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There's recently been a lot of questions, on Facebook, or on the forums, about the differences between Erebus, Cumulus, Microdisc, Cumana, etc... so I took the opportunity to do a brief presentation of all these options, what they can do, and what the drawbacks are.

Direct links:
- 00:45 - Canada
- 01:06 - Oric Tape Drive
- 02:23 - Tape Drive
- 03:44 - The Oric Microdisc
- 04:39 - The Cumana disk drive
- 05:12 - TRAN's JASMIN disk drive
- 06:55 - HxC floppy drive emulator
- 09:10 - Gotek floppy drive emulator
- 12:32 - Cumulus
- 16:15 - Erebus
- 18:35 - Cumana Reborn
- 19:48 - Microdisc + Gotek hybrid
- 20:10 - Microdisc controller board
- 20:26 - Demonstration: Erebus on the real Oric
- 22:38 - Demonstration: Cumulus on the real Oric
- 24:49 - Demonstration: Microdisc on the real Oric
- 25:45 - Digression about WHY using disk instead of tape
- 28:00 - Demonstration: Gotek on the real Oric

Sorry for the violent ending, I fumbled during editing!

As usual, feel free to comment if you have remarks, suggestions, questions, or ideas of topics you'd like to be covered in my videos.

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