29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
10:29 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Don't know if this is "classic" enough,
but it might interest some people...
https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2012/10/26/risc-os-pi-released-ris…
There is a final, complete, stable version of Acorn's classic
Archimedes OS now for the Raspberry Pi, making the RPi the cheapest
Acorn-compatible there's ever been by a long way.
It's based on ROOL's RISC OS 5.19, the latest version of the
shared-source fork of RO, based off Pace's version. (That's Pace the
satellite-TV/set-top-box/modem company.)
RISC OS is a wonderful bit of software. I've been playing with it for
a while and have even converted some popular open source fonts to RISC
OS format. What really shocks me about RISC OS, despite the its fairly
primitive internals, just how well the UI stuff works and how stable
the system tends to be, even though I'm running an unsupported alpha
version in an unsupported alpha emulator... Also, it has by far the
best font rendering of any "classic" GUI. It has font rendering as
good as or better than any modern system and it had it way back in
1989! I'd love to get some classic hardware (Especially an A540 and a
RiscPC 700) but money is short and I'd have to pay for transatlatic
shipping, so emulation and Raspberry Pi have to serve to give me my
RISC OS fix for now.
Mike