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I'm now wondering if it would be possible to do something even more nastier :) No idea if that would ever work, but what about: #define ENTITY_PLAYER 0 #define ENTITY_BOX 2 #define OPTION_LOOKAT(script) .( .byt VERB_LOOKAT,command_end-command_start : command_start : script : command_end .) #define O...

Looks good :) Just pointing out, using macros would help scripting, you can use the ":" symbol to have multiple statement on the same line to do something a bit like that (not tested, may not work 100%, just for the idea): #define ENTITY_PLAYER 0 #define ENTITY_BOX 2 #define OPTION_LOOKAT(...

Chema wrote:
Okay, I thought there were some kind of technical issues here

There was.
Maximus generated tape files for the first version that worked on Euphoric but not Oricutron.

I'm more concerned about Norsoft being contacted by HBO's attorneys.

For Space: 1999 I did contact Granada Ventures and added on the web page clear copyright information: http://space1999.defence-force.org

Interesting. Considering that Norsoft is apparently still alive and using the Tyrann brand, I think it would be a good idea to rename the Tyrann 3 project to something else, if only because the project is using some other copyrighted elements (GoT). Using other people intellectual properties is alwa...

The Jasmin is using a different drive controller, but as far as I know it should be 100% able to read and write the same thing as what the Microdisc controler does. It's totally possible to read the same floppy with both a Microdisc and a Jasmin, Fabrice proved that with his Fantasmagoric boot secto...

The disk geometry/structure is something totally arbitrary: On the Oric as well as on the Atari ST or PC, you could have mixes of number of sectors, sector size, track density on the same floppy: You can totally have a MSDOS compatible boot sector (512 bytes per sector) that loads something that wil...

The code I used in FloppyBuilder to generate the floppy is based on what Fabrice did in his tools, so technically they are compatible at the structure level. See http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/public/pc/tools/osdk/main/FloppyBuilder/Floppy.cpp for more details. Regarding the Pravetz and Appl...

Oh, and I will need a nice font. For now I am using the one in Space:1999, but I'd prefer a 8x6 nice font, such as the ones Dbug usually design :) Which style of fonts were you thinking of, and which characters do you need? If you are in Hires, you can display more then just the standard 96 charact...

It's the new game from Maximus on the oric forums: http://forums.oric.org/f17-new-tyrann-3-pour-euphoric
There will be an english version, but I'm not myself involved so I will let other speak

First time I heard of these

There are none at the moment.

I'm doing some work on the FloppyBuilder/loader, and these will be the first to benefit from that system: I will simplify the Loader API so it feels more natural to use using the method I was presenting in the article.

I took a bit of time to write about how to use the preprocessor to share file between C and Assembler modules:
http://www.osdk.org/index?page=articles&ref=ART7

If some parts are not clear, if there are typos, etc... just tell me

I'm going to be very pragmatic on that one: I guess the only persons who really should decide ultimately are the ones that have regularly committed to the current codebase of Oricutron
After all, they are the ones who are going to live with the choice.

Google code is turning read only on the 25th of August. So what do we do ? Move to github ? Ask Dbug to add us to his SVN ? I don't have any problem with adding it to SVN, but that would probably be detrimental to the code quality as there is no support for bug tracking or stuff like that. For a la...