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Thanks for that tip. It's something I wondered back in the day, but never got around to exploring.

After looking at the Atari version of the game, I see that the 'overlap' of sounds would actually work in this instance.

if you change the GET H$ to H$=KEY$ and line 260 to GOTO 200, then you should get the effect you're after.

I've just had a quick play of GoSub, cool game.

I think you're right to use the Oric's built in Ping sound effect...perfect for sonar

Also, the suggestion I made in the other thread about using KEY$ instead of GET would allow the game to function as the Atari version.

Hi Chris, do you have a link to the Atari version or any threads in AA I could look at?

Just another thought, the line 200 GET H$ will pause the program at that line. If the game is to run realtime (sorry, I've not seen the Atari version yet), then I would replace it with 200 H$=KEY$ This would then make the submarine continue in the direction specified until another key is pressed.

Line 260 reads: it should read: Also, why the GET H$ on line 220?

Just to re-iterate, these are the definitions from the Oric manual

GET (example GET A$)
Strobes the keyboard and waits until a key is pressed.
KEY$ (example X$=KEY$)
Strobes keyboard. Continues execution, whether or not a key has been pressed. X$ contains value of any key pressed.

There are 2 ways to do this. If you just want the program to pause until space is pressed, then this would suffice: 100 PRINT "Press SPACE to continue" 110 REPEAT 120 GET A$ 130 UNTIL A$=" " 140 CLS 150 REM ... Rest of game if you want the front screen to animate something whilst...

Just one thing you need to be aware of is that if you start a new sound effect before the previous one has completed, it will override the old one.

The two commands PAPER and INK control the colours of the paper and ink :wink: Both take a parameter of 0 to 7 with the colours corresponding thus: 0 - black 1 - red 2 - green 3 - yellow 4 - blue 5 - magenta 6 - cyan 7 - white In text mode, these commands will change all attributes in screen. I'm af...

Welcome to the forum Chris. I'm the same Pengwin in AA, so it's good to see you here.

WOW! That's great news...off to order myself a copy

Solved it. It was my fault, I didn't read the manual properly. When you first load Oric Forth, you need to issue the following command before anything else: EMPTY-BUFFERS This does what it says on the tin and clear the crap that is residing in memory. Now I can load and compile the editor without an...

Thanks, I'll try again. I've just got a new tape player, so I probably need to play with the volume setting.