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Very nice

How how hard would it be to add a PAUSE button to stop the emulation?

Chema wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:05 pm I'm quite sure we made some tests with real floppies... in fact Silicebit did most of them and even published a video about it.

That was probably interleave related, on physical drives that has a huge impact

Yes, since someone tried to go format disk images in sedoric I had to go back and add support for that now. It requires an exisitng floppy image with the desired geometry to work, but I've at least tested it with a sedoric "INIT B,17,42,D" which formats and makes it a master floppy I've b...

Does that mean that by changing the button on the back you end up with the 3.5" drive as A and the internal Gotek as C?

jsk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:11 pm Btw: a lot of pointers to oric stuff on osdn? Are all broken...

OSDN is gone, but all the relative links are still valid to https://github.com/Oric-Software-Develo ... ree/master

Unfortunately most of the code of Quintessential has been lost due to some combination of the demo being finished on the party place, hard drives crashes, etc... The "Oric Giga Demo" in 2001 was using Sedoric as the loader, so was the "Assembly 2002" intro invit. "Quintessen...

@Dbug: Just tried to post a link to X using media button and it didn't work. The link starts with: 'x.com' when I've changed it manually to 'twitter.com' everything is fine and link also works. As twitter is X (for now :)) maybe it's worth to add x.com to 'media' type links. I should probably also ...

If the versions are stored in BCD, you can have xx.yy.zz stored in only 3 bytes with each value having two digits

jsk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:59 pm Anyway, I"ve been looking for a method of doing this automatically, especially when you're saving smaller than the HIRES screen size.

Technically you could probably finish your image with an attribute to go back to TEXT

I'm pretty sure it's true for the Atmos, because I tested that when I was playing with the hardware vsync.

I actually was trying to find a manual of the Cumana Reborn explaining even the most basic stuff (like "what is the button on the back supposed to do") and could not find anything. I wanted to try to put a 3" floppy drive on the Cumana and have it boot as A-, but I could not find anyt...

Yes, emulators act with TAP files as if the user stops the tape player once each program is loaded, and starts the tape again when CLOAD is asked. On a real machine, the user has to stop the tape player, if required (unless you have a relay and it's been programmed, but that's quite rare). Well, th...

Interesting, thanks!

Does Steam warn you that the game may not work? I've not checked any of the "Linux" or "Steamdeck" supported check boxes on the Steamworks page, and I expect that not every single Windows game work properly on Wine/Proton.

Would be a cute Easter egg though .. ;) Sure, but for that I need memory and storage space, which is why these two last weeks some functions have been rewritten to assembler on some code reorganization has been made so I can later use that for new features (easter egg or not). By the way, have you ...

ibisum wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:21 am A tad bit disappointed in that game console feature, yo .. ;P

Surely there's a way to drop to the Oric BASIC and get some Ready?

That would be doable, but then you would not be able to go back to the game.