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by Chema » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:28 pm
BTW the Oric will be on display at our Retro Gaming Weekend 7th/7th May Swannington, Leicestershire, showing the newest games!
As an advertisment they posted this video of Space:1999 running on a real Oric (good opportunity to see how fast it loads and how it looks/sounds on a real machine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CimphSMB1-k
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by Dbug » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:23 pm
Very nice
I'm actually impressed they spent the time soldering the components on the PCB and got it to work !
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by ibisum » Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:00 pm
I wish I could get my Microdisc board populated and soldered as fast as they did!
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by Garrettimus » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:35 pm
Hi! I'm Brazilian and totally new to the Oric. What is a Microdisc? Can't I play Space: 1999 without it?
Thanks!
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by Dbug » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:13 pm
Garrettimus wrote:Hi! I'm Brazilian and totally new to the Oric. What is a Microdisk? Can't I play Space: 1999 without it?
Thanks!
On a real oric machine you need a Microdisc (it's one particular model of floppy disk drive for the Oric computers)
If you have a PC (window, linux, ...) you can play the game using an Oric emulator such as Oricutron.
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by Garrettimus » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:46 pm
Dbug wrote:Garrettimus wrote:Hi! I'm Brazilian and totally new to the Oric. What is a Microdisk? Can't I play Space: 1999 without it?
Thanks!
On a real oric machine you need a Microdisc (it's one particular model of floppy disk drive for the Oric computers)
If you have a PC (window, linux, ...) you can play the game using an Oric emulator such as Oricutron.
Thank you, I'm a complete newbie in terms of Oric computers.
How hard is it to find a Microdisc unit for sale?
The game looks AWESOME!
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by kamelito » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:07 pm
Very
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skype pseudo : kamelitoloveless
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by kamelito » Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:37 pm
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by Garrettimus » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:05 pm
Many thanks, Kamelito!
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by Garrettimus » Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:33 pm
Hi again. At last, I got myself a Microdisc and also a Cumana Expansion Box. The package hasn't arrived yet, but I'd like to know in advance, please, how to copy the Space: 1999 .DSK file onto an actual 3" floppy disc. May I use OmniFlop for that?
Thanks!
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by Igotafro » Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:33 pm
I used writedsk from here:
http://oric.free.fr/TOOLS/
to create 3.5" disks. Then I replaced the 3" drive with a 3.5" drive in my microdisc. I will soon try to connect the 3" drive as a slave and copy all games to 3" disks.
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by Garrettimus » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:14 pm
Igotafro wrote:I used writedsk from here:
http://oric.free.fr/TOOLS/
to create 3.5" disks. Then I replaced the 3" drive with a 3.5" drive in my microdisc. I will soon try to connect the 3" drive as a slave and copy all games to 3" disks.
Thank you very much!
I forgot to say: my Microdisc unit is a slave one, so there's only the disc drive itself within it, there's no interface whatsoever. I'll have to use the Cumana interface for the floppy to be controlled. Nonetheless, it's tested and working.
I'll try WRITEDSK,thank you.

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by maximus » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:50 am
hi Chema, is it possible to have a wav file of space 1999 (fr) ?

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by Chema » Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:28 pm
maximus wrote:hi Chema, is it possible to have a wav file of space 1999 (fr) ?

Sorry but No. The game needs disk because it stores data in the disk which is copied into overlay RAM.
What are you trying to do,if I may ask?
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