Pocket Oric in the works

[Andy Sjostrom]

<a href="http://www.chez.com/edl/">http://www.chez.com/edl/</a><br /><br />Wow! This is a cool retro flashback! I spotted on <a href="http://www.pocketgamer.org">PocketGamer</a> that an Oric emulator for Pocket PCs is in the works! My own history of home computers include (in chronological order): Sinclair ZX-81, Oric-1, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, IBM PC-G (the first 4.77 MHz), IBM PS/2 50, IBM PS/2 70, Gateway, and then on to various Compaq's, and Dell's. I skipped the Vic 20 and Commodore 64. Too much gaming, too little programming... just kidding! No need to go platform war! Let them rest in peace! I recently bought some units of these precious gems on eBay (ZX-81, Spectrum, Oric-1 and Oric Atmos), so I am thrilled to see this emulator!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/PocketOric.gif" /><br /><br />If you too would like to get a fresh retro feeling on a fine Wednesday like today, I recommend a visit to the museum <a href="http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp">Old-Computers.com</a>! I browsed around a while and put together this image of my babies!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/myretro.jpg" />

[Chubbergott]

:D Thanks for the link. Those were the days y'know. I took the C16 - C64 - Amiga - PC route.

:wink: I bet you can't imagine me being the type who would have argued over whether the Amiga was better than the ST!


Do you think that the Sharp PC1260 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=466) could be classed as the first PDA?
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/sharp_pc1261_complete.jpg

[Ivan]

:wink: I bet you can't imagine me being the type who would have argued over whether the Amiga was better than the ST!



Well, there's simply no argument to be made... Amiga was better than the Atari ST. :D

(OK, topic closed - don't want to start a battle of old here)

[mrarkus]

...my Mega ST kicked your Amiga butt :twisted:

[NLS]

Yeah right :)

My A4000/040 with (and even without) my PowerPC card kicks SERIOUS butt of you MegaST (that cannot even display color hires desktop if I remember well? :))

[Andy Sjostrom]

Easy...! :D

You are both wrong. By the time Amiga and Atari fought those battles, both of them had already missed the train. PCs were winning big time, and all Amiga/Atari had were toys. The real home computer battle was a couple of years before your time: between Sinclair vs Commodore. Audience included Oric, Dragon, Sord etc.

... and I say this just to calm things down! :wink:

[NLS]

Who said it was before my time?

COMMODORE 64 RULEZ!!!

I am almost 20 years in computing...

[Andy Sjostrom]

Confession: I always envied the C64 crowd for the superb sound and graphics, the keyboard, joysticks and disc drives. 8)

[Chubbergott]

Easy...! :D

You are both wrong. By the time Amiga and Atari fought those battles, both of them had already missed the train. PCs were winning big time, and all Amiga/Atari had were toys. The real home computer battle was a couple of years before your time: between Sinclair vs Commodore. Audience included Oric, Dragon, Sord etc.

... and I say this just to calm things down! :wink:


:wink: Hehe! With Windows 3.x's multitasking, the Amiga was doing what Windows has only recently learned to do. And in case you didn't realise, Commodore made the Amiga.

Anybody remember the first versions of Sensible Soccer?

[NLS]

Windows 3.x multitasking? Funny... I would call it simplistic task switching...

Up to VERY recently (and within 21st century), even with a Pentium 4 I needed all system resources to format a floppy :)

Amiga to my is STILL the best computer EVER...

Before Sensible was Kick Off...

[Ivan]

The real home computer battle was a couple of years before your time: between Sinclair vs Commodore. Audience included Oric, Dragon, Sord etc.


Not before my time either... :D

My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20, then I upgraded to a C64 then (in 1987 to be exact) came my Amiga 500 and in 1992 my PC.

I've also been doing this for almost 20 years. I remember the C64 vs. Apple vs. TRS-80 (remember Tandy's CoCo?) discussions in our local BBS's (connected through a 300 baud modem)... ahhh those were the days :)

And yes... Amiga's Workbench was a lean, stable, efficient and REAL multitasking OS while Windows 3.X managed to (almost) catch up more than 7 years later.

[zylark]

The good old days! Remembering computers of the past is like remembering old girlfriends. They were all great, but somewhere along the road something better came along...

My (computer) story starts with the ZX Spectrum 48k. What a great little machine. I even had the interface 1 (the all important RS232, networking through a jack cable and then some) & 2 (joystick interface, gotta play those games right y'know). Not to mention the microdrive. A small "tape" drive that used small cartridges with a continous loop tape inside. It stored about 100kb on one cartridge and was FAST.

Next in line was the Spectrum +3. This had a whopping 128kb of ram. However it could only address 64Kb of it, the rest was used as a RAM disk. It also had a built-in 3 inch diskdrive. Why they did'nt go for the already established 3,5 inch format is beyond me.

Soon thereafter I bought an Amiga 500. Main reason was that I had to play SimCity, just don't tell anyone :lol: Like all self-respecting Amiga owners, I customized my A500 to the unrecognizable. A big 100mb HD, a special casing that allowed the HD to be fittet internally, and giving me a seperate keyboard, loads of RAM and extra disk drive. Those were the days. At least here in Scandinavia, with huge parties where the Amiga-following gathered to compete in the demo/intro-scene and meet other user-groups. The Red Sector/Silents party in Glostrup was the apex of this underground society.

Discovering a small little program called Lightwawe 3D, I soon got to the realization that a meager 7mhz Amiga wasnt' gonna cut it. And this was at the same time as the A4000/25 came out. Still use that box, but only to keep dart-scores :D

Enter PC. And lately with XP I feel the PC have gotten on par with the by now ancient Amiga DOS. And 3D rendering is screaming along at 1,4ghz per machine on a 3 machine renderpark...

...and ST's have always sucked 8)

[NLS]

I cannot compare stupid PC (that I own 3-4 and administer 100+) with the Great Amiga Computer.

Apple System X is decades better than XP (and XP hasn't done a good job even COPYING it)...