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It's not often you see a Jasmin for sale. Even rarer to see boxed examples. Oric disk systems tend to fetch a high price so I think the Jasmin is a fair asking price. I think the Microdisc asking price is too much.

Oricle is the Oric oracle. It's a learning program that tries to identify something by asking questions - does it have four legs? Is it a table? Does it have arms? etc

Not that interesting really.

It is Moonster not Monster. I'm not aware of it being a type-in, but it is in Basic.

Oric Microdisc on Ebay just now - not cheap. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-ORIC-ATMOS-MICRODRIVE-DISK-DRIVE-SYSTEM-WORKING-/151470026812?hash=item234451303c Also a Jasmin drive on there which seems reasonable http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LECTEUR-3-ET-DRIVER-JASMIN-ORIC-COMPLET-EN-BOITE-/181900165102?h...

Thanks - I have enough Atmoses. My twin ROM one worked with BDDISK whilst the others I have don't seem to. But I've found the buffer allows BDdisk to work so I can do it now. I will have another look at the old Atmos and see if I can figure out what has blown. (There's no hot chips.) My old Oric-1 i...

Depends which they are. I guess I'll have to put a list together.

I've recently been given some more Oric books, so there is even more that I have spare. I have more than one copy of most of the British Oric books. If there are any you want let me know.

Making progress ! I've bought a new (second hand) tape recorder and got it loading tapes. I found a buffer which has a 74ls125 chip connected between the Atmos and interface and I can now load tapes with the disk interface attached - so that means BDDISK is working again for me ! I'm so pleased. I r...

I've got a new (second hand ) tape recorder and it is working well. It's so nice to get the real Oric working again.

None of my disks are with my K7s, so I'd opt for something simple that will allow it to go with the other disks. A K7 box might not do that.

I've made a pdf of the Trevor Shaw articles but it's too big to go on here - 10Mb. Send me your email (if it'll accept 10Mb).

Here's an article/letter about the modem.

Ha. I'd forgotten I had a serial interface diagram online. That is the redrawn version of the hand-drawn version I posted. I think the neater version was used in either CEO or OUM.

All I know is that is supposed to the the actual circuit used by Oric which seem to have worked OK for those that actually had the modem. Last use I'm aware of was when the Oricall BBS system was on the go in the nineties. I don't have the PC software needed to set up a BBS. Nick Howarth, (son of Jo...

I used to use BDDISK to convert tapes. It saved the various program parts to file with no autorun. You would then have to change loading instructions from CLOAD to LOAD and resave files that need autorun to work. With some programs you'll need to use QUIT to free up some memory. For some of the larg...

The Oric Modem came with an RS232 interface.

The attached circuit was obtained by the authors of Oricomms. Trevor Shaw wrote a few articles for OUM about using the serial port which I could scan, if you're interested.

I don't think Sonic 4 was a proper release. It is a variation on Sonix 3.5 which allowed use of samples. This led to Jonathan writing Soundtracker. Sountracker has a new version of Sonix to play the samples. Sonic 3.5 version needed Tables.Mem and then Play.Mem loading then the ALL file. The listing...