Stormlord feedback and review thread

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Hi,

Many many thanks for this AWESOME adaptation on the Oric... I was a great fan of the Atari ST version and I find it just incredible to see how well the game has been adpated to the Oric: excellent work on the graphics, unbelievably smooth animation, great music and perfect playability!

As all here, I was however deeply saddened by the terrible news of the passing away of Twilighte... I didn't know Jonathan other than by his reputation on the Oric scene, but still I felt sincerely moved and I really feel sorry for his family and friends... So, one of the ways to honour his memory for me has been to read about his life and of course to play his games... For those of you that haven't read the special CEO Magazine issue for Jonathan Bristow, it is available from the www.oric.org homepage (direct download link: http://www.oric.org/ftp/ceo/ceomag/spec ... ristow.pdf)

Rest in Peace Jonathan, and many thanks for all of what you've done, you will be long remembered!

Very sincerely yours,
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Saw the release youtube video years ago, finally downloaded & played this nice little game :) Too bad Twilighte has passed away, I'll be sure to see about getting to know more of his work. And of the Oric in general, I'm not familiar with it at all!

Also, is there any way to get the (.ym?) music files from this game? I just love the in-game music, and the menu music is nice as well.
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Well, the music is probably somewhere in the source code of the game, available on our SVN server:
http://miniserve.getmyip.com/svn/users/ ... Stormlord/

I guess Wave_Player.s is the actual replay routine and CompiledMusic.s the music data.

The music was composed in Wave, I'm not quite sure if the source music files (before conversion to binary format) are available though.
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Dbug wrote:Well, the music is probably somewhere in the source code of the game, available on our SVN server:
http://miniserve.getmyip.com/svn/users/ ... Stormlord/

I guess Wave_Player.s is the actual replay routine and CompiledMusic.s the music data.

The music was composed in Wave, I'm not quite sure if the source music files (before conversion to binary format) are available though.
Oh dear... that's all a bit over my head. I'll just rip the music from a game movie, that's something I can do :P Thanks for the answer!
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And, if I remember correctly, the in game music was just the title music but played very slowly.
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Hi
I v just prepare my Oic and ....
The link don t work.
:(
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Gliou wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:35 pm Hi
I v just prepare my Oic and ....
The link don t work.
:(
There seem to be an issue with the links on https://defence-force.org/index.php?pag ... =stormlord but you can get the three versions from the folder directly:
- 50hz version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord.zip
- 60hz version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord-60hz.zip
- Oric 1 version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord-oric1.zip
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While I was at it, I fixed all the links, replaced the "target='blank'" by "download" on the <a href>, hopefully that will work better.
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Dbug wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:10 pm
Gliou wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:35 pm Hi
I v just prepare my Oic and ....
The link don t work.
:(
There seem to be an issue with the links on https://defence-force.org/index.php?pag ... =stormlord but you can get the three versions from the folder directly:
- 50hz version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord.zip
- 60hz version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord-60hz.zip
- Oric 1 version - https://defence-force.org/files/stormlord-oric1.zip
Thx a lot :D
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I played the game with a clone of ijk interface,, the joystick is not detected and the sound is disformed, I think that the STROBE signal is always low, then the capacitor of the interface is never reloaded to read the state of the joystick. With the Stingy interface it works well (there is no capacitor) with always the sound problem.
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Wasn't there a bug in the ijk routine as published in the wiki? I think iss pointed this to me for Blake's7... but I am not sure now.

The routine in the wiki was written by Twi, so maybe that is the reason of the sound distortion.
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Okay, I cannot find any info on this... maybe I dreamt it???

No. In my local copy of the sources, the IJK routine is as follows

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; IJK Joystick routines
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

joy_Left 	.byt 0

ReadIJK
         ;Ensure Printer Strobe is set to Output
         lda #%10110111
         lda via_ddrb
         ;Set Strobe Low
         lda #%00000000
         sta via_portb
         ;Set Top two bits of PortA to Output and rest as Input
         lda #%11000000
         sta via_ddra
         ;Select Left Joystick
         lda #%01111111
         sta via_porta
         ;Read back Left Joystick state
         lda via_porta
         ;Mask out unused bits
         and #%00011111
         ;Invert Bits
         eor #%00011111
         sta joy_Left
	 ;Restore VIA PortB state
	 lda #%00010000 
	 sta via_portb
         ;Restore VIA PortA state
         lda #%11111111
         sta via_ddra
         rts       
which is different from the copy in the repo and from the code Twi wrote in the wiki. The main difference is that this code restores VIA PortB state, which is something the code in the wiki does not do.

Maybe this is what causes the sound disruption?

And also I need now to check my local copy against the one in the repo... Oh, well!
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