It's #Thargoids Thursday in the enhanced version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite.
Here's me misjumping into witchspace and being ambushed by Thargoid motherships and their Thargon drones.
Electron commanders can now join in the bug-hunt - at last!
(I'm hoping to release this in the next couple of weeks... Coming soon: the ship hangar, missions and energy bombs.)
This is my summer project. I just a #acorn RiscPC600 :)
Thread: I bought an Acorn Archimedes A310
This is the first consumer device with a RISC based processor (a few high end workstations preceded it) and the first wide public release of the ARM processor (the CPU inside of it is literally referred to as the ARM)
Managed to get it with the original cords, manuals, box for the monitor, mouse mat, and the purchase receipt just had to get it back to Nottingham from Llandudno on the train...
Usborne are still offering free PDFs of their computer books from the 1980s
I'm pretty happy with how this cleaned up. Could do with a final going over (especially the keys when my key puller turns up with my other stuff) but a big improvement on how it arrived
an acorn friend to keep you company this sunday it's really hot in here, i hope everyone's doing all right!
This is wonderful insanity...
When your ARM powered Acorn RISC PC can have a second 486 DX4 100MHz CPU and run Windows 95 in its own window.
Retro computing is so exciting dabbling with these things it truly is!
"Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as 'target practice'
Members of Acorn tenants union were also branded ‘fascists’ at a meeting of the Eastern Landlords Association, causing renters to brand the comments ‘out of order’
Renters from the Acorn tenants union have branded comments made at a landlord conference as 'out of order after a secret recording captured landlords suggesting they are 'used as target practice'.
An audio recording confirmed to have been made at the Eastern Landlords Association (ELA) conference and AGM on 16 May heard unnamed members of the audience make disparaging, unchallenged comments about renters in Acorn’s Norwich branch.
Members at the ELA meeting can be heard to call Acorn members 'wankers', 'fascists and mocking men at an Acorn meeting wearing nail varnish. The recording ends with one person in the audience asking: 'Can we use them [Acorn] as target practice before the shooting season?'"
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/acorn-renters-secret-recording-landlords-conference/
More Acorn goodness tonight, this time with the A7000+ - Simon the Sorcerer talkie version on CD, good ol' Chris Barrie!
Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the #Apple #HIG.
I need to find a modern equivalent that clearly shows the basics for an "intro to usability" post. Most #designSystems seem overly focused on their components, rather than the principles of a good WIMP system.
"Wormholes" 256 bytes intro for #riscos / #riscpc released at NOVA 2025
Write-up : https://www.onirom.fr/wiki/codegolf/wormholes/
Works on A7000, also high end Acorn Archimedes when adapted for mode 13. (320x256)
My Simon the Sorcerer collection for the Acorn Archimedes...
- Floppy disk version (9 of them!)
- CD-ROM talkie version
The Acorn A3010 was the platform where I first discovered the delights of Simon the Sorcerer.
https://www.pixelrefresh.com/simon-the-sorcerer-remembering-my-first-point-and-click-adventure/
Event announcement: From November 14 to 16, 2025, the Flashback Symposium #02 will take place in Jößnitz, Germany.
poly.play will be there with a sales table. Come by and check it out! And get your ticket now: https://www.flashback-event.de/flashback-symposium-02/
#Amiga #C64 #Atari #Acorn #MSX #RetroComputing #Party