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Acorn Archimedes
- Thread starter Vern
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3.2 V6 4KEV, 944 Cab, 172
Mint! 
I remember playing 'Lemmings' on mine!!
My parents ended up giving mine to their decorator, for his kids - he did an extra room for them, for free - even though it was c. 10 years ago, the poor sod obviously didn't realise they were obselete! Shame though, they'll be worth a mint one day, doubt there's many left...
Anyone have a 'BBC Model B'??
I still have my Sinclair Spectrum +2 (built-in cassette player) with hundreds of games!
I remember playing 'Lemmings' on mine!!
My parents ended up giving mine to their decorator, for his kids - he did an extra room for them, for free - even though it was c. 10 years ago, the poor sod obviously didn't realise they were obselete! Shame though, they'll be worth a mint one day, doubt there's many left...
Anyone have a 'BBC Model B'??
I still have my Sinclair Spectrum +2 (built-in cassette player) with hundreds of games!
I don't think you mean Thrust, thrust was a BBC game. I think you probably mean zarch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
Zarch was a demo that was supplied by Acorn with the computer. Written by David Braben who wrote Elite.
The Archimedes also has the best version of Elite ever.
lol. I doubt it. There were a lot of them about!
I remember an original prototype of the ARM1 silicon in a bbc "tube" extension didn't sell for much on ebay when it surfaced a few years back - that is proper computing history.
I believe it ended up in some computer museum.
Blast from the past!!!!!
I remember Arch's and BBC micro's (chucky egg!) We had an Archimedes at highschool, the internal speaker was really quiet but it could acually play proper sampled music unlike the bleeps and twirps you'd get from a PC without an Adlib / soundblaster card. In the last year we had a 14mhz 486 PC with a dual speed CD-ROM drive we called it the 'beasty' because it was the best thing we'd ever seen hahaha..... looking back now.
I used to love my 1040 STe around then, eventually got into Amiga's writing early 'acid house' and 'drum and bass' music in Pro Tracker 4 track sequencers i also used d-paint.
I remember Arch's and BBC micro's (chucky egg!) We had an Archimedes at highschool, the internal speaker was really quiet but it could acually play proper sampled music unlike the bleeps and twirps you'd get from a PC without an Adlib / soundblaster card. In the last year we had a 14mhz 486 PC with a dual speed CD-ROM drive we called it the 'beasty' because it was the best thing we'd ever seen hahaha..... looking back now.
I used to love my 1040 STe around then, eventually got into Amiga's writing early 'acid house' and 'drum and bass' music in Pro Tracker 4 track sequencers i also used d-paint.
Meggy Mk4 1.6DCI 160
Another 'tracker' eh? lol
Used to run that on a regular but I was a P-Paint user instead of D-Paint.
Only used an Archimedes once and that was at school, never was a great fan of tbh, was more a spectrum fan at the time. Still own a Plastic keyed 48Kb+ Spectrum with the interface II socket and the Ultimate Games collection (Sabre Wulf, Jetpac etc..) Also have classics like Manic Minor, Jet Set Willy and the entire Horace collection!
Octy VRS
My god that brings back some memories!
