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In 2015, Silicebit made a DSK version of The Hobbit, and in 2022 I looked inside to see why the display code was so slowwww.... a few experiments and email exchanges with one of the authors of the game (Veronika Megler), I ended up with this improved version of the game featuring an animated introduction picture with some music, a medieval inspired character set, and a much faster rendering routine.

Hopefully all that should make the game much nicer to play!

Version 1.5 of the game is available on the Defence Force forum:
https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?p=26665#p26665

Version 1.5 source code is on the SVN server:
https://osdn.net/projects/oricsdk/scm/svn/commits/1578

Direct Links:
- 00:00 - Hello old friends!
- 01:50 - "The Hobbit" (original version on tape)
- 02:30 - Playing the hobbit Guide book
- 02:45 - "The Hobbit" (improved version 1.5 from disk)
- 03:39 - Photo finish!
- 04:00 - Why is the original code slow?
- 05:27 - Patching with new code
- 06:56 - Copying the ROM to RAM
- 07:39 - Look-up table generation and code patch
- 08:14 - The BASIC loader (INIST)
- 08:40 - The intro code
- 09:00 - Build script
- 11:00 - What's next?
- 12:56 - Getting the version
- 14:00 - Patch submissions welcome!

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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