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Here's an intro to Oric display in general: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/coding/part_7/index.htm http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/cod

by mmjaa 8y ago

Here's an intro to Oric display in general: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/coding/part_7/index.htm http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/coding/part_7/in... Here's more details on the attributes mode that, when properly grok'ed, gives us color options never before seen on the Oric: http://thespider.oric.org/oric_hires_colour.html http://thespider.oric.org/oric_hires_colour.html Twilighte (RIP) exploited this extensively for his games - check out http://oric.org/ http://oric.org/ for his titles (they're in the top-10) .. See also this thread: http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=875 http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=875

foobarge 8y ago
Thank you - this is quite a find. I remember banging my head against the limitations of the HIRES mode and eventually doing everything in text mode with redefined characters - I was working on a windowing system at the time. Best thing in for summer was two weeks with my grand father, my Atmos and my monitor - and certainly not my mom telling me to get out in the sun (and my grand father couldn't care less.)
- mmjaa 8y ago
  Great to encounter another Atmos fan on HN .. have you been following the OricExos project? Its a system consisting of 4 Oric's, tied together, sharing duties for graphics and sound .. pretty amazing hack, if I do say so myself: http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1880 http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1880 Check out some of the demo's at the end of the thread .. it was recently booted up and demonstrated adding new color resolutions to the system. Truly mind-boggling!