Simon's Oric Page.

[Light pen] [Solutions] [Games] [Tools] [Links] [Small galerie] [The Oric BBS]

Last update 9 June 1999. Added a new preview of Oric Disk Manager in the TOOLS section. Also added the Tyrann and Tyrann 2 source disks (games section). Don't forget the Oric BBS ! Next update: ?

Solutions

Solutions of:
Le Fer d'Amnukor. Kindly translated by Jim Groom!
Le Sceptre d'Anubis.
complete map for Le Secret du Tombeau (Axayacatl) (171K!). Maybe I'll do a small guide if I got time.

Small archive.

Some games for Euphoric, that you can easily put back on a real Oric.

Archives Opus-Norsoft For the fans, here are the source disks of Tyrann and Le Fer d'Amnukor (1 Mb), thanks to Rémy Gosselin, co-author; here is an interview (in French for now).

Atlantis (Cobra Soft) I've been trying for 10 years to load it correctly, finally I managed to!

Cheops (Marco Polo)

Le Diamant de Kheops (Sprites) (no it's not the same as Kheops!)

Don Juan (No Man's Land)

Le Fer d'Amnukor (Norsoft), in virtual tape format for Euphoric.

La Guerre des Couleurs (Oric International)

Hyperspace 4 (Cobra Soft) Warning, virtual tape format for Euphoric (read the .TXT file that's in it).

Lancelot (Sprites again)

Manic Miner (???) It's a bugged version, the only one I got! Dominique, on his site, has a good (and even better!) version.

Le Masque d'Or (No Man's Land)

Objectif Elysee (ERE Informatique and Jeux et Stratégie)

Painter (A&F)

Psychiatric (Still Sprites)

Le Sceptre d'Anubis (MicroProgrammes 5, not bugged version, be careful with the other ones on the net...)

Scorbutt (MP 5 too).

Tarakunda (???)

Teknis (Gasoline Software).

Zebbie (IJK) Wonderful game, which I don't manage to finish: help!

And a small games I made in Basic (warning it's in French):
- Ex-Sip, not running yet under Sedoric -but thanks to Andre Cheramy, it should be better if I got the nerve to change it all. Hey, it works with the optical pen, try it! (Euphoric now emulates the optical pen)
- Le Gigabonus, in 3 different versions. A small game that had a lot of success when I did it for Casio FX 7000G, in about 600 bytes!
- 2 animations in HIRES!

These files are compressed with PKUNZIP that you can download there. Then enter: PKUNZIP name of file to uncompress, under DOS of course.

Tools I made.

NEW: Oric Disk Manager. This VERY beta-version allows you to manage... Guess what ! Oric disk images :) Windows 9x only, a few DLL files are required.

Here is PCHires version 1.1. This small Windows software allows you to convert various monochrome PC pictures (TIF, LBM, ART, IFF) into Oric HIRES format. The file that is created can be directly loaded under Euphoric.

Tape Header Creator beta version. Once again a small Windows software that creates tape headers for any PC file (less than 48K!), to load them in Euphoric with CLOAD.

Tired of the Windows 95 or 98 logo? Try this: just replace the file called LOGO.SYS by this file! You'll see an Oric loading Windows...

Having (almost ;) the Oric keyboard sound under Windows, it's possible! Download first the WAV files (1 Kb!) then install Noisy Keyboard by Lior Ostrowsky.

Emulators, Clubs, links...

Do you know the Club Europe Oric (French club), and Oric User Monthly (English club) ? It's filled with people working to keep the machine alive (and it's a success)! You'll reach their pages by clicking on the links, there you'll find all you ever dreamed about if you're still an Oric fan.
Many of the known Oric sites can be reached via the CEO site, worth a visit!
Many emulators are available now, for Atari, Amiga or PC. The link will lead you to the Euphoric's (The Oric emulator for PC by Fabrice) author's page, where all this wonders are (check out for new releases!).
You can also visit those Spanish sites by Miguel: 8-bits museum et 8-bits library, you'll find some info about Oric.