Emulate an Acorn Archimedes computer live in your browser!
#RetroComputing #RiscOS #Emulation #AcornArchimedes
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| Website | https://archi.medes.live |
| Created by | @pdjstone |
| GitHub | https://github.com/pdjstone/archimedes-live |
You can play the demo of Starfighter 3000 in your browser here - https://archi.medes.live/#disc=starfighter3000-demo&autoboot
Reverse engineering and cracking the copy protection code of Star Fighter 3000 - great 3 part series by @tautology
https://tautology.org.uk/blog/2020/11/23/cracking-the-key-part-1/
Sad to see this #LLM generated nonsense filling up the Google search results. At the end of the article are download links to what is presumably malware.
Funky Demo 2 (1992) - John Graley
Horizon (2019) by progen (also author of Arculator on which Archimedes Live is based)
How about some Archimedes demos for a Friday afternoon?
Here's a modern favourite of mine - Back by Popular Demand (2020) from Bitshifters:
Digitiser mercilessly trolling Archimedes users, January 1993
Try out the original ARM OS, Arthur, on an emulated Acorn Archimedes A310, running in your browser!
https://archi.medes.live/#preset=a310-arthur&disc=arthur-welcome
Arthur was a precursor to the better-known RISC OS. Its desktop GUI is written in BASIC and was originally intended as a demo to show how a WIMP-style interface might work, but Acorn decided to ship it as part of the Arthur ROM - gaudy colours, bugs and all.
Click the floppy icon to browse the Welcome Disc that came with the Archimedes and try out some of the apps designed to show off the blazing-fast 8Mhz ARM2 RISC CPU.
I got it working! Using https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/webm-wasm I was able to encode frames from the emulator into a WebM/VP8 file using WASM running in a web worker. It uses a ton of memory and encodes at about 50% realtime speed. Just need to get sound recording too!
