Oric Books

The following is a list of Oric Books in the Centre for Computing History collection. It is not an exhaustive list of and other books may have been published. If you have a book that you would like to donate to our collection, please view our donations page.

There are 10 Oric Books in our collection :

Order By : Title - Release Date - Publisher

Date: 1983 20 Games For The Oric 1

These 20 diverse and highly entertaining games are self contained and easy to enter, and will provide hours of pleasure, using the capabilities of your ORIC to the full. The process of entering the programs will provide insight into the many and varied techniques used in the compilation of programs of this sort. By exploring fully the challenges of computer programming with this book, the reader not only finds games of lasting interest, but may gain insight into sound programming techniques, to be able to originate and write his own games in the future.

Publisher: Micro Press
Author: Wynford James

Date: September 1983 An Introduction to Programming the ORIC-1

Publisher: Bernard Babani Publishing
Author: R.A. & J. W. Penfold

Date: September 1983 Easy Programming for the Oric-1

Shiva's friendly micro series

Publisher: Shiva Publishing Limited
Author: Ian Stewart and Robin Jones

Date: 1983 Games for your Oric

Publisher: Interface/ Virgin Books
Author: Peter Shaw

Date: 1983 Meteoric Programming For the ORIC-1

From the back cover:

"WARNING

Your Oric-1 is about to become Meteoric.

Now you can achieve Meteoric software performance from your micro with this collection of 30 dynamic programs, designed specifically for the Oric-1 home computer."

Publisher: Melbourne House
Author: John Vander Reyden

Date: 1994 Oric - The Story So Far

Book on the history of the Tangerine Computer System's Oric computer.

Second Edition - November 1992
Second Impression - January 1994

This is online in HTML format at http://oric.free.fr/STORY/contents.html

Our copy would appear to be one of the original manuscripts but without the original photographs (only copies of these).

Author: Jonathan Haworth

Date: 1984 The Oric Book of Games

21 Quality Games for your Oric!

Here is a compendium of twenty-one exciting games with something for all the family. The selection comprises a combination of old favourites such as Alien Invaders, Squash and Bobsleigh, and exciting new ideas including Commando Jump, Across the Ravine and Sheepdog Trials. There are also computer implementations of the traditional pastimes, Noughts and Crosses and Dice, a challenging board game in which you can talk to your Oric.

Publisher: Granada Publishing
Author: M. James, S. M. Gee, K. Ewbank