Athanor 2 The legend of the bird men

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Each bug advances randomly from 0 to 3 pixels at each turn of the loop. For this recording, I was lucky to win the race after only 2 rounds. Sometimes it can be much longer :-)
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Hi,
I'm happy to propose now, the English version of Atahnor 2 for Oric :)
Normaly, there's no more bug...
Athanor_2_GB.zip
The legend of the birdmen
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In the attached Zip file:
- Atha2GB.dsk
- Atha_2_Player_Manual.pdf
Pictures of the material clues sold with the original game, have been added at the end of the original manual. The use of these clues is mandatory to solve the game's puzzles
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Coming very soon : The French version "La légende des hommes oiseaux"...
Then, to come : surprise ...
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\o/
Sorry I couldn't beta test. Even my current projects are half stopped now. Life!
But glad the final release is here! Congrats!
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I'm really impressed by the graphics, I don't think I would have done any better :)
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Hi,
If some of you are playing this game and need some help, just ask, I can help you here.
An other way is to download the full walkthrough from the link below
https://oric.forumactif.org/t907-athanor-2#10874
To read only if you are really stuck.. :)
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Just for information, I Tweeted about it the other day, you got 55 likes and 14 retweets (including Eric Safar himself) :)
and 23 more likes and 3 retweets on the second Tweet regarding the quality of the graphics!

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This legendary is archived :)

https://www.oric.org/software/athanor_2-2768.html

Bravo Dom
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@Dbug: Thanks for these tweets :)
@Didier: Thanks for archiving :)

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The French version of Athanor 2 is now available.
Next version to come... :)
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Hi

oric.org updated
now, i can play :)
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Dom wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:28 pm Hi,
I'm happy to propose now, the English version of Athanor 2 for Oric :)
Hi Dom!
Coder/Artist of the Amiga version here. I wanted to let you know that I was really amazed by your incredible work on the ORIC version. In the graphics department, you did an extraordinary job, for a 8bit machine and especially considering the limitations of the Red & Black machine.

Great work!
I was curious a bit about your workflow... Did you repaint every image from scratch?
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I agree. The graphics are astonishing!
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astrofra wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:35 pm Great work!
I was curious a bit about your workflow... Did you repaint every image from scratch?
Thanks astrofra :)
Well, I'll try to explain my "workflow" :)
I started from the cpc sreens to draw oric's screens.
The first thing to do is to change the picture into greyscale with PSP5 and adjust brightness/contrast to get something as close to a black/white picture as possible, without losing to much details in the picture...
The size of CPC screen is 640 x 400 pixels, so the second thing to do is to devide the size of the cpc screens by two in order to get a 320 x200 pixels picture. Once done, I still had 80 pixels in excess on the x coordinates of the screen
I choose to "cut" these pixels in the middle of the picture (red rectangle in the picture below)
I also errased Athanor 2 in the blue rectangle)
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Then I used PICTCONV (from the OSDK) to convert the file "atha.png" picture into an oric hires image.
Once that done, it is an iterative job of going back and forth from Hires to png, trying to color the picture without destroying too much the pixels arrangement of the original black and white picture.
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This image only shows 6 of the multiple trials I did :) The last image shows, on the last 3 TEXT lines of the HIRES screen, "ATHANOR 2" written in red characters redefined from the alternate characters set .
Regarding the tools used, Pictconv is a very great tool but it doesn't allow to postion the graphic attributes at a specific location in the Hires screen. To do that, and many other things , OricHir from greg is also a very usefull tool.
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What I found the most amazing was how Dom achieved to make some grey colour effect.
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Incredible effect :shock:
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I'm happy to present you the latest version of ATHANOR 2 : La leyenda de los hombres pájaro
This version is largely due to Bieno's involvment as the game's beta tester and also to Bieno and Chema's great help in improving the Spanish translation. Many thanks to them :wink:

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in the same way as for the English and French version, if you play and you get stuck, you will find the Spanish solution at the following address:
https://oric.forumactif.org/t907-athanor-2#10874
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