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Dinky Kong on Oric 1, High Score Challenge

A high score attempt of Dinky Kong - a clone of Donkey Kong funnily enough. Released in 1983 by Severn Software for the Oric 1 48K, it was never updated to run on the Oric Atmos. As a 1983 game on the newly released Oric, it bridged the gap between the first generation home micros and the second generation. Unfortunately the quality belonged with the first generation as did many programs of the time. By 1984 and certainly 1985, games of this quality would not have been acceptable to the market. The game is very hard to play. One main reason behind this is that the initial autorepeat delay on the keyboard has not been turned off, which is odd as this is very easily accomplished. For those who don't know the Oric, when holding down a key, the first detection is followed by a longer delay than the following ones. This is useful when typing as it prevents double letters being entered, but is a disaster if left on in games as it cripples response times. The game is not very interesting, but games like this were being released alongside some of the absolute classics of the day. The spread in software quality was all over the place in 1983, but settled down a lot in '84. I could probably have persevered and got another level or two further in, but I really did not want to. Oh, and the girl you are trying to rescue is either sleep walking or she is a zombie. Worth a play? No, not really, not unless you want to experience something of what the heady days of the early 80's were serving up - it wasn't all Atic Atac and Manic Miner! The program was written by Adrian Sheppard. He also wrote Jogger and Lone Raider for the Oric, the latter being a much better game. After the Oric he worked for Mastertronic (Atari conversions of Spellbound and One Man and his Droid) and Codemasters (C64 conversion of Grand Prix Simulator) amongst others. He programmed games at least as far as the Amiga generation, where he coded Hotshot. Outro Music: "Lithium" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...