More Acorn goodness tonight, this time with the A7000+ - Simon the Sorcerer talkie version on CD, good ol' Chris Barrie!

#riscos #acorn #archimedes #A7000 #riscpc

Here's a ittle bit of daft raucous oldskool #protracker #chiptune fun for my m8 kieran's bit in the Allstar Megademo by Bitshifters / Desire and Slipstream released at Nova demoparty last wknd! <3 :)
#archimedes #demoscene #ukscene #bitshifters

Sound fixed and RiscOS4 fully installed on the entire 32GB SD card 🤩

The machine will need a full recap at some point but for now it all works and has an assigned corner to stay set up in 😎👍

#acorn #riscpc #a7000 #archimedes

#bbc #archimedes #britishschool #education

I found a school journal from 1993, when I was ten years old.

In it, were the following screenshots for operating a BBC Micro computer and/or an Archimedes computer.

In 1993, computer literacy was still coming into its own; software packages like spreadsheets and word processors hadn't gone mainstream -- certainly not in terms of ICT (Information Computer Technology) at pre-GCSE level.

But we did spend a lot of time in school learning about #Pendown, which was a very capable word processor:

https://youtu.be/AURsz3eHbD8

I don't recall using Revelation to do anything, but it existed:

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21894/Archimedes%20Revelation%202/

According to the forms in my journal, I didn't get very far.

Says it all, really... I was only ten.

@RYStorm True, I cobbled together a mini engine on the #visionpro for my latest project - an acorn #archimedes emulator

Anyone here able to help me get an Acorn A7000 working with a SD card "hard drive"?

I have used !HForm (v2.1 I think) to format the disk on the machine, which seems to work. I can copy stuff to the drive and restart the machine and it still works.

But if I power off and on, the machine seems to then think the drive is unformatted ☹️

Is there some *configure thing I need to do to make it "stick"?

(Also any docs about this would.be appreciated!)

#acorn #a7000 #archimedes #riscos

“#Cicero Discovering the Tomb of #Archimedes” by Benjamin West

“Cicero said that the tomb of Archimedes had a carved cylinder and sphere, which paid tribute to the great contribution that the scholar gave in mathematics and physics”

https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/archimedes/cicero.htm

https://www.theitalianacademy.com/portfolio-posts/curious-case-tomb-archimedes/

Right, so, if we then gave all the cows typewriters, how long would it take one of them to reproduce all the works of Shakespeare?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2S39AgjFpQ
#Archimedes #Eratosthenes #maths #Diophantus #Diophantine #NumberTheory #mathematics #math #cattle #cows #history

I recently hacked #Elite on the #Acorn #Archimedes to send scores to a live scoreboard across an #Econet network.

I've just published a short article that explains how I did this.

I hope you like it!

https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_over_econet_acorn_archimedes.html

#retrocompting #retrogaming #riscos

I've just released !EliteNet, my first #RISCOS application in 30 years.

It allows #Archimedes #Elite to transmit to an #Econet multiplayer scoreboard (see Yoda’s score in the second screenshot, for example).

I’ve loved every minute of this little side project!

Here's the repo: https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-over-econet-acorn-archimedes

If you want to see this in action, we’ll be playing multiplayer Elite at the National Museum of Computing’s LAN Party on 7-8 June.

You can find more information about the party here, including ticket details: https://www.tnmoc.org/events/econet-lan-party-2025-1

See you there!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #tnmoc

Sometimes it's the small projects that are the most enjoyable.

Case in point: this month I'm building !EliteNet, which connects the #Archimedes version of #Elite to the Econet multiplayer scoreboard, so ArcElite players can compete against #BBCMicro players.

I last wrote a RISC OS application in 1995. That's 30 years ago! Turns out that BBC BASIC V is still a great language to code in.

And I've never written a RISC OS relocatable module before, so even now, this old dog is learning new ARM-based tricks.

And… ArcElite! ❤️

I absolutely love this hobby.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #riscos

#Archimedes is reported to have said (Pappus of Alexandria in ‘Synagoge’ Book VIII, c. AD 340): “Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth.” We can calculate that this place would be about 6 million light years away from us. That is about 60 times the width of our Milky Way galaxy.

Carpe momentum - das #Zitat des Augenblicks: "Wo ist denn das Wasser?" - "Na, raus, als du reingesprungen bist. Es ist kein Platz für euch beide da drin." Obelix und Asterix in #Asterix als Gladiator, Seite 21. #Archimedes

Asynchronous by DESiRE (Acorn Archimedes Demo )

https://video.infiniteloop.tv/videos/watch/9e863662-dfca-4fee-83e8-3bad57e36b4a

🟡 I Will Move The Earth, Archimedes c. 287–212 B.C.E.⁣
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“Co se týče síly,” mumlal Archimédes. “Já jsem tak trochu fyzik, Lucie, a něco ti řeknu. Síla se váže.”
“Co to znamená?”
“To je takový zákon, Lucie. Síla, která působí, se tím váže. Čím budete silnější, tím více svých sil na to spotřebujete; a jednou přijde chvíle –”

https://www.kapkacapka.cz/2016/03/smrt-archimedova.html

#KarelCapek #Capek #archimedes #kruhy #sila

Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. Now version 2025-02-26 has been released:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-02-00111-EN.html

#Amiga #Emulation #archimedes #amstradcpc #Atari2600 #AtariST #colecovision #commodorevic20

I am delighted to announce that the 2nd of four #risc_os AI Assistants, designed for beginners and those wanting to enjoy playing with AI and BBC BASIC, is now available to everyone! 😊

More details on how to access it for free in the link below:

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/19699

#AI #LLM #customgpt #bbcbasic #Archimedes #riscos #raspberrypi #programming #coding #retrocomputing #acorn #ArtificialIntelligence

On #SaturnDay here’s “Starfighter 3000”. This is a 1996 3D air combat game developed by Studio 3DO & Krisalis Software & published by Imagineer. It’s an enhanced port of a game originally released on the #Acorn #Archimedes in 1994.
#Retrogaming #Sega #Saturn

The region around #MontesApenninus including #Eratosthenes & #Archimedes at 16:59UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of 1,000 frames #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters #LunarMountains