[[Image:Oric Atmos.jpg|500px400px|right|thumb|The iconic Oric Atmos]] [[File:Oric-hebdogiciel.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Breaking news]]
The Oric-1 and Oric Atmos were [[6502]]-powered competitors to the 48kb [[ZX Spectrum]]. The Oric 1 has very much the same form factor, including calculator-style keys, but the Oric Atmos provides a full-travel keyboard.
Originally one of the competitors for the contract to be the [[BBC computer Micro]] that was ultimately awarded to [[Acorn]], the Oric retains an unusual mixed text/graphics display mode that utilises inline colour attributes.
The Oric's display is 40 bytes across. Each of those bytes may be a control code (to change foreground or background colour, enable or disable graphics mode, etc) or actual content. While in text mode, the content is a character code and the character graphic is looked up indirectly. While in graphics mode, the content is a direct representation of the pixels on that line.
The Oric machines were not successful in the UK during their commercial lifetime but obtained a dedicated following in France by luck: the Orics were the only machine in their price range to ship with an RGB output socket, which made them the only machine in their price range to be usable with French SECAM televisions, via their SCART(/Peritel) sockets.
In January 1985, it was announced that the grand total number of Oric-1 and Oric Atmos units sold since 1983 was around 350 000. [https://www.quantum-bits.org/?p=5065 Source]
== Links ==
*[https://youtu.be/pGd7oQpQLJ4 Oric 1 System Review] by [[Nostalgia Nerd]]
*[https://youtu.be/NwGkkbMuGFI L'ORIC-1 en détail (histoire, jeux, démos, hardware, BASIC)] by [[Olipix]]
*[https://youtu.be/DpTt9_ptq4M Over 50 Oric games in under 30 minutes]
*[https://youtu.be/wiOqVO4VHCw TV advertisement Oric]
*[http://oric.free.fr/ Oric world]
*[https://wiki.defence-force.org/doku.php?id=oric:main Defence Force wiki] Oric wiki
*[https://library.defence-force.org/ The Oric Library]
*[[Media:Oric - Service manual.pdf]]
*[http://oric.free.fr/HARDWARE/ula.html Oric 1/Atmos Unofficial ULA Guide]
*[https://oric.signal11.org.uk/html/ula-dieshot.htm ULA Decapped!]
*[[Media:R6522 VIA datasheet.pdf|6522 VIA datasheet]]
*[https://forum.defence-force.org Defence Force] [https://ceo.oric.org/community/ Club Europe Oric] [https://oric.forumactif.org/ Forum Oric] Oric forums*[https://www.oric.org Oric International] Software Complete software collection of 2730 programs and games
*[https://oric.games/ JOric] Online Oric emulator
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