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Nice links, thanks for that! My favourite aspect of the modern 8-bit movement is watching the development of this Blakes 7 game for the Oric-1/Atmos games .. w
by fit2rule 10y ago
Nice links, thanks for that!
My favourite aspect of the modern 8-bit movement is watching the development of this Blakes 7 game for the Oric-1/Atmos games .. we Oric nerds are getting some real treats these days, which seem to really push the machine beyond what we expected in the 80's, and that is surely nice. Just check out the smooth animation and clever use of colours in this demo, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s
Interesting note: OASIS is the game/script/content engine created for the purpose of making games like this on the Oric systems. How amazing we have such tools for such an obscure device, even today!
- i336_ 10y agoWow, 1MHz. That demo looks pretty cool and rather refined, yeah - the colors are indeed well-balanced. The galaxy sidescrolling does appear to be pushing the machine's limits; with that in mind the mouth animation is very smooth. I'd admittedly add at least one extra mouth-movement frame and randomly switch between them for more realistic lo-fi animation, I'd make the text sequences advance about 25% faster, and I'm not sure if the text was traditionally at the top but I kept looking for it at the bottom (where subtitles/closed captions usually live). OASIS sounds interesting, but I'm unsure where to find more info on it. Very amusingly, when I googled "oric-1 oasis", your comment on here was among the search results! http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png Also, for other interesting things that fit in 1MHz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw
- fit2rule 10y agoSweet 1MHZ video! OASIS Info here: http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273 http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273