Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that make
"Scuba dive" crash ?
On 2015-09-15, Simon <no@no.no> wrote:
Le 24/07/2015 09:52, Andre Majorel a écrit :
Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that makeNever heared of that, what crashes?
"Scuba dive" crash ?
The game freezes. I could never find a correlation with a place
or time ; it seems completely random.
This is from memory of playing Scuba dive on my real Oric-1. I
haven't played it in many years. It's a difficult game and the
inevitable crashes made it very frustrating.
Le 24/07/2015 09:52, Andre Majorel a écrit :
Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that makeNever heared of that, what crashes?
"Scuba dive" crash ?
On 2015-09-19, Simon <no@no.no> wrote:
Le 17/09/2015 07:54, Andre Majorel a écrit :
The game freezes. I could never find a correlation with a placeDid it just happen with Scuba Dive?
or time ; it seems completely random.
15 years later, my first Oric-1 ended up hanging with no
apparent reason after being plugged for a while.
If you spent more time on Scuba Dive than any other thing on
your Oric, maybe then the hardware could be responsible?
Oh, be assured that Scuba dive was not the only piece of
software I spent a lot of time on. All in the interest of QA, of
course. ;-)
My Oric was generally reliable. Maybe the game was corrupted
while it was transfered from tape to disquette. Guess I should
try a .tap.
Have you ever completed SD ?
Also, try to read back the article about Asteroids from Arctic
Computing in the CEO-Mag 225 (January 2009). It tells how some
programming could overheat the PSG on some Oric-1n and crash
it. Who knows, it might (or not!) be the cause.
No, I have never played much to it, I wasn't a big fan of that
game in my gamining days ;)
Le 17/09/2015 07:54, Andre Majorel a écrit :
The game freezes. I could never find a correlation with a place
or time ; it seems completely random.
Did it just happen with Scuba Dive?
15 years later, my first Oric-1 ended up hanging with no
apparent reason after being plugged for a while.
If you spent more time on Scuba Dive than any other thing on
your Oric, maybe then the hardware could be responsible?
Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that make
"Scuba dive" crash ?
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On Friday, 24 July 2015 08:52:04 UTC+1, Andre Majorel wrote:
Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that make
"Scuba dive" crash ?
Just to confirm that my Scuba Dive crashed too. It was one of
the few games I had back in the 80s. It didn't crash until I
was deep underground and that took a while to get to. But in
more recent years it seemed to crash more with my original
Oric-1 tape. I have now got another one and , I think , and
Atmos version which doesn't seem to crash so much but it can
be hard getting to that stage.
I'm not sure if there is ever a point that you can win or
complete a level. It just seems to go on and on and become so
difficult that you eventually die. (?) That big floating
fuzzball thing used to get as it seemed to appear out of
nowhere.
Yes, it's a difficult game. Guess I'd have to find or write a
cheat and use a debugger to see what makes it hang.
--
Has anyone identified, maybe even fixed, the bugs that make
"Scuba dive" crash ?
I'll lve to play again with a cheat version of scuba dive.
On 2017-03-20, Didier VALLET <dv.vallet@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll lve to play again with a cheat version of scuba dive.
Maybe Dominique P. did one. Is there a web page somewhere with
the index of all the issues of the CEO Mag ?
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however, i found a bug transfer on The Atmos version (from both Simoon archive and Oric.org ). When you go back to the ship with a high score the screen freezes for a while, with a window of black and white vertical (one pixel width) stripes. Then thegame goes on..
Le mardi 28 mars 2017 14:58:05 UTC+2, Andre Majorel a écrit :
On 2017-03-20, Didier VALLET <dv.vallet@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll lve to play again with a cheat version of scuba dive.
Maybe Dominique P. did one. Is there a web page somewhere with
the index of all the issues of the CEO Mag ?
Hi André,
You are talking about me ? ( :-) ref. Scorsese)
Well, in fact no, I had not done a cheat version of Scuba
Dive..before reading this thread :-)
But as I saw here, that at least 2 oricians are interrested
in, I Did one (well, I tried).
What would you like exactly ?
- Infinite number of divers ?
- to get rid of oxygène management?
- to asleep octopuses ?
- to asleep all what is moving under sea ?
I think I find a way to manage each of these possibilities.
But of course, with some of them, the game interest falls near
to zero...
I did a version with all these modifications.
This allows me to dive until the deepest seabed, wWithout any
crashing (with Euphoric)
Le 26/01/2018 à 16:13, Dom50 a écrit :
however, i found a bug transfer on The Atmos version (from
both Simoon archive and Oric.org ). When you go back to the
ship with a high score the screen freezes for a while, with a
window of black and white vertical (one pixel width) stripes.
Then the game goes on..
I checked again and did a new transfer, and looked at other sources: the
bugs Dom reports don't seem to be from a bad transfer, but from the
original "any Oric/Atmos" version indeed.
I have a 100% Oric-1 version that doesn't seem to have these bugs.
So, it seems Durell Software is to blame here!
Andre, you played on Oric-1, but do you remember if your tape was the
Oric-1 version, or the later Oric/Atmos version?
On 2018-01-26, Dom50 <d.pessan@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Le mardi 28 mars 2017 14:58:05 UTC+2, Andre Majorel a écrit :
On 2017-03-20, Didier VALLET <dv.vallet@gmail.com> wrote:
I'll lve to play again with a cheat version of scuba dive.
Maybe Dominique P. did one. Is there a web page somewhere with
the index of all the issues of the CEO Mag ?
Hi André,
Wow, a rare sight on c.s.o. Hi Dominique.
You are talking about me ? ( :-) ref. Scorsese)
As long as you don't have a knife taped to your boot. :-)
Well, in fact no, I had not done a cheat version of Scuba
Dive..before reading this thread :-)
But as I saw here, that at least 2 oricians are interrested
in, I Did one (well, I tried).
What would you like exactly ?
- Infinite number of divers ?
- to get rid of oxygène management?
- to asleep octopuses ?
- to asleep all what is moving under sea ?
In this particular case, the purpose of the cheat is not so much
to make the game more enjoyable as to be able to roam around and
see if I can trigger the bug. So, with a game like Scuba Dive, invulnerability (ie player cannot die) would be perfect.
I think I find a way to manage each of these possibilities.
But of course, with some of them, the game interest falls near
to zero...
I did a version with all these modifications.
This allows me to dive until the deepest seabed, wWithout any
crashing (with Euphoric)
Wonderful, thanks. I'm interested. Is it available somewhere ?
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