After a recent article about RISC OS & The Acorn Archimedes we take some time to talk about what we thought of the Archimedes. Was it really in the same league as the Amiga? Arcade1up are re-releasing their Star Wars arcade cabinet. Are you tempted? Finally, we find that it is possible to run Wolfenstein on the 8088 CPU thanks to a new port that runs just fine using CGA graphics.
All this and our Community Question Of The Week.
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00:00 - Show Opening
08:34 - RISC Free Computing
Story Link: https://www.theregister.com
List of Archimedes games: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk
24:11 Arcade1up Is No Yoke
Story Link: https://www.piratesandprincesses.net
43:26 - Wolf 8088
Story Link: https://www.doomworld.com
Wolf 8088 download link: https://github.com
Wolf 8088 running on period correct hardware: https://www.youtube.com
51:53 - Community Question of the Week
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"Acorn Archimedes A3000" by simon.inns is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org.
