Since I owned an oric a long time ago, I was curious about this thing that I didn't know. They should really give more info about what is inside, but anyway I made my research on this one : when you run it, you see a text screen with the name pinforic describing a scene of a text adventure, not really what I expected, I thought it was a software collection ? Actually this pinforic is a port of an infocom interpreter for oric, there is no official version for oric. And this text shown is the very first screen of the infocom game "sorcerer". You can get the sorcerer source and compiled version from there : https://github.com/historicals...
and search for an infocom interpreter, in arch there is jzip in aur, but you need to fix the source so it compiles (very easy fixes, obviously it's some very old source!).
After that you are able to run this game natively in linux. There was an article on slashdot about the sources of infocom games here : https://games.slashdot.org/sto...

There's no good reason to download the full version unless you want to test all the 570 machines inside! Just take the light one, it will download what it needs, it's quite fast. I tested the nextstep one, it runs awfully slowly in the qemu, but if you have virtualbox installed you can use it to open the vbox file directly (just edit the vbox file to change the locations of the vdi files).
The images are quite big, for the next you have all the nextstep versions + a few openstep versions and all the apps so you can test everything.
I'd say it would be even better if there was more documentation with each machine, a little like what a real museum would do, because there are some machines that you'll be able to use only if you already know them.

Well at the time the web was still mainly non commercial, scientists and universities, and both had a free web access on specialized network lines so it was fast, so all the home pages which were a big part of the web of the time didn't cost anything, and were hosted on the universities web servers mainly.

There is also another big difference : there was no copyright lawsuit, so there were lots of fan sites for star wars, star trek and so on, and no DMCA take down to be afraid of (there was no video neither, but we didn't even think about that at the time !). A free web. And led by the n-etiquette, totally forgotten today apparently, implicit respect for everyone and read the "famous" manual !

I agree aac is slightly better, but I wasn't in the mood to convert everything to aac, I never bothered with finding new tools for aac, it's much easier to rip a cd to ogg or mp3, I usually use ogg because it's more efficient than mp3 at the same bitrate. Still quite a lot of ogg files today, even if the majority is probably in mp3, I don't like flac, I find it's just a waste of space, go to mp3 @320 kbs in this case, nobody can hear a difference at 320 kbs, and at least it compresses something compared to flac !

I can't believe it's not listed here yet, it was very popular in France and a part of Europe at the time, and less expensive than the C-64 !
Learnt a lot of things on it, from basic to assembler, an heroic age with tapes, but very interesting !

With these signatures, you could assume that there was finally a way to simplify the passing of a parameter by reference (to be able to modify a variable passed as parameter). Well it's not even supported ! You can still use these old references of course, but nothing to simplify the over abundance of $ there !
Well they are between 10 and 20 years late on a feature like this already, even in perl6 (raku) they support this like that :
sub inc(Int $x is rw) {
    $x++;
}

and it's normal, it's one of the 1st things you can think about once you have real signatures for subs ! What a shame... It's like they are afraid to add some serious new functionalities, and meanwhile time passes... !

I was almost sure I would find something able to decompose it, simply in perl5 : Math::Prime::Util there https://metacpan.org/pod/Math:...
with it :
time perl prime.pl 2737631357921793461914298938174501291
1238179781035456451*2211012810782926841
perl prime.pl 2737631357921793461914298938174501291 0,06s user 0,00s system 99% cpu 0,058 total :)