How can I create a disk image for the enterprise ? If I want to test my own apps.

It is a standard FAT12 disks, MS-DOS compatible. You can find tons of programs to do this I using WinImage on Windows.
And there is a empty disk image pack.

@Edoz - Symstudio in MSX DSK settings can also be used for the Enterprise. Cool really I have no work to do on that. I will of course set up a compile for Enterprise button to make it look like I'm doing lots of work

YES!!! It works! .. Amazing!! .. I never created something for the Enterprise but Tetris is just working without troubles !!



I also tried to run explore.exe (which is not finished currently) But it works very well... (ok I still have to the correct colors as it was build for 16 colors and not 4)




Prodatron and trebmint your software is crazy cool!

Can we download it?

explorer.exe is currently in development so you have to wait. But Tetris is already done. But I just noticed that the arrow keys are not working in games. (like tetris)
Prodatron needs to fix that first

The fact that Tetris works without change on a completely different machine is pretty amazing... especially as it is a graphical App and the VDP and Nick chips are just so so different.

I think its really great that Enterprise users seem to be interested in symbos. together we can create something really good. Even if its not in a special attribute type byte aligned screen mode

Even if its not in a special attribute type byte aligned screen mode

Enterprisers (and probably every micro users) always look for possibilities to use as much of their stuffs as can be possible ... maybe multi color background on EP with a multi platform OS like SymbOS is too much ... but those pictures are very magnetic to us, because these are a relatively new deveopment on the EP and they liberated the EP screen from the 4/16 color madness ... In EP's own ages we simply could not imagine EP can do pictures like these ... If they could show up like background screens of a GUI OS ... It would be "incredible" I think ...

Just a idea: Enterprise mode screen saver. At this situation can be used these pictures.

Yes! With a cool interleaved slide in from the two sides ... or such ...

50FPS byte scroll would be good enough ... that would be fast and slick enough ...

Just a idea: Enterprise mode screen saver. At this situation can be used these pictures.

Indeed, very nice idea! Also, I am not sure if it's possible but there can be SymbOS apps having "fullscreen" mode with "private" gfx mode. So even an image viewer, which on EP at least can show image in full screen with fancy Nick LPT tricks. The only disadvantage: it won't run in fullscreen mode on other SymbOS ports, so it somewhat violates the "portable application" rule (but anyway even videos having MSX and CPC format separately so it seems even with SymbOS there are exceptions of the "being portable" rule).

http://ep.lgb.hu/jsep/demo/?disk=EPSLIDESHOW.IMG&autostart=yes&skiplogo=yes&mem=128&zt=no

It's not even interlace btw, I can imagine screen saver simply shows pictures one after one ... So it can be better

Btw about video modes: as I mentioned I have the idea that there are MSX and CPC videos for SymbOS. Would SymbOS/Enterprise-128 would be able to show one of them? I guess CPC's format is close just the video memory is linear not "interleaved" (or whatever) as with CPC. Because if it is not possible another machine dependent video format should be introduced ...

The .vid videos created will work in 4 colours for Enterprise straight from day 1. The format is already fine I believe.

The thing to take from symbos is that it will be pushed by Prodatron pretty much as far as it can go on specific platform, as long as it doesn't create a situation that an APP wont work on another supported system. The attribute mode would probably be too platform specific, as neither the CPC or MSX use that, and there's no benefit in creating a 8 pixel byte aligned version as that would break all the Apps that currently exist.

Taking symbos fullscreen and not cross platform graphically is something I hope happens after 3.0, but it needs to be carefully planned as it would be great to keep 99% of code the same even if the graphics are machine specific. Symstudio already allows the importation of .bmp, jpgs etc and converting to 4/16 colour with automatic embedding into projects, meaning you dont have to rely on the symbos automatic upgrade or downgrade. basically meaning graphics can already be kind of machine specific if you wish