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Spring cleaning has started early in my computer room.
The desk behind me, which used to be Arianna's, was covered in piles of "stuff" from the past couple of years.
Made great progress today by organizing a lot of it to our old ironing board frame.
I hope to get the desk totally workable for computer projects, including Oric Atmos and Commodore C128.
#ComputerDesk #SpringClean #OricAtmos #CommodoreC128 #IroningBoard

Computer desk behind me. Making progress in Spring Cleaning it.

Organized piles of "staff" on an Ironing Board frame.

My first computer was given to me in 1983 when I was 16 years old.
This was the Oric-1, closely followed by an upgrade to the Oric Atmos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer)
I still own an Oric Atmos, but have not powered it up in a few years.
#Oric #Oric1 #OricAtmos

I even have my own Oric page on Oric.org
http://thespider.oric.org/

That's where emulators come in, with a range available for various hosting platforms.
http://oric.free.fr/emulator.html
For years the main one was Euphoric, which was strictly DOS based. #Euphoric

Euphoric was succeeded by Oricutron
https://github.com/pete-gordon/oricutron
http://www.petergordon.org.uk/oricutron
This excellent emulator is available for many platforms with pre-built binaries. For Linux however, you have to build from source. #Oricutron

Since I had not ran Oricutron in quite a while, I needed to chose what host machine to run it on.
I chose my Asus EeePC 1000 Netbook, a 32 bit machine on which I have #BunsenLabs #Linux running.
I purchased this practical computer way back in March 2009.
Here's my blog post from that time:
https://solusspider.w3spaces.com/SolusSpider_002_2009-03-27_Small-Computer_Big-Excitement.html

Ran into compiling issues, mostly with the SDL library.
Spent a few days of spare time battling with multiple compile error codes and lots of Google-foo searches.
Basically gave up last evening, and decided to try the win32 pre-built binary via Wine.
It worked great!!!
Would I prefer Oricutron running as a Linux program? Yes, but sometimes you have to go with what works.
Now I can play game classics such as Centi and Hopper, as well as maybe get back into BASIC programming.

Any other Oric users out there in the #Fediverse?

We said "Only AMIGA Makes It Possible" everytime & everywhere, but we must admit that we have in stock in our collection, some other machines ATARIs & AMSTRAD.

Are we traitors?

#amiga #commodore #cbm #atari #amstrad #ORIC #ORIC1 #OricAtmos #Laser #Apple #8bit #Geek