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Ah ok, sorry. I have no idea, really as Symoon tested it. I think, however, he posted or sent me the result of some keypresses... I also can study the code, as it was quite a clear bug... Will look into it. You can follow the discussion here: http://www.defence-force.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=364&a...

Not sure if I got your question, Xeron. The buggy code was working as if it were correct, returning the real keypress... Anyway this does not prevent oricutron from working with oric software, so it is not something urgent, unless that it could point to another hidden bug. I can try to help, if and ...

Yet I found another one :) http://www.allaboutthegames.co.uk/feature_story.php?headline=Space--1999-game-finally-sees-the-light-of-day-News&article_id=10682 Space 1999: Defence Force is an isometric puzzler that is as cute as it sounds :) EDIT: And this one in french: http://www.gamopat.com/arti...

kamelito wrote:Yeah,
very nice, but is it then possible to move "sprite" into such scene, a la Fairlight?

Fairlight? a la Space:1999, I'd say

There is an #include "sedoric3.h" indeed inside a byte array definition. I didn't have it either, so I had to figure it out... It seems it is a bytedump of the os, so I stripped it from the executable or a sedoric disk (or checked both, I don't remember), run bin2txt and created it by hand...

Symoon wrote: BTW Chema, your file must be quite big!

Yep. The file with data that is to go in overlay+savegame slots+mission code is currently 31794 bytes

Anyway I will think about contacting Fabrice and clarify this point.

You are right Dbug.

Anyway I realize that this is not a fault in tap2dsk, but in the way I read data files sector by sector.

Strange there is a known bug in sedoric3 which has not been fixed, anyway.

Hi all. When adding the 8th mission to 1337 I strumble upon another issue with OSDK. This time with tap2dsk. The thing is that the data file (which is accessed on a sector basis with all the data to load in overlay as well as mission code) was corrupt in the last mission. A closer look revealed a bu...

You are right. It's an error. But I cannot find it, somewhere I must access zeropage 0 directly (without using a label), and searching the sourcecode for "0" is not a fun thing... If I start a new project I will take more time for planning before starting to code... 99% of the time, these...

ibisum wrote:I wanna try!

What do you wanna try? The tutorial?

BTW, 1337 now has 4 tutorial missions and 5 game missions programmed

And more will come !

In order to please Dbug (ok, and many others...) I have included a very crude tutorial in the game. The mission engine is not as flexible as to have continuous control about player's actions, and also much text takes a lot of space. Add this to the fact that testing every mission is tedious (have to...

This is actually a very nice idea. Not sure how to do it though. I guess the player should learn about the economic system of the universe, get used to the ship controls and navigation and also how and when to engage combat or simply avoid it. The system is not flexible enough as to run a tutorial, ...

I was about to suggest the same thing, really.

If you only want to detect when a click happens, no need for calibration or anything. Poke values which do not correspond to screen positions (are there any?) or simply zeros after reading and you could detect clicks that way.

Mission 3 added and tested. Quite a difficult one, btw. I need to decide when the first mission(s) will be launched. I first thought about launching them halfway betwen "average" and "above average" ranges, but that would mean you need to play quite a lot before they are launched...

Sure. If it is not for profit, then no problem if you want to add Space:1999 or the upcoming 1337. I doubt anybody is interested in text adventures nowadays, but, if you wish, you can also include pinforic (the infocom interpreter, unless Fabrice thinks otherwise, but I doubt it). Most infocom adven...