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Should be right around the corner. Raxiss and 8Bit-Tronics.

Hello Robin, big fan of your channel! :-) Right so I bought it from a guy on FB who runs the 8bit-tronics shop - he has an ebay shop maybe you can get in touch with him because I know he was making up batches. Not sure regarding cost of shipping outside of UK. (DM me on Twitter or Bluesky and I'll share his name on FB). www.ebay.co.uk/str/8Bit-Tronics Also, the h/w and s/w design is on GitHub so in theory you can build your own - although it's too much bother for me so glad I got an assembled one! github.com/sodiumlb

Hello my fellow Oric friend and thank you for the nice comments. Yes I have been looking into it and I think it is very feasible to use it with the LOCI for file management - I hope to a dflat ROM for LOCI quite soon!

Thank you for the kind comment! Yes the LOCI has several interesting features beyond media. It would be great to add these features, might need to review my code though as currently dflat has 1 byte free in the 16KB ROM space!! But I will definitely look to get dflat TAP files loading through LOCI, I think this will make dflat much more accessible!

Yeah unfortunately Oric seems to be pretty expensive, must be rarer than I think! But also there is a healthy amount of support in the Oric community which means it's maybe more popular than one might think. The Oric-1 in the video I have owned since new in 1983! I also have an Oric Atmos that I got a couple of years back. Good luck with your search, hope you find one.

Even rarer is Oric Nova 64, a version of Oric Atmos sold in Yugoslavia (100% same, except for the sticker)... Unreasonable prices for that one also.

Ah, straight from the creator of LOCI - thanks for your kind comment and polite referral to the manual. Yes I really should read it properly lol !! Space, Return and Esc makes sense actually - pretty neat! Looking forward to seeing how we can integrate dflat to use your device as a media interface!

Thank you for the kind comment :-) The name dflat is a joke on C# the .net language - in musical terms d-flat and c-sharp are the same note (say on a piano or guitar), but part of a different scale!

@@6502Nerd Haha - very witty! I wasn't thinking of C# as a musical note. Trust Microsoft to introduce something completely unrelated to computers into programming. ;) On that note: ruclips.net/video/EZtD_4CWqiU/видео.html - by the way, I found your channel from bluesky as I'm currently writing "Space Invaders" for the BBC Micro Model B.

@Hakushin68000 haha yes witty is me 😂 Great to see Bluesky picking up! And awesome you're making something for the Beeb, wonderful ground breaking machine 🤓👍🏽

​@@6502Nerd Yup, I'm impressed with how professional the BBC Micro was - a truly awesome machine for its time! Of course, most couldn't afford it, but for those who had the money, it must have been an incredible computer to own.

@Hakushin68000 agree with you on all fronts. I too couldn't afford one!

@@javelinXH992 yes the artwork is so evocative in these books but the stories made up to explain the scene really brought it to life for me, hence why I can still remember many of the spacecraft names!

@ The wreck of the Jancis Jo is still a picture and story I love to this day!

Yeah sorry again about that, it's very low - but it is audible if you turn up the volume. Just remember to turn it down before watching something else!

Haha now that's a big leap! 😂

Very kind of you to take the time to reply. Glad you enjoyed it 🤓🤗👍🏽

Thanks for your kind words, glad you liked the video. Not much time recently but have a couple of things in my plans. Thanks for the sub and feel free to let me know what might be interested in. 🙂

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Thanks for your kind comment! I use Oricutron for emulation and I have a patched version specifically to work on dflat so I can access tape file load/save. I have a GitHub repo for all of this - you can easily play with dlflat in the emulator, plus a wiki about dflat so you can try it. Link below, hope it helps! github.com/6502Nerd/dflat

@@6502Nerd Thanks, if only we had dflats in ROM back in the 80s...total game changer :-)

Thank you for the comment. The keyboard pcb thing is from a BBC Micro - a computer release in 1981 in the UK. I purchased a dead BBC from ebay and put my breadboard computer inside the case and interfaced the keyboard. So if you can find a broken BBC micro, that's the only way to get one of these keyboards unfortunately.

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Thanks for taking the time to comment! Ok, so nothing clever here - the landscape is just background attributes in hi-res mode at position 0 of each row and no pixels are set. Then the ship is just a simple bit map, one foreground colour per row. The later demos of this game shows it more clearly. Hope that made sense although as we know, Oric attributes can be confusing!

Thanks for the kind comment! What's happening is that the image file is first loading the bitmap then the colour data. So when you see the bitmap part being loaded it's still using colour data from previous image. Once colour data is loaded then the image looks right 🙂

@@6502Nerd thank you so much for the reply. Very interesting!

Hey thanks for letting me know, I keep getting the level wrong on this mic. I just looked on another PC so can hear the difference in volume between this and other stuff. I'll fix it for next time but thanks for the kind comment.

Thank you for the kind words, much appreciated 🙂 I see you have many videos of 6502 machines, bravo! 👏🏽👏🏽🤓

@@6502Nerd 6502 the best!

Thanks for letting me know, I found the silly error I made with the sound level so hope that next time audio will be be audible.

Thank you for the feedback yes I think it's the volume is too low. I'm delighted if you want to make your own machine, it's great fun!

Thank you for the encouragement and feedback. I've now found the noise and low pass filter settings so I hope I'll do a better job next time!

Thanks again for the feedback. I watched the video on the main TV and not sure of the main issue. Is it noise or equalisation? I think it maybe volume, I noticed how quiet it was compared to other videos on the same amplifier setting. Thanks again.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, it helps 🙂

The explosion is an all too common sight so it's good that it's a nice effect 😅

Oops, thanks for letting me know 😅😅

sadly that was the first thing that came to my mind as well

Oh wow yeah it's bad. I've found out where the filters are for noise and high frequency. Also a new mic. Apologies will try to do better next time, but thanks for the feedback

Hi sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately I don't know about the custom cartridge ROM, but I am also looking into it. I recently bought a small PCB that has a ROM for doing diagnostics, and looking into the memory map so figure out how I can program my own ROM and use this PCB. So maybe that's a route for you?

Thank you kindly! 🤗👍🏽

I will add it to the public build but wanted to tidy up the software first. The ROM is basically good but I have a mess of old files in the SD card disk image so I'll fix that first. Not that much to do really but time is always my enemy!

Haha indeed, when games could be written in a bedroom by one person!

Thank you! Yes this is an entire labour of love for the Oric, a whole new ROM and language and then a game written on top. I really don't have time for this😅😅

Thank you so much for the kind comment 🤗

Thank you for the kind comment. Yes I'm sure classics like Buck Rogers have influenced me although I didn't have a specific game in mind 🙂

Greek alphabet but had to skip a bunch, so Omega is the hardest level 👍🏽