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by iss
Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:27 am
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Gotek USB floppy emulator
Replies: 31
Views: 27582

Re: Gotek USB floppy emulator

Symoon wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 4:28 am Totally confused once again with what can handle what: latest pictures of .... seem to show .DSK files directly read and written?
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The name ends with _dsk It's not .dsk.
Or the full name here is: B7en-1_3_dsk.HFE and the extension .HFE is hidden by FlashFloppy firmware.
by iss
Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:16 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

For those interested ... Thanks for the info, @Symoon! Well, I spend looot of time on this but IMO it's worth! :) Attached you can find every single bit of info related to Byte Drive 500 which can be found in the internet archive and with little hacking the images are in the highest resolution ! In...
by iss
Mon Feb 03, 2020 8:26 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

... and this in "TILT" magazine misspelled as "Bute Drive 500" : bUte-drive.png Automatic translate: DRIVE: The long awaited floppy drive for Oric 1 and Atmos is finally available in France from JGS. This is I.T.L.'s Bute Drive 500 Kathmill which gives 440 K-bytes after formattin...
by iss
Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:53 pm
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

So I would assume that the 34-way cable is a standard Shugart floppy interface. +1! The list of things... It was not meant to be offensive in anyway! With full respect I'm sorry for the unsuccessful joke. Actually I was very excited to share the "discovery" about $31A. ;) Is there a side ...
by iss
Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:33 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

... but we move slowly further: :) side-by-side.png Clksignal and Oricutron side by side running BD-DOS! Do you notice the difference :shock: Yes, Oricutron supports more drives! :twisted: The secret is: write to address $31A - drive select as follow: switch( addr ) { case 0x31a: switch( data &...
by iss
Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:17 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

Here is how the "Hybrid" cable looks: bd500.png Found in "Computer Answers" 1984/05 pages 19&20. Recently I found somewhere better picture but unfortunately I forgot to save it and now I can't track it again. But anyway I doubt that there is a hope to have the schematics :(. ...
by iss
Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:13 pm
Forum: Tape and floppy disk converters
Topic: Using a Gotek to archive tape games?
Replies: 13
Views: 11942

Re: Using a Gotek to archive tape games?

This "oric-international" repository at github is created by DF-user norik but I think it's already abandoned.
norik was very active and big Oric fan in the past (last post here 2014.04.20) ... :(
by iss
Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Operating systems, utilities and other serious software
Topic: Is BD-DOS lost to time?
Replies: 94
Views: 66694

Re: Is BD-DOS lost to time?

* = 0400 .................................... 0415 2C A9 00 BIT $00A9 ; Unknown purpose. 0418 2C A9 07 BIT $07A9 ; Unknown purpose. .................................... 0475 F0 A2 BEQ $0419 ; This is impossible in the code as given, so presumably modification occurs? 0477 C9 01 CMP #$01 0479 F0 9B ...
by iss
Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:08 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux
Replies: 170
Views: 158464

Re: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux

Here one more tip for SDL/Linux users - starting clksignal with: $ MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5 LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ./clksignal <path_to_media_file> should help on older machines which drivers doesn't support latest versions of OpenGL. You can try how it runs with only first, only second or both...
by iss
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:36 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Jasmin time
Replies: 33
Views: 24539

Re: Jasmin time

Was that tested with only one Oric and one Microdisc or Jasmin unit? I'm using 4 Orics in the test and only 1 Jasmin drive. There is no difference when changing the Oric and I consider this as stable basis to search the issues in the Jasmin only. Else the quartz looks old but nice: quartz-8Mhz.jpg ...
by iss
Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:02 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux
Replies: 170
Views: 158464

Re: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux

Thanks for your effort! One more thing but only related to myself: RTFM - there is difference between this two calls: ./clksignal --quickload --output=composite test.dsk and ./clksignal test.dsk --quickload --output=composite Only the second works! EDIT again : More tests and it works fine in RGB wi...
by iss
Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:51 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux
Replies: 170
Views: 158464

Re: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux

Hm, this will be not easy to fix - sorry to bother you! Here is a list with commits in back order with status of the SDL issue: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/commit/e7fff6e1236f48d805bde8db13ea6c922f13a600 - not working https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/commit/4de121142bdf6363476a1ad92673ff9456733d1...
by iss
Sat Jan 25, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Technical questions
Topic: Jasmin time
Replies: 33
Views: 24539

Re: Jasmin time

Have you tested the clock signal on the Jasmin? The clock is 8MHz with acceptable tolerance, not very good looking but here the oscilloscope is to be blamed: 8mhz.png More important there is definitely a drift between 8MHz clock and the 1MHz F2 signal i.e. the phase difference is not constant. One ...
by iss
Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:49 am
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux
Replies: 170
Views: 158464

Re: Clock Signal — an Oric emulator for macOS and Linux

Cool! Tested with macOS and works, but any chance to have SDL fixed too? ;) Now RGB mode freezes with black window and both composite modes issue "Segmentation fault". EDIT: Maybe the log below will help, but it's strange why clksignal stopped to work - I don't see changes related SDL. [WD...
by iss
Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:24 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Fifteen Puzzle [raxiss]
Replies: 5
Views: 4256

Re: Fifteen Puzzle [raxiss]

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... and a spoiler from me (just to justify the presence of my nick in the title ;) ).