Optimizing Buggy Boy (1)On the weekend of 2-3 November 2018 the Demosplash party was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
There are not many demo parties in the USA, and even less of these showing Oric demos running on the actual Oric hardware specially with a Cumulus device!
Performance ProfilingSun 11th November 2018
A few weeks ago NekoNoNiaow asked on the Defence Force forums if there was any profiling tools available for Oric programs "aside from the reliable but quite basic OSDK clock() function".
I had already worked on the topic, but no actual official release came out of it: Time to fix that!
I had already worked on the topic, but no actual official release came out of it: Time to fix that!
Global Game Jam 2018Tue 6th February 2018
Like in 2015 and 2016, I spent the last weekend of January at the Global Game Jam.
In total, about 8600 games have been worked on by more than 42000 persons across 108 countries.
In total, about 8600 games have been worked on by more than 42000 persons across 108 countries.
Oric graphics in detailsSat 8th April 2017
This article was first written in July 2002 as a 'how to' for the artists working on our first big Defence-Force demo, was translated to english in 2005, but was never really officially published until today.
CharsetsThu 17th September 2015
If there is one thing that can make a game look like it was professionally produced, it's definitely using a different character set than the one provided by the system.
Let's take a look at some existing games to show what I mean.
Let's take a look at some existing games to show what I mean.
Preprocessor abusesSat 15th August 2015
Here comes the first article about tips and tricks that can be used to make your Oric development easier and faster.
One of the first changes we did when starting the OSDK was to use instead a real 6502 macro-assembler with an extended set of features, and ultimately we choose XA because it supported most of the C compiler preprocessor directives.
Choosing an assembler
Originally the Oric C development kit was using FRASM to assemble the 6502 code generated by the C compiler front-end.One of the first changes we did when starting the OSDK was to use instead a real 6502 macro-assembler with an extended set of features, and ultimately we choose XA because it supported most of the C compiler preprocessor directives.
Let's make noiseSat 28th February 2015
This article was first published in the CEOMag 296.
Our beloved Oric computer is equipped with a sound generator compatible with the one found on the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, MSX and some models of Sinclair Spectrum, so theoretically there’s no real reason why most of the earlier Oric games had no music at all or perhaps just a game over tune.
osdk-dot-orgFri 27th February 2015
osdk.org
While doing some maintenance on the Defence Force infrastructure, I realized that the osdk.org domain name was now available.Few minutes later it was registered, and a couple of hours later there was working DNS and redirect information.
New siteSat 22nd February 2014
Web 2.0?
For now about 13 years the OSDK has been a version 0 point something despite having been used to create quite a significant amount of software.