SOFTWARE
Pravetz 8D couldn't praise with abundance of games and programs of
other home computers like Commodore 64 or Atari. Most of the software
we have had to do it by ourself. But nowadays at the global world, the
number of games at net is big enough. Doesn't matter if you
want
to remember the emotions of an old game or
want to write some program
in Basic or Assembler, you can do it by many programs on your Pravetz
8D or on emulator. Here are some of the programs and games, made in
Bulgaria for Pravetz 8D.
Software tools.
ROM - Modified rom
for supporting real RESET. I't don't restart the system, so you can
safe the program in memory.
DOS 8D -
professional Disc operation system for Pravetz 8D. If you download
Emul8D you can work with this excellent operating system. It's Apple ][
Dos 3.3 compatible,but is much faster and user friendly. There's two
kind of families of Dos 8D. The 1.x family works at Ram from
address of #6600. The 2.x family works at overlay RAM. The second is
better, because it works with every long game made for Oric (#400-#4FF)
are free at Dos 8D v.2x environment. The first family is made with
early version of Pravetz 8D disk controller (not supporting overlay
ram). It's still usable because some nice programs like Big Mac, Disk Editor
and Text editor don't work with 2.x family of the dos.
BigMac (dsk - you
nees Emul8D)- It's legendary
assembler known as Merlin at Apple ][ world, but version for Pravetz
8D. The best assembler to Oric world. There's relocated versions of
next program - Monitor on the dsk.
Monitor
- It don't
need to be presented. Pravetz 82 (Apple ][) users are happy to have
builded monitor at ROM. At first 8D years there were not a monitor
program
to work with the memory of Pravetz 8D. There were only Basic and Peek
and Poke. So here is the place I can present eng. Borislav Zahariev (26
years old by these days I thing.). He was our Pravetz 8D guru,
supporting magazine "Computer for you" at it's Pravetz 8D part. He were
answered of many user's questions. He has made a monitor program much
better than Apple ][ one. But I must point that there were not not only
a monitor program, but an any editor assembler too. So Boby has made
the monitor entering hexacode by hand. You can respect that
if
you have ever seen such a dump or you have to hunt mistakes in it at
the Basic environment. Boby has collect not only the whole Apple ][
monitor at two kilobytes, but has made a miniassembler and memory seek
functions. All functions you can see at file Monitor_Manual_en.txt
Speaker - the only
speech syntezer for Pravetz 8D and for Oric maybe. The Problem is that
you cannot rule the internal speaker without sound chip. So Boby
connected pins 1 and 5 of cassette jack to do it. Emul8D supports it, so if you try it you
can make your Pravetz or Oric speaking.
GAMES:
Tetris (dsk -
you nees Emul8D) -
author - Borislav Zahariev. Excellent game at HIRES mode. One of the
best games made for Pravetz 8D, comparing with most Tetris-clones at
all.
Snake
Byte
(dsk - you nees Emul8D)- author
- Borislav Zahariev. Even in TEXT mode, snake is
one
of the best Pravetz 8D games.
Snake Byte (tap -
better with euphoric)- author Miniu Nedialkov - this is game author can
be
proud. Works only in HIRES mode. It's excellent game.
Nashestvie (dsk
- you nees Emul8D)- another excellent
HIRES game I have found at 2010 year, so many
years after Pravetz 8D fail down.
There's a lot of programs yet. I'll upload it soon. I hope :)