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27 Jul 2025
Today's fun fact: Browsing the web on an Archimedes (real hardware, not emulated) with ArcWeb is very much still possible!
(Bonus hat-tip to @ActionRetro1 for creating FrogFind to make pages usable on old systems!)
ALT A screenshot of RISC OS 3.1 running ArcWeb, a web browser from the mid-1990s showing the Wikipedia page for RISC OS displayed using FrogFind.
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New RPCEmu today, 0.9.5. marutan.net/rpcemu Scroll Wheel, quick blank floppy discs, LBA hard disc support @riscosity @riscosnews @riscos
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2 Mar 2024
Another excellent deep dive into how a classic Acorn game works.
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28 Sep 2023
ALT Bart Simpson repeatedly writing "I do not need another Raspberry Pi" on a blackboard in a classroom.
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7 Aug 2023
London double-decker bus racing in 1982. Sponsored by Acorn Computers.
youtube.com/watch?v=8SlO5_ykโฆ
(Hat-tip to @tomscott's newsletter for the link)
ALT A screen capture of two London double-decker busses on a race circuit in 1982. One bus has an Acorn Computer advertising board on the side.
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25 Jul 2023
Trying to get away from the silliness of Twitter/X/whatever it's called this week? Good news: We're now available on Bluesky:
bsky.app/profile/riscos.bskyโฆ
And, of course, we're also on Mastodon:
mastodon.social/@riscos
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16 Jun 2023
Today marks two years since the Cloverleaf Kickstarter ended with โฌ11,034 raised. ๐
Most of the rewards remain unfulfilled and there's been no updates in months. ๐ค
Seems a high price for a reskinned RO Direct and a filer app that's expensive and doesn't work very well. ๐ธ
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14 Apr 2023
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13 Apr 2023
Occasionally, the ROOL forum users remind us why we don't bother with the forum.
One thread has a suggestion that because RISC OS is modular, the GPL is irrelevant. It then devolves into arguments about how the GPL is bad becuase they can't circumvent it to steal code they want.
ALT Double facepalm. For when one facepalm doesn't cut it.
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10 Apr 2023
Some great Easter fun for the Beeb from @educraftuk! ๐
9 Apr 2023
New Easter game for the Acorn BBC Master from @educraftuk
PIXEL DASH - Rabbit Rampage
bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4โฆ
By Andrew Rowland with graphics by @colinhoad @femtosonic & @barbarossa69
For more info see: stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtoโฆ
For more levels bookmark play.educraft.uk
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31 Mar 2023
The makers of @AppleTVPlus' new Tetris film clearly have good taste in microcomputers.
Could have picked a slightly less yellowed one, though...
ALT A man playing Tetris on a BBC Microcomputer in AppleTV ' new film, Tetris.
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2 Jan 2023
Oddly, Cloverleaf tagged a post about their filer app with #Archimedes despite there being no chance of it running on one (last we checked, it uses obscene amounts of RAM and has a binary way bigger than RISC OS 5's ROM).
(Screenshot becuase Cloverleaf still block us on Twitter)
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2 Jan 2023
It is, of course, absolutely possible to create new applications that will work on old and new versions of RISC OS alike. Take @PaoloFabioZaino's upcoming Launchpad application for example, seen here running on an Archimedes. That's some excellent work!
x.com/PaoloFabioZaino/statusโฆ
31 Dec 2022
#RISC_OS Here is a "quicky" picture of !Launchpad running on an Archie with 4MB RAM and RISC OS 3.11. It runs fine and smooth and is very responsive! ๐คฉ - Be aware, it requires Nested Window Manager Module loaded (the only requirement to use it on RO 3)
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29 Dec 2022
On it! A3000 PCB is long overdue. Many battery mangled boards out there....
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24 Dec 2022
The IconBar has posted a short roundup of some of the recently uploaded ABug talks in case you missed them:
iconbar.com/articles/ABug_prโฆ
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21 Dec 2022
In today's ABug talk upload, Alan Peters and Martin Piper tell the story of the 1990s Acorn/RISC OS game publisher, TBA Software.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-9c-aqโฆ
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19 Dec 2022
Another new ABug talk today. This time, @colinhoad talks to Tony Oakden about how Acorn Electron games like Quest, Star Port and Camelot launched his career in game development.
youtube.com/watch?v=OT5aLnAOโฆ
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