The absolute greatest thing about the "We #invented the #iphone" bullshit spoken yesterday by greedy capitalists: The literal heart of the #iphone, the #ARM processor, is a thing thanks to *GASP* #socialism. #ARM is a thing, because #Acorn was a thing, and Acorn was a thing, because they had #BBC funding and support. The iphone in your pocket is literally powered by #state technology and pure #socialism. Fuck off #capitalism. You didn't invent shit.

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

ElkSD Cartridge for the Acorn Electron #TindieBlog #Elk #Acorn #Expansion #RetroComputer
https://blog.tindie.com/2025/04/elksd-cartridge-for-the-acorn-electron/

I love my Acorn retro computer collection! Have a real soft spot for that green logo...

- Acorn Pocket Book
- Acorn Archimedes A3010
- Acorn Electron

#retrocomputers #retrogaming #acorn

You can find out more here...
https://www.pixelrefresh.com/category/platforms/retro/acorn/

RPCEmu is an emulator of classic Acorn computer systems

https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/index.php

Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.
«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах:

• https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/
• https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo

Как «яблоко» #Apple и «жёлудь» #Acorn объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.

Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.

Для получения именно десктопного процессора #PowerPC эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с #IBM и #Motorola работавшими над #RISC процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.

В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы #SunMicrosystems на процессорах #SPARC начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.

Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда #x86 только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.

#hardware #CPU #процессоры #intel #ARM #MIPS #x86 #CISC @russian_mastodon@mastodon.social @ru@lor.sh @Russia@3zi.ru

the good old days

Kurzer Abbinder zur Wiederbelebung eines Acorn RiscPC600 mot ausgelaufener Batterie.

#retrocomputing #acorn #RiscPC #RiscPC600 #batterydamage #ARM

https://apfelklassik.de/blogartikel.html?ID=33

I took a photo of some movie that was on TV about 10 years ago, seeing what looks like an Acorn computer of some sort on the desk, and this is what I got. I'm not really sure what's going on here and I'm equally unsure if I want to know.

We had this weird steel bridge in the back of the barn leading to a disused outhouse. It was in the way of todays operations, so I hooked it up and dragged it away. Alas, as I turned around to see if it's following nicely, I see a field mouse sprinting away in panic mode, the steel roof of its previously impenetrable fortress ripped away by force majeure, its safe tunnels and carefully stored acorn stashes exposed to open air!

Oops. Sorry mouse.

Working in an Acorn RISC PC600 which Had battery damage.
Looking lime this without VRAM module ... so the error must be around the onboard VRAM or it's logic.
Any hints?

There are at least two, TWO people on my feed that will be interested in this.

RISC OS North show in Warrington.

https://www.riscosnorth.uk/

29th March, Village Hotel, Warrington, WA1 1QA.

10:30 - 16:30. £7 door, under 14s free.

Found out via a flyer in the foyer in our mill.

The most Northern of communication mediums.

The Experience - Xcentric (Acorn A3000 demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWzZlgIjCI

[the Acorn Archimedes line of computers had very powerful ARM CPUs for its time, with no hardware acceleration]

GBoyEm – an altered version of the GameBoy emulator which will run in a window on the desktop, although it won’t multitask. https://archivegame.org/gboyem/ #game #emulator #acorn #nintendo

here's my #introduction ... very much into computer history and history of computation, the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, computer museums, assembly language programming, a bit of Basic, running programs in the browser and sometimes running programs from the command line.

my one claim to fame is having a bit to do with visual6502.

I don't subscribe to very many streaming services. Right now it's just Apple (Severance!!) and Acorn. There are a lot of great police murder mysteries on Acorn I really like. Currently watching the extensive library of Midsomer Murders with my husband. In addition I recently finished The Gone set in New Zealand, I really liked it (where is season 2??). Currently watching A Remarkable Place to Die set in Australia. I'd love recommendations for other good shows on Acorn. #Acorn #TV #Mysteries

@jess Yes, but first Arcs were released in June 1987 so this feels a bit early.

Need a #retroComputing, #BBC and #Acorn history geek....

Desperately seeking suggestions for the best Solitaire or Mahjongg games on all retro systems. Preferably with screenshots.