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Programming / Re: Basic On Mushroom
Last post by m_dr_m - Today at 19:38
Quote from: Targhan on Yesterday at 23:50What about something like LUA on CPC?  It is simple, and can be added "modules" for more features, which could be added later.
Sounds like a great idea!
It has a lot of warts compare to e.g. Nim, but it might be small enough.
I might try to port the VM, following @PulkoMandy's steps. With careful separation of system part, to target:
  • CP/M? (to benefit a larger community, and CP/M on CPC has become sexy again)
  • SymbOs directly? (for less memory constraints?)

Quote from: eto on Today at 08:40Would an adaption of MMBasic make sense? It's designed for microcontrollers with limited RAM. Not sure if it's possible to adapt it for an 8bit processor though.
The site states: "In its minimal version MMBasic typically compiles to about 94K of flash". Ouch!
It can be good for inspiration, but if I were to port a language, I would prefer start from wren.

@GUNHED. You should try lisp. 

Syntax is usually passionately debated, while being the less important aspect, as long as:
  • it is consistent
  • easy stuff is easy to write and hard stuff is possible to write
Parenthesis are already used for function calls. It makes no sense discriminating user functions from built-in functions, especially if you want to promote functions as first class citizen (ability to store, pass and return functions) and allow generic programming.
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Off topic / Re: Windows 11 forbidden folde...
Last post by cwpab - Today at 19:30
I have already accidentally written this double message, so...

According to Microsoft..
" These folder can't be created on the desktop as they refer to "System Action" or "Device" and are reserved for tasks to be performed by Windows. Here are other folders that cannot be created:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 "
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Off topic / Re: Windows 11 forbidden folde...
Last post by cwpab - Today at 19:24
I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (yeah, I pirated a special educational copy to get rid of all the crap, which is not included here) and when I create a folder named "OUT", there is no error message.

It would be interesting to try in some Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 emulators I have on my DBGL MS-DOS game collection, though... Hmmm.

EDIT: Okay, it seems that only "CON", "AUX" and "PRN" are forbidden in my Windows 10. Cool stuff!
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Off topic / Re: Windows 11 forbidden folde...
Last post by andycadley - Today at 18:56
Quote from: cwpab on Today at 18:50Is there any possible explanation to why this happens in Windows 11, but not in Windows 10? (Maybe I should try creating a folder with those names from the CLI?)

I mean, if they are supposedly "dragging" this from 35 years ago, shouldn't this also be an issue in ALL versions of Windows and not just in 11?
It does happen in all versions of Windows. I think the NT line always had ways of getting around it if you really wanted to create yourself headaches (using NTFS native paths for example) but Explorer always had a prompt to block you.

Every now and again someone "discovers" this and thinks it's a new thing.
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Quote from: Bryce on Today at 13:50Check the flat cable to the drive
Will do. Thx.

Quote from: Bryce on Today at 13:50Also check the drive PCB (especially the sockets) for dry joints.
on the drive? I checked with another drive which definitely works and it has the same issues, so it probably is the 664. Or do you mean the sockets of the ICs on the 664 PCB?
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Off topic / Re: Windows 11 forbidden folde...
Last post by cwpab - Today at 18:50
Is there any possible explanation to why this happens in Windows 11, but not in Windows 10? (Maybe I should try creating a folder with those names from the CLI?)

I mean, if they are supposedly "dragging" this from 35 years ago, shouldn't this also be an issue in ALL versions of Windows and not just in 11?
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Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: Memory refresh plus
Last post by andycadley - Today at 18:47
Yeah, I've always been curious about this. The Plus documentation warns about it but doesn't really go into detail. I don't think it's a "bug" as such, it's just an unfortunate side effect of (ab)using the hardware in ways never intended.

Would be neat to get it properly documented though (and emulated even).
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Other retro / Re: EA, Trip Hawkins, the 3DO....
Last post by cwpab - Today at 18:46
3DO was already dying in early 1996, but they had "64-bit M2 technology on the way":



https://retrocdn.net/images/1/1d/Games_World_The_Magazine_UK_20.pdf#page=2
#9
Sometimes solder joints come loose when you lift the circuit board to change the belt...

xesrjb 

I have changed nearly 50 belts or more and I had this problem approx. 5 times...

xesrjb 
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Off topic / Re: Windows 11 forbidden folde...
Last post by andycadley - Today at 18:40
Quote from: GUNHED on Today at 15:30Pretty far fetched to blame CP/M for a Windows 11 symptome.
It's not really blaming CP/M, it's just a historic fact. MSDOS took the concept from CP/M to preserve compatibility, Windows inherited it from DOS to maintain compatibility....
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