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BTW, for our readers, when Twilighte says "page 38", he refers to the Oric Advanced User Guide (by Leycester Whewell). The setup routine for this new interrupt routine will need to be done in machine code so that we can disable interrupts whilst setting it all up. First we need to add CB1 ...

Thanks a lot, this is so far on the edge of my knoledge but I'm reading and learning ;-) I especially have problems with ASM syntax which I don't know well (my way of programming in ASM is by simply poking the op codes and values I want), but as the programs are not that complicated, that's OK. In t...

Sure, but then I believe you have a program running, it's not just waiting on the Ready prompt from the BASIC, correct? Well no, actually I'm pursuing my tape-protocol idea, and as a frist try (to learn more about interrupts and to do some tests), I want the Oric to be able to detect a "warnin...

What I'd be interested in, actually, is the time it takes for the main loop, including interrupts. The idea is that I want to send a short audio signal to the Oric, the shortest possible. The Oric should detect it with an interrupt checking CB1 state. So to be 100% sure the audio signal is detected,...

Hi, OK I'll sound like a newbie again, but anyway ;) When an Oric has started, i guess it enters a permanent loop with, AFAIK: - flashing the cursor - look for pressed keys - other tings? I have 2 questions: 1- are there many "other things"? (I guess so of course, but how many ?) 2- how lo...

Just discovered there are now some Wifi or Bluetooth SD cards.
Do you think this could be used with our Orics, or would the drivers be so complicated or memory/CPU hungry that our good old machine will never be able to use them?

Oooooh lucky one
Please tell us your first impressions soon!

Go, Twilighte, go!
Finished StormLord a few weeks agos, we need another game when we finish 1337 and IM

Nice update!
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I think it's illogical to have the same rank for oldies ans news We compare things so different and you will have automatically the new games in the TOP5. What's wrong with that ? There are 2 TOPS, one more technical where the most recent and technically impressive games will TOP, and that's absolu...

Ah, nice to see the comments !
I have myself not noted 1337 yet, I consider I haven't played enough (only the 1st and 2nd training missions), not because of lack of interest but because of lack of spare time.

You can now vote and leave a comment on http://www.oric.org for the games that were released in 2010:
- O-Thrust
- Stormlord
- 1337
- Impossible Mission

Go to the software section, search for year 2010.
Some of the ratings I've seen so far are rather disappointing IMHO. Your turn

Yeah happy new year to all oricians !

How did you detect an error: by checking the listing, or with WAV2TAP's saing "error at..." ? If WAV2TAP warned you, then it means the error is in the signal you recorded, not on the disk. You can try saving the program again and converting again. Beware also, the error detection from the ...

Well you can't get a better signal than the one that the Oric outputs! So I guess it's all a matter of finding the right volume for the recording or the playback. You can also try removing your disk drive before CLOADing (have switched the Oric off, of course); I've experienced Cloads problems with ...