Here is a short summary of what I could see/talk about.
2014 was the 20th year of our retrocomputing/retrogaming association called Silicium and René our President/Dictator/Supreme Guide made a long speech similar to a SSSR congres speech
Oric related:
- Kenneth presented his cartridge system called Osmosa. He showed a first prototype as well as the final version which PCB is freely available here:
http://www.petit-fichier.fr/2014/05/16/ ... mosa-oric/ He showed several games including Skool Daze (with Chema's approval).
He also showed a Jasmin 3 inches drive which unfortunately had some slight problems (just need to restart and try again as with my Cumana).
- Fabrice "Euphoric" F. showed us some of his custom hardware: a SD tape drive, a multigame cartridge system, a slim oric keyboard with Arduino+Bluetooth connected to an Android tablet running an Oric emulator. He also showed a very small computer that fits in a DIN serial connector that you can plug in the infamous french minitel 1B. It's not an Oric but very impressive anyway. The SOC is as small as half a fingernail. So far Fabrice only coded a monitor/disassembler but he promised a Basic for next year.
- Patrice/musepat showed us his Jasmin drive that seems to be a prototype.
- Jean-François/jotd showed us several adaptations of Oric and other 8 bits games running on a PC with SDL or a Nintendo DS. He then talked a lot with Kenneth and their goal is to make a cartridge containing Defence Force (the game). This doesn't seem trivial.
- Philippe S. showed us one of his Telestrats. The PSU seems dead but Fabrice had a generic PSU adapted for Oric hardware that managed to make it running.
- Jeff/Pocket got us his Cumulus but we didn't have much time to test it. I borrowed it and will test it ASAP. I'll post another message about that.
- I brought my Atmos, Cumana board made by Jean B. from CEO with a PC disk drive. I showed several games like Athanor, Aigle d'Or, Space 1999 and even the beta version of Tyrann 3 which is being developed by Maximus and I. I also showed the SD disk drive emulator made by Jorodr.
There were also some French computers called Goupil and Macintosh Portables that were being repaired.
Several other 8 bits and 16/32 computers were demonstrated. I saw several C64 with some DJ equipment, as well as a robot arm, several Amstrad, Atari ST, a Falcon 030 and even a Sharp X68000.
An Amiga 4000 with a 68060 accelerator card was being configured. It nows runs without Software Failures!
There was also a Sun workstation with an LCD screen.
Torlus showed us several FPGAs emulating old game consoles.
There was also some old game consoles and even new stuff like an XBox One and a PS4 but I don't like game consoles so I didn't look much there.
I also spent a lot of time on an Oculus Rift which refused to work as it did at home
I prefer 8 bit computers