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Fabulous demo, and as ever: very refreshing to see these sorts of things being done on the Oric after all these years. When you think about what you did and what things were like back in 'the day', its pretty clear that our little platform only suffered neglect. It was quite capable of doing a lot o...

I would pitch in but at the moment I'm a little more excited about the idea of building a new Oric from scratch with new PCB's .. if that happens, then maybe what we should consider is *adding* a Cumulus-like setup to the new PCB's so that all future Oric's just come with an SD card slot.

This is exciting! Old tape collections for the win!

I must confess that the idea of making an Oric this way is very, very appealing! What about converting the BMP's to vectors and tracing everything in a viable format ..

I just wanna pitch in and say as a happy Cumulus user, I'd just like to see more Cumulus' out there being used instead of hacking on rPi stuff. As soon as I turn on an rPi, I don't wanna play with the Oric any more .. but as soon as I turn on the Cumulus+Oric, I wanna play all day! Having a smooth, ...

Just my .2c worth, quite clearly interjected, lest you think we .. the not-quite cognesenti .. are inattentive: I think the most important thing for you guys to consider is this: hardware-compatibility. If we can keep the platform alive with such hacks, then lets forage ahead. If it breaks things on...

Amazing - thanks for this! As someone who yearns to get my real Oric/Atmos/Telestrat collection connected to each other somehow, I'm very keen on this ..

Godzil: Details (and pics!) please!

So whats next - a decent battery-based power supply that'll drive a Cumulus as well, all packed into a nice little briefcase?

Amazing. I applaud you sir! Absolutely brilliant bit of work .. off to play it for a few hours!

drpsy: my kids love to program on the Oric too and having a disk drive now to save their type-in's is a huge bonus! Here's to letting the kids learn the old ways first!

Seems like it'd be the perfect system to use as a port of ContikiOS. Maybe we can arrange a group buy among us?

So, I had this problem with my beta Cumulus, which was similar to yours, where I got different 'kinds' of system corruption depending on the power supply I used. I finally settled on one providing only 12V, 1.5A, and not a 'configurable' PS (like, with a voltage selector). I tried multiples of those...

Yeah, to me this is like a mythical beast unveiled .. if the Oric had this level of quality peripheral support 'back in the day' it may have stood a better chance. But I think this is the result of a careful curation by the owner, and not a reflection of the reality of the industry at the time. Does...

Could this be the point where someone works out some byte-level/sector-level assembly routines for the disk which .. maybe one day .. could be integrated into ContikiOS?