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I had the same experience in France, its not only in UK

Very useful indeed.. Especially now there are so many eBay resellers claiming their stuff actually works!(until you read the very small print!!) Indeed, and that's not even considering the sellers that are offering counterfeited products. I've been victim of such a fraud, the product is an actual &...

Since we had new people recently, possibly it's time to remind: We have an IRC channel on the ircnet network. It's not super active, but you can often find one or two people idling around. If you want to know when people are present, you can check on the statistics page: http://miniserve.defence-for...

Deleting messages is easy, moving threads is not really something I wish to try considering how reliable the forum code is

Technically, there is already a TCP/IP implementation for the Oric, it was done by Fabrice Frances, called BIP (BASIC IP), he even had a telestrat connected on the internet at some point. (Check on http://oric.free.fr/emulator.html , the "gateway program"). There was also some talks about ...

I really depend of the processor/architecture, I installed DosBox on my 1ghz Android ARM laptop, and things like DOS games are running super smoothly.

Now yeah a 300mhz machine may struggle

About the confidentiality, do not forget that WebSVN is enabled, so anything you put on the SVN depot is visible from the web interface.

What you will need first, is a decent set of disk I/O routines, because there is no way you can have the loaded source file and the built data in memory at the same time as the assembler. This means you will have to do a multi-pass disk based assembler. That's of course doable, was done on older mac...

Something which should be doable is to design a set of routines for doing fast display of graphics, double buffering, sprite, decompression of data, copies of memory bloc, shifting of bitmap, scrolling, etc... possibly the same for sound (native support for playing samples and sound effects), tape a...

Hi, I was reading slashdot, when I found a link on the Ben NanoNote, it's basically a (very) small machine with a 366mhz processor, had 32 megs of ram and a 320x240 screen, running linux natively. I'm not sure how well something like Oricutron would work on that, but for $99 it's hard to find a bett...

LUA is slow on powerful machines - except if you use the JIT compiler -, the reason is mostly the syntax that uses dictionaries and loose typing. Imo, you would get all the inconvenient of C (complex syntax) and of the BASIC (horrible runtime performance). You are better trying to design your own la...

Yeah, about C vs ASM, on my tests I would say that in average when I convert code from C to ASM I get a speed-up of about 16 times (even more with code that uses a lot of intermediate variables and loops), and the size factor is roughly a third or a quarter of the original size. There are no drop-in...

Yeah you can't have inverse video using the normal BASIC functions. When you use the value "2" all it does is to draw in Exclusive OR, which inverts the graphic patterns, it does not enable the inverted video mode. The reason is that the invert video mode works on a full byte, not at the p...

Forth indeed is a good candidate for developing natively on the Oric, it's faster than Basic, does not require as much complex parsing as the C, and as far as I can tell it has pretty good performance.

I guess this works, but I'm going to suggest an alternative solution. First don't forget you can use the invert video to have different colors, it's great for cursor selection or highlights. Then what I would do, is to: - automatically show the possible moves as soon as I hover on a piece that can b...