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I guess to balance the craziness of last week, the only logical thing was that the first game I worked on 31 years ago finally got remastered.🤪 store.steampowered.com/news/app/175... I've not tried it yet, but analog controls should be a nice fix!

Upload access has been disabled on the Defence Force apache server which means posting messages is now impossible. This will be restored after the php update has been successfully been done and validated.

For the ones wondering why there's been no updates on the Oric Dungeon Master these few last weeks: Let's just say that there's been a number of "curveballs" and events that took precedence and had to be handled. And now there's a critical php exploit. *sigh*

I was not expecting somebody to manage to get a decent texture mapping on the Oric, it's slow as hell but it works :) Well done!

3D printing is not magic, but it's very handy! Now the control monitor fits under the screen and follows the angle and shape of the Stream Deck. The sticking HDMI and power cables are not ideal, but good enough for now!

We are living in a very exhausting time-line, we somehow took the wrong turn at some point, but there's no easy way to rewind and go back to a saner one.

I was not expecting heavy snow falling on the 10th of October. It will not stick because it's over 0c, but still, that was unexpected.

Forgot to do my "post sales" update!😅 8 units sold in the last two weeks on Steam (two of them were just before the Steam Autumn sales), zero on Itch. Total unit sold after almost two years: 516, including the physical editions. blog.defence-force.org/index.php?pa...

Just a normal Thursday evening doing normal things everybody do!

What would be for you the emblematic 80s headphones you'd see people outside with their portable cassette player have? 🤔 I've been trying to find something like that but I'm hesitating between multiple options, which I don't provide to not influence the answers!

I almost forgot to set-up the itch autumn sale 😅 At this point the number of new units sold is anecdotical, so not that it matters much, but does not hurt doing it!

I've no idea what a "Clockwork PicoCalc" is, but apparently it can run an Oric emulator :D

Funny, each time I see this image I have the same "Oh, I did not remember we sent a version to Microids to see if they were interested in publishing our game back then"😅

I'll have to do some optimization, but we now have working teleporters and wall markings. There is no real combat, I just bash space to inflict damage. 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOLF...

Close enough, ship it! 🤪

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...

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!

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!

duneawakening.com/news/announc...

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! 🤑

Damn Googles

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?...

My most memorable puzzle in Dungeon master :)

Looking for a tasty Screamer slice!

Thirsty?

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

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

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...

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 :-/

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.