I'm currently trying to contact Retromaster to know the current status of his project, and try to help him, or forking his project (it's GPL after all

I will post this message on comp.sys.oric and on the defence-force forum. I may send a mail to Andre to put something in the next number of the CEO Mag, I want to be able to contact the maximum of Orician, such a project could be quite expensive, and I need to be sure that it will interest a lot of people or board price will be higher (the smaller the batch, the higher the price will be)
Anyway I don't searching right know for final orders, only to know how many people can be interested, I will ask for pre-order after, when things become more clear, and the project more concrete.
If I fork the Cumulus project here is my ultimate goal for this it (all are not necessarily inclusive) :
- Make it compatible with both Microdisk and Jasmin floppy controller
- Reduce it's size to fit inside an Atmos/Oric1 shell with the minimum of cut on the shell (none is better) and without zillions of wire
- Allow a third working mode that will allow for example to only have the overlay ram without needing to run a DOS
- Maybe make the overlay paginable (using some SRAM on the extension board, and paginate between the ROM, the internal RAM, and the SRAM)
- Allowing "custom ROM" by using the overlay mecanism without the need to resocket the internal ROM
- Maybe add some function like for the HxC "harddisk mode" and "remote mode" to be able to select a floppy directly from the Oric without using the cumulus buttons/screen
I estimate the price for such a board (without the goal for including it in an Oric shell) to around $50 to $60 per board excluding taxes. This price is only an approximation of the raw material. It could be higher than expected, but again the more board produced at once, the lower the price will be.
So please if you are interested answer me either by mail, on the newsgroup or on the Defence-force forum, see it as a motivational interest

Manoel / Godzil