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Space: 1999
'Out of Memory'
Trailer Intro
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An Oric game demo preview
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Release date: July 2010
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About this demo:
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Well, first this is not really a demo.
It's probably not even an intro.
What this is, is a 32kb rewrite of the
Space: 1999 TV show intro, running on an
Oric computer.
Of course doing so just for the sake of
doing it would be kind of pointless, so
the important thing is that it is just a
teaser for the actual Space 1999: Oric
game.
As far as we know, 'Out of memory' (that's
the title of the game), is the only attempt
at doing Isometric 3D on this machine.
If you never heard of the TV show, well
I guess you can take a look on Wikipedia,
but basically it was an UK/US coproduction
running from 1975 to 1977 with some of the
cast who played in Mission: Impossible.
Some people hate that serie, I loved it!
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How can I watch this?:
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That's easy.
You either have a real Oric with a disk
unit, in which case all you have to do
is to dump the .DSK file to a real 3" or
3.5" floppy (use WriteDsk for that, you
can ask on our forums if you don't know)
Or you don't have an Oric, in which case
you can use one of the many Oric emulator
now available.
The emulator of choice these days is
Oricutron, developped by Xeron, which has
the benefit of running on a multitude of
different operating system, of being open
source, and still developped:
- http://code.google.com/p/oriculator/
If you like this trailer, then you should
definitely try the game!
As usual the source code will be available
on the subversion repository (after the
party)
- http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn
and the video will be uploaded on you
tube
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The gory details:
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Not much of goryness I fear, mostly the
work was to get all the graphics and text
fit in memory, and try to depack that
fast enough to follow the original rythm
of the TV show intro.
The reason why the floppy disk is required
is to be able to use the 16k of additional
memory. Nothing is loaded after the main
loading, just this memory used to unpack
data.
The rotating planet is not an animation,
it's really a really draw disc object
with a pseudo dithering mapping.
The explosion is of course a good old
table driven rendering, but it's actually
testing per "pixel" if there's graphics
to avoid detroying the surface of moon
base alpha. It's already enough messed
up, isn't it?
I wanted to do more, but unfortunately
I caught a bad virus, so instead of
spending some days coding like a monkey
I spend my time in the bed sweating like
a pig. Definitely not as efficient...
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What's next?:
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Don't miss the next big Oric productions
- 1337 (Elite for the Oric, but better)
- Stormlord
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To contact us:
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Website:
- http://space1999.defence-force.org
Official game Forum:
- http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=401
irc:
- #oric on IRCnet
Other Defence Force Oric productions:
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Buggy Boy - Made for LCP Party 2004 (Sweden)
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13000
Barbitoric - Made for Alternative Party 2003 (Finland):
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=8558
Assembly 2002 invtro - Made for Assembly 2002 (Finland):
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=6977
Quintessential - Released at the VIP4 (FRANCE) demo party in 2003:
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=6864
Oric Giga Demo - Released at the VIP3 (FRANCE) demo party in 2002:
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3102
STNICCC C64 Revisited - Released at the STNICCC 2000 (HOLLAND) demo party in 2000:
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3105
Just Oric - Released at the Volcanic 4 (FRANCE) in 1997
- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3131
