G. Phillips, J. Hibbins, C. Groeneveld,F. Woodcock
TYPE :
Demo
RELEASE DATE :
1984
PLATFORM :
CATEGORY :
Others
SECOND CATEGORY :
Demo
ORIGIN :
NOTES :
Bird drawn by Carolyn Groeneveld, music arrangements by J. Hibbins.
No transfer errors
Instructions are on the inlay.
This was THE demo provided with every new Oric Atmos.
Side B holds the ALC program (Automatic Level Control), described on the inlay. I suppose it corrects the loading routines, preventing the computer to detect errors before the program actually started loading (bug corrected in later Atmos ROMs).
To be verified, I'm only guessing...
Note:
See CEO-Mag 179 (March 2005): different versions of the demo could exist. Example (thanks to Jean):
Beginning of the English version:
0 GOSUB18000:GOSUB10000
1 POKE#26A,10:I=RND(-DEEK(#304))
2 IFPEEK(#D000)=166THENCALL#F89B:GOTO5
3 CALL#F8D0
5 GOSUB9000:INK1:S=100+RND(9)*30:FORJ=1TO19:PATTERNRND(9)*256
Beginning of version from Germany:
0 GOSUB18000:GOSUB10000
1 POKE#26A,10:I=RND(-DEEK(#304))
3 CALL#F8D0
5 GOSUB9000:INK1:S=100+RND(9)*30:FORJ=1TO19:PATTERNRND(9)*256
Youtube :
SCUBADAVE18:03 31-March-2019
A little bit of nostalgia that I still own.
DANYNOU14:01 27-January-2014
Bonjour,
j'ai toujours mon atmos en état de marche avec cassette et emballage d'origine
NEO*FAN10:08 26-August-2009
Amazing demo for a new oric owner
And I remember the little race game on side B...
Thanks for posting
Demo impressionnante pour un nouvel utilisateur Oric
Et le petit jeu de voitures sur la face B...
SEIS23:03 09-March-2007
I think I was one of the very few oric atmos owner in Spain. It was a present from my dad. He didn’t like spectrum and he didn’t want me to waste time playing games considering home computers as a educational tool. I remember I was so happy the very first day. I spent hours mesmerized watching this demo. I remember bird animation as the most impressive one.
VAL19:01 06-January-2005
Oh dear...I remember impressing my mates and the rest of the family with that...."Hey come over this is fabulous, you gotta see this".
I must have watched it loads of time, when I was bored of playing..
It looks to me like the bird inpired whoever did the animation for Doggy!
LOTHLIN10:03 07-March-2004
Quite a good demo for the time - everyone who saw it remembers the bird animation. It did the job well - demonstrating the sound and graphics capabilities of the Oric. Nothing like as good as todays demo's and the included game is not very good, but how many of today's demo's include a game? :-)
JEDE00:10 07-October-2003
The bird is really nice, But well i think that it's not the best thing ever done on the oric in 1983
_DBUG_17:08 19-August-2003
Probably the first, and perhaps last impressive thing that most Oric user ever saw on their machine... unfortunately.
That flying bird itself was a masterpiece of animation !
_Dbug_
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