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Well, we've reached 1997, and the era of Acorn 'eating its own dog food' is well and truly over. Each employee to get a PC and Office.

Here's a document I found that explains Acorn's econet and ethernet network in 1990, over 400 machines networked!

(At each point it seems like a terribly expensive thing to do and difficult to justify.) You're not kidding! here's another mail where they break down the costs. The software costs are terrifying. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 08:15:09 GMT From: pdawson (Peter Dawson) To: mhill, hardware Cc: gmacfarlane Sub...

digging through archives I found an email about using Cadence on Sparc machines for PCB design in 1992 From: ABienek (Alex Bienek) To: Hardware Subject: SPARC station requirements Message-Id: <2AFA962F@ABienek> With the installation of the Cadence design tools we will be moving into a new method of ...

Emulators - Daily to weekly
Real Hardware - Weekly to monthly

Me please, Friday to Sunday.

The displays in "The Robots of Death" - and lots of other episodes - are from the BBC's ANCHOR character generator I think they use that in "Revenge of the Cybermen" as well, on the screen at the control desk on Nerva Beacon. A quick snap; vlcsnap-2024-03-07-23h18m23s455.png

A while back, whilst rewatching Doctors 4-7 of Doctor who, I made some notes of every time a computer display was in it with timestamps, the intention was to go back and grab screengrabs, but I never got around to it; Robots of Death - Ep 1 02:52 - 5 line teletext esque display 09:53 - 'Snake' displ...

B3_B3_B3 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:06 pm Should apple have split into a Woz ethos company and a Jobs ethos company after Apple ii?.....

Yes,
wait ...
No!
wait ...
maybe?

I hope they'll be something to plug my new a4 econet card into, it would be good to actually try it!

Hi, this is to announce the working on of a 26bit compatible release of RISC OS from the ROOL source tree. It targets the Risc PC era machines, including the A7000 and A7000+, and therefore RPCEmu as well. https://www.marutan.net/pics/ro26-1.png I've been aware that it should be possible to build a ...

A little while back I ported a few extra things to risc ix

https://www.4corn.co.uk/articles/riscixsoftware/

pico - simple terminal text editor
lua - programming language
angband - rougelike dungeon crawler game

Wow, I did'nt expect to have such a quick response. Many thanks, Flibble :) And glad that you liked the game and still remember it. Coincidentally I have all the missing Acorn Computing issues (from 8bs) sat on the floor next to me waiting to go through the scanner, and as you knew exactly which is...

Please find attached scan.

Ps. Really liked the game too

Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon for me please

Me please, though it's a little provisional atm.

Electron, BBC and Archimedes have all worked with whichever composite capable TV I've tried them with.

That is an Ether1 card, it doesn't have a ROM on board.

It also looks like you're running the Universal boot that loads the Internet5 stack. Ether1 isn't compatible with Internet5, only Internet4, so you're going to need to swap some things about to get it to work.

The Starfighter 3000 demo had a different level on it to the released game, I believe. (Admittedly there's about 90 levels in the full game and I'm not sure I've played them all).

I've booked myself in for both days, looking forward to visiting again

I'll pack my bits for imaging harddiscs, I can do IDE and SCSI easily ... theoretically I might be able to do ST506 (I do have the ST506 podule and can hack the software to do it) but I've no discs to test it against

Erm ... you tell me?

RPCEmu doesn't support bin/cue CDROM images ... yet (only iso)

Can you access a website by IP address on netsurf? (try http://http://77.68.51.29/)

I have vague memories that netsurf might use a different 'resolver' environment variable from some of the other risc os programs.

I sure I have a 2 slot spare ... and I'd be happy to try to make a two slice machine

My main PC is 6 years old, I've normally tried to replace them not more often than 8 years or so. My laptop is 11 years old now, but gets lighter use, and has had an RAM and SSD upgrade to make it slightly more performant. Amusingly the laptop is eligible for a free Win 11 upgrade, despite being con...

Rename and retype as follows;

Remove all /txt off the end of files
Remove all /oby off the end of files and set type to obey

And please do upload it to this thread or the archive submissions forum

IMG_5153.JPG ...oh so close! Darn. May still be some interesting things if I boot from a different root drive and just mount this drive later - for another time. When firtling around, these stickers came loose from somewhere. I'm guessing they're from PALs - likely one is the MEMC1A support PAL, no...

A quick note to say thanks for all at TNMOC for organising this, I had a great time.

Attached a few pics I took over the weekend.

The Pinebook version of RISC OS was developed by RComp but I can't find any information from them on supported graphics modes through RISC OS, other than a one liner saying 1080p and 4k (so at least two resolutions...!). Are details available anywhere of what video support is available? I think the...

Previous (deceased) owner may have been ex-acorn. Surname possibly Owen.IMG_4756.jpegIMG_4755.jpegIMG_4754.jpeg From info gathered by others, Terry Owen, he's on the Team picture on the RISC PC harddisc image. If this is the A7000 from the recent ebay auction, the other thing I noticed about it was...