Articles

Articles about Emulation

Articles to getting up and running with the emulators.

• Installing RPCEmu and RISC OS 3.71 on Windows (16 April 2013)
• Installing Self-Extracting !Sparkplug - The 'unzip' program you'll need to install almost everything else (16 April 2013)
• Useful 32bit Archive Sites - A collection of links to some of the largest archives of useful files for Acorn's 32bit machines (22 May 2013)
• Acorn's Last Machine - Information on Phoebe and how to emulate it with RPCEmu (23 October 2013)

Articles about Acorn history

Articles related to random bits of Acorn development that interested me.

• From Archimedes to Risc PC (The Hardware) - How Acorn managed to test the Risc PC without building a whole one (16 April 2013)
• Is Arthur RISC OS? Is RISC OS Arthur? - And who is Richard III? (26 April 2013)
• Acorn Laptop cases - Which Olivetti computers did Acorn borrow the cases from for their laptops (4 May 2013)
• Acorn Registered Developers - How Acorn helped third parties, includes development archives (22 May 2013)
• Steve Furber at VCF 2013 - A transcript of the talk given by Steve Furber, co-designer of the BBC Micro and ARM processor, at the Vintage Computer Festival, 06/07/2013 (28 May 2014)
• Acorn ANSI C Release 3 - Acorn's C language development environment, software and documentation (6 August 2014)
• Acorn C/C++ (Release 5) - Acorn's Desktop Development Environment, software (19 August 2014)
• RISC iX Cloned - Install or repair a broken RISC iX install (8 December 2014)
• Acorn's CDROMs - Larger software released on CDROM (14 June 2015)
• Acorn Emails 1996 - A selection of internal Acorn emails from 1996 (24 June 2015)
• Acorn Website mirrors - Acorn's website from 1995 (26 June 2015)
• Acorn Advance - Acorn's Office Suite (14 July 2015)
• Miscellaneous Documents - Scans of manuals and other emphemera (12 December 2015)
• Logos - Electronic copies of some of Acorn's Logos (1 February 2016)
• Publicity Photos - Pictures used to advertise machines (1 February 2016)
• Adverts in Print - Acorn adverts from the print media (15 March 2016)
• Acorn Job adverts - Come and work for Acorn (31 March 2016)
• Advertising Brochures - Scans of advertising materials used by Acorn (5 November 2016)
• Acorn Show Flyers and Brochrues - 550 scans of ephemera from 1980s Acorn shows (3 March 2017)
• Circuit diagrams - Scans of System/Atom/BBC/Electron and peripherals circuit diagrams (28 July 2017)