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Hello guys, I have good news and bad news for you concerning Oric Explorer by Scott Davies... I'll start with the bad news... About a week ago, I sent a email to Scott about the current state of development of Oric Explorer, because it had been more than 2 years since he removed the tool from the do...

Ah, thanks iss for going into it a little deeper. I did question myself about the "size of the pipe", how it was possible to ffed many hundreds of milliamps just over one little wire, and I have to say sometimes it must not be enough as there are cases where my Oric won't boot on first try, so maybe...

I think normally you can't power Oric with the ribbon cable. This is original Microdisc controller - pin 33 on the ribbon connector is not connected to +5V track. Yes, it looks like it's manually cut, but it is not.m1.jpg and here is again an original Microdisc 'last generation' - pin 33 has nothin...

Hi, I don't own a Microdisc but I know the 3" drives normally require 12V (as in Amstrad CPC's), so I suppose the Microdisc power connector should have at least +5V, +12V and GND terminals. As to powering the Oric, normally this is done directly from the Microdisc through the ribbon cable to the Ori...

Well, thanks guys, but the truth is I'm not that fast, it's just that I haven't had much sleep in 3 weeks!!

Hello, !! Attention, French-speaking people !! The French version of Chema's Blake's 7 game is (well) underway and will be very shortly available and published on Defence-Force ! The manual will also be available in French! Stay tuned!! :-) Laurent <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><...

Hi guys, Just saw this discussion and it reminded me of an old project by Godzil I recently discovered on GitHub: https://github.com/Godzil/osXdk Essentially it is a fork of OSDK (from 2009-2010...) that was adapted for Mac OS X, but seems to have been abandoned. However, there might be some stuff i...

Hi Ibisum, Love the graphics, they are just AWESOME !!!! I personnally would not give any "preference", I would love to see the 4 different screens in the game! The colours and shading are really nice, and so are the sprites! KEEP IT GOING PLEASE, I would love to see the finished game !! :D As to ta...

Nice addition... and nice video, of course!

Hi, I know this is a very old thread, but as it is one of the top results in a Google search for 'L'Oric à Nu PDF", I thought I'd add the link to the "Advanced Programmng books" list of the "Oric Library' pages on Defence Force, where you can find a link to a scanned PDF version of this book: http:/...

Thanks Chema, stupid of me, I shoudl have checked the start of this thread. The price point seems to be really friendly, that's really very nice of Silicebit, because I reckon it really barely covers the cost of the components: "The price of controller is 50 euro, and Amplibus 5 euro. Shipping cost...

Many thanks for the feedback iss ! On my part, I haven't had any issues with OricDSK (yet ?), but I've only used it to transfer game disk images to floppies (Space 1999, Detective Story, 1337, to name a few) and that's all. I just realized that SAMDisk was by Simon Owen, the author of the fdrawcmd.s...

Hi CHema, Well, I'm more than glad to help, I didn't kow you were enduring the hassle of Win95 to write Oric disks !! :-) In fact, I was only slightly aware of issues/constraints with writedsk, because I've only had a floppy drive for my Oric for less than a month, and OricDSK was featured in the CE...

Hi Godzil, Thanks for your answer and for your good advice! I intend to buy an HxC / Gotek device sometime in the future, but for the moment I just have a Microdisc controller card (the newer type... version "3.1" from 2016, beautifully designed and assembled by Frédéric P. aka "fred72" on oric.org....

Symoon, if you do get in touch with Sir Clive, please let us know, if you are thinking of an interview I'd be interested in contributing a few questions !