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by Hialmar
Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Alchimie 0xb in Tain l’Hermitage (26) France
Replies: 19
Views: 25138

Re: Alchimie 0xb in Tain l’Hermitage (26) France

I will bring mine to make sure there is at least one ;)
by Hialmar
Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Alchimie 0xb in Tain l’Hermitage (26) France
Replies: 19
Views: 25138

Alchimie 0xb in Tain l’Hermitage (26) France

I found some old messages about the tenth edition (in 2013) so I figured it would interest people to know that the 11th (0xb in hexa) is coming soon. This year it will happen from the 13th to the 15th of November. It's mainly about Amiga but there is room for any old computer and alternative systems...
by Hialmar
Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:31 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Re: Infocom games Z-machine

In fact we (Silicium - being my association of old computers fans which includes artists ;) ) will be writing our own games with Inform and then run them with Z-machines.

The first target will be Apple IIs but of course I'd really like to have them running on the Oric ;)
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:22 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Re: Infocom games Z-machine

Ah ok. I'll look at it. I thought that the first Infocom games worked on low end Apple IIs with 48K of memory. Maybe I can disassemble one of the first Apple II interpreters and see if it's understandable. Edit; I checked here and it looks like only the V6 (graphics ones) needed 128 Kbytes: http://p...
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:45 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Development of Blake's 7 (was OASIS development)
Replies: 600
Views: 550801

Re: OASIS very very early alpha tech demo

Yes sure. I just read this and thought about OASIS so I figured I would post about it here.

I'd like to help but I'm way too noob on ASM to be any help I fear.
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:40 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Re: Infocom games Z-machine

Ah yes FloppyBuilder could be a solution if we can save/load games.

IIRC you were working on this, right ?

If I can help with this, I will of course.
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:38 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Re: Infocom games Z-machine

I have read the readme file. If I understand correctly the code to read and write from/to a DOS disk was made to be fully compatible with existing Infocom games.
As we will be writing our games we could go instead to a full Sedoric solution, couldn't we ?
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:25 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Re: Infocom games Z-machine

Awesome !

I'd be interested in the sources in order to add the possibility (if it's not already possible) to add loading compressed pictures from a Sedoric disk.
So that it makes a sort of Hobbit like text/graphics game with all the power of the Z-machine.
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:11 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Infocom games Z-machine
Replies: 18
Views: 27058

Infocom games Z-machine

While searching for info on Z-machines (the interpreter for Infocom games) I stumbled on an old interview of Dbug saying that someone actually ported a Z-machine to Oric.

Anyone knows where I could find it or even better the source code ?

Thanks.
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:30 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Development of Blake's 7 (was OASIS development)
Replies: 600
Views: 550801

Re: OASIS very very early alpha tech demo

I just read this (well in fact it's translation in French posted on obligement.free.fr):
http://passfieldgames.blogspot.com.au/2 ... -20th.html

It's an article about Flight of the Amazon Queen. Maybe some of it could bring you some ideas, Chema.
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 14, 2015 12:51 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Tyrann 3 ?
Replies: 37
Views: 50646

Re: Tyrann 3 ?

For 3 reasons:
1- It works faster on old computers ;
2- It was written by Fabrice ;
3- We are French and we love French products.

Ok I can admit it I use Oricutron but that's because I'm on a Mac ;)
by Hialmar
Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:06 am
Forum: Games
Topic: Development of Blake's 7 (was OASIS development)
Replies: 600
Views: 550801

Re: OASIS very very early alpha tech demo

Awesome stuff !
by Hialmar
Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:27 pm
Forum: Hardware hacks and extensions
Topic: Interested people in controller Microdisc or AmpliBus.
Replies: 59
Views: 81856

Re: Interested people in controller Microdisc or AmpliBus.

Yeah !!!

Thanks a lot, ahead of the work you'll put in making my controller.
by Hialmar
Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:22 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Tyrann for Android smartphones
Replies: 12
Views: 18852

Re: Tyrann for Android smartphones

Maximus confirmed that he has the authorization of Remy Gosselin from Norsoft. Maybe simply removing all references to the TV series (which I will not name here) from public posts about the game will be enough. The chances that the TV series or the books owners attorneys will play the game are very ...