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pete-gordon / oricutron

Portable Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator
http://www.petergordon.org.uk/oricutron/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Cannot start telestrat without drive #83

Open jedeoric opened 8 years ago

jedeoric commented 8 years ago

When we select telestrat, it enable microdisk option in oricutron. But, on a real Telestrat, it can start without microdisc. In oricutron, we can not deselect microdisc to start telestrat without the drive.

Priority : very very low :)

laurentd75 commented 5 years ago

Also, testing using a "WIP" version from ISS dated 2018-10-04, it seems there's an issue with the Telstrat disk booting, because I cannot get it to load the "stratsed.dsk" image (The Telestrat just stas 'locked' on the boot screen with the 'insert disk' message...), while it works fine in Oricutron 1.1...

polluks commented 5 years ago

Well, current version works...

jedeoric commented 5 years ago

I don't have this issue too.

Anyway, it works because the microdisc is connected in Oricutron. I mean this issue is not the same problem than @laurentd75 explains.

The real telestrat can start without a drive connected. It just start with rom without stratsed. Telemon checks if a drive is connected. If it's connected, it tries to read the boot sector.

In order to correct this low issue :), we could remove microdisc in menu when telestrat is started. In this case, telestrat could start without microdisc with telemon inserted.

laurentd75 commented 5 years ago

I's really weird because after @iss000 told me he didn't have the problem in his developer builds and I retried, I couldn't reproduce the problem with either the 2018-10-04 WIP version or his latest version posted on his site. HOWEVER, at the Oric Meet this week-end, we encountered the bug on @TotoShampoin's PC with @iss000 's latest developer build: after "powering" the Telestrat and seeing the boot screen we used the menu to insert the "stratsed.dsk" image into Drive 0 but then nothing happened, the disk didn't boot... There MUST be a particular sequence of events that leads to this bug but I have yet to find the procedure to reproduce it 100%... Also, I sometimes get the issue with Oricutron 1.1...

PS - @polluks: incidentally, looking at your screenshot I see there's a small typo to correct: "SUITE YOUR NEEDS" is misspelt, it should read "SUIT YOUR NEEDS". What's more, "re-modified" doesn't make much sense, "modified" is enough IMHO... :-)

polluks commented 5 years ago

@laurentd75 How about defining GENERAL_DISK_DEBUG?

laurentd75 commented 5 years ago

Hi @polluks is this a runtime option, or a compilation (#define) option ? To be honest, I'm not really familiar with Oricutron's source code and never attempted to compile it myself on Windows...

polluks commented 5 years ago

The latter, I don't use Window$ at home.