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Welcome to my journal. This is where I'll be revealing my innermost thoughts and feelings to the world. Occasionally I'll talk about other stuff, but mostly about my experiences.
Sep 9, 2002: Acorn Archimedes, anyone? (link | trackback: 0)
Time: 16:00 - Mood: Happy - Location: Work - Now playing: n/a
Hands up everyone who remembers the Acorn Archimedes range of computers... :)
Remember the way you kept hoping not to get hyperspaced to 'witch space' on Elite? Or attempting to make tunes that actually sounded good using only the StringLib instruments in !Maestro ? No? Boy, you've missed out.
You may have heard of Red Squirrel, a freeware Acorn emulator which, with the appropriate ROMs, allows you to use RISC OS or any other OS which runs on the ARM chip. There's also a commercial version of Red Squirrel called VirtualAcorn, which is faster than Red Squirrel and supports some things that RS doesn't (for example, printing).
Well, this morning I got my copy of VA in the post, and I'm going to be tinkering around with it tonight. I'll let you know how I get on...
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