====== Oric 1 ======
===== Features =====
* CPU: 6502A 1 MHz
* Co-Processor: Custom gate array chip
* RAM: 16 KB or 48 KB
* ROM: 16 KB
* Text Modes: 40 x 28
* Graphic Modes: 240 x 200 (high resolution)
* Colors: 8
* Sound: Programmable Sound Generator AY-3-8912 (from General Instruments), 3 voices, 8 octaves + white noise
* I/O Ports: Bus, Printer, Tape, RGB
* Keyboard: Chicklet keyboard, 57 keys. ESC, DEL ,CTRL, 2 x SHIFT, RETURN, 4 x arrow keys and one large spacebar
* Peripherals: 4-pen plotter printer, 3" floppy disk drive unit
* Built In Language: Oric Extended Basic v1.0
===== Usage =====
Use ''CLOAD""'' to load cassette images.
===== History and Trivia =====
This British computer was one of the most popular computers in Europe in the beginning of the 80's. It was a small computer, which was a competitor of the Sinclair Spectrum.
The two models (16 and 48) had the same technical characteristics. A small plotter was available for this computer.
Notice that the sound chip was the same one used in the Amstrad CPC, MSX computers and Atari ST!
Its ROM was very buggy, & was later replaced with the Oric Atmos.
//(info from old-computers.com)//
===== Links =====
* Defence Force Oric -- http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/index.htm
* Oric International -- http://www.oric.org/
* Oric World -- http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/index_english.html
* Pascal's Oric Page -- http://pleclerc.free.fr/Oric/OricPage.html
* RhetOric -- http://www.rhetoric.8k.com/
* Swedish Oric Page -- http://oric.skarstad.net/
* The Reclutant Dragon -- http://freespace.virgin.net/james.groom/index.htm
* The Spider's Oric Web -- http://oricspider.home.insightbb.com/
* Twilighte -- http://twilighte.oric.org/
* Oric 1 at old-computers.com -- http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=180
===== Other Emulators =====
* Euphoric -- http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/emulator.html
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