Interference (Acorn Electron)

[0xC0DE]

Interference effect on Acorn Electron.
MODE 0, 50fps.

Works best on a real Electron:

interference.ssd

(11.5 KiB) Downloaded 103 times

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdlisAiLWw (watch in HD1080p).

[roland]

How much different is it when not watched at 1080p?

I wish I had a way of mounting an ssd image without using a MMC card. Something like

*MOUNT 0 http://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=59151

And then use it like a regular (write protected) disk. Wouldn't that be great

[0xC0DE]

How much different is it when not watched at 1080p?

The universe as we know it may cease to exist! Or... the video will look like garbage because you can't see the finer details in the image

I wish I had a way of mounting an ssd image without using a MMC card. Something like

*MOUNT 0 http://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=59151

And then use it like a regular (write protected) disk. Wouldn't that be great

What a great idea! Why don't you make something like that? Maybe call it "Acorn Electron WiFi"?

[roland]

I am thinking about that idea. One challenge may be to download only the sectors that I need. For a small image, like the 11k in this topic I can easily download it completely and store it in memory. But larger images might be a problem....

I was thinking about creating a 100k RAM drive in the paged memory (which is 128k) and whenever there is access to a sector by (A)DFS then the WiFi software fetches that sector from the server and stores it in the RAM. (I need to add more RAM in MK2 of this board ) This way it is fetched only once which might speed up things. I think it can be done which the "range" header in the HTTP request:

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GET http://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=59151 HTTP/1.1
Host: stardot.org.uk
Range: bytes=0-511

for fetching the catalog. Hmmm, I feel another interesting project coming up

Am I thinking too simple or is it just a matter of changing the "fetch a sector from disk" routine in DFS or MMFS? Are there any sources available?

Sorry for stealing your topic, When it gets too serious I'll start a new one.

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Sorry for stealing your topic, When it gets too serious I'll start a new one.

Don't worry, I don't want to stop your flow of good ideas!