Follow these guidelines and you will be able to easily grab your programs
from tapes to the Oric, and transfer them faster to your PC.

1. Make your unidirectional parallel cable (read file 'cabling')
2. The safety point : verify that you can CSAVE and CLOAD on a fresh tape with
your old oric.
3. The hassle point : type the Oric utility (about 1155 keystrokes, you can do
it). Run it. Verify it if you made an error in the datas. You don't need any
more this Basic program, but if you want to save it, it's not a bad idea
(perhaps one day you will want to modify it).
4. The important point : save the code with CSAVE"XFER",A#400,E#4FF so that you
will be able to use it another day without retyping all the previous stuff
(are you sure you ran the Basic program before?).
5. The safety point II : verify your recording (CLOAD"XFER",V)

6. Ok, you are quite ready. Beginning with point 6, you will have to do this
every time you reload this utility : DOKE#2F5,#46B so that you will just have
to type !"" to load a program from tape (don't do it before point 7).
7. The integrity point : type HIMEM#5FF so that the programs you load won't be
corrupted by the BASIC commands you use. Note that I have kept this utility
small enough to allow the biggest programs to be read (you have room for a
#AF00 sized program, and even more if you can blindly type).

8. Ok, now you are ready. Type !"" to load a program from tape, look at the top
line for status (if you get ERRORS FOUND, your tape is aging, remember a few
hints : start your recorder a few seconds before, type !"" while the synchro 
has already started, use a small screwdriver to adjust the screw and get the
clearest sound, etc)
9. Start the oriclink utility on the PC, type CALL#496 on the ORIC, and the
Enter key on the PC, 'et voil' : the PC has got it, type a PC filename to 
save it, and restart points 8 and 9 for as many programs you like.
Note to Linux users : as every program that needs to access physical IO ports,
oriclink must be run with root privileges. Run it as root or set the setuid
bit (ie. chown root oriclink ; chmod u+s oriclink ).
