From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2002-06-03 22:21:17
Last week, Mickael Pointier a.k.a. Dbug wrote me and quoted my Usenet
posting from 1996 where I claimed that it is impossible to write decent
video code for the Oric, as the video controller has no
processor-readable registers. He wanted me to see his demo
(http://defence-force.org/computing/oric/dbug/stniccc_2000/index.htm).
I still haven't seen it, since his demo needs to be adapted for the
Oric-1 firmware (it invokes some Oric Atmos ROM routines).
Anyway, I got a reason to try the C2N232 harder on the Oric. This time,
I obtained some useful pointers from Mickael, including one to the
tap2wav utility written by Fabrice Frances. The needed modification to
the C2N232 firmware, to support asymmetric pulses, was smaller than I
feared.
I'll publish the updated firmware once I've completed the software. For
my first test, I used GNU Emacs to edit the tap2wav output and C-Kermit
over xterm to copy the pulse data from Emacs to the C2N232.
Marko
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