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Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:16 pm**

After making the font, i decided to try if it could also be a game with these 16 characters.
it's just a prototype, I don't know if it will become a finished game

Here is the result:

Sprites:

: sprites.png (11.4 KiB) Viewed 3772 times

Level:

Code:
https://github.com/raxrax/oricOsdkPseudoPixelsGame

Game:

alt4x4GameProto.tap: (8.99 KiB) Downloaded 98 times

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:37 pm**

At first I was like, "wtf rax, you turned my Oric into a ZX81" but then I was like .. 'but you could add colour!'

Cute graphics, neat engine and some interesting potential .. curious to see about that colour, though.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:18 pm**

Yes! The desired effect was close to the ZX81.

Here's a pathetic attempt at coloring. I think it can be a hundred percent better, but it needs a lot of work .
(there are also glitches that I couldn't easily fix).

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:08 am**

Well, it ain't no SWIV, but its surely something that I could see evolving to be a very playable shooter... whats with the top-line character mess, though?

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:32 pm**

ibisum wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:08 am Well, it ain't no SWIV, but its surely something that I could see evolving to be a very playable shooter... whats with the top-line character mess, though?

Top-line character is a glitch. I didn't have time to fix it.

I'll never be able to do anything like SWIV. I had started something similar and never finished it.

Posted: **Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:03 am**

Thank you very much Rax for the realease of this source code.

As usual with your code I find it is neat, inspiring and so smartly designed that it is enjoyable to read.

Big Up !!

I made a little screencap of the color version with my new friend the Oric 2.5 animated gif feature :

: 2022-12-22-09420068.gif (246.17 KiB) Viewed 2328 times

Posted: **Fri Dec 23, 2022 6:38 pm**

Very very cool demo ! So 8bitish

There's magic in LORES 1, might inspire me !

What tool did you use to convert the png files to .c data (https://github.com/raxrax/oricOsdkPseud ... ster/res.c) ?

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 7:46 am**

applepie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 6:38 pm
What tool did you use to convert the png files to .c data (https://github.com/raxrax/oricOsdkPseud ... ster/res.c) ?

I don't know what tool master rax used to convert PNG into .c array. But I can show you some similar things written in Python.

https://github.com/oric-software/castor ... ure2buf.py

With the code generator being here:

https://github.com/oric-software/castor ... codegen.py

If ever it can help.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:10 am**

on my side, i've discover this lores mod with Rax post.
Then going deeper on the subject, based on std alt set, i've created an excel file to draw a lores pic, and generate some basic lines & c description of the screen

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:54 am**

In case it can help, I had made a little tool to generate alternate charset from images.

It take an area from a black and white image in 240*224 pixel and create a charset to reproduce this image (and optimize the chaset size by reusing already defined characters).

The generated C code uses this function that changes an alternate character in the Oric memory:

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void change_char(char c, unsigned char patt01, unsigned char patt02, unsigned char patt03, unsigned char patt04, unsigned char patt05, unsigned char patt06, unsigned char patt07, unsigned char patt08) {
    unsigned char* adr;

    adr      = (unsigned char*)(0xb800 + c * 8);
    *(adr++) = patt01;
    *(adr++) = patt02;
    *(adr++) = patt03;
    *(adr++) = patt04;
    *(adr++) = patt05;
    *(adr++) = patt06;
    *(adr++) = patt07;
    *(adr++) = patt08;
}

And here's the python script that create an alternate character from a preformatted image and generates the code to put the alternate charset in the memory and displays the image on the screen.

extractAltCharset_example.zip: (4.81 KiB) Downloaded 88 times

From an image below (240*224 px to match Oric screen dimension):

: chateau.png (431 Bytes) Viewed 2077 times

it generates the code:

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void screen() {
change_char(33 , 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0);
change_char(34 , 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 0x3, 0x6, 0xb, 0x18, 0x14);
... Long list of character definition
change_char(61 , 0x0, 0x10, 0x18, 0x2e, 0x1e, 0x1e, 0xc, 0x0);

*((unsigned char *)LORES_SCREEN_ADDRESS+0*40+2)=33;
*((unsigned char *)LORES_SCREEN_ADDRESS+0*40+3)=33;
... Long list of screen writing
*((unsigned char *)LORES_SCREEN_ADDRESS+4*40+11)=33;
}

If it can help ....

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:00 am**

But the most stunning stuff I have ever seen about the alternate charset is master rax's H3 LIB

https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=2186

Dynamically changing alternate charset to create a graphical area within text screen .. just amazing ..

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:07 am**

applepie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 6:38 pmWhat tool did you use to convert the png files to .c data ...

The right answer here is pictconv from OSDK

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Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:12 am**

User manual of Pictconv is here.

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:59 am**

jbperin wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:00 am But the most stunning stuff I have ever seen about the alternate charset is master rax's H3 LIB

https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=2186

Dynamically changing alternate charset to create a graphical area within text screen .. just amazing ..

It's similar to what we did in Barbitoric

Basically, each time you see the same effect duplicated on the screen, it's most probably using charsets reconfiguration instead of HIRES

Posted: **Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:07 pm**

... And with Metromov lonnnnng ago

https://www.oric.org/software/metromov-2480.html

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