--- title: Oric NOVA 64 categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Yugoslavia years: - '1984' cpus: - 6502A params: name: NOVA 64 image: /media/museum/photos/oric_nova64_1s.jpg company: /companies/oric company_name: Oric specs: - label: NAME value: NOVA 64 - label: MANUFACTURER value: Oric - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Yugoslavia - label: YEAR value: ? 1984 - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Tangerine Basic (in fact unlicensed Microsoft Basic) - label: KEYBOARD value: |- QWERTY, mechanical keyboard, 58 keys. 4 arrow keys.\ ESC, CTRL, DEL, RETURN, SHIFT (x 2), FUNCT. - label: CPU value: 6502A - label: SPEED value: 1 mHz - label: RAM value: 48 KB - label: ROM value: 16 KB - label: TEXT MODES value: 40 chars x 28 lines - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 240 x 200 (+ 3 text lines) - label: COLORS value: '8' - label: SOUND value: 3 voices, 8 octaves + white noise - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 28 (W) x 17,5 (D) x 5,5 (H) cm / 1.25 kg - label: I/O PORTS value: Power supply, Expansion port, Printer/Centronics port, Tape-recorder DIN plug, RGB video out, RF TV out - label: POWER SUPPLY value: External power supply / IN 220V (+10;-15 %); 50 Hz. / OUT 7V DC - label: PRICE value: Unknown tabs: - photos - hardware - software - emulators - links - docs forum_thread: 1154 photos: - title: ORIC NOVA 64 subtitle: '' text: |- Apparently, only the label "Oric Nova 64" differs from the original Atmos. Thanks to Ranko Vukcevic for this picture image: /media/museum/photos/oric_nova64_1.jpg - title: FRONT subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Ranko Vukcevic for this picture image: /media/museum/photos/oric_nova64_front.jpg - title: REAR subtitle: '' text: Thanks to Ranko Vukcevic for this picture image: /media/museum/photos/oric_nova64_rear.jpg - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: |- This motherboard is slightly different from well known Issue 3 & 4 motherboards of the official Oric-1/Atmos systems, especially RAM chips layout. Thanks to Ranko Vukcevic for this picture image: /media/museum/photos/oric_nova64_mobo.jpg hardware: - title: JASMIN II F.D. UNIT subtitle: '' text: The Jasmin II was a 3" double-sided floppy drive unit. It was released in 1985, designed by T.R.A.N. and manufactured by Dattel, two french companies. Up to four units could be connected in chain. Each one featured an operating system called T.DOS then FT.DOS. Each diskette had a 357 KB capacity (2 sides x 41 tracks x 17 sectors x 256 bytes) image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_jasmin2_1.jpg - title: CUMANA EXPANSION BOX subtitle: '' text: This expansion holds a power supply unit and a dual expansion port allowing the floppy disk unit and another expansion device to be connected simultaneously. image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_atmos_cumanaexp_s1.jpg - title: VOCAL SYNTHESIZER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_synth_vocal.jpg - title: LIGHT PEN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_lightpen.jpg - title: 8 IN/OUT BOARD subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_8_io.jpg - title: ATMOS MICRODISC subtitle: '' text: |- The official Oric disk-drive. Soooo beautiful... Disc drive uses 320 Kb. formatted, double side 3'' diskette. In the first versions, operating system only managed sequential files. image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_atmos_microdsic_1.jpg - title: ATMOS PLOTTER subtitle: '' text: This is the same as the MCP-40 for the Oric-1. This type of plotter (4 colors) was widely used for the micro-computers... image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_atmos_mcp40_1.jpg - title: INSIDE ATMOS PLOTTER subtitle: '' text: |- The MCP-40 plotter uses a Japanese printing mechanism manufactured by Sharp. It's a little mechanical marvel able to print extremely precise four colour texts and graphics. Text is printed with 40 or 80 characters per line, at 10 characters per second speed. Characters size and printing direction may be modified (horizontal, vertical or diagonal). **(1)** Paper used is a roller of 115 mm width.\ **(2)** Printer command buttons.\ **(3)** Electromagnet that pushes the pen against paper for writing.\ **(4)** The print head moves laterally right across the paper width and swivels to carry out a pen colour change.\ **(5)** The head is connected through a cable to an engine which ensures its side moving by 0.2 mm steps.\ **(6)** A second engine controls top and bottom paper moving, also by 0.2 mm steps. image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_atmos_mcp40_2.jpg screenshots: - title: L'AIGLE D'OR subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_aigledor.gif - title: CATEGORIC subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_categoric.gif - title: HONEY KONG subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_honeykong.gif - title: HOPPER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_hopper.gif - title: KRLLYS subtitle: loading screen text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_krillys.gif - title: MAGNETIX subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_magnetix.gif - title: MR WIMPY subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_mrwimpy.gif - title: RABBIT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_rabbit.gif - title: SUPER JEEP subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_superjeep.gif - title: TRIATHLON subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_triathlon.gif - title: ZORGON'S REVENGE subtitle: '' text: A legendary game for the Oric ! A must have ! image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_zorgons.gif - title: LE TOMBEAU D'AXAYACATL subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_axayacatl.gif - title: THE HOBBIT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_hobbit.gif - title: ICE GIANT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_icegiant.gif - title: KRILLYS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_krillys-2.gif - title: MANIC MINER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_manicminer.gif - title: POOPY subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_poopy.gif - title: SKIING subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_skiing.gif - title: TENNIS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_tennis.gif - title: ZOOLYMPICS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/oric_ss_zoolympics.gif emulators: - title: Euphoric url: http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/emulator.html platform: MS DOS text: The best ORIC emulators - title: Oric/MacOS url: http://www.bannister.org/software/oric.htm platform: Apple text: Oric/MacOS is an Oric emulator for the Macintosh. - title: Xeuphoric url: http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/xeuphoric/ platform: Unix / Linux text: Oric emulator for X11 platforms - title: AmOric url: http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/EMULATORS/Amoric.lha platform: Amiga OS text: Oric emulator for the Amiga systems - title: ArcOric url: http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/EMULATORS/ArcOric12 platform: RISC OS text: Oric emulator for RISC/OS - title: AtOric url: http://oric.ifrance.com/oric/EMULATORS/atoric09.zip platform: Atari text: works with all Atari & Compatibles (Hades, Milan) - title: Oriculator url: http://code.google.com/p/oriculator/ platform: Multiplatform text: Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers. It is written in plain C, and uses SDL. It is designed to be portable. links: - title: Club Europe Oric Home Page url: http://ceo.oric.org/ text: Club Europe Oric (or CEO for short) is an Oric user group - title: Defence Force Oric url: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/index.htm text: Some very interesting info here - title: Marc's Oric Page url: http://mapage.cybercable.fr/marcpage/oric.htm text: Personal home page with some original programs to download - title: My nostalgia Oric page url: http://www.geffers.demon.co.uk/oricpage.html text: From an old Tansoft programmer - title: ORIC International url: http://www.oric.org text: I think this is where you must go first. There is among other things, a huge software database - title: Oric WebRing url: http://v.webring.com/hub?ring=oric text: Everything for the Oric - title: Oric World url: http://oric.iFrance.com/oric/index_french.html text: The site of the famous Fabrice Frances (includes the Oric Story book) - title: Pascal's Oric Page url: http://pleclerc.free.fr/Oric/OricPage.html text: in french, with ROM file to make your Oric Euro-Compatible ! - title: Rhetoric url: http://www.rhetoric.8k.com/ text: The last remaining British Oric magazine. - title: Swedish Oric Homepage url: http://come.to/oric text: Home of the Swedish software archive - title: The Reluctant Dragon url: http://freespace.virgin.net/james.groom/index.htm text: Home of the Oric FAQ, the Oric Cheats Directory and more - title: TheSpider's Oric Web url: http://oricspider.home.insightbb.com/ text: Personal site dedicated to the Oric Atmos - title: Twilighte url: http://twilighte.oric.org text: Site of the excellent Oric programmer of Magnetix. Many useful info and impressive works ! - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com text: Discussion about Oric computers docs: - title: ORIC-1 BASIC PROGRAMMING MANUAL url: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_manual_oric/index.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric-1_basic-programming-manual.jpg text: |- [**ORIC-1 BASIC PROGRAMMING MANUAL**](http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_manual_oric/index.htm)written by John SCRIVEN  compiled/archived by Unknown\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Defence Force](http://www.defence-force.org/) - title: MANUEL DE L'ATMOS (FRENCH MANUAL) url: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_manual_oric/index.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric-atmos_manuel.jpg text: |- [**MANUEL DE L'ATMOS (FRENCH MANUAL)**](http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_manual_oric/index.htm)written by Ian Adamson / Oric International  compiled/archived by William Saint-Cricq\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Defence Force](http://www.defence-force.org) - title: ORIC ATMOS & ORIC-1 - GRAPHICS AND MACHINE CODE TECHNIQUES url: http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric-1-atmos_geoff-philips_1.jpg text: |- [**ORIC ATMOS & ORIC-1 - GRAPHICS AND MACHINE CODE TECHNIQUES**](http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp)written by Geoff Phillips  compiled/archived by Geoff Phillips\  type of document : PDF\  source : [1000Bit](http://www.1000bit.net/) - title: MANUEL D'UTILISATION DU SEDORIC (FRENCH) url: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_dos/manuel_microdisc_et_sedoric/index.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric_microdsic-manuel.jpg text: |- [**MANUEL D'UTILISATION DU SEDORIC (FRENCH)**](http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_dos/manuel_microdisc_et_sedoric/index.htm)written by Fabrice BROCHE & Denis SEBBAG  type of document : HTML\  source : [Defence Force](http://www.defence-force.org) - title: MICODISC MANUAL url: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_dos/index.htm cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric_microdisc_manual.jpg text: |- [**MICODISC MANUAL**](http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_dos/index.htm)written by Oric Products International Limited  type of document : PDF\  source : [Defence Force](http://www.defence-force.org) - title: ORIC MCP-40 COLOUR PRINTER OPERATION MANUAL url: /media/museum/docs/oric_printer-mcp40_manual.pdf cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/oric_mcp40_manual.jpg text: |- [**ORIC MCP-40 COLOUR PRINTER OPERATION MANUAL**](/media/museum/docs/oric_printer-mcp40_manual.pdf)written by Oric Products International Limited  type of document : PDF\  source : [Defence Force](http://www.defence-force.org) related: - /museum/oric-1 - /museum/oric-atmos oc_id: 1186 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529181737/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1186 date: '2023-05-29' --- The NOVA 64 seems to be a legal copy of the Oric Atmos for the Yugoslavian market. Here is what the Oric FAQ by Jim Groom says : *"A Yugoslavian company (believed to be Avtotehna, based in Ljubljana) obtained a licence to make 5000 machines. Machines were made, but whether they were under license or not is not known in any detail. It is thought that they assembled parts shipped from the UK. I have a contact in Yugoslavia who says there were several in his village and about 30 in a school in the next village. This may suggest that more than 5000 were made. They were known as the Oric Nova 64 and were Atmos based."* Thus, the NOVA 64 seems to be an exact Atmos machine, only the "NOVA 64" label being different. But we hadn't the chance to test one yet to confirm this statement. The motherboard however seems a bit different from well known Issue 3 & 4 ones used in most official Oric machines (RAM chips layout is different). The 64 in "Nova 64" comes from the fact the Atmos has really 64 KB RAM, but 16 KB are masked by the ROM at startup, thus leaving "only" 48 KB to work with the Basic language. --- Thanks to Ranko Vukcevic for the pictures.
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