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Interested in coding on RISC OS? Want to learn more or meet others? Join our friendly fireside chat on Zoom—DM for credentials (unchanged). The event is on Saturday, 7th February at 7:30 pm (GMT).
#Zoom #Meetup #RISCOS #Community #RaspberryPi #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers

Interested in coding on RISC OS? Want to learn more or meet others? Join our friendly fireside chat on Zoom—DM for credentials (unchanged). The event is this Saturday, 10th January at 7:30 pm (GMT).
#Zoom #Meetup #RISCOS #Community #RaspberryPi #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers

1995 in the world of #acorncomputers.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #riscos #batman

oregan: "THE FUTURE OF ACORN VIDEO GAMES"
Eckhardt in Batman (1989): "YOU AIN'T GOT NO FUTURE, JACK!"

Newsflash: It's 2025 and Fortran gets released for RISC OS.
https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2025/11/20/episode-iv-a-new-hope #Fortran #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers #OpenSource #RaspberryPi

Interested in coding on RISC OS? Want to learn more or meet others? Join our friendly fireside chat on Zoom—DM for credentials (unchanged). If you are a developer, come and connect. The event is this Saturday, 22nd November, at 7:30 pm (GMT).
#Zoom #Meetup #RaspberryPi #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers

@christineburns

Absolutely worth viewing. An insightful talk by a proper professional, a truly creative engineer. Inspiring.

#SophieWilson #ARM #AcornComputers #ProperEngineers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson

Acorn A5000 Alpha. 37.5MHz ARM clock, 16.67MHz (60ns) RAM clock... 31799 SICK 1.28 Dhrystones/sec... wild.
This is nipping at the heels of an ARM610 RISC PC.

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=468630#p468630

#riscos #acornrisc #AcornComputers #retrocomputing

the ending of Fairytale, where iconic items swap and meddle in the wrong places

and the game reinforces it is Not for Kids, or at least Not for Kids Playing Alone

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/10/28/fairytale-bane-of-giants/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #textadventure #interactivefiction #AcornComputers

castle in the clouds, voice thunders FEE-FI-FO-FUM

Fairytale continues, with child-appropriate content like cold-blooded murder and a puzzle so outrageous even the authors of Ferret would think it went too far.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/10/27/fairytale-over-the-moon/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #AcornComputers

game screen with a "hidden cascading waterfall"

Next up: the first adventure of Keith Campbell (legendary adventure columnist). This was designed for a team adventure-playing contest and is "for children" (based on books by the children's author Enid Blyton) but is much harder than that designation suggests.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/10/26/fairytale-1982/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #AcornComputers

header of one of Keith Campbell's columns, showing a dragon and the word Adventure

Now I just need to find a copy of Flight Simulator Toolkit for the Acorn Archimedes and I've got the full set. #retrocomputing #riscos #AcornComputers

Newsflash: It's 2025, and Fortran gets released for RISC OS. #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers #OpenSource #RISCOS https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/dde

This isn't a repair one should consider doing lightly. But sometimes there's no alternative. #retrocomputing #electronics #acornarchimedes #AcornComputers

ARM3 processor, soldered to an A5000 motherboard. A pin half way up the side closest the camera has been repaired by carving out part of the IC package with a diamond grinder and attaching a hair-thin wire.

Got RISC OS 3.11 burned to ROM and working nicely with my 4MB upgrade, now just embarking on trying to make the ethernet card work, if anyone has the flash rom dump for the i-Cubed EtherLAN 500 network card I'd love a copy :blobfoxlaughsweat:

#VintageComputing #acorn #AcornComputers #riscos #archimedes #acornarchimedes

A picture inside an Acorn Archimedes A310, the top cover is removed from the horizontally mounted box, showing a daughterboard on the motherboard with 4 chips in in labelled "RISC OS 3.11 ROM 1-4", a ribbon cable is coming from that daughterboard to another lower down in the image slightly off screen.

An image showing an Acorn AKF12 14" CRT monitor to the left of the same Acorn Archimedes A310 with the lid still removed and a keyboard in front of it, on the screen are 2 windows, one showing the memory usage, showing 4096k (4mb) installed, and the other window showing it is running RISC OS 3.11.

An image take of the back of the Acorn Archimedes A310 lifted up into view by my hand, showing 3 podules installed, with the top left one being a shiny brushed metal blanking plat with a RJ45 and BNC connector.

A picture of the Acorn Archimedes A310 with the top removed, taken from the front, the podule bus backplane, a vertical board which plugs into the horizontal motherboard and has 4 connections in a 2x2 format allowing podules boards to be installed horizontally from the back, there has been 3 podules installed, with the podule board in the top right is the i-Cubed EtherLAN 500 network card.

Without an ARM, there'd be no RISC OS. Modular, Compact and quick. #Retro #AcornComputers #ARM #OpenSource #RISCOS #London #Show #October #RaspberryPi
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/
https://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

A massive shout-out to everyone who made it.

The next meet-up is pencilled in for the 22nd November. #Code4Fun #RISCOS #ARM #Retro #AcornComputers

Our next Coding on RISC OS meetup for programmers looking to connect and maybe support others or new starters is this coming Saturday, 20th September, 7:30 pm (GMT+1). Come and join in. DM me for the credentials (no change) #Zoom #Meetup #Retro #AcornComputers #RaspberryPi #ARM

Been to the auction today....
Came back with:
2 x Atari 800
1 x Acorn archimedes 310 and monitor
2 x BBC micros
1x Acorn electron with tape recorder

I may have overspent a bit

#retrocomputing #atari #AcornComputers

Car boot with two Atari 800, Acorn archimedes 310 and monitor, two BBC micros and an electron with tape recorder

A big shout-out to everyone who made it. The next fireside chat is pencilled in for the 20th September. #OpenSource #RISCOS #Community #Code4Fun #Zoom #Meetup #RaspberryPi #ARM #Rockchip #Retro #AcornComputers

I was expecting a bag of spanners, but pleasantly surprised #RISCPC #Logo #AcornComputers

https://youtu.be/4Plc8DmweCw?si=YRyfY5OicViwHfMn

#AcornComputers

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