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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 21/09/2026

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Close enough, ship it! 🤪

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 20/09/2026

Trying to get the texts actually shown on the walls instead of just as messages at the bottom!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 19/09/2026

So for the ones wondering, the development is getting slower because the memory is getting very very scarce, like I basically had to implement some kind of "DLL" equivalent for things like the initialization of the game module, inventory management, etc...

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 19/09/2026

Digital downloads are for sure more practical than physical media, but they don't beat having the box of a game you worked on in your shelf!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 19/09/2026

I was watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=41OO... , they mentioned weloveit.io/developers/s... so I checked with my own game numbers, it's not very far from reality, not sure how far these two others are though!

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 17/09/2026

I totally believe that my Oric text adventure game is a perfect fit for the "UEL Winter Championship 2026", so I'm totally going to pay the $999 developer participation package! 🤑

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 15/09/2026

During Sommarhack 2025 someone suggested I sent a message to the Retro Adventurers, which I did just after the party. I had forgotten about it so I was very surprised to hear my name this morning when listening to the latest episode! That may explain... youtu.be/abqPdzxhuIo?...

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 14/09/2026

My most memorable puzzle in Dungeon master :)

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 14/09/2026

Looking for a tasty Screamer slice!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 13/09/2026

Good old "oops, switched resolution by mistake because I did not filter the graphics data properly" bug.😅

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 10/09/2026

I knew there was an Oric Atmos in "The IT Crowd" but I never noticed there was an Oric 1 in "Dr Who"!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 09/09/2026

It's now possible to pick-up items, the keys open the locks, the alcove behind the mummy can be opened and the falchion can be taken. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQG5...

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Oric Dungeon Master #3 - Items and portraits

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 09/09/2026

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I watched the documentary yesterday, I did not know that military (worldwide) was excluded from all the calculations about pollution/co2 emissions. Recommended, but clearly felt a bit depressed after watching it :-/

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 09/09/2026

I think the #1 thing I dislike about Unreal Engine game code is that contrarily to the previous engines I worked on, you can't ever assume everything about the state of the application, so all the code, all the time, checks if there is a valid UWorld, valid UActor, etc... ⤵️

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 06/09/2026

That's why it's important to test a game after a major codebase refactoring. I wanted to push an Encounter bug fix for the "market place glitch", started testing and realized that the bottom of the directional arrow was missing, reason being a zero terminator being black ink.😱

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 04/09/2026

Sure sign you know too much about modern tech: You buy a sewing machine and make sure there's not a single bit of programmable thing inside, fully electro-mechanical, no firmware, no digital display of any kind.

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 31/08/2026

I'm spending time on trying to get a working layout for the game because contrary to the Atari ST that has more of wider resolution (320x200) the Oric is more square (240x224) so we have more vertical space. So I decided to try to have the portraits always visible!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 30/08/2026

I'm not sure if it's only me, but in the last few weeks Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 have been consistently overengineering things to the point of being impossible to read/understand. The code on the left was ugly and sometimes failing, but the thing on the right is... why???

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 30/08/2026

DLSS5 may improve (in some cases) the look of the visuals on a game, but that will just make it more obvious that the rest of the game (collisions, animations, dialogues, physics, scripts, etc...) is janky and feels disconnected from the upgraded visuals.

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 29/08/2026

Experimenting with items, the 8 fixed colors of the Oric palette does not make it easy!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 24/08/2026

It's now possible to see the stats of the characters when looking at a mirror. The stats are not doing anything at the moment, but at least they are there!

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 22/08/2026

Quite far from the original, but that's just the raw import of the original sprite, the hard work starts now :D

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 20/08/2026

The way to the second floor is almost usable \o/

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 18/08/2026

Since some among you asked, here is what the current Oric Dungeon Master prototype looks like in movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdr0...

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Oric DungeonMaster Upgrade (Work In Progress)

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 17/08/2026

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Today I learnt that ffmpeg can convert the 198x .AVR audio format of the Atari ST. Not that I plan to replay samples on the Oric, but having an easy way to listen to the original sounds makes it easier to reinterpret something close using pure AY sound trickery.

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 15/08/2026

The "transparent" doors are bad for the framerate!

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 14/08/2026

Someone is porting the BBC game "Spellbinder" to the Oric, figured out I could give a try at converting the original title screen! The Oric can display more colors at the same time, but we have quite harsh proximity constraints, so I had to insert some blank space. 😅

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 13/08/2026

That will never be perfect, but hopefully the characters are recognizable! (and yes, I need to center the text)

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 31/07/2026

Well, I don't know on which distros it will actually run, but there's now a native Linux version of the Encounter Game Launcher and Oricutron. 😅 If that works well, the next step is the Steam version with the SteamAPI to handle cloud saves and achievements.

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 30/07/2026

I got a Mac Mini on loan from work, trying to see how difficult it is to make a Mac (and Linux) native version of the Encounter launcher. An unfortunate side effect is that the Win32 executable has grown from 472KB to about 5MB. 🙁

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All tests are passing, ship it!

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Bon, faut que je le trouve quelque part ce mag, vu que j'ai bossé sur Age of Conan et The Secret World!

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I don't think there's really many things more enjoyable than having people actually use the stuff you build! ❤️‍🔥 Hialmar is working on an epic role playing game on the Oric, and he validated that the OSDK 2.0 + VS Code extension work on his Mac (with some massaging...)

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 28/07/2026

Sometimes people are asking if the Oric ROM is well optimized... well, there are some obvious wastes here and there, like on this sound effect page there are four bytes wasted, all these JSR/RTS could just have been a JMP instead.

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So there is a Finnish Oric 1 manual! Now just need to find a way to get it scanned, because apparently it's 141 (worn) pages long.

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 28/07/2026

I don't think there's any company that's worse at handling multiple accounts (like private and work) than Microsoft. They "single sign on" system is so bad that I need to use two different browsers... and even with that regularly authentication fails in some redirect loop😭

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Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 27/07/2026

The extension is not yet published (coming soon), but in the meantime you can watch this overly long video on the topic! 😇 youtu.be/hengQn-kDPA

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OSDK 2.0 and VS Code Oric Debugging.

Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 27/07/2026

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So the next step after OSDK 2.0 is to get the VS Code debugger extension out... but while doing the video I found so many frustrating things that I'm now doing a serious pass of UI fixing.

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