[Coco] Orchestra90cc files from Da Barn Studios web

Tony Jewell tonyjewell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 13:08:02 EDT 2015


Hi Bill,

Just to give you a little background, myself, Pere and others over at the Dragon
forums have been trying to get the Orchestra90cc cartridge working on our 
machines.  What started off as a project to change the keyboard mapping and disk
access routines (alas, still working on the latter) of course blossomed into
something more complex. Although disk access still eludes us, we've now got a
version that works with the internal DAC (as well as the original cart), and 
will load converted files happily by tape. We used Guillaume's files, and 
they've almost all loaded perfectly.

Of course, we didn't spot the OrchestraMasterPD disk on your site until we'd got 
some way with our own stuff, so there's a bit of overlap and re-inventing the 
wheel. I guess, if it occurred to us to do in 2015, it's no surprise to find it
occurred to someone in 1985! So now we're working on combining the best features
of the PD player and the original ROM - and chasing that elusive disk access.

What we're doing should hopefully be of interest to Coco users too - there's a
great archive of music out there, and this should make it much easier for 
everyone to access.

The main thread is here:
http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5416 
and there'ssome background here:
http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5390
Oh, and my Youtube channel might amuse too -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9tjCTkJTPQMWJVHeR2SLw

Cheers Bill - you've got a great site, and I'm inspired to see what else we can 
get running on the Dragon!

Oh and we worked out how to get the PD player working - you need to add a A 
after the .ASC files, eg: 

R ADAGIO A

Tony



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