Oric Chess 0.1: our chess engine on the Atmos
Oric Chess 0.1, beta on Prophet: the Neo6502 Chess engine on the Oric Atmos, in 240 × 200 hi-res, menus, help, saved games on a Sedoric disk. Read the article →
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Le Manoir du Dr Genius returns, in isometric view
Le Manoir du Dr Genius, isometric edition (MDG-NG): Loriciels' Oric adventure as a point-and-click game on the Neo6502, beta 0.95.7 on Prophet. Read the article →
Prophet 0.25: play in the browser, and the Oric
Prophet 0.25 on prophet.3617.fr: play in the browser (Phosphoneo and Phosphoric in WebAssembly), the Oric as a second platform with ProphetOric, required components, firmware category, CRC-32, a two-language site. Read the article →
Porting Asteroids to an Oric-1: what pushed back
Forty phases to fit Asteroids into 20,000 cycles per frame: the budget that did not hold, XOR drawing and its vanishing vertices, the VSync that does not exist, flicker, the ROM we bypass, the BSS, sound borrowed from another machine, and what the emulator was hiding. Read the article →
Phosphoric 2.0: a cycle-stepped machine — and the claim we withdraw
What Phosphoric claimed and why it was wrong, what version 2.0 changed (65x02 oracle, master clock, VIA, ULA, PSG, savestates), what changes visibly, and what we still do not claim. Read the article →
Pushing the Oric's limits: five experimental extensions for the LOCI board
How a cycle-stepped emulator becomes a hardware test bench — with the ABI, registers and diagrams. Read the article →