I said it was a dumb idea, but I did it anyway. Ultimate Doom running on the 5x86 and StrongARM CPUs in my Acorn RiscPC simultaneously 😁

Another new ABug talk today. This time, Colin Hoad talks to Tony Oakden about how Acorn Electron games like Quest, Star Port and Camelot launched his career in game development. youtube.com/watch?v=OT5aLn…

In today's ABug talk upload, Alan Peters and Martin Piper tell the story of the 1990s Acorn/RISC OS game publisher, TBA Software. youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-9c-…

The IconBar has posted a short roundup of some of the recently uploaded ABug talks in case you missed them: iconbar.com/articles/ABug_…

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Andrew Maybe this year #retro #isthisthingstillon #riscos 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐂 𝐎𝐒

The makers of @AppleTVPlus' new Tetris film clearly have good taste in microcomputers. Could have picked a slightly less yellowed one, though...

Some great Easter fun for the Beeb from Educraft! 🐇

Occasionally, the ROOL forum users remind us why we don't bother with the forum. One thread has a suggestion that because RISC OS is modular, the GPL is irrelevant. It then devolves into arguments about how the GPL is bad becuase they can't circumvent it to steal code they want.

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Today marks two years since the Cloverleaf Kickstarter ended with €11,034 raised. 🎂 Most of the rewards remain unfulfilled and there's been no updates in months. 🤔 Seems a high price for a reskinned RO Direct and a filer app that's expensive and doesn't work very well. 💸

Trying to get away from the silliness of Twitter/X/whatever it's called this week? Good news: We're now available on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/riscos… And, of course, we're also on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@riscos

London double-decker bus racing in 1982. Sponsored by Acorn Computers. youtube.com/watch?v=8SlO5_… (Hat-tip to Tom Scott's newsletter for the link)

#SUPERBOWL

Another excellent deep dive into how a classic Acorn game works.

New RPCEmu today, 0.9.5. marutan.net/rpcemu Scroll Wheel, quick blank floppy discs, LBA hard disc support Riscosity RISC OS News 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐂 𝐎𝐒

Today's fun fact: Browsing the web on an Archimedes (real hardware, not emulated) with ArcWeb is very much still possible! (Bonus hat-tip to Action Retro for creating FrogFind to make pages usable on old systems!)