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Thanks for your comments :) I have indeed in mind to add some color by inversing some tiles. Remember, though, that this is TEXT mode (the only way to do such a fast paralax scroll), so no nice AIC effects. In particular the "LEGO" bricks (as Dbug called them) are ship defences, and you sh...

But, is retromaster still working on this? I thought this project was se what stalled... Which was a pity because I really would loved to have one of those...

Okay, some advance on this. I think I should finish this game and dedícate it to Twilighte. That is the less I can do. Still playing with procedural generation of the ship. This is quite more complex than I expected. The result is a bit dull, as not all the elements are included. Also need to tweak ...

I'm glad to hear this. You will be excellent representatives of the community. My spirit will be there with you.

Hit me with a large stick for saying windows instead of "modern OS". Of course something portable is much more interesting...

I was tempted to start something like that several times. It should be something like HIDE but running on windows, with mouse support. Never went beside the initial idea, though. As Dbug said it would be like writing a complete new paint program with some sort of support for emulating the Oric displ...

Dbug may answer this. I am not sure why the old version would support wild cards and the new one won't. Anyway couldn't some smart redirection, piping or something similar do the trick? Something like a dir a*.tap>files with tap2dsk < files ?

I would love to see someone jumping in and trying to finish any of these projects as a tribute to Twiligthe, but I doubt something like that can happen. Not sure if the sources are available, but anyway It would be an immense work of understanding them and trying to figure out how to proceed. And in...

Please send our condolences to the family. The whole Oric community will be there in spirit.

As most of you may already know. Jonathan Bristow (Twilighte) passed away last night. Here is what his sister posted in Facebook: Thank you for all your loving messages for my beautiful brother Jonathan, we read them to him yesterday afternoon. We all took comfort from your words of loving friendshi...

... Which seems a good idea to me indeed!

It would be a matter of making sure you have the bank of registers ready when the next IRQ occurs, which should not be difficult, and could be made for instance after redrawing the screen...

Smart!

What's wrong in putting the player code in the IRQ? I do that all the time: That makes so many things easier! I'm using an IRQ at 50Hz to trigger a flag indicating when the vertical retrace is at the bottom of the screen. The main code does all the work and waits for that flag to be set. When this ...

Why not have a 50hz IRQ, and service the display on even interrupts and music on odd? (so they both run at 25hz) Sure. That is another possibility. Problem is if you slow down the rate of the player, the effects will suffer (not time enough for fast variations of volume/pitch). Anyway can't see ano...

Thanks Xeron. Will do asap.

This is awesome, I'm seeing the opportunity for an expanded Tracker to come of this, beyond the scrolling game engine .. well, *with* the scrolling game engine, maybe you could make a nice music editor as well .. :) Thanks!. However I don't think this will end up as an expanded Tracker. You have to...