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In the early 1980 quite many 8bit computers were released, and in 1983 in particular was the release of the Oric 1.

For the occasion of the 30 years we (bunch of Oric people) decided to make some celebrations, and this includes the release of a brand new game (which should have been released back in 1986 but was canceled) with a competition to win a working Oric Microdisc unit, and at some point there will be a 30 years Oric demo as well (For the demo I will prepare a small SDK with a loader/floppy maker and a mini-demo OS and make it available to anyone who want to participate, everybody is welcome!).

If you are just interested by the Oric and don't know much about it, what you can do is to follow the facebook page, it's quite low traffic but we try to post one message a day on a topic of interest with some information not necessarily known by everybody.

The official page (in english and french) where we post the main events:
http://oric30years.defence-force.org

The facebook page (in english only) with the daily post:
https://www.facebook.com/OricBirthday
(today's post was about Twilighte's awesome contribution to the Oric games and demos)

Got myself an Atmos + disc drive last year and got even HxC to work with it, but after that it's been quiet on that front. The 6502 and lack of vertical sync were somewhat discouraging. In any case, glad to hear new stuff is coming out!

Well, you can still cheat for the vsync and use the hardware trick.
It works very well :)

Congrats! I've been doing some things on the microtan65 but haven't got to the Oric yet. Out of interest did the MYM player ever get released for it? I've been looking for the file format for a while but I've only found z80 source.

I did a MYM player port - a loonnnnn time ago.

It's what I used for the Buggy Boy demo.
You can find some demo musics there http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/dbug/mymplay/index.htm.

I can release the source code if you are interested, just need to find it :D

Heartening to see my ancient MSX project mentioned :)

There you go.
I added the source code of Buggy Boy on my SVN repository, and you can try to use the 'player.s' file to replay MYM files - they are not modified -.

Player is here: http://miniserve.defence-force.org/svn/public/oric/demos/buggy_boy/LcpIntro/player.s

Disclaimer: The demo is from 2004, but the music player is from 1996 and I did not have the time to clean or optimize it, so the code may be (probably is) absolutely horrible and non optimized.

wow, thanks!

Where would one get an Oric computer nowadays?

I would say that most would be on british and french sites.
Both ebay.fr and leboncoin.fr regularly have Atmos.

Right now on ebay there's:
- an Atmos plus Jasmin disc drive (beware, not compatible with microdisc, but more reliable in general)
- about 50 announces with original games

and on le bon coin:
- an Atmos plus MCP-40 color printer/plotter
- 2 with single Atmoses
- bunch of books and games

Generally speaking, finding working Oric Atmos 48k is not difficult, floppy drives and controllers are the problem.

For people looking for rare Oric hardware, my little finger told me that there may be something interesting linked to this particular event:

http://oric30years.defence-force.org/index?page=articles&ref=ART3

Just saying ;)