Wolfenstein / DOOM for Oric : has this been done?

[Symoon]

All this is beyond my skills, but congratulations for the results

(Just for the record, I might get some day a listing of Mercenary decompilation of the C64 version).

[ibisum]

All this is beyond my skills, but congratulations for the results

I also am hanging back, watching these guys push their engines(*) way forward, but I surely can think of parts of the game code I could grok and push forward, as well...


[*-- the Oric has attracted a new breed of interested users, I have to say. There are multiple engines in progress at various fronts.. what a scenario!)

[jbperin]

All this is beyond my skills, but congratulations for the results

What I find great with forums like defence-force or CEO is that we permanently discover some impressive or attractive things made by others that are far beyond our own skills. Opportunities to feel amazed are so numerous.
Very often I feel stunned by what I see here or on CEO forum. And I like that very much.
So I appreciate to know that I may also provide this feeling to some people
It's a way to give back a little part of what I silently receive by contemplating other's work.

I also am hanging back, watching these guys push their engines(*) way forward, but I surely can think of parts of the game code I could grok and push forward, as well...

Hey !! You should start programming next generation Oric games right now.

Look .. you have the Hub .. and the source code of a racing game in which the player position and orientation can be transmitted over internet to some other Oric while receiving other's position and orientation.

As for myself, I think I will soon be able, with this position, to display an avatar at this position in a 3D scene.
It's going to be as simple as something like:
setAvatarPosition(name, X, Y);

So, if someone manages to get the (name, X, Y) information from the hub within 3 kb of code .. I can provide the 3D scene representation.

No need to say that it is likely to be an unprecedented experience.. at mankind scale.

Think of it : There are more people on earth who have walked on the moon than people who have played a network 3D game on Oric.

And it is easier to enter history by coding a game on Oric rather than having to go to the moon ..

So ..

[jbperin]

Sorry guys, nothing of interest in this post.
It's another failure of mine. .. the source code of the video I had posted here : https://odysee.com/Oric3dMusic:a

I wanted to mix many things together (music, colorful 3D, animation) in order to see where I could push things in the direction of a Midi Maze like stuff.

I think it should be possible because most ingredients are here and it somewhat "works". Moreover there remain some CPU cycle to save by porting raycasting in assembly and getting rid of system's keyboard handling at 100 Hz (and replace with Dbug, Twilighte and Chema routine on 50 Hz )

But I'm currently facing too many issues that i can't overcome. I don't manage to have the text written below the hires part of the screen and when I use music, it destroys the text that I put on the first line. It's terribly frustrating.

@Dbug .. Sorry for posting this piece of S**T on the forum .. that's just for memory (and it only weights 77Kb) . .. perhaps, by any chance, someone can help me fixing the text stuff....

YetAnotherFailure.zip

(77.03 KiB) Downloaded 9 times

[iss]

I don't manage to have the text written below the hires part of the screen...

The 3 text lines in HIRES have index 25,26,27 (where the first screen line has index 0 and starts at address 0xbb80), so you need to call AdvancedPrint with 'y' parameter one of the 25,26 or 27. Another problem is this 3 lines are probably filled with 0 (i.e. INK = black) and because there is no PAPER attribute set it defaults to black too => the printed data is invisible. Here is quick and very,very dirty fix, just to illustrate the difference (file main.c around line #90):

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        memset((void*)(0xbb80+26*40),0x20,40);
        sprintf(message, "%d.%d   ", kernel_s, kernel_cs);
        AdvancedPrint(10,26,message);
        sprintf(message, "%d.%d   ",kernel_beat,  kernel_fraction);
        AdvancedPrint(20,26,message);
        sprintf(message, "%d    ",getTempo());
        AdvancedPrint(30,26,message);

This should display the data from Oric's "TaskManager"

[jbperin]

Hey it works !!

Thank you very much Iss .. You're a boss !!

I was writing black on black

[Dbug]

To catch this type of thing, really nothing beats pressing F2 to enter the debugger, and then look at the memory content ("m address") at the locations you are wondering what the heck happens.