Posts tagged with "riscos"

While wading through the heaps of data that I had recovered from my old Acorn computer machines, I found some interesting coding projects I did in the mid 1990s. I wanted to have a closer look at them and maybe even reuse some of the code. However, there was a little obstacle: I had stored almost all of my source code in non-standard archive files...

Recently I converted a bunch of vector graphic files from my old Acorn RiscPC (mainly created with !Draw and !ArtWorks) to SVG files. The conversion was of acceptable accuracy with the exception of text objects. These where mostly garbled because they used some of the native Acorn Fonts of the time, which are not available on other platforms. So I was looking for a way to convert those fonts into a format that can be used on my Linux system...

During my archeologic expedition into ancient computer stuff, I encountered a bunch of old BBC BASIC programs I'd written on my Acorn Archimedes A5000 computer in the early 1990s. For the sake of reminiscence, I wanted to have a look at them, but was thwarted by the fact that they are stored in a tokenized format that is not directly readable. So I did some research on the format and created a converter...

Back in 1992 I bought my first Acorn Archimedes computer, an Acorn A5000 running the RISC OS 3.11 operating system. I still have this machine around, but unfortunately it is not in working condition. Luckily you can emulate all sorts of older computer systems these days, and the same holds true for the Archimedes. So if you are fond of some nostalgic feelings, let's go...

As you may have seen from my previous posts, I am currently tinkering with my old Acorn RISC PC. Yesterday I was in for an unpleasant surprise when I disassembled the whole machine in order to clean it from the dust...

During the holiday season I was retrieving numerous files from my old Acorn Risc PC in order to convert and use them on my Linux notebook. Part of this effort has been to move the files between systems, partly detouring them through my Raspberry Pi which I am running the most recent version of RISC OS on. As it turned out, the easiest way to access the data on the Risc PC's hard disc is to use an IDE-USB adapter attached to the Raspberry Pi running RISC OS...