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Steam News15 April 20251y ago

Version 1.1.2: Back to BASIC!

As you can see, the development of the game is not yet finished! I only had a few bytes remaining on disk, so many of the things I wanted to add were unfortunately impossible to do...

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addedI only had a few bytes remaining on disk, so many of the things I wanted to add were unfortunately impossible to do... but then I remembered that my storage system only used 17 sectors per track while the hardware would work just fine with 18 sectors... which brings us an addition 256 bytes for each track on the floppy, and since we have 42 tracks on each side, that adds 256x42x2 = 21504 bytes for new data.
changedThere will hopefully be new versions with additional content , but in this new version the only change is that you will now be able to find an Oric 1 computer in the games room, and when trying to use it the game will ask you if you are ok to abort the game session.
addedFirst version of the game using 18 sectors per track instead of 17, this adds 21 KB of storage on disk and should not impact compatibility.
addedAdded an Oric 1 computer in the games room, can be used to access the BASIC prompt from the game
changedChanged the default configuration of the emulator to use software rendering instead of OpenGL (except for the full crt emulation mode)
changedTrying to take some of the items will now ask if you are kleptomaniac instead of just printing "can't do this"

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addedI only had a few bytes remaining on disk, so many of the things I wanted to add were unfortunately impossible to do... but then I remembered that my storage system only used 17 sectors per track while the hardware would work just fine with 18 sectors... which brings us an addition 256 bytes for each track on the floppy, and since we have 42 tracks on each side, that adds 256x42x2 = 21504 bytes for new data.
changedThere will hopefully be new versions with additional content , but in this new version the only change is that you will now be able to find an Oric 1 computer in the games room, and when trying to use it the game will ask you if you are ok to abort the game session.
addedFirst version of the game using 18 sectors per track instead of 17, this adds 21 KB of storage on disk and should not impact compatibility.
addedAdded an Oric 1 computer in the games room, can be used to access the BASIC prompt from the game
changedChanged the default configuration of the emulator to use software rendering instead of OpenGL (except for the full crt emulation mode)

As you can see, the development of the game is not yet finished!

I only had a few bytes remaining on disk, so many of the things I wanted to add were unfortunately impossible to do... but then I remembered that my storage system only used 17 sectors per track while the hardware would work just fine with 18 sectors... which brings us an addition 256 bytes for each track on the floppy, and since we have 42 tracks on each side, that adds 256x42x2 = 21504 bytes for new data.

This format change has been tested on a real Oric Atmos on LOCI, Cumulus and Cumana Reborn, but if you experience some issues on your machine, then please get in touch so we can solve that!

There will hopefully be new versions with additional content, but in this new version the only change is that you will now be able to find an Oric 1 computer in the games room, and when trying to use it the game will ask you if you are ok to abort the game session.

If you answer Y (yes) the game will reset the machine and you will end up on the Oric BASIC prompt.

Technically the Oric 1 would have been using the ROM 1.0, but the ROM 1.1 is much nicer to use (fewer bugs), so if you want to play with BASIC programming feel free to try!

If you have never programmed in BASIC, you can find a PDF copy of the Oric 1 or Oric Atmos manual in the Oric Library

Here is the detailed list of changes:

  • First version of the game using 18 sectors per track instead of 17, this adds 21 KB of storage on disk and should not impact compatibility.

  • Added an Oric 1 computer in the games room, can be used to access the BASIC prompt from the game

  • Changed the default configuration of the emulator to use software rendering instead of OpenGL (except for the full crt emulation mode)

  • Trying to take some of the items will now ask if you are kleptomaniac instead of just printing "can't do this"

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Steam News / 15 April 2025

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