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Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:29 pm
by retroric
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,
Laurent
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:20 pm
by Weevil
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.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:26 pm
by Dbug
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.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:31 pm
by Weevil
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
Thanks for the answer!
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:16 am
by Chema
And, if I remember correctly, the in game music was just the title music but played very slowly.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:35 pm
by Gliou
Hi
I v just prepare my Oic and ....
The link don t work.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:10 pm
by Dbug
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
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:24 pm
by Dbug
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.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:37 pm
by Gliou
Thx a lot
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:39 am
by kenneth
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.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:12 pm
by Chema
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.
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:25 pm
by Chema
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!
Re: Stormlord feedback and review thread
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:54 pm
by Dbug