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Remember the Archimedes, 30 years of Tux, where are all the freebies and why do we complicate Nextcloud so much?
I’ve been enjoying your series on emulating early home computers, several of which I was fortunate to be able to play with during my school days. Even for those machines I didn’t encounter, the articles give one a good overview of the various emulation options and useful information – practical advice I could use when I recently had to resurrect and check software from an old Macintosh disk, for example.
I notice that you’ve now covered emulation of two BBC Micros, and this letter is to ask you to please cover a third (if you’ve not already planned to do so): the Acorn Archimedes, and specifically the A3000. It was a contemporary of, but superior to, the Atari ST and Amiga 500 (which you’ve also covered). I’d be interested to hear your experts’ advice on the easiest way to re-experience the machine which hosted not just the best version of Lemmings, but also the best version of Elite (as well as David Braben’s lesserknown masterpiece, Lander/Zarch. If ever you need to train your fine and precision mouse motor skills, this is the game to use!)
For a more serious and relevant reason to (re-) introduce this micro to your readers – what about the fact that its legacy lives on in the billions of smartphones in the world today, not to mention our beloved Raspberry Pi?
Richard Milne
Neil says…
I’m not sure how we’ve left the Archimedes off the list, though I’m sure it got a mention when we covered the BBC Micro… It’ll certainly get covered at some point. I tried to convince a writer to emulate an IBM System 360 Mainframe, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. We did briefly cover Arm originating from Acorn in our Open Source Processor feature back in LXF264, though the main focus was RISC-V.