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum connectivity
Replies: 16
Views: 4049

Re: Forum connectivity

kenneth wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:59 pm User 'defenceforceco01' has exceeded the 'max_queries_per_hour' resource (current value: 360000) [1226]
Whaou, no idea what could be triggering that, it's not like the forum was very active Oo
by Dbug
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum connectivity
Replies: 16
Views: 4049

Re: Forum connectivity

Looks like some of the pages started to get indexed, but it's like 20 out of a few thousands, will see how that goes over time
by Dbug
Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:50 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: New Oric Project. The OriClone-1
Replies: 47
Views: 20977

Re: New Oric Project. The OriClone-1

JenniferGunn wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:35 pm Please forgive the surreptitious change of identity, I was expecting flack for it but the internet is a funny place and one knows not what would happen tomorrow.
You are not the first, and you will not be the last :)
by Dbug
Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum connectivity
Replies: 16
Views: 4049

Re: Forum connectivity

And I think I found the problem, a good old case of f**** you google: image_2023-12-24_131246520.png I've all the domains and subdomains registered on the google search console, and I regularly receive some "congratulations, SEO improved for domain blaaaa" but it NEVER tells you when there...
by Dbug
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum connectivity
Replies: 16
Views: 4049

Re: Forum connectivity

Hmm, looks like indeed there is a problem. *sigh*
I don't use google anymore for normal search, so did not really realize there was a problem there.
Thanks for pointing out the issue.
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by Dbug
Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Christmas
Replies: 20
Views: 4759

Re: Christmas

Merry Christmas indeed :)
by Dbug
Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:51 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric-1 Help Needed
Replies: 28
Views: 6615

Re: Oric-1 Help Needed

Great to hear :)
Now the question is: Do you know what actually was the things that fixed it :D
by Dbug
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:05 am
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Oric-1 Help Needed
Replies: 28
Views: 6615

Re: Oric-1 Help Needed

Well, if the issue is that some memory address location at regular offset is not returning the proper values, most probably that will impact at least some of the memory locations used by the BASIC interpreter/system ROM, so at that point anything can happen really.