+atari2600land Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I'm interested in learning how to program games for the Oric after seeing all those nifty games in previous mini-game compos. Is there like a site that teaches how to? What do I need in order to program for it, and who here knows how to? -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I'm interested in learning how to program games for the Oric after seeing all those nifty games in previous mini-game compos. Is there like a site that teaches how to? What do I need in order to program for it, and who here knows how to?-Chris Best place to get help and information is Defence-Force. It's not as active as AA, but there are people there still coding for the Oric. For development, I would recommend the Oric Software Development Kit. It's a C cross compiler called LCC-65, I believe is is based on CC65, but is specifically for Oric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 I cannot get OSDK to work. From the installation read-me If you install the OSDK on your drive C:\ in a folder OSDK, you simply have to add the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT: And yet, I can't find a file called autoexec.bat in the OSDK folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I cannot get OSDK to work. From the installation read-meIf you install the OSDK on your drive C:\ in a folder OSDK, you simply have to add the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT: And yet, I can't find a file called autoexec.bat in the OSDK folder. the autoexec.bat should be in the root dircetory on your C: drive. It is an initialisation file for DOS/Windows. If it's not there, you can create it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 the autoexec.bat should be in the root dircetory on your C: drive. It is an initialisation file for DOS/Windows. If it's not there, you can create it How do I create one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) I have a few questions: #1 - Whenever I use bas2tap in OSDK, I can't type in anything because if I type a key, it goes away. I'm using Windows XP. (EDIT: I figured out #2. Still need help on #1.) Edited June 6, 2007 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I'm afraid I don't know anything about bas2tap. I've only done any Oric dev using LCC65. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 Do you know of any good website that teaches BASIC using the Oric? (I tried downloading the book on the defence-force website, but it'd take me about half-an-hour because I still have dial-up.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I would look on ebay. This seller has some books for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I just realised your in the US. I'm not sure how easy Oric stuff is to get over there. From what I understand, it didn't really have much of a market impact over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 I've never even heard of it until I got into the minigame compo! (of course, I was born in the early 80s and the only thing I knew when I was a little kid was the Commodore 64.) I've heard of the word "Atari," but didn't connect it to anything until I got a 2600 a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 I see you've joined the Oric forum as well now. I shall endeavour to answer as many of your questions there, however, I will not have an internet connection for about a week or two from the start of next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengwin Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) I have zipped up the Oric-1 manual for you. It's still 2.8MB, but small enough for dial-up. I don't believe there are many changes between the Oric-1 and the Atmos regarding BASIC. Euphoric works as an Atmos by default. Edited June 6, 2007 by Pengwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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