Hi, and welcome.
You can directly connect the audio output of your PC to the tape input of the Oric, this will work but you have to be careful else you may have non funny results
So, important things to remember:
- Make sure your Oric is plugged on the same power plug as your computer. Some people have experienced electric shorts due to differential between separate electric circuits, but when both machines share the same power-plug things seem fine.
- To allow the Oric to load, you need to play a WAV file, there are some tools to convert TAP archives to WAV files like Tap2Wav and Tap2CD (can find them here:
http://oric.ifrance.com/index_english.html)
- As on a normal tape deck, you have to make sure you find the correct volume. To high or to low and it will not work. Same thing if you enable special bass boost effects, reverb and other fancy parameters of modern sound cards: Pure simple sound is the best.
- Disable all your PC sound schemes, and don't run applications that love to play "beeps", "clicks" and other "ting dounnnggg" sounds, the Oric will receive them as well
And of course this works in both direction, you can record what you Oric send, and save it as a WAV file and convert it to TAP.
Have fun !