It's really simple indeed: if you want to run an Oric program contained in a tape or disk image, you just have to double-click on it, this will start a standard Oric configuration (Atmos with or without Microdisc). If you want to run your program using another Oric configuration (e.g. Oric-1, or Atmos with a Jasmin controller, or Telestrat), you just have to click on it once with the right button, this will pop-up the contextual menu associated with the file, giving you the opportunity to choose your Oric configuration.
If you don't want to run an Oric program, you just have to double-click on the program short-cut corresponding to the configuration you want to run. These shortcuts are located in the Oric directory, which is directly accessible through Windows Programs Menu. There you will also find the Tapes and Disks directories.
Euphoric recognises the following command line options :
Any other parameter is treated as a file containing a disk or tape image.
When run, Euphoric starts by reading the configuration contained in an initialisation file, then analyses the options on the command line. The INI file enables the construction of an Oric configuration, by selecting any of the supported peripherals. Normally the initialisation file is named 'euphoric.ini' and stored in the current directory, then in the directory defined by the ORIC environment variable. Those who wish to say that they can launch Oric from any directory can do so once they have correctly initialised the ORIC system variable (for example, if you have installed Euphoric in c:\oric\system, use the DOS command "set oric=c:\oric\system"). You can equally use several different INI files provided you give each copy of the program a different name. For example, if you have copied euphoric.exe to atmos.exe, when you run atmos.exe it will look for atmos.ini. The configuration lines of euphoric.ini are as follows: each line is in the form keyword=value unless it starts with a semi-colon, in which case it is a comment. Be careful to respect the case of letters and don't introduce blanks...
; Possible choices : Oric1,Atmos,Telestrat,Stratos
Select the computer model. This selection can be overridden by using the command line options.
; Microdisc,Jasmin,None
For the Oric-1 and Atmos, select a type of disk controller (the Telestrat automatically includes its own).
Specify the filename containing the Oric-1 ROM image (see note 1)
Specify the filename containing the Atmos ROM image (see note 1)
Specify the type of cpu. All Oric computers have a (Nmos) 6502 cpu, but some people have replaced it with a 65C02 cpu (Cmos), providing additional instructions and addressing modes.
Specify the filename containing the Microdisc controller EPROM image (see note 1).
Specify the filename containing the Jasmin controller EPROM image (see note 1).
Specify the filenames containing the Telestrat cartridge ROM images (see note 1 and the Telestrat paragraph).
; 1 or 2
Select a type of RAM memory. This option affects the initial contents of RAM when the Oric is switched on. With the first type, each location contains alternate bits of 1 and 0. With the second type, each location contains haf a line of 128 bits of 1 and a half line of 128 bits of 0. This option allows to reproduces the famous Oric mires.
Choose the number of drives you want in-line to configure the disk controller (Microdisc, Jasmin or Telestrat).
Select the clock speed of the Oric. It can be changed while the emulator is running, but this setting gives normal speed (F5 is the short-cut key).
; Yes,No
Allows to use an oric with a double-size rom (32 KB), the active half being selected by the PB5 VIA output.
Select (or not) a serial extension controller on the Oric-1/Atmos, of the same type as that of the Telestrat (ACIA 6551 at address #031C)
; No,com1,com2,/dev/ttyS0,...
Select the physical port of the PC used for serial input/output (see RS232 paragraph)
Select (or not) the real time clock extension board.
; No, PASE, IJK
Select a type of joystick interface for the Oric Centronics port (see Joystick paragraph)
Configure (or not) a joystick on the Telestrat joystick port.
Configure (or not) a mouse for the Telestrat (it is not possible to connect the light pen at the same time).
Configure (or not) a light pen (it is not possible to have a mouse on the Telestrat at the same time).
Configure (or not) a printer on the Oric Centronics port. printer output
Select the filename for printer output. It is possible to select a peripheral name for direct output, for example lpt1.
Select the filename for a machine dump saved with the F9 key.
Note 1: For all ROM images, if the filename alone is given, the emulator looks for it in the current directory, then in the directory indicated by the ORIC system variable.
Two formats of cassette images are supported, corresponding to two types of emulation. The first emulation is called 'software': access to several ROM routines is redirected. The second is a pure hardware emulation. Cassette images for software emulation contain the same bytes as those that the Oric ROM routines save on cassette (although the number of synchronisation bytes has been reduced to 3). This is the most common format, and it is also used by the Amoric, Arcoric and Atoric emulators. Virtually all the Oric programs available on the archive servers use this format. The standard extension for this format is .TAP. The second format is only used by Euphoric, and represents the electronic signal between the Oric and the cassette player, set at 4800 Hz. It permits a very exact emulation of cassettes, useful for transfers between Oric and PC or to run programs which do not use the routines in ROM. The standard extension for this format is .WAV.
As you have no doubt already realised, the Basic CLOAD command searches for the required program on the host system (DOS or Linux). It is the same with saving programs with CSAVE. This enables a very intuitive and perfectly compatible use of the commands with all programs intended for use with a cassette recorder, even those written in machine code, or which are well protected. For advanced use when you wish to store your Oric programs in different directories, write programs in several parts, or use the short command (CLOAD""), read on :
To activate the "cassette hardware" option, select the "Hardware tape" line on the configuration screen (F1), then select a cassette image name. The hardware system is very (too?) faithful to the use of cassettes in reality: the interface of the configuration screen (F1) provides you with a recorder with the commands: fast forward, play, fast rewind and save, tape volume level and even a minutes/seconds counter to find programs on a tape. Loading a cassette presents no particular problems: just note that the Play button of the recorder used alone enables you to hear the recording so as to locate a program (ah... nostalgia...) but is not needed in order to load a program: the Oric is able to use the relay line to operate the tape recorder. During emulation, the play button is therefore always on, and the Oric operates the tape motor relay. So a CLOAD"" will load the first program on the cassette, and a CLOAD"program_name" will load a particular program. Thanks to the relay you do not need to stop the tape recorder after loading a program, the Oric routines take care of it for you. Writing to a cassette demands more care, as with real cassettes. You need to go to the configuration screen and press the Record button (select the line with Enter, the button changes to inverse video) and then key in your CSAVE command. As for saving, the relay controls the cassette motor, keeping it halted until CSAVE is used, and halting recording when the save is complete. On the other hand, don't forget to press the Record button again to release it after your save, or you risk erasing a cassette on the next CLOAD!! Be careful also if you save a program on a cassette you have already used. Position the tape in an empty section, such as the end of the tape, or you will overwrite a program. You are advised to put only one program (or set of part-programs) on one tape, unless you want to prepare a tape for use on a real Oric. Also do not forget to write-protect your precious cassettes, by "breaking" the small virtual plastic part of the cassette (next to its name), this will put the read-only attribute on the file.
I have taken particular care in making the Play button available to 'pre-listen' to cassettes. Unfortunately the Windows drivers lose sampling range: you don't notice it with your favourite music, but the Oric does. Even reading sound files under DOS doesn't produce a faultless result, at least when I've tried to do it. To record a real cassette, therefore, connect your tape recorder to the Line Out socket of your sound card, and make a copy of the (virtual) recorder to the (real) recorder using the Play button.
Reading a real cassette by way of the sound card is more delicate than when writing. The signal recorded on an analog cassette is far from perfect, and even at 44.1 kHz the sample range of the sound card gives readings at the start and end of fronts which are less precise than those achieved by the Oric. The result is that reading a cassette via the sound card of a PC is not very reliable. To obtain good results you need cassettes in good condition, with correct recording levels, etc. A short program (readtape) is provided with Euphoric to decode the sample range at 44,1 kHz and convert them into cassette images usable with emulator, but I strongly advise transferring cassettes from the Oric to a PC by using the transfer cable (see annexe).
A gadget which adds to the atmosphere : when you start Euphoric with a cassette image on the command line (or if you double-click on the cassette image file), the cassette's inlay will be first displayed if you have it in the JPEG directory (the name of the JPG file should be the same, except for the extension). Then press a key to boot the Oric, Euphoric will issue a CLOAD command automatically.
Disk images are files on the host system reproducing bit by bit the contents of MFM disks (DD) (in fact the format does not memorise clock transitions, only the contents after decoding: everything the disk controller can provide to the CPU is memorised). Images are conventionally named with a ".dsk" suffix. There are several ways to obtain a disk image: download it from a server, create it by an Oric to PC transfer, or format a new virtual disk within Euphoric (for which, of course, you must already have a system disk image).
If you start Euphoric configured with disc drives (Microdisc, Jasmin or Telestrat), you will see on the configuration screen (F1) 4 lines (or less) corresponding to the disk drives which you activated in the initialisation (INI) file: Disk A, Disk B, etc (if you are sure that you started Euphoric with a disk controller and yet you see no Disk line, check in the INI file that you have connected at least one drive in a line such as DriveA=Yes). For any action on a disk drive you must place the cursor (the blue line) on the line of the drive. After the drive name is the name of the disk image inserted in that drive (if it is blank, the drive is empty), and right on the left is a small symbol indicating whether the disk is write protected or not (the symbol represents the small protection hole on a 3.5" disk). You can change the write protection with the left and right arrow keys. To eject a disk press the DEL or BackSpace keys. Pressing Enter enables you to select a disk to insert in the drive: the contents of the current PC directory are then displayed. The Up, Down, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End keys are used to move around the list Select a disk image or a directory with Enter or abandon the selection with Escape. If you need a new blank disk, press Space with the cursor on the disk line. You get a new disk named ________.dsk (or _______1.dsk, _______2.dsk, etc if the files exist already in the current PC directory). Note that the new disk is not formatted, you must format it using the Oric DOS system disk of your choice (OricDos, FT-DOS, Sedoric, Stratsed, etc). When you quit Euphoric, rather than put a label on your new disk, I suggest you rename it to something more descriptive.
To use the Microdisc controller, either specify one or more disk image names on the command line, or use the command line option -d, or specify DiskController=Microdisc in the INI file (in both cases, the MicrodiscEprom=... line must point to a ROM image. Note that you are not obliged to use an EPROM of only 8k, you can program one of 16k, or indeed a smaller one). If you specify disk images on the command line, they are inserted in successive drives (up to 4), and the Oric boots the first. While running the emulator you can eject and insert new disks via the configuration screen (but don't do it during a disk write: you will damage the disk just as if you were using a real one!)
To use a Jasmin controller, start Euphoric with the command line option -j and then one or more disk image names, or specify DiskController=Jasmin in the initialisation file (in both cases the line JasminEprom=... must point to a ROM image). Remember that the electronics of the Jasmin controller does not interfere with the normal booting of the Oric. You must wait for the usual "Ready" message, then press on the boot button of the interface unit (F6 on the emulator). A disk with the Tran DOS system must of course be present in the first drive.
To boot a Telestrat instead of an Oric 1/Atmos simply add the -t option to the command line (together with one or more disk image names) or specify the line Computer=Telestrat in the INI file. The contents of the cartridges to be inserted in the Telestrat must be specified bank by bank in the INI file (see paragraph below).
For those who do not know the machine, the Telestrat was the last Oric machine produced by Oric France, although Oric UK set the wheels in motion. The project was started in England under the codename IQ64 and the machine was called the Stratos. This superb machine is backwards compatible with the Atmos+Microdisc, and includes among other things cartridges (all system software is in cartridges), an integrated disk controller, RS232 and Minitel interfaces, and joystick and mouse ports. The cartridges can contain the Rom, additional RAM, or a peripheral (although no peripheral was developed in cartridge form). Cartridges that were produced included one with 64K of RAM, and a number with ROMs for different purposes. These ROMs and RAMs are always accessed in the top 16K of memory, using overlay. There are 8 banks 16K accessible, bank 0 consisting of the upper part of the 64K of internal RAM in the Telestrat. The Telestrat needs at least one ROM cartridge in bank 7 to boot, usually containing the Telemon software (the Telestrat monitor software). A range of other ROMs can be used in the other banks, generally associated with a fixed Bank number, such as Hyper basic in bank 6, TeleAss (an assembler) in bank 5 or Telematic in bank 3 (this last only using 8K). Euphoric allows you to specify directly the contents of each memory Bank in the INI file using lines such as Bank7=... which fixes the Bank as ROM. Each Bank not initialised is automatically considered to be a RAM bank. So, if you boot with a Telemon cartridge image in Bank 7 and a Hyper basic image in Bank 6, you have a Telestrat with 48 + 6 * 16 = 144K of RAM ! (however, Bank 0 is RAM overlay and will usually be used by Stratsed). On booting, Telemon tests the contents of the other Banks, displays the copyright messages of the different ROMs, and tries to load the Stratsed system from the first drive into Bank 0. If the disk in the drive contains a file named BONJOUR.COM, it is executed; if not control is passed to the first Bank with a ROM inserted reading numerically downwards, usually 6 containing Hyper basic. The latest versions of this Bank display a menu giving a choice between the Telematic bank (if present) or a language bank, then in the latter case one between Hyper-Basic or TeleAss (if present).
To connect a printer to your virtual Oric, ensure that the line Printer=Yes is present in the INI file and set the destination for the output in the line PrinterOutput=... You can specify an output file, which allows later editing of the file, or a printer (or a MCP40 emulator, for example). Again, you can opt for direct output to a real printer by specifying the special corresponding filename, for example: PrinterOutput=lpt1. Finally, ensure that you have activated the printer in the configuration screen, it is off by default for the reason that certain games written to work with the IJK joystick via the printer port do not detect that a printer is connected and pour binary data into it.. The PASE joystick does not interfere with printing (but can interfere with sound...) All these quirks have an explanation, and of course are identical to the real Oric...
Euphoric cam emulate a joystick using the numeric keypad on the PC (2,4,6,8 for direction and 0 for shoot). Select a type of joystick interface with the line Joystick=... Indicate IJK or PASE for the corresponding interfaces, or No if you don't want a joystick emulated. If you want to emulate a joystick on the integrated left port of the Telestrat, remove the emulation of an IJK or PASE joystick and set the line JoystickPort=Yes in the INI file.
The Oric-1 and Atmos have no standard serial port, but it is very easy to equip them with such an extension (with just 4 chips on a board the size of a matchbox). Euphoric provides you with such an extension based on an ACIA 6551 at address #031C. To activate it, set the line AsynchronousController=Yes in the INI file, and specify the name of the serial port of the PC which serves as an ACIA simulator in the line SerialPort=...
The Telestrat comes with such a serial controller as standard, its communication port can be either the V24 connection (EIA standard level), or the Minitel connector (TTL level). The PC has no Minitel connector, but a commercial PC/Minitel cable can be used to connect a Minitel terminal and use it, for example, with the Telematic cartridge (however, you will also need a small extra piece of kit if you want your PC to detect telephone rings). While simulating an Oric-1/Atmos or a Telestrat, you can of course connect what you like to the serial port, for example a modem or serial printer. Finally, note that you can also use part of the ACIA simulator if you don't have a free serial port on your, or if you don't possess the necessary peripheral for the proper functioning of apiece of software (for example, the system software of the Telestrat hangs if its serial output buffer is full and a data path is not signalled to it): in that case set the line SerialPort=No.
To use the light pen, simply specify the line LightPen=Yes in the INI file. The light pen is simulated by the PC mouse, and a small grey marker appears at the position of the light pen on the screen. But do not forget that the pen must touch the screen to point to a zone: this action is replaced by pressing the mouse button. Also don't forget that the pen can only work on light areas of the screen, so don't try to select a black zone...
You must have a mouse driver working before you start Euphoric, otherwise the grey marker won't move.
To use the Telestrat mouse, just specify the line Mouse=Yes in the INI file. You need a mouse driver in place before running Euphoric, otherwise it will move the cursor in one direction only.
The Euphoric keyboard precisely emulates that of the real Oric. Thus you can, for example, press the QD5VBL' keys together to succeed at Damsel in Distress... However, if you don't have a US keyboard (despite its british origins, the Oric keyboard was US), there are chances you need to use a keyboard driver if you want to get a WYSIWYG feeling and still play games without sending your fingers to exotic places on your keyboard. Let me just take an example : on the swedish keyboard, the '2' character is at the same location as on the US keyboard, but the shifted key returns " (double-quote) whereas the key has a third symbol (@) which is accessed through the use of the AltGr key. To handle a national keyboard and still have a sound keyboard matrix, it is not possible to have a mapping between PC keys and Oric keys. Instead, the Oric has to run a national keyboard driver: that's what I provide in the "nationalized" roms. These roms allow a WYSIWYG behavior when you type on your PC keyboard, and yet the keys are still at the right places when you play games (these programs access the hardware matrix).
However, I've not written keyboard drivers for every country, and some people may still prefer to use their PC keyboard in a PC way. If you are one of these people, you may switch to the ASCII mode (F3), but be aware you won't be able to press several keys together in this mode, nor play games.
In raw mode, there's a direct mapping between one PC key and one Oric key. To every matrix location of the Oric keyboard is assigned a PC key: a default mapping is done inside Euphoric and this can be modified with the configuration file (KbdMatrixRow0..7 lines). The default mapping follows the location of most Oric keys, look at the photos to help you follow the explanation: several keys which are not in the same position on the PC and Oric keyboards are connected by the green lines between the two photos. They include the Backspace key, the key to the right of '=' ('+' with Shift), the CTRL key of the Oric which is lower down on the PC and the FUNCT key of the Atmos which becomes ALT on the PC. In addition the ESC key of the Oric is high up on the edge of the PC keyboard, the arrow keys of the Oric become the grey arrows of the PC. In order to support nationalized keyboards, there are several additional keys added by Euphoric into the emulation of the Oric matrix: in blue, the AltGr key and the second Ctrl key to the right of the space bar, and the CAPS key. Finally, on international PC keyboards there is one key more than on American PC keyboards, found beside the left Shift, and connected by a red line to a key which doesn't normally exist on the Oric keyboard (the photo is not rigged, it's a keyboard that I added a FUNCT key to...). The two last differences between the Oric and PC keyboards relate to the TAB key and the one above, both of which are unused by the raw keyboard.
This default mapping is entirely redefinable, you just need to specify PC scancodes in the euphoric.ini file.
For example, if you are a purist and want to get one step nearer to the true Oric keyboard with the CTRL key of the Oric next to the A key and the arrow keys around the space bar stay in place, using respectively the CAPS key of the PC and the Ctrl and Alt either side of the space bar, then you would write:
KbdMatrixRow3= 47, 33, 5, 12,-56, 25, 18, 53 ; for VF4- PE/
KbdMatrixRow4=999,999, 58,999, 42, 999,999,54 ; for Ctrl, Left-Shift, Right-Shift
KbdMatrixRow5= 2, 1, 44,999, 29, 14, 30, 28 ; for 1eZ ¬ dAr
KbdMatrixRow6= 45, 16, 3, 43, 56, 27, 31, 58 ; for XQ2\¯ ]S
KbdMatrixRow7= 4, 32, 46, 40,-29, 26, 17, 13 ; for 3DC'® [W=
In the other hand, I strongly recommend not to use configuration lines for national keyboards. Once again, it is better to write an Oric driver for the national keyboard, this is what you find in the provided roms (bas11_uk.rom for example is for the UK keyboard). This way, the keys stays in place when the matrix is tested by programs (e.g games).
With the ASCII mode, there's no need for an Oric national keyboard driver anymore, but there are many drawbacks. First, it's true you can use the original rom, but that's just because the keyboard routines are redirected: the routines are not used, the Oric keyboard matrix is not used, and games won't detect any key. Instead, the PC keyboard driver is used, it provides ASCII codes to the Oric. So, you use the PC keyboard in a PC way, but this means you can't do whatever you want because of limitations introduced in the early days by IBM and Microsoft. E.g you can't type Funct+Shift+key combinations (these are used by Sedoric).
So, you are warned, you shoud better use Raw mode...
Anyway, I understand some people may prefer the ASCII mode for typing, because the oric keyboard routines are not perfect (they don't choose the right key when several are active), so it is not easy to type fast. With the ASCII mode, you will be able to type faster. However, please note the following limitations:
By pressing the F9 key when running the emulator, you can save the state and memory of the Oric in a file (you can specify its name in the INI file with the line DumpFile=...). You can then start Euphoric later on with the command line option -r to recommence at the precise point of the save. You must restart with exactly the same configuration, please don't try to restart an Atmos save on a Telestrat!. If you have a disk configuration, restart Euphoric with the same disks in the drives. For example, if you start Euphoric like this : euphoric -t hypercat.dsk, you must restart it with euphoric -t hypercat.dsk -r to restart in the saved state.
Done simply with the PrtSc key... A file in BMP format is generated in the current directory, and each press of the PrtSc key creates a new file: Screen01.bmp, Screen02.bmp, etc. Users of Windows: ensure that PrtSc is not intercepted by Windows (it is by default: clear the PrtSc shortkey in the misc tab of euphoric's shortcut or program information file).
VGA: Euphoric runs on any VGA card in mode Q (Cube) 256x256x256
386 : Euphoric runs on all processors accepting the instruction set of the 386, so the minimum requirement is a 386SX. BUT, if your processor is not fast enough, you will see nothing on the screen : the emulator runs, but does not have time to display anything. This is so on a 386 SX 16, in which case you must content yourself with a slower Oric - read the next paragraph... On the other hand, the faster your processor, the more screen refreshes per second will be possible (the speed of the bus and the graphics card will also contribute here). Euphoric is written in machine code optimised for the 386 (as few memory accesses and branching instructions as possible).
SoundBlaster: to have sound, your machine must have hardware which is SoundBlaster compatible. If Euphoric fails to initialise your card, it is because the card is not truly compatible. If you have good emulation, that works as well (the Gravis UltraSound for example).
This place will lists Frequently Asked Questions...
If you have a 3.5" or 5.25" drive on your Oric, you will already know that the readdsk utility enables you to read your disks on a PC and make disk images of them. If you don't have such drives on your Oric, I suggest you make the parallel transfer cable described below. This is the most reliable and fastest way to transfer programs. There is also a utility called readtape, with which it is possible to transfer from cassette to a cassette image using your sound card, but this is only effective with high quality recordings and can therefore be difficult to do successfully.
So, for ease of use and reliability I recommend using the parallel cable. Before making it (it's very simple, no components, just two parallel connectors and a cable) do check that your Oric and its ports are working correctly and that you are going to be able to load programs. The short transfer program enables you to transfer all of a cassette (or a part of one if you prefer). If you have 3" disks, there is a similar transfer program written by Philippe Menard which uses the same cable. Ready? Let's start:
A) Make up the cable
|
PC DB25 |
Oric 20 pin |
|
15 |
3 (D0) |
|
13 |
5 (D1) |
|
12 |
7 (D2) |
|
10 |
9 (D3) |
|
11 |
1 (STROBE) |
|
6 |
19 (ACK) |
|
18-25 |
2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20 (GROUND: one is enough) |
Be sure you don't mix up the numbering of the pins on the Oric port (no problem with the DB25, the numbers are often marked). When you look at the rear of the Oric, here is what you see (male parallel port):
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19
Another possibility, if you already have a parallel PC<-PC cable such as is used by LapLink, is to make a small Oric-PC converter which you connect to the end of your parallel PC cable:
|
DB25 |
Oric 20 pin |
|
2 |
3 (D0) |
|
3 |
5 (D1) |
|
4 |
7 (D2) |
|
5 |
9 (D3) |
|
6 |
1 (STROBE) |
|
11 |
19 (ACK) |
|
18-25 |
2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20 or any one of these (GROUND) |
(if you choose to connect only one of the Ground pins (18-25) on the DB25, ensure that the ground signal is properly transmitted from end to end)
B) Enter this small Basic program on your Atmos or Oric-1.
100 DATA #20,#6A,#E7 ' replace with #20,#CA,#E6 on Oric-1 101 DATA #A9,#FF 102 DATA #8D,#00,#03 103 DATA #20,#1C,#E7 ' replace with #20,#7D,#E6 on Oric-1 104 DATA #2A 105 DATA #8D,#01,#03 106 DATA #AD,#00,#03 107 DATA #48 108 DATA #29,#EF 109 DATA #8D,#00,#03 110 DATA #A9,#02 111 DATA #2C,#0D,#03 112 DATA #F0,#FB 113 DATA #68 114 DATA #8D,#00,#03 115 DATA #4C,#08,#B8 120 FOR I=#B800 TO #B825 125 READ A : POKE I,A 130 NEXT 135 CALL #B800
C) Start the oriclink utility on the PC, type in RUN (and Enter) on the Oric and press the PLAY button on the tape recorder. When you want to stop the transfer, press the Oric RESET button (under the casing) and any key on the PC. A cassette image named image.tap is created; this can be used directly by Euphoric in hardware cassette mode.
D) You can also convert this cassette image into a more compact file with the tape2oric utility. This is not always successful because certain protected programs do not use the standard format for cassette files.
NB: Linux users: as with all programs accessing the physical I/O ports, oriclink must have root privileges. Run it as root or set the setuid bit (chown root oriclink ; chmod u+s oriclink ).
Euphoric is copyright Fabrice Francès. Euphoric was developed in 386 assembler under Linux, the freeware Unix operating system, with the whole GNU development environment, in particular the gas assembler and gcc C/C++ compiler. The same source (but for a few details) is assembled with the DOS port of the GNU environment (DJGPP), and runs in 32 bit mode with a DPMI server. Standard IO routines (fopen, fread, fwrite...) from the C library are copyright "The Regents of the University of California" (UCB), which is why I say "This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors". No code from the Free Software Foundation is included in this program, it doesn't fall within the GNU General Public License, nor the GNU Library Public License. JPEG display uses free code from the IJG. The svgalib library (Harm Hanemaayer) is used under Linux to switch screen mode.
Thanks to those who have continued to support the Oric over all these years : the members of Oric User Monthly and of Club Europe Oric. Thanks to all testers for their patience, in particular Philippe Mulrane, Bruno Thiebot, Laurent Chiacchierini, Vaggelis Blathras, Mike Pointié and many others... And thanks also to several generous supporters of this development : Roger Barbier, Marc Chamaillou, Roger Barthès, Simon Guyart, Jérémie Petit, Eric Février, Pierre Guyon, André Franz, Rodolphe Bottosso, Jean-David Olekhnovitch.
Euphoric is freeware (but not Public Domain). It is, I believe, one of the best emulators, nothing like those developed in a few weeks, so why don't I charge for it? Because I want to encourage a renaissance of the Oric, to encourage those who remember their good times with this machine to rediscover different values from those that surround today' computers. Don't you find it frustrating that your computer is "obsolete" after 18 months ? Is not ridiculous that we now have rampant technology treacle-coated with badly written software, or games that don't give a tenth of the pleasure of the old 8-bit hits? Aren't you fed up with paying for successive versions of Word (TM), which then oblige you to buy a new computer? Instead of contributing to the ever-increasing wealth of Bill Gates, you would do better to send me the money: a Euphoric for life, instead of a bugged Windows (TM). I no longer give my address (I received 10 times more requests for help than support...), but you can easily find help if you contact the Oric community. Here are the addresses of the two Clubs for those who do not have Internet access: Club Europe Oric/Jean Boileau/33 av Henri Barbusse/93140 BONDY/FRANCE and Oric User Monthly/Dave Dick/65 Barnard Crescent/Aylesbury/HP21 9PW/ENGLAND You will find a real welcome in these Clubs, nostalgia of course, but also people bursting with ideas which prove that the Oric has far from exhausted its possibilities.