Upgrade Time: Dungeon Master on the Oric

This is a special episode of Upgrade Time, where I present an Upgrade of my own software, a small prototype demo of Dungeon Master made for the Oric in 1996.

In this episode I explain what Dungeon Master is, why the prototype never got further, and how I remade the original intro sequence of the game on the Oric!

Direct links:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:44 - Booting Dungeon Master on the Atari STe
• 01:17 - Atari ST Keyboard shortcuts
• 01:50 - Credits picture
• 03:41 - The 1996 Oric demo
• 05:05 - The OSDK article
• 05:20 - The even older red wireframe demo
• 05:50 - Unreleased old concept graphics
• 08:17 - AIC graphic tests
• 10:29 - The FTL intro on the Oric
• 11:14 - How was it done
• 11:15 - Zooming Dungeon logo
• 16:08 - Notes about colors and compression ratio
• 17:54 - Sound
• 19:23 - "Animating" the FTL logo
• 21:10 - The game credits screen
• 22:12 - Source code and data presentation
• 22:40 - "main_intro.c"
• 26:28 - "sound.s"
• 27:17 - "interrupt.s"
• 28:20 - Game cheats and maps

Links to the pages shown in the video:

• OSDK Article: http://www.osdk.org/index.php?page=articles&ref=ART15
• Dungeon Master: First Level - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycaXvzZSre0
• CEO NY2019 Competition - https://www.oric.org/software/ny2019_competition-2432.html

About Dungeon Master: "Dungeon Master" is a classic best seller game, first developped on Apple II GS, but made famous on the Atari ST in 1987 when it helped sell the machine. It was followed by "Chaos Strikes Back", and later by "Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep"

As usual, feel free to comment if you have remarks, suggestions, questions, or ideas of topics you'd like to be covered in my videos.

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