dflat with native LOCI support

[@JiBePe]

It is as amazing as it is appealing. Congratulations !! Dflat is clearly the best basic that exists on 8 bits systems (to my knowledge). It is so fast and so expressive. Mixing asm and basic into a single interpreter 😮 just stunning !!

[@6502Nerd]

@@JiBePe wow thank you for the encouragement and kind comments! I hope now with LOCI it makes it easier and more accessible for people to try dflat.

[@MartinPiper6502]

Looks like the negative file size is a 16 bit signed unsigned issue.

[@6502Nerd]

Yup well spotted. dflat is 16 bit signed for numbers. I thought maybe to show file sizes in hex but it didn't feel right. Not many files go beyond 32767 bytes so I decided to live with it..

[@JiBePe]

Long life to dflat and loci !! How do you convert dflat to .TAP files? How much Ram is available once in dfloci.rom is loaded ? Is it possible to write on the sdcard from dflat ?

[@6502Nerd]

Hello Oric friend, thank you for the kind comment :-) First, it's fine to save and load TAP files in dflat - but they are a special format for dflat and not compatible with Oric BASIC (reason for using TAP extension is to be friendly with Oricutron emulator). A TAP file is not a plain text file, so there I have made utilities to convert TAP files to text (or binary) and vice-versa. So this means it's easy to write a program in say VSCode / Notepad++ then convert to TAP file and use it in dflat with LOCI. In dflat the mem() function gives me information that 0x90e0 bytes are available - around 37000 bytes. dflat has tsave and bsave to save program and memory (binary) files and yes they go to the SD card hosted by the LOCI device. Hope that helps!