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Ok, here's the story. I want to upgrade my old disk transfer tool (Cloaddsk), that reads a disk on real Oric, saves it to PC using the tape save (a simple CSAVE of the read data), then building a disk image (DSK file) from it. This works perfectly fine with Sedoric disks, I'd like to make it work wi...

I just replaced the thing by a little elastic. Does the job. In the worst case, I'll live without it!

Noisy Keyboard, used it years ago.
http://www.leeos.com/noisy_keyboard.html

And, well, Oric keys sound files.

You have to either find an old USB drive / key / SD card reader that has Win98 driver, or... Use floppy disks - seriously

All the IDE attempts I heared of stalled. I'm not a hardware guy, so I don't know the reasons. The most recent one I heared of was by Alexios:
http://www.bedroomlan.org/hardware/oric-ide

CWSDPMI is a 'dos extender', it's what is(was) used by Fabrice's old tools to be able to use more than 64k of memory under DOS or Windows 9x. It has to be there for the program to just run at all. If I understood the code correctly, that's also there that are stored the (rather low-level) write and...

I've recently had so much trouble trying to make a real floppy from a disk image that I hope we soon have another solution for ou real Orics ;-) Anyway. I tried to transfer a 18 sectors per track disk, and this won't work with Writedsk only (the libraries used by Writedsk won't format more than 17 s...

Steve, I'm not a great specialist when it comes to real disk drives, but maybe this can help: - I have never managed to load a tape with an Atmos + microdisc - I read in Théoric that it was a power problem, one signal being too weak (don't know exactly, but I think that's what the "ampli bus&qu...

Fair point and interesting to hear about breakout, I have half a dozen copies of that. Will have to check them all. The key is to have something else to do while the tape is running (book, mail, or whatever). If the tapes are in good condition, the TAP converting and comparing results with a hex ed...

Depends ;) Look at Super Advanced Breakout for instance, there were several different versions with almost similar packaging. But when the racket hits the ball, there are many more angle possibilities in the 2nd version than in the 1st. Looks like it could be the same for Orical Backgammon. So I wou...

Steve M wrote:I got Orical Invaders and Orical Backgammon out.

If you wish to, you can send me the tapes, and I'll do my best to convert them to TAP.
Oh, and send them back to you

EDIT: BTW, re-transfered my own tape last weekend, and managed to run it finally. But still not sure it's not an altered version.

tagged "V.09 220384". Where can i see the tag ? Thanks Didier but Dave is right, it's the one from Oric.org. Our works complemente each other in a different way: I think Dave wants to be as complete as possible, on my side I only want to bring transfers from 100% original unmodified sourc...

I wonder, when you "digitalize" tape, what is your process? Do you store a high fidelity records of the tape audio, or do you only "read" them with a (virtual) oric then make tap file? BTW Godzil, I realize I may not have fully replied to your question: no, I don't store the dig...

To understand each other, Peacer, you can try the great Oric Explorer. It will read your TAP file, and disassemble it with the mnemonics. Then you just have to copy/paste. I am myself coding machine code with hex values, I still have trouble reading assembler. Having the hex code and the mnemonics n...

Just for the record, I tried my program on a real Oric (with CRT display), and it behaved exactly like it did with Oricutron