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On topic of running old OSs in virtualisation, I purchased and installed "VirtualAcorn" and took delivery yesterday. It's RiscOS-in-a-box. I'm running on top of
by cturner 16y ago
On topic of running old OSs in virtualisation, I purchased and installed "VirtualAcorn" and took delivery yesterday. It's RiscOS-in-a-box. I'm running on top of OSX.
My motivation is I have a friend who composes, and is still using a twenty-year-old acorn running the original release of Sibelius on floppy disks. He bought it directly from the Finn's apartment door back in the day. We thought it might be a good idea to get his life's work off this collection of ancient hardware and floppies :)
It has a command-line, but I haven't worked it out yet.
- barrkel 16y agoI remember programming on Acorn A3000 or similar, nearly 20 years back. I used to program on display models in computer shops, as my family couldn't afford to buy one. I seem to recall hitting a function key to get a command prompt at the bottom of the screen, and further dialog with the command line caused the rest of the GUI to scroll off screen with each new line printed. I programmed in its dialect of BASIC, which was - I recall - like a Commodore 64 on steroids. I was impressed, in a way which I wasn't by QBasic on PCs, because I had yet to learn the benefits of structured programming, and missed the line numbers on the PC. Thinking back, I think it auto-numbered lines as you hit return, like this: 10 PRINT "Hello"<press Return here> 20 | I remember that in particular being major improvement over the C64; I had seen so little, and had very few resources to learn from.
- rikthevik 16y agoI ran into Acorn installed on some digital cable set-top boxes I was working on reverse engineering a few years ago. Very impressive that your friend is still composing using such an ancient machine.