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by carlsson
Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:22 am
Forum: Audio tools
Topic: MYM Player
Replies: 7
Views: 24863

And MSX, ZX and CPC have the Z80 processor in common, so any music formats developed natively on these computers would still not work on the 6502 Oric without a Z80 emulator. I guess you could take an Atari ST music player, disassemble it and figure out what it does with its song data, and write a n...
by carlsson
Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:14 am
Forum: Audio tools
Topic: Your AY playroutine Mike :)
Replies: 13
Views: 31539

The picture is maybe one or two years ago. I'm 30, but may look younger. I've been a bit of a Oric fan for years, but not really got the incentive to try some programming. I put some bids on the Oric Atmos in Dimitri's sales, but it went a bit too expensive for my taste. I guess reading some tech ar...
by carlsson
Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:10 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: New Mac's with Intel chips ?
Replies: 2
Views: 7705

If the web browser has a Java run-time environment (which it should have these days), I can't see any reason why it would work differently due to the CPU as Java is designed to be independent of such factors. Theoretically, you'll be able to install Microsoft Vista once it is released, but I guess m...
by carlsson
Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New posts colors
Replies: 7
Views: 12676

Does anyone get icons for new posts? I may have a similar cookie issue as I have with the Vintage Computer Forum, but on most other phpBB forums it works. These are the two ones which act weird to me. When I log in as default, the upper header shows I'm not logged in, but the stats at the bottom sho...
by carlsson
Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:11 am
Forum: 6502 assembly coding
Topic: Size optimisation: Compact subroutines
Replies: 6
Views: 14568

Memory copy within a minigame? Reading input is something I prefer to do once in a loop, and if you make it a subroutine, do you need input parameters? For comparison, I have a total of 54 subroutine calls in Jewels 20, 42 calls in Othello, 34 calls in VIQ-Bert, 41 calls in Zapactris and 30 calls in...
by carlsson
Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:57 pm
Forum: Audio tools
Topic: Your AY playroutine Mike :)
Replies: 13
Views: 31539

A lot of shifting! Some day, I'll look into how to access the PSG via VIA (heh) and port my VIC-20 music player to Oric. Perhaps I will add a few music effects to it first. There should be other VIC/Atari/BBC (?) players out there which could be adopted too.
by carlsson
Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:53 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: We know you're busy Fabrice but we wanna Atmosphere :)
Replies: 3
Views: 8561

I've observed a difference in sound output from other Java applications depending on whether I'm using MSIE internal or Sun's 3rd party runtime environment. At least on one page I visit sometimes, Sun's JRE lags a lot with broken sound, but Microsoft's one is much smoother.