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Dom50, on the CEO forums, is trying to make a complete list of all adventure games for Oric and of their solutions and maps.

The thread, in French, is here:
http://forums.oric.org/t311-combien-de- ... -oric#4439

If you don't read French, you should learn it.
Ahem no that's not what I wanted to say, I meant you can just look at the pictures that I link here.

Games with solutions (you can also see those which also have a map - carte in French - oui meaning yes):
http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/18/03/88/59/jeux_y10.png

Games with no solutions and no map:
http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/18/03/88/59/jeux_r10.png

Games that we haven't found (in tap or dsk) yet:
http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/18/03/88/59/softs_10.png

From this list we have just found:
Lilla et Jacky,
Death Satellite,
Krystal Worlds 2,
Haunted House,
Cells and Serpents (198x)(-)(PD),
Count, The (1998)(Adventure International),
Tevrog's Kingdom II (1983)(Cable Software).

If you have solutions, map and/or tap/dsk that you want to add to this list please post here.

Just a note that I suggested to add all Infocom games that can run with pinforic and which have online solutions.
Can someone post a list of the games that are known to work with pinforic ?

Hi!

All version 3 (standard series) games should work. James Groom has a list on his website The Reluctant Dragon (http://freespace.virgin.net/james.groom/oric/rev2.htm):

Here is a list of Infocom games which should be compatible with Pinforic:- Zork 1, 2 & 3 , Ballyhoo , Cutthroats , Deadline , Enchanter , Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy , Hollywood Hijinx , Infidel , Leather Goddesses Of Phobos , Lurking Horror , Moonmist , Planetfall , Plundered Hearts , Seastalker , Sorcerer , Spellbreaker , Starcross , Stationfall , Suspect , Suspended , Wishbringer , Witness.

And Håkan Karlsson has a lot of them for download in the Swedish Archive: http://www.skarstad.net/oric/index2.html

Look in the Infocom section.

And I think most (if not all) have complete solutions online, for instance here http://www.textfiles.com/adventure/INFOCOM/

And the famous clues can be found online here: http://gallery.guetech.org/index.html

Awesome thanks.

I thought we could only play them on a real Oric but Symoon pointed out that it works on emulators too. But I suppose making the DOS .dsk is not a simple process.

It is not difficult! The read me file include instructions made by Fabrice

And in the Swedish Archive there are dsk versions, if I am not mistaken. Can't remember for sure, though.

Yes you are right the dsk are there.
I'll post about it on the CEO forum.

Thanks a lot.

Great!

I've just taken a look at the readme file and the process is easy if you have a 3,5 DD, as you can make the common step (format, copy the dat file) and then create a disk image (with dd or WinImage or something similar). But nowadays this is not the usual case... But there surely are tools for creating/managing virtual floppies (i.e. disk images).

Not sure if Crowley's House is different from Pallida Mors which was, I believe by the same author. It was a type-in I did from Oric Computing.
I think it is on a OUM disk. I think the pages said Cowarth Park Horrors. It should be different. These were available on tape.
[EDIT: it's Cowarth Park Horrors that is the same ss Pallida Mors. Crowley's House is different.]

I think I have the master disk for Enchanted. OUM may have printed a solution(?) I should have Sausages and Grandad on tape.

Getting these on to PC is the problem for me at the moment.

Thanks for the help and no rush at all Dom50 has a lot work already with all the games he already has.

Hi all. It seems the Oric Swedish Archive is down or something. No more games for downloading there, including all the Infocom dsk images.

Anybody knows anything?

Hakan is going to refresh his website.
May be he'll put these archives later.

However, i should have a backup and able to upgrade oric.org.

Okay, thanks Didier.

I was looking forward those disk images with the Infocom adventures mainly. I may have a copy somewhere.

They are MSDOS disks with the .dat game file as only file after formatting which Pinforic can read. Easy to do on a PC with MSDOS and a 720 FDD. Creating the image was easy IIRC with Linux (a matter of using dd, I thinkg) but required some program on MSDOS.

Now that I think of it, maybe it is not completely legal. Not sure if those are freeware now

Not sure how many of these there are but I've got 20 of them.

Let me know if there's any you're after.

Grandad is now on Oric.org!
Thanks to Steve for the recording of the tape. Wasn't easy, but done!

Excellent! I bid nearly £40 for this game on eBay years ago but still didn't win it!