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For me:

* Write a couple of light and cute Oric games with 8-bit Unity
* Get my Telestrat working again

* Getting some free time back, so I can resume my retro activities
* Learning more asm programming on the Amiga
* Patching Blake's 7 so it works with the Jasmin, once iss solves the problems

For my next project, I would like to make a contribution about 3D Oric programming started by Jbperin. My Basic code written 25 years ago is slow and wrong. I plan to make a demo as it exists with Apple2.

I tend to avoid doing this type of thing because "time flies", but on the long list of things that may or may not be this year:

• Make a few more Oriclopedia videos (I'm thinking dropping to one video a month - max)
• Fix the tape drives I collected, and make a giant comparative of them to see which ones are best for Oric game loading
• Try to get some work done on Quantum Fx Turbo Ultra and Encounter HD
• Try to get some nice demo effects for the Oric Exos

Chema wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:01 pm * Learning more asm programming on the Amiga

If:
1- you enjoy programming on Amiga
2- you like the game Don't Press the Letter Q
then I may have something for you (well, it's in C, not ASM).

Symoon wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:06 pm

Chema wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:01 pm * Learning more asm programming on the Amiga

If:
1- you enjoy programming on Amiga
2- you like the game Don't Press the Letter Q
then I may have something for you (well, it's in C, not ASM).

Sounds interesting...

Chema wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:03 pm Sounds interesting...

Well, long ago I interviewed Andrew Moore. I then learnt that he an a friend ported DPTLQ onto Amiga.
He didn't have anything left of it but I eventually got in touch with this friend, that sent me sources disks. I made ADF files of them.

I'm no C expert, and even less Amiga programmer, and I tried to compile it all using GCC on Amiga, but failed. It seemed some libraries were missing. Years later I gave the sources to a friend who knew Amiga programmers, and they told him the source code wasn't complete - too much to be compiled easily. I'm not sure they were motivated by DPTLQ, and it then went into limbo.

So if you liked the game and like challenges, I can send you the source disks (should I find them back ), so you could try checking how (in)complete it was, and if it could be fun finishing it.
Just an idea

Happy Holidays to all of you!

I have started a few games more. I hope to be able to finish them in the new year.

Please, send them... I am not sure I will have time anytime soon, and I am not even optimistic, but we'll see..

Regarding Amiga programming, all I managed to do is this little effect in asm: And I started playing with isometric graphics, but the blitter is a hard beast!

Chema wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 4:27 pm Please, send them... I am not sure I will have time anytime soon, and I am not even optimistic, but we'll see..

Sent by email

iss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:55 pm
Actually we have already some to share... oricXmas2019
(Attaching TAP file here too, sources are available in github)

Look for small details, enjoy and have fun!

oricXmas2019.tap

Waou Men .. this is great !!

As I was wandering in the code of this demo, i suddenly wondered how you generated the data of this song:

https://github.com/raxrax/oricXmas2019/blob/master/song.s

Is it the result of the ym2mym tool

https://osdk.org/index.php?page=documen ... age=ym2mym

which is dumped which the bin2txt tool ?

https://osdk.org/index.php?page=documen ... ge=bin2txt

jbperin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:44 pm... i suddenly wondered how you generated the data of this song:

Indeed, no black magic here - exactly as you guess Ym2Mym + Bin2Txt.

BON NOEL to all the followers of this little machine , Its given me so much pleasure over the years !

Merry Christmas too all!

Was a little bit distracted last days with another 8 bit platform: finally received my Ultimate 64 Elite board so I now have that in a nice C64 breadbin case. Was nice setting that up, so little to none time on the Oric last week apart from briefly testing the IJK interface + Egoist pad that I also received.

On my 8 bit plans for 2021:
- Finish a project that I am now doing in C to make a bootmenu integrated with a filebrowser for the Commodore 128. Am starting from a nice CC65 source for the filebrowser, so also a nice project to start work with C;
- After that finish porting the other boardgame that I started to convert from an old C128 program I made to Oric;
- Convert both the Ludo game to C;
- Maybe reverse the order of the two above to learn C well enough to directly do that second game in C.
- Continue to experirent with nice new hardware for my old 8 bit computers.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all Oricians!
As tradition here is a small gift -> CLICK .