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It is a fair point: with the ULA reverse engineered, someone clever should get on the FPGA wagon and give us a clone we can demolish, or so. That'd be really, really nice in fact and I agree with you 100%. But to answer your first point, I have a collection of Oric's (8x Atmos, 2x Oric-1, 1x Telestr...

Indeed, great work! I'm thinking this new PCB you've designed might make it moderately easier for some of us to build our own OricExos's? Apart from the de-soldering of the ULA, I suppose ..

That does look pretty good .. I wonder what the performance would be like with a bit more gameplay mechanics .. and I still don't understand how the lines are able to be so colourful .. but I guess I should read the code. . Definitely inspiring!

See, this is the fascinating part .. unrolling all of these plots down to character arrays for blitting .. I definitely need to learn how to do this.

My interest is in how the scrolling was done so rapidly .. I'm working on an app for Oric which requires this kind of smooth scrolling (though for different purposes) and so going through all these examples, I'm trying to grok what's going on .. these scroll routines are fascinating.

So tempting, just for the Microdrive alone .. but I should probably just get my own Telestrat working before I go shopping for others on EBay ..

Hmm... I kind of feel that 3D Fongus is a kind of a 'better' example of this kind of game, given that it has a lot more action going on .. gotta love those rhino's, LOL ..

>>code formatter

Yes, this.

What do guys think about the idea of porting Crazee Rider to the Oric:

https://github.com/KevEdwards/CrazeeRiderBBC

.. too difficult, not worth it? Better to re-write?

Looks amazing! As usual, I've been thinking about this for a few minutes and wondering at all the possibilities .. do you think it might be possible to make a 'mode' for the Exos whereby you can play a normal game, attribute-clash and all, on one Oric, while another Oric is dedicated to the task of ...

AIC AIC AIC!

Cool! The loading screen set the expectations high!

Is it just me or is it totally weird to hear Americans talking about the Oric ..

Yes, its indeed looking like a performing beast. I think of the effort to build my own Exos, with every update ..

I don't know much about Fritzing but I opened this up to have a look - do I have to Autoroute the PCB first, to get something I could send off to be made? Because when I do that it seems to make a PCB with a lot of empty space .. The other thing is, should we maybe coordinate a group buy of PCB's on...