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There be sound effects! Yep. I finally integrated the sound engine into the game and tested the first sfx :) Let me get a bit technical. The sound engine (which I talked about some time ago) is designed to play both music and sfx, and it is designed to be compact, not general or easy to use (no edi...

I've been using OSDK for ages and I have the last version (I think) and my antivirus never complained (I am using Security Essentials, though, so who knows... ).

I doubt there is anything strange. Just be sure to download it from the official page here at defence-force

Barnsey, it is looking fantastic!

Congratulations! Looking forward to learn to play and do it on my real Oric

I must confess I like your design a lot. And it has also given me some ideas to play with

I am not very sure to include realistic-looking elements, as my idea about the game is not to take it too seriously . Anyway it looks very nice indeed.

Thanks!

Well, I would like to help, but as Dbug I have no real experience with PIC programming. However, I can ask around. Some colleagues of mine do work with PICs and may be willing to answer a few questions

Anyway ibisum and surely others are more adequate to help you.

Good luck!

Welcome Boris!

This is great news! Congrats on your splendid work!

I agree with Dbug's approach. Of course it depends on the final price, but I am interested in at least one!

Great finding! It seems the author is experiencing some troubles with some Orics, it is only working in the Atmos machines. And he also states that it did not work correctly with the 1.22 rom, but it did one he placed the original. That is a bit weird... That is what I understood from the google tra...

Hi all, thanks for your input. Barnsey, I am not sure what to say. Your ideas are fantastic, really, and I thank you very much for your suggestions, but they diverge too much from the idea I have about the game. Adding a 3D display on the top is nice, but I won't be able to keep the current speed of...

That is indeed a nice idea (and quite challenging!); as long as you have a mode in the thing so that it plays a tap file which loads into the Oric with the usual CLOAD "". That kind of OS could be used to select a file in the SD, for instance, but still you need a simple mode to load a fil...

If I grasped the idea correctly this emulator is like a digital tape player. The problem is how to choose the file on the SD to reproduce. Once this is done, then it would be loaded as if it were a real tape player, but it is digital, so nearly zero loading errors. That alone would make such a devic...

I had some free time today, so I tried to work out a first draft of the score panel. Rather simple and functional (a way to say I cannot do it much better :P ) Inspired in Cybernoid, which was also what Twi was working on and origin of the CBM tool and the beautiful example pics. Need to think how t...

Awesome! @Chema: do you plan to release sources? Your scrolling engine is impressive and can be used as kick-start for many new platform games. Thanks! Yes, of course. As with all my projects sources will be available at the repository. It is just that I am working with my sources in Dropbox and wo...

Any news on this topic? I'm planing long time ago to make such SD replacement for tape - just need time and more support from Oric community :). Actually, TAP/mulator already exists and I think it's VERY good -> SDcard tape interface . It's published on youtube by "Euphoric Oric" (everyon...

Thanks all for your nice comments! There is still a long way to go, but it is getting shape. I need to work out many internal details, but I have a general idea about what it would be in the end. Or what I want it to become. Also need to work on other matters such as additional graphics, a text font...

For compressing the pic, have a look at Flilepack, which is included in the OSDK. In the documentation folder there is sure some help. It has a PC tool to compress the pic and an Oric counterpart which is a routine that decompresses it anywhere in memory. About the loading screen you indeed need two...