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JUST ORIC (aka ORIC DEMO 1)
by Dbug
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CODE: Dbug
GFX: Grrr, Dbug, and a font by Electronic Images
SOUND: Music of "Thrust" from Rob Hubbard
Stupid bug fixed by Xeron
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This demo was made for the Volcanic 4 demo party, held in
France in 1997. Until proven otherwise it's the first known
demoscene prod on this machine, which partly explain how
weak most effects are :)
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Contact:
Dbug/NeXT^Defence Force
Mickael POINTIER
e-mail: dbug@defence-force.org
URL: http://www.defence-force.org
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For launching the demo:
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It's not a PC demo, so you have to watch it either using the
real hardware or with an emulator such as Oricutron (the most
recent and recommended option), Euphoric (the one used to
develop this demo), Mess, Atoric or Amoric.
---// Using Oricutron //---
Download Oricutron for your favourite platform from here:
http://code.google.com/p/oriculator/
Run Oricutron, then press F1 and select "Insert Tape"
Select the LOADER.TAP
Type CLOAD"" and hit enter
---// Using Euphoric //---
Download Euphoric (Windows/Dos only) from here:
http://oric.free.fr/emulator.html
Run Euphoric
Type CLOAD"LOADER.TAP" and hit enter
---// Using MESS //---
Download Mess from here:
http://www.mess.org
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WARNING:
- This is a pre-beta version. Tbere is no sound, except at the end.
- The demo is not timed, you have to press a key to go from one part
to another !
- Due to a bug, the fact of pressing any key while the greetings are
displayed, will provoque display bugs... Bad idea.
- This demo will run only on ORIC ATMOS for the moment, due to some direct calls
to the ATMOS ROM. (Sorry for that)
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THE ORIC COMPUTER:
- 1mhz 6502 processor (as in Apple II, similar to C64 processor)
- 48kbyte of RAM (include video ram)
- 8kbyte, 240x200 monochrome hires display (with colour line attributes)
- 1kbyte, 40x28 monochrome text display (with colour line attributes)
- VIA 6522, for interfacting,I/O,timers.
- Sound processor: AY-3-8912 (similar to Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +,...)
- Colors: 8 colors (BLACK,WHITE,RED,GREEN,BLUE,CYAN,MAGENTA,YELLOW), with
proximity constraints. You cannot change color on screen and keep pixels under.
Nothing more. No Hardware sprites, no hard scroll, no redefinable clut, no DMA,
no digit...
Except: Hardware blinking (like minitel), hardware double sized text (like
minitel), hardware semi-graphics characters (like minitel :)