European association · currently being formed

Tachibana

たちばな — the wild citrus

We keep Europe's 8-bit micros running — and we keep writing software for them.

Cycle-accurate emulation, operating systems, creation tools, hardware documentation and archives. Starting with the Oric, then its contemporaries.

Our work

ROM dumps, schematics, manuals, floppies. Whatever isn't copied today won't exist in ten years.

Emulators, operating systems, graphics and sound tools. A preserved machine is a dead machine if nobody writes for it.

Documentation, workshops, open source. Everything we make stays reusable by whoever comes next.

Projects

What we're working on

Cycle-accurate Oric emulator written in C, including V23 / Digitelec modem emulation.

In development

Preemptive multitasking OS with a graphical interface for the FPGA-based Oric 2, in 65C816 assembly.

In development

A toolchain for creators: HIRES image conversion, tile map editor, graphic assets.

Active

Videotex server and Minitel revival — telematics heritage alongside micro heritage.

Live

Join us

The association is being set up. Leave us an address and you'll get the membership call and the invitation to the founding meeting.

Code, testing, translation, scanning documentation. Everything we publish is open source.

A machine in the attic, a box of floppies, a folder of listings: we document them and give them back.