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Altair 8800 Computer, Altair 32 Emulator, Altair Front Panel Computer history, Old Computers
In 1999, I (Rich Cini) downloaded a copy of a MITS Altair emulator program written for the Windows platform by Claus Giloi. Claus, a programmer working for Microsoft, wrote a 16-bit Windows-based "emulator" for the Altair and IMSAI 8080-based computers as a desktop toy more than a usable emulation. By 2000, Claus' Web site had disappeared (although you still can find copies of the original executables on the Web, including on this site.
The machine, like it's predecessor, became popular over the channel in France. The French models incorporated a scart power supply which tidied up the Oric cable problem that I am sure Oric users will remember (a cable for the machine, one for the cassette deck, one for the TV and one for any other peripherals that may be attached!). Phew. The Oric Atmos was a decent machine that never really managed to take off in the UK. It lived through 1984 and 1985 before fading into obscurity as it lost out to the Commodore 64 , ZX Spectrum .
Oric Atmos - Мозилин фајерфокс (Mozilla Firefox)
What is an Oric Atmos? - Мозилин фајерфокс (Mozilla Firefox)
THE ORIC ATMOS 48K The new computer that takes a remarkable step forward in home computer technology. Which is hardly surprising when you consider ifs a development of the Oric-1,the UKvcomputer that was voted 'Best of the Year' in France. The original best-selling Oric-1 (150,000 already sold) has been completely re-styled, and refined to include a number of important advances. USABLE MEMORY Believe it or not, computers often suffer from amnesia. 99% start off with large enough memories, but operating functions like text/colour sound and more particularly high resolution graphics, take large bytes out of them. Leaving very little 'usable' memory for programming and games. Not so the new Oric Atmos 48K.
The Oric Atmos was a British designed and built machine and was the successor to the Oric 1. Oric International to released the Oric Atmos, which added a true keyboard and an updated V1.1 ROM to the Oric-1. Soon after the Atmos was released, the modem, printer and 3-inch floppy disk drive originally promised for the Oric-1 were announced and released by the end of 1984.
Computing History - Oric Atmos - Мозилин фајерфокс (Mozilla Firefox)
The Oric Site - Мозилин фајерфокс (Mozilla Firefox)
Side B holds the ALC program (Automatic Level Control), described on the inlay. I suppose it corrects the loading routines, preventing the computer to detect errors before the program actually started loading (bug corrected in later Atmos ROMs).Although it looks like an unimpessive keyboard-like box, the Commodore 64 was incredibly popular. More C64s have been sold than any other single computer system, even to this day. That's about 17 million systems, according to the Commodore 1993 Annual Report. In a 1989 interview , Sam Tramiel, then-president of Commodore, said that "When I was at Commodore we were building 400,000 C64s a month for a couple of years." The C64 looks nearly identical to the Commodore VIC-20 , released in 1981.
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Commodore USA's custom Linux distribution, called Commodore OS Vision, comes pre-installed on the C64x which will allow you to play all your favorite 8-bit era Commodore games with a single click. It even has the option to boot right into the original C64's full screen READY prompt (left), where you can also launch classic games. Commodore OS Vision also allows you to boot straight into the included XMBC Media Center allowing you to use the C64x as a home theater system.
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Old Computer Museum
On this site you will be able to see my collection of vintage computers. I have started collecting computers some time ago, when a co-worker gave me his old IBM PC . That computer (you will see it in the collection) started a hobby and the entire collection.
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Welcome to old-computers.com, the most popular website for old computers. Have a trip down memory lane re-discovering your old computer, console or software you used to have. It's been 13 years now since this adventure began. A lot of work has been done since, but a great amount of interesting and varied work remains to be done, so we need your help! If you think you can help us, click here to find how .
Visual 6502 Links
Links No work stands alone, and we have great admiration and gratitude for the many excellent websites dedicated to the 6502, Atari 2600, microprocessors, emulation, and simulation. Here, we list just a few that have been particulary helpful and interesting.Here is a collection of some amazing 6502-based projects on the web built by fellow enthusiasts. Many of these sites offer schematics, source code, and even photos! If you know of a self-built 6502 system on the web that is not listed here please send us the URL via email . Also, www.6502.org offers free web hosting for sites with good 6502 content, just ask if you'd like to take advantage of this service. Homebuilt 6502 Computers & Hardware
Homebuilt Projects
This is the intro sequence of the game Space:1999 for the Oric (a 6502-based computer of the 80's). Sound is quite distorted, probably because of ...
Oric Atmos - YouTube
The documentation and source of the xz80 Spectrum emulator for Unix and X11 are available from this WWW server as a single file. The latest version (as at 10 August 1995) is version 0.1d. You have a choice of formats.