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by Egg Shen
Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:34 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
Replies: 434
Views: 403495

Mercenary !
Wow, it brings back old memories, a friend had this game on his CPC 464, and on the Amstrad version of the game you could desintegrate traffic signs with the Atari et Commodore logos !

However, it was a cool game. :)
by Egg Shen
Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:36 pm
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Importing pictures on Oric
Replies: 4
Views: 18507

These error messages may mean different things. Could you please send me the picture, it will be easier that way. Perhaps it's a bug in pictconv. (Basicaly it means that the conversion algorithm has been recursing on the 40th level (40 columns screen) without finding any valid combination) OK, I ha...
by Egg Shen
Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:26 pm
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Importing pictures on Oric
Replies: 4
Views: 18507

Thank you for your advices ! So I made some conversion tests with Pictconv. The first tests where OK. Well, I have begun in a simple way. It consisted to convert three 6x8 pixels cel squares (cel 20 : RED square, cel 21 : GREEN square, cel 22 : BLUE square), it just worked fine ! But, when I tried t...
by Egg Shen
Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:13 am
Forum: Painting tricks
Topic: Importing pictures on Oric
Replies: 4
Views: 18507

Importing pictures on Oric

I know there are programs, one at least, that can convert complex or high colored images (in BMP format if I remember correctly) to Oric Hires. But what I'm looking for, is a way to import drawings made for Oric. I use Brilliance, an Amiga drawing soft, to draw pics using the 8 colors out of 8 color...
by Egg Shen
Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pravetz 8D info
Replies: 8
Views: 16023

Wow ! I'm impressed ! This is a very nice and clean design. Cyrillic alphabet is also a quite exotic feature ! :wink: Concerning integrated PSU, it's a very good idea, I remember, back in the day that it was a weakness in my Oric Atmos, the contact wasn't very good with the PSU cable and as a result...
by Egg Shen
Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dbug update
Replies: 6
Views: 10336

I hope that in Norway it's not as difficult as it can be in France, sometimes, to find a house... :?

Anyway, good luck in your search !
by Egg Shen
Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New to Defence Force
Replies: 3
Views: 7337

Thank you !

Yes I guess that during the summer holidays, most of people leave the forum, but anyway there are still interesting topics/threads to read in the Defence Force forums until people return. :wink:
by Egg Shen
Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New to Defence Force
Replies: 3
Views: 7337

New to Defence Force

Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum. The Oric Atmos was my first computer, it was my first introduction in the computer world as a 12 years old kid. I spent many many hours playing with this little computer, souvenirs that I will never forget for sure (yes I'm a +30 years old nostalgic guy :wink: ! ...