Thank you for your video, it is very well done, I chose the name of Erebus for my project, because there are less problems with a south pole volcano than with "Gandalf" or "Mario". ;)
Fantastic - Thanks for your comment, they made me smile. I am glad you enjoyed the video and I hope to find some more products for these machines soon. Cheer Phil
Thanks, Phil, for addressing the small differences which weren't covered last time out - I just love underdogs in life and in the retro micro world, the Oric stands proud as being one of these. It should have done better but there you go - Sir Clive got in first and maybe Oric rushed their "not quite fully tested and robust enough" machines out to do battle BUT...lo and behold the computer press slaughtered their cassette-loading problems and the rest is history. Three cheers though for the Erebus for putting this reliability right (36 years later!!). Here's to more to follow, Phil - cheers again.
@@TotalVyper68 LOL! Hi, Richie, Have a 'cracking' Easter, mate, and enjoy your retro carts, my mate and everyone else here on Phil's channel have a great retro break this bank holiday.
Nice comparison of the machines. If I remember correctly the difference with the memory available on boot up was down to the Oric-1 ROM routines not calculating the value correctly. If you typed PRINT FRE(0) it would give you the correct value. Also the compatibility issues were down to some of the ROM routines being at different locations between the two machines.
Hi Phil. I still have my Atmos which I bought in the mid 80s. Shortly afterwards I also purchased the twin disc drive to go with it, as tape loading was a real pain. Drives were quite expensive at the time. I never hear anything about the disc drives. I seem to remember you had the option of a single or a double. They took a mini disc. I wonder how many they sold? Still got it all packed away in the box room. Should still work. I used to fiddle around with the sound chip commands in a way which I don't think you could do with the Spectrum.
That's great you still have your Oric Atmos and I hope you still get some fun out of it. Disk drives are and were quite rare for these machines as they were very expensive and not many users took them up. But I need to research the drives you mentioned as I really can not place them and it would be good to jog my memory :-) The ZX Spectrum did not have the sound commands you mentioned as it relied mainly on the beep command in basic. Thanks for your great comments. Cheers Phil
@@Re-Tech Hi Phil, Just dug my Atmos and drive out of storage for a closer look. The drive was supplied by Miledart, trading under the name Opelco. Hope that helps your research. The single 3" drive retailed for £184 and the double was £235.75, so as you say, it wasn't cheap. The Atmos receives it's power directly from disc drive unit which makes for a neater arrangement.
That's fantastic. It sounds like a really neat solution, although a very expensive one at about £1000 in today's money. I am going to have to go hunting to find one as I guess they are very rare today. Thanks for the update and I will keep you posted if I find one. Cheers Phil
Thank you for your video, it is very well done, I chose the name of Erebus for my project, because there are less problems with a south pole volcano than with "Gandalf" or "Mario". ;)
Fantastic - Thanks for your comment, they made me smile. I am glad you enjoyed the video and I hope to find some more products for these machines soon. Cheer Phil
I thought it was named after HMS Erebus from the Franklin expedition but she was named after the Volcano I think plus the expedition was a disaster.
Is the Erebus available anywhere? Looks sold out on Ebay
The Ebay store is available again.
@@orickenneth2196 Fantastic!
Thanks, Phil, for addressing the small differences which weren't covered last time out - I just love underdogs in life and in the retro micro world, the Oric stands proud as being one of these. It should have done better but there you go - Sir Clive got in first and maybe Oric rushed their "not quite fully tested and robust enough" machines out to do battle BUT...lo and behold the computer press slaughtered their cassette-loading problems and the rest is history. Three cheers though for the Erebus for putting this reliability right (36 years later!!). Here's to more to follow, Phil - cheers again.
You are welcome and thanks for the great comments. Cheers Phil
Hey @Baz67 fancy seeing you here bud! The Oric world is quite small 😉
@@TotalVyper68 LOL! Hi, Richie, Have a 'cracking' Easter, mate, and enjoy your retro carts, my mate and everyone else here on Phil's channel have a great retro break this bank holiday.
I have both these machines and after watching your video I will purchase the Erebus. I have a similar device for my C64 called a Tapecart.
That's fantastic. Its a great device and you will be supporting the cottage industry that supports these machines.
Cheers Phil
Nice comparison of the machines. If I remember correctly the difference with the memory available on boot up was down to the Oric-1 ROM routines not calculating the value correctly. If you typed PRINT FRE(0) it would give you the correct value. Also the compatibility issues were down to some of the ROM routines being at different locations between the two machines.
Hi Phil. I still have my Atmos which I bought in the mid 80s. Shortly afterwards I also purchased the twin disc drive to go with it, as tape loading was a real pain. Drives were quite expensive at the time. I never hear anything about the disc drives. I seem to remember you had the option of a single or a double. They took a mini disc. I wonder how many they sold? Still got it all packed away in the box room. Should still work. I used to fiddle around with the sound chip commands in a way which I don't think you could do with the Spectrum.
That's great you still have your Oric Atmos and I hope you still get some fun out of it.
Disk drives are and were quite rare for these machines as they were very expensive and not many users took them up. But I need to research the drives you mentioned as I really can not place them and it would be good to jog my memory :-)
The ZX Spectrum did not have the sound commands you mentioned as it relied mainly on the beep command in basic.
Thanks for your great comments. Cheers Phil
@@Re-Tech Hi Phil,
Just dug my Atmos and drive out of storage for a closer look. The drive was supplied by Miledart, trading under the name Opelco. Hope that helps your research. The single 3" drive retailed for £184 and the double was £235.75, so as you say, it wasn't cheap. The Atmos receives it's power directly from disc drive unit which makes for a neater arrangement.
That's fantastic. It sounds like a really neat solution, although a very expensive one at about £1000 in today's money. I am going to have to go hunting to find one as I guess they are very rare today. Thanks for the update and I will keep you posted if I find one.
Cheers Phil
@@timwhittey4121 You should be able to connect a Gotek USB drive to your disk interface and run Sedoric 3.0 which is a really nice 8-Bit DOS
just bought a oric 1 like the video very well described and usefull information keep up good work