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What about if I submit questions in Japanese? Your fans would love to hear about your tools!
June 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Great! Will track it and see if I can get some feedback from the other folks ..
January 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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 ..
osdk.defence-force.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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
The Oric Site
oric.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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 - pete-gordon/oricutron: Portable Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator
Portable Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator - pete-gordon/oricutron
github.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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
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
github.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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 ..
Loci - my Oric storage emulation project - forum.defence-force.org
forum.defence-force.org
January 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Oric Library here:

library.defence-force.org

And a really great community of Oric hackers here:

forum.defence.force.org
The Oric Library
Books and magazines for the Oric computers
library.defence-force.org
January 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
library.defence-force.org
January 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Mortar and Pestle is the most comfortable rendering of the phrase, in my opinion, since its alphabetic-ordered ..
December 15, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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.
December 5, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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…
December 4, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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.
December 4, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Parents should decide what is and isn’t harmful content.

Not ad and marketing executives at billion dollar corporations.
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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…
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Australia should just ban poor parenting.
December 4, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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…
December 1, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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?
December 1, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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.
November 28, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Ah, so the help text is derived from the input token list… I guess as another optimization. Ah well, sorry for the useless suggestion..
November 28, 2024 at 7:54 AM