24 Feb
2013
24 Feb
'13
10:19 p.m.
My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and if not why not? For the rest of
you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not? Do you have a problem withit?
11:09 p.m.
I recently bought an Acorn 4000 (recently as in last week). I decided
I needed one to round out the collection a bit.
I've been so busy lately I haven't actually played with it yet!
Terry (Tez)
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
a what now?
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at
yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and if not why not?
> For the rest of you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not? Do you
> have a problem withit?
>
10:53 p.m.
On 25/02/2013 4:19 p.m., Chris Tofu wrote:
My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and
if not why not? For the rest of you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not? Do you
have a problem withit?
I assumed everyone had them.
Where else can you find a computer with a GUI that can also run all of
your BBC Master Series applications?
I have an A4000, mostly for nostalgic value as my parents purchased me
one brand new in 1992, for the most part I live for the BOOP when you
turn it on.
First time posting, hopefully my email client doesn't make a mess of it.
25 Feb
25 Feb
4:29 a.m.
On 25/02/2013 03:19, Chris Tofu wrote:
My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and
if not why not? For the rest of you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not? Do you
have a problem withit?
I don't own one....
Why?
Well its not 6800/6809/68K based which was my interest area at the time,
it doesn't have midi ports so I never got interested in it....
Have a problem..
Not especially, but I think it couldn't make up its mind if it was an
educational or a business computer.....
Odd coincidence though, the Radio club I am a member of meets at the
same place as the Northwest UK Riscos user group...
http://www.ronwug.org/ForthcomingMeetings
and they were having a meeting last Wednesday when I popped to do a
lecture to some of our trainees...
Dave
G4UGM
(I also gather RISCOS runs on the Raspberry PI)
9:20 a.m.
On 02/24/2013 09:19 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and if not why not?
For the rest of you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not? Do
you have a problem withit?
I had an A310, A440, A540, A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000 (plus a
SARPC) - they're capable machines, but for me just not nearly as much fun
as Acorn's earlier 8-bitters, and I decided that the cost of shipping them
across to the US was too much for the enjoyment I'd get out of them.
The main reason I'd want one now is for the 'experience' of the GUI, but I
could probably do that via an emulator without losing anything - I don't
normally care much for emulators in comparison to the real hardware, but
that changes a lot when the real hardware is just a VGA-ish screen, mouse,
keyboard and the OS loads quickly from ROM/hard disk.
I do still have a Simtec Hydra multi-processor board set, so should perhaps
get myself an RPC to put it in one day (it's quirky and "a bit different",
so still appeals) and I kept my ARM copro for the BBC micro along with a
couple of ARM copros on ISA cards, just in case I ever want to mess around
with ARM coding on some real hardware.
I *might* still have one of the set-top cable TV boxes which runs RISC OS
under the covers - I can't remember if I kept one or not now (I had a vague
plan to run one as a remote graphics terminal, but never quite got the
tuits together :-)
If you're going to buy one, I'd say go for an A540, then you can always run
RISCiX on it as well as RISC OS.
cheers
Jules
12:50 p.m.
On 25 February 2013 14:20, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
The main reason I'd want one now is for the 'experience' of the GUI, but I
could probably do that via an emulator without losing anything - I don't
normally care much for emulators in comparison to the real hardware, but
that changes a lot when the real hardware is just a VGA-ish screen, mouse,
keyboard and the OS loads quickly from ROM/hard disk.
Raspberry Pi. Runs RO 5.19 natively. And under RO, it's a fast,
responsive computer, as opposed to being a sluggish dog under Linux.
Yes, even Raspian.
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4:56 p.m.
My offlist question to Tony was does he own an AA, and if not why
not? For the rest of you Britishers,do you own one, and if not why not?
Do you have a problem withit? >
FWIW 'AA' is _never_ used as an abreviation for Acorn Archimedes.
To answer the question/Yes I ahve one. Or rahter I have 3 -- an A310,
A3000 and A3010 IIRC. Do I use them? Not really. I don't like RISCOS from
what I've seen of it, and the machines are not conducive to much hardware
hacking either.
Does the ARM Evulation System count? I have that too.
-tony
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