Hi guys. I am back from my holidays
I've been monitoring the thread a bit, but my mobile connection sucks, therefor I did not post too often.
Again thanks for the nice comments. Some small notes about Oricium have been posted in several forums, which is really nice and good for the Oric fans
Sorry for the Oric-1 tap bug. Thanks indeed to Symoon for fixing it and Dbug for including the new version in the zip file. I guess that now I need to update the info in the site and in the readme and in the zip file. Having two files is a bit confusing. About the mixed tap headers I guess different tools were using different patterns and it got messed up a bit when concatenating the tap files together.
Strange the fast wav version did not work for you Symoon. I used the same conversion I did with SkoolDaze. I guess timings are a bit tight, though. Also I noticed that some parts of the audio are more prone to errors than others: mainly those with "continuous" sounds (I guess filled with constant values). However I always could load it. Just a matter of setting the volume correctly.
Indeed the same idea could be used for other lateral scrolling games. The main issues are the lack of available characters and the character-based scroll. I will make the sources available as usual.
I am glad that you found the game quick and playable and controls smooth. If you find anything which needs polishing, just say so and I'll try to fix it.
Oh, and the intro screen is indeed very well done! Thanks to Dbug: the Artist
Joystick support was on my todo list. Only problem is that I need not only up/down/left/right and fire, but also jump. I have no experience in this area, so I may take a look at Twilighte's info in the Wiki.
I am sure I forget something, so post any question or suggestion here.
Thanks for trying the game! (it would be nice if you post which level and score is your record - btw did you recognize all the songs? and all the details refering to the 70s-80s?)