year 1985

The NOVA 64 seems to be a legal copy of the Oric Atmos for the Yugoslavian market. A Yugoslavian company (Avtotehna, based in Ljubljana) obtained a licence to make 5000 machines. They were known as the Oric Nova 64 and were Atmos based. It was an exact Atmos machine, only the “NOVA 64” label being different. The motherboard however seems a bit different from well known Issue 3 & 4 ones used in most official Oric machines (RAM chips layout is different). The 64 in “Nova 64” comes from the fact the Atmos has really 64 KB RAM, but 16 KB are masked by the ROM at startup, thus leaving “only” 48 KB to work with the Basic language.