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How to program the oric hardware (VIA, FDC, ...) is also welcome.
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What is the best way to connect my Ferguson cassette player to my laptop , by the 3.5 phono earphone plug is it possible to connect the audio din plug on the tape recorder to some kind of conversion plug to the USB on the laptop to convert a original Oric tape to wav format
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I don't understand the request, how would 3 plugs be involved? (DIN, 3.5 jack and USB?)

Anyway, to plug a DIN tape player plug to a 3.5 jack input on the PC, I use this kind of cable (it was discussed recently):
https://www.amazon.fr/Nedis-C%C3%A2ble- ... 07HFFQVD8/

Along with RCA/Jack adapters (see https://www.amazon.fr/Valueline-AC-001- ... 006512PFG/), this allows loads of things: record Oric sound, record/save/load Oric tape, on RCA or jack based devices on the one side, and DIN based devices on the other (tape player or real Oric). You just have to figure first which RCA plug does what by testing a bit.

Now if there's USB somewhere, so far I have never used USB to capture sound so I have no recommendation ;)
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Maybe something like this ?
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I actually had one like what Kenneth posted, and it did work ok for this type of job :)
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The joy of having laptops that tend to get thinner and thinner to look as phones and drop the audio jacks, thus require the sacrifice of an USB port for sound. While phones are getting bigger and bigger to look like computers.
Guess I'm getting old (and off topic, sorry ;) )
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The orders in for the ZXT CONNECTOR 👍
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Are there any instructions on how to use this device Kenneth, my friend tried it and could not get any output is he missing something , it didn’t come with any instructions ?
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If we browse the audio parameter folder of the computer an other device appear (loudspeaker and microphone), you must select it.
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