oracle... not working

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Door alexmauer

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15-09-2007, 09:36

since i got my MSX turbo-R all i've had is bad luck - im trying to load oracle from MSX BASIC... the same way i load other programs - everything appears to work fine at first

load"oracle.bas",r

main RAM >= 128 kb PASSED

some screen jitters for a sec... then...

blue screen?

whats with the blue screen? at this point... the disk read sounds stop... and if i hit any key they restart then stop again for a final time - so whats this funky problem? the machine isnt crashed because caps and kana still are toggle-able - HELP!

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Van Metalion

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15-09-2007, 10:04

Do a SCREEN0:WIDTH80 before running the program.

Van wolf_

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15-09-2007, 10:07

same width80 shit as with SEE 3 Tongue

Van ro

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15-09-2007, 10:46

load"oracle.bas",r
huh, I've never written a basic loader as far as I know...

Yeah, the screen0:width80 thingy .. some stupid bug I know of recently.. I got standard scr0:w8 so never figured other ppl might 'ave w40 or sumthing.
anyway. The program (oracle) was written ON a turbo R (or turboR according to that latest poll), so it works like a charm on those machines. The width80 seems like the solution yeah. Sorry, mabye I'll fix it someday (there's also NO check build in to see if yer running MSX2 or high'r. MSX1 doesn't have w80 u kow... oh wel.. no one's using it anyway)
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Van alexmauer

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15-09-2007, 11:23

ah... ok i ran into more problems... "out of memory" - guess i should have paid more for the a1GT instead of getting the a1ST ._. - i thought the minimum requirements were 256k ram not 512k o.o

~alex

Van ro

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15-09-2007, 11:52

min. =128k so it should work. Tho you can't load in BIG music files.
RAM is assigned dynamically. More music patterns eat more memory.

sure you got 256? (hmm, ST comes with 256 indeed IIRC)

Van alexmauer

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15-09-2007, 12:03

well i didnt even load any music in... whatever loaded in by default ate all the RAM o.o - i'll have to check it out in an emulator to see whats actually going on

Van alexmauer

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15-09-2007, 17:24

for some reason it works in blueMSX when i run it on a virtual Turbo-R w/ 256k... then i thought... maybe the *.DSK version of the files was different than the actualy disk i had made for use with my MSX... nope - its the same... so... why wont it work on the real thing?

Van Sonic_aka_T

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15-09-2007, 18:34

Try using DOS1 to see if that helps, it should free up some memory. Just boot your tR while holding the [1] key, then start Oracle. Also, do a SCREEN0:WIDTH80:SET SCREEN in basic...

Van ro

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15-09-2007, 18:46

Sonic might be correct, altho....
Oracle runs fine under DOSII, unles DOS has already taken up half your memory. Dunno, you got a ramdisk or something?

Van alexmauer

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16-09-2007, 05:45

holding 1 doesnt start DOS... i tried both the numpad and the regular 1 key... i also tried F1 - sorry im a mega newbie to this machine... never entered dos before haha

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