pete-gordon
Cannot start telestrat without drive
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 :)
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...
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.
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... :-)
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...