Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
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Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
Well, I go download those roms from your archive, and first of all, they come on weird extensions:
The 1st ROM comes with an ic37 extension
The 2nd ROM comes with an ic34 extension
The external generator comes with an ic1 extension
So, I rename them in a way that makes xroar happy, I go run it, select the 200E in the options... aaaaaaand it doesn't boot.
Instead I get this error screen: I tried changing the extensions of the files to rom, creating a conf file to specify the roms manually, but still nothing.
Kinda ironic that nobody complained about this until now tbh.
Maybe I am overlooking something obvious?
If anyone can help me it would be really neat.
PD:Yes, I tried renaming the external generator rom to something xroar couldn't detect, but it gave me a different error screen instead, the one with all the @ symbols.
The 1st ROM comes with an ic37 extension
The 2nd ROM comes with an ic34 extension
The external generator comes with an ic1 extension
So, I rename them in a way that makes xroar happy, I go run it, select the 200E in the options... aaaaaaand it doesn't boot.
Instead I get this error screen: I tried changing the extensions of the files to rom, creating a conf file to specify the roms manually, but still nothing.
Kinda ironic that nobody complained about this until now tbh.
Maybe I am overlooking something obvious?
If anyone can help me it would be really neat.
PD:Yes, I tried renaming the external generator rom to something xroar couldn't detect, but it gave me a different error screen instead, the one with all the @ symbols.
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- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
I think either you or I have them the wrong way around. This is what XRoar thinks:
d200e_1 ic18_v1.4e.ic34 (32K BASIC)
d200e_2 ic17_v1.4e.ic37 (64K BASIC)
d200e_1 ic18_v1.4e.ic34 (32K BASIC)
d200e_2 ic17_v1.4e.ic37 (64K BASIC)
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Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
Tried changing that, and it does boot up, I can use the character set for things like Ñs and stuff. One thing I can't figure out is how to do lowercase... The manual says to press SHIFT+0, but I tried that and it just prints out its respective symbol. I also can't seem to do accents.
Dragons are cool and very green
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
I tried it on XRoar 0.32 on MacOS and Dragon 64 switches to inverse video, while 200E prints the ç character and doesn't switch to lowercase.
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
Indeed - it's changed in the 200E ROM. Shift+Enter is capslock instead.
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
You're absolutely right, thanks!
By the way, what would be the way to use the accented letters and math symbols?
By the way, what would be the way to use the accented letters and math symbols?
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
I think some in the charset you can't type, some are just shifted other keys. To put an acute accent over a supported letter, the ROM traps shift+7 as a dead key that then accents the next character. Lowercase only, I think. It also doesn't let you type anything other than an accepted character, which is a bit annoying
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Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
Something interesting I found is that while in the lowercase mode, if you type ?mem it gives ya a result of 0, when it should give ya the rough amount of memory you have available.
This is true in 32K mode: And in 64K mode: I thought it would just give ya a syntax error, because I tried running EXEC on lowercase and it gave me that exact error.
This is true in 32K mode: And in 64K mode: I thought it would just give ya a syntax error, because I tried running EXEC on lowercase and it gave me that exact error.
Dragons are cool and very green
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
That's actually pretty cool - unlike the "stock" BASIC, it seems you can use lowercase as distinct variables...
Code: Select all
A=1:a=2:PRINTA,a
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Re: Problem with Dragon 200E firmware on Xroar
Huh. I didn't knew that. Looks like Eurohard made some tweaks to this version of BASIC, beyond just adding the character set.
Dragons are cool and very green
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job
Current goals:
- Go to England (near future if economical situation improves)
- Finishing college (currently questioning my career choice)
- Getting a space of my own
- Get a job