@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... - ThreadSky

ibisum.bsky.social • 56 days ago

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer)

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afachat.bsky.social•56 days ago

I have created a github issue for GeckOS for an Oric port. Pls comment as you like: https://github.com/fachat/GeckOS-V2/issues/104

ibisum.bsky.social•56 days ago

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

afachat.bsky.social•56 days ago

The base operating system should not be a big problem. 48k only, I guess, due to mem reqs. Disk would need porting of Oric DOS. Is there src available?
GeckOS needs some improvements tho as planned for the next major rev due to some mem conflicts in page 2

ibisum.bsky.social•56 days ago

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 ..

https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=2593

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

ibisum.bsky.social•56 days ago

Oric Library here:

https://library.defence-force.org

And a really great community of Oric hackers here:

https://forum.defence.force.org

ibisum.bsky.social•56 days ago

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…

https://library.defence-force.org/books/content/oric_advanced_user_guide_rom_disassembly.pdf

afachat.bsky.social•56 days ago

I'll certainly have a look. Again, needs the next major rev, hopefully some time this year

ibisum.bsky.social•56 days ago

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:

https://github.com/6502Nerd/dflat

afachat.bsky.social•56 days ago

What would be a good emulator and toolset for running cross-assembled files from a host on the Oric?

afachat.bsky.social•56 days ago

P.S. Linux preferred

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