What about if I submit questions in Japanese? Your fans would love to hear about your tools!

@inufuto.bsky.social can I interview you for Oric Magazine?

Great! Will track it and see if I can get some feedback from the other folks ..

For tooling, the OSDK:

osdk.org

Runs great under Wine, btw - I have a vim+Makefile style rig for my Oric projects, which uses Wine to run the OSDK tools .. not sure if anyone has done a native Linux port but its not really necessary ..

And don’t forget to check out some of the amazing new titles for the Oric, which was a tragically underlooked platform in the day, but these days has even been a constant winner of the 10-line BASIC Programming competition…

oric.org

GitHub - pete-gordon/oricutron: Portable Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator Portable Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator - pete-gordon/oricutron

There are a number of Oric emulators out there - J’Oric and Oricutron. I also use Linux so Oricutron is my recommendation for you:

github.com/pete-gordon/...

Join us on the defence-force.org forums if you have any meatier questions, we are quite active these days especially with the LOCI device..

GitHub - 6502Nerd/dflat: dflat is a BASIC-like language for 8-bit micros and retro computers running on 6502 and 65c02 dflat is a BASIC-like language for 8-bit micros and retro computers running on 6502 and 65c02 - 6502Nerd/dflat

There are a lot of competent hackers in the Oric scene - I encourage you to include us in your future plans as you see fit. We can probably do most of the heavy lifting as required .. note that there are other alternative ROM’s available for Oric as well, such as dflat:

github.com/6502Nerd/dflat

We recently got the LOCI “i/o expansion” accessory for the Oric functioning and shipping in decent quantities too, which might give us more RAM to play with ..

forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.ph...

Lot of intriguing information in that thread you might find interesting ..

Oric Library here:

library.defence-force.org

And a really great community of Oric hackers here:

forum.defence.force.org

The ORIC BASIC ROM is reverse engineered and available here - not sure if someone has made a reproducible source project from it, but there are many other things going on for Oric that might be beneficial for the effort of porting…

library.defence-force.org/books/conten...

Oric (computer) - Wikipedia

@afachat.bsky.social Got any thoughts on what it would take to do a port of GeckOS to the Oric Atmos line of computers?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(c...

Mortar and Pestle is the most comfortable rendering of the phrase, in my opinion, since its alphabetic-ordered ..

The expectation that there will be good human beings selected from America’s ruling classes is entirely fallacious. America got in this state because Americans have been willfully ruled by war criminals for decades. No ‘good men’ can be found in such circumstances.

Prosecute the war crimes.

If the tools are there but the parent doesn’t use them, then the legislation banning bad parenting can simply address it.

It only takes a few cases making the news and lazy parents will catch up.

But you seem to want corporate overlords, not parents and families empowered by better tools…

Nonsense. You can’t say this with any degree of certainty.

Of course people use features that get built in to their devices. This is like saying “people won’t use email if it’s included on a phone”…

Give parents the ability to monitor their kids activities and they’ll use it.

Parents should decide what is and isn’t harmful content.

Not ad and marketing executives at billion dollar corporations.

It’s more like, OS vendors need to prioritize giving parents the tools they need to be better parents, such as the ability to define a device as a child’s device, observe the devices screen, and so on.

But of course OS vendors are too busy turning their devices into ad machines…

Australia should just ban poor parenting.

Best Couscous Recipe | Air Fryer Couscous Fritters @EktasKitchen YouTube video by Ekta's Kitchen

Recently became an air-fryer nerd. But I've been a couscous gimp for decades. So, this is nice:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rY3...

Do it, but wrap it into a Lua VM.

We don’t need more GUI’s, we need more scriptable engines.

Bonus point if your engine has a GUI though, of course…

A question for the physics boffins - at what point in the scale does this mass become a big fluffy cloud that can be walked on?

Ban all politics on the Internet. Problem solved.

Anyone need a Leader LSW 115 Audio Swemar Generator?

A classic exercise in choosing what’s best for the user experience. Well I hope you find some spare bytes somewhere… this stage of things is quite interesting.

Ah, so the help text is derived from the input token list… I guess as another optimization. Ah well, sorry for the useless suggestion..

Nevertheless the suggestion is that you don’t need to compare the whole token, just the first four bytes of it. It’s not about efficiency but rather squeezing the data available.

Could you also reduce the words to 4-chars, which fit in a 16-bit word, and thus do a 16-bit word comparison instead of a full string compare? That'd shave off some bytes too ..

Yup, same. I'm only here to chat about retro computers and synthesizers and nothing else. Lifes too short to have ones brain boiled by all the bashing. Better feed it, instead.

#retrocomputing #oric #atmos #soundtoy

A screenshot of the Oric Atmos running SOUNDTOY, exploring colourful capabilities of the Oric's weird video features ..

I'm building a videosynth toy for the Oric Atmos (my favourite 8-bit machine) and exploring its colourful features .. things are getting a bit like a paint program, still not yet wired up video/audio, but that is going to happen soon ..
github.com/seclorum/sou...