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by sorchard
Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: Dragon Beta GitHub
Replies: 36
Views: 50174

Re: Dragon Beta GitHub

Looking good Rob! I think the two DRAM types are nearly equivalent, or at least I'm sure I've had both types in my Dragons. I found this handy reference the other day. Might be of use: https://minuszerodegrees.net/memory/4164.htm Those 3 connectors look like DIN41612 type B 64 way to me, probably so...
by sorchard
Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:18 pm
Forum: Dragon Hardware
Topic: SAM replacement - there!
Replies: 16
Views: 144149

Re: SAM replacement - nearly there

Ah, so this is where all the fun is happening! That's awesome :) I could be wrong but I think the majority of 256K drams had 8 bit refresh. After that the industry moved to CBR refresh and you didn't need a refresh counter any more. I'm curious to know if the logic to recreate the glitching is using...
by sorchard
Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: Colossal Cave Adventure
Replies: 5
Views: 24446

Re: Colossal Cave Adventure

The original definitely required 64K. Browsing the disk contents reveals elements of the Flex OS, which lives in high memory. The third sector appears to contain some map0/map1 switching code. I don't want to look too closely as I would like to play the game properly without spoilers :) Compressing ...
by sorchard
Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:25 am
Forum: Uploads
Topic: Colossal Cave Adventure
Replies: 5
Views: 24446

Colossal Cave Adventure

The attached zip contains three disk image files: - A clean .scp flux image captured from an original disk - An .xml file converted from the .scp file by hxc floppy emulator software - A .dmk file that will run in xroar (type BOOT to run) Edit: Needs a 64K machine to run The original disk is mixed d...
by sorchard
Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: The Dragon Meetup is MOVING! PLEASE READ!
Replies: 8
Views: 31566

Re: The Dragon Meetup is MOVING! PLEASE READ!

A pleasure as always to catch up with everyone, and much gratitude to Tony of course for making this happen :)
by sorchard
Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: DRAM data retention time
Replies: 20
Views: 57171

Re: DRAM data retention time

bluearcus wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 4:30 pm Dale L. Puckett's KISSable OS9 column published an original banker board OS9 ramdisk drive and source code by William Good
Somewhat bizarrely, (and perhaps way too late!) I've found a disk with that source code on it, among other things.
by sorchard
Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: Uploads
Topic: OS9 User Group Disks
Replies: 2
Views: 16861

OS9 User Group Disks

A nice collection of OS9 User Group news disks to geek out on :ugeek:
by sorchard
Tue May 30, 2023 3:38 pm
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: ASM6809 conditional compiling
Replies: 3
Views: 12408

Re: ASM6809 conditional compiling

Hi Pere, Could you make use of the following batch commands to create a file called 'files.inc' that can be included in the main assembly? echo ; files to include > files.inc for %%f in (*.PTM) do echo include.bin "%%f" >> files.inc asm6809 ... Note the extra spaces between 'echo' and 'include.bin' ...
by sorchard
Wed May 03, 2023 10:07 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: French Dragons and the PN41503 motherboard
Replies: 8
Views: 21996

Re: French Dragons and the PN41503 motherboard

Hi Stew! It's been a while, you keeping well? Hi Tony, I'm good thanks, apart from the day job sucking the life out of me. Starting to regret not working harder in my youth :lol: Hope you're keeping well too. I really admire what you're doing on Twitter btw. Edit: Double post. That's a new one!
by sorchard
Wed May 03, 2023 10:06 am
Forum: Dragon General
Topic: French Dragons and the PN41503 motherboard
Replies: 8
Views: 21996

Re: French Dragons and the PN41503 motherboard

tjewell wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 5:57 pm Hi Stew! It's been a while, you keeping well?
Hi Tony, I'm good thanks, apart from the day job sucking the life out of me. Starting to regret not working harder in my youth :lol:

Hope you're keeping well too. I really admire what you're doing on Twitter btw.