Oric, from Tangerine (and a mention of Amiga, and Beebs)

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Some recent stumblings on the topic of the Oric, a series of cheap 6502 based micros…

The following image from an article on the Project Euler programming challenges, and the founder of that, Colin Hughes.

  • How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

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HN discussion on that article mentions learning to program on 8 bit micros, and the like.

The stardot thread Amiga BBC emulators links to this Amiga Format review of emulators for the Amiga, including an Oric emulator:

Finally, an article in German from the Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation museum:

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I had an Oric-1. I later sent it away to have it turned into an Atmos, which had a far better keyboard. That was a deal by the manufacturer, Tangerine. They did the Microtan before the Oric-1, and I had one of those. I’ve since acquired a few more, but haven’t had time to do much with them.
On the Atmos I wrote a trading game in BASIC, and recently found a tape with it on. I managed to record the tape on a digital recorder and successfully ran the audio file through a tool to get the BASIC back. A bit of archaeology on some code from about 1984 or so. Over 40 years ago. That sneaked up on me.

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That’s a great bit of data preservation!

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If anyone wants to do the same, the details and a tool are here:

The game is there as well, nothing special, it’s from another era.

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