Loci - my Oric storage emulation project

[ftmb]

in France if you buy in the EU, there are no taxes

[Mustangus]

Ok. I heard that most of EU were adding it. That way they get there taxes. But I might have heard wrong.

[xahmol]

No, sellers in the EU should already add taxes themselves, but private sellers, within limits of course, are not taxed.
On sales from outside the EU however always tax is added, also if local tax was already paid.

So yes, for people within the EU buying from within the EU is way cheaper. And it is not shipping that is the problem, the tax is.

but hey, bu now rather have it quicker than cheaper, so probably go for the first viable seller regardless if its UK or EU.

[iss]

Hi, @ALL!

First, I have to say huge thanks to @Sodiumlightbaby for all his work and his cooperation!

I'm very proud to announce that RAXISS team will distribute LOCI.
Package includes: LOCI (pcb board, 3D printed case in RED/BLACK or WHITE) and 34-ribbon cable.
Price: 40.00 EUR.
Shipping: worldwide, for EU 10.00 EUR.

We will sell on Tindie because of customers protection but I don't exclude also direct sales (e-mail request>,<confirmation, paypal>, <delivery) for those who knows us and trust us .
The first batch is already in production. After we test that everything works fine, I will add more details (links, contacts, etc.) This should happen in week or so...

So, up the Orics!

PS: I have the good feeling there will be more surprises from raxiss ...

[Bieno]

Fantastic. Congratulations to all the ‘culprits’ and looking forward to trying it out.

[coco.oric]

First, I have to say huge thanks to @Sodiumlightbaby for all his work and his cooperation!
I have the good feeling there will be more surprises from raxiss ...

Great, many thanks for developing this interface @Sodiumlightbaby
I'll be happy to acquire some with some surprises

[Sodiumlightbaby]

Great announcements folks! I'm so glad seeing the wings of our little Loci spread
Thanks to everybody who have helped getting us here, the decades of work keeping this platform thriving and welcoming for a newbie

In the background I've done some preperation work in the firmware to make tape saving functinality easier to implement and reduce the effort needed for bootstrapping in production. But perhaps higher priority this weekend is to get some user documentation going. We have a reasonable starting-point in the testers' supplement but it is in great need of updating and improvment now that more people are getting their own Locis.

[ibisum]

This is really awesome. Thanks so much @sodiumlightbaby, for your wonderful work. It has definitely elevated the capabilities of the Oric community at large.

Might I trouble you to share some thoughts on Mouse and maybe Modem/WIFI support - how do you see that proceeding beyond the current state of things?

[Sodiumlightbaby]

Might I trouble you to share some thoughts on Mouse and maybe Modem/WIFI support - how do you see that proceeding beyond the current state of things?

Well, the basics are there already. The thing with mouse support is that I don't believe much software was every done for the Oric with mouse support so we're probably limited to patching older software and providing support for new software that wants to use mouse as input device. There's no emulation layer due that so it uses the Loci API instead. The existing software with mouse potential that immediately comes to mind is Pulsoid and the wonderful point and click adventures from Chema.

The ACIA (modem) emulation is in place and exposes any USB CDC modem device at 0x380 (if I remember correctly). I did the RPi Pico W version of such a modem device some time ago and it has been tested working with the oricomms terminal program but had some issues with some other terminal programs, so consider it still in beta. If anyone wants to try it with their Loci and have a PicoW, I can make a release of the Wifi modem firmware. (Side note - I have the start for a case design for the PicoW to match Loci style)

These are clearly secondary functions to Loci so we'll see where things go and what people want to do. E.g. I have not progressed the USB joystick support for Loci because it won't be easy to emulate the most widely supported joystick interfaces that go through the VIA at 0x300. So for joysticks it's probably better to leave it to the classic interfaces for now. If anyone has some exicting software in the works or in their back-catalog that would shine with Loci device support - reach out, I'd be honored to help.

[Mustangus]

I like the idea of wifi support. Maybe something like the fujinet project where you can load games from a server?

[Vyper68]

Is there a Github for this project with some instructions? Or any files to show how to use the Loci?

[Sodiumlightbaby]

The testers supplement is the closest thing we have for now. As noted before, getting it updated for general users (and production hardware) is on the list for later this week.
https://github.com/sodiumlb/loci-hardwa ... Supplement

[Sodiumlightbaby]

I like the idea of wifi support. Maybe something like the fujinet project where you can load games from a server?

I guess the key component would be TNFS support?

[Mustangus]

yep

[Mustangus]

I seem to be having an issue with firmware 1.27 and 1.28. They don't work on my Oric 1 48k. Works fine on the atmos but not the oric 1's. Running Basic 1.0. it will reset the machine but not load the loci rom. 1.26 work fine though.