Orikai
Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 7:49 pm
I would like to present today a small utility on which I work since some time: Orikai
The initial and main purpose was to have a Windows tool to study (and understand) how works the Hires mode of the Oric.
The first use of this utility is therefore the display of a dump of the hires memory of the Oric (the 8000 bytes between $A000 and $BF3F).
Open the file and move the mouse over the image displayed (4x magnified) and information about bytes will be displayed.
But it's also a bit more than that and can even be a (rudimentary) pixel editor.
My English is not very good (as you can see), so I let you discover the features by yourself!
Some information anyway:
- 3 Modes : normal ("study mode"), edit mode (byte/bit edition), pixel edition mode
- undo/redo capabilities.
- passing file to open on the command line (ex: Orikai.exe "D:\fullpath\filename.hir") for use in a batch file (after conversion with PictConv for example)
- drag n drop
Mouse usage:
- right button = displaying menus with some additional functions.
- middle button = pixel mode.
- X1 button (mouse button x, the one with which you go back in your browser for example) = byte edit mode. You can set each bit individually or bytes directly.
In Pixel mode : use left button to edit pixel and right button to access menus with additional functions.
Use mouse wheel to move the magnified selection (ctrl+mouse wheel to move horizontally).
Do not hesitate to report bugs if you find some (there are probably many).
One last thing: this tool is far from current windows standards. It was initially planned only as a private and personal tool. And it's not at all a drawing software for the Oric!
But it would be able to provide services especially in a cross development environment!
File information and download:
Orikai.exe (v0.98.6)
SHA256: 7e3a37672b743493f0c2a8390ca6b81d9f380414bbed6133a4f1e15c2bacacf0
https://www.virustotal.com/fr/file/7e3a ... 527445276/
Platform: win32 (tested on Windows 10 64bits)
- Need Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (vc_redist.x86.exe even for Windows 64bits)
downloadable at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=48145
- Need FreeImage.dll (v3.17.0.0): used only to export to PC format (same as the PictConv -o5 option)
I could not directly include FreeImage.dll in the zip file because it would be too large to be uploaded as an attachment to this thread.
downloadable at: http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/download.html.
Warning: use the 32 bits version of FreeImage.dll (FreeImage\Dist\x32\ directory in the zip archive)
The initial and main purpose was to have a Windows tool to study (and understand) how works the Hires mode of the Oric.
The first use of this utility is therefore the display of a dump of the hires memory of the Oric (the 8000 bytes between $A000 and $BF3F).
Open the file and move the mouse over the image displayed (4x magnified) and information about bytes will be displayed.
But it's also a bit more than that and can even be a (rudimentary) pixel editor.
My English is not very good (as you can see), so I let you discover the features by yourself!
Some information anyway:
- 3 Modes : normal ("study mode"), edit mode (byte/bit edition), pixel edition mode
- undo/redo capabilities.
- passing file to open on the command line (ex: Orikai.exe "D:\fullpath\filename.hir") for use in a batch file (after conversion with PictConv for example)
- drag n drop
Mouse usage:
- right button = displaying menus with some additional functions.
- middle button = pixel mode.
- X1 button (mouse button x, the one with which you go back in your browser for example) = byte edit mode. You can set each bit individually or bytes directly.
In Pixel mode : use left button to edit pixel and right button to access menus with additional functions.
Use mouse wheel to move the magnified selection (ctrl+mouse wheel to move horizontally).
Do not hesitate to report bugs if you find some (there are probably many).
One last thing: this tool is far from current windows standards. It was initially planned only as a private and personal tool. And it's not at all a drawing software for the Oric!
But it would be able to provide services especially in a cross development environment!
File information and download:
Orikai.exe (v0.98.6)
SHA256: 7e3a37672b743493f0c2a8390ca6b81d9f380414bbed6133a4f1e15c2bacacf0
https://www.virustotal.com/fr/file/7e3a ... 527445276/
Platform: win32 (tested on Windows 10 64bits)
- Need Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (vc_redist.x86.exe even for Windows 64bits)
downloadable at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=48145
- Need FreeImage.dll (v3.17.0.0): used only to export to PC format (same as the PictConv -o5 option)
I could not directly include FreeImage.dll in the zip file because it would be too large to be uploaded as an attachment to this thread.
downloadable at: http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/download.html.
Warning: use the 32 bits version of FreeImage.dll (FreeImage\Dist\x32\ directory in the zip archive)