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I'm just an excited onlooker, but I'm really liking how the book is topping the charts in several categories today.

You can watch the author Rob Napier talking about the book and his time at Acorn here m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5yv...

VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED Out today!
How the BBC, Acorn & ARM Changed the World
The "barking mad" 1981 4-day build that led to the ARM chip in your pocket. From the BBC Micro to Raspberry Pi, meet the IT Royalty who built our digital world.
In-store or Online: Search ISBN 9781764460804 on Amazon

Voices from a Future Passed - on sale from 1st March The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March. Voices from a Future Pas

If you're unsure about the Acorn Computers Biography, here's a great news article, that provides some insights into the book:

www.riscository.com/2026/voices-...

C BASIC update: www.riscosopen.org/news/article...

VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED: How the British Broadcasting Corporation, Acorn Computers and ARM changed the world. Buy VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED: How the British Broadcasting Corporation, Acorn Computers and ARM changed the world. by Napier, Robert, Napier, Robert (ISBN: 9781764460804) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

A reminder that Rob Napier's history of Acorn, the BBC and ARM is available to buy now! Do spread the word, as he's also donating a percentage of the royalties to various computing museums, including @tnmoc.bsky.social 😀 Link to order here: amzn.eu/d/00BQj8tz

Probably not the best time to post this, but are any folks in the UK interested in either an old BBC micro or a slightly younger Acorn Archimedes? No idea if they’re still working.

Acorn Archimedes A3020

I’m so happy I get to play with an Archimedes A3020… in Texas!

Thanks to @adriansdigitalbasement.com ‘s video on converting a bus mouse to an Archie one, I was able to repurpose the same old Logitech C7 in just 10 minutes.

Also in the picture a 4:3 ViewSonic I got for $5 from a local guy.

This is now on sale! A history of Acorn, written by Rob Napier (of Barson Computing) and with contributions from all the major people involved at Acorn and the BBC: amzn.eu/d/06qvLzW8

RISC OS North is only a few weeks away! Frosted will be on USB in ROM form for Iyonix, Titanium, Risc PC and Pi along with just ThemeDef Theme, ThemeEXT and now Mac and Windows RPCEmu all on 1 USB for people to take (Limited Supply)

RISC OS 3.7 using natively shared files from modern Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, Latest Windows 10 and 11 and the BSD family! :)

RISC OS 3.7 using natively shared files from modern Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, Latest Windows 10 and 11 and the BSD family with their Unicode translated (where possible) to Latin1! :)

RISC OS 3.10 using natively shared files from modern Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, Latest Windows 10 and 11 and the BSD family! :)

RISC OS 3.10 using natively shared files from modern Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, Latest Windows 10 and 11 and the BSD family havign thei rUnicode translated (where possible) to Latin1! :)

#RISC_OS, what this weekend update contains you have read it on the ROOL's forum post, but how does it looks like Screenshots! 😆

RISC OS 3.10/3.7/5 Using very long file names, and getting #MacOS , #WIndows, #Linux and #BSD Unicode translated (where possible) to Latin1, now how cool is that?

Do you remember Acorn Computers? The company designed and delivered the first ARM chip and the BBC Micro. Want to know more or catch up? The RISC OS North show, is on Saturday 21st March, in Warrington, UK.
riscosnorth.uk #RISC_OS #Event #Warrington #RaspberryPi #ARM

Index of all deep dive articles - The Sentinel on the BBC Micro Index of all deep dive articles about The Sentinel

I'm (slowly!) releasing 50+ deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game

Batch #2 is now ready: 7 new articles about maths, geometry, trigonometry… and Revs

thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives

Batch #3 (landscape) coming soon

Enjoy!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

YouTube video by The Retro Collective From Acorn to ARM with Professor Steve Furber CBE

@retrocollective.co.uk's spectacular series w/ Professor Steve Furber CBE, instrumental in hardware designs of #Acorn & #BBCMicro #microcomputers and the #ARM architecture.
1st hr: #retrocomputing
2nd hr: Building a brain with ARM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2yD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9p...

A pixelated witch looms on a black screen in this BBC Micro screenshot from Granny’s Garden. Bold blocky graphics in purple, green and blue. The red text box underneath declares: “Ha ha! Now I’ve got you! I will send you home at once.” No wonder she haunted my childhood!

A witch has lived rent-free in my head since early years of school. This week I finally tracked her down. Granny’s Garden is a BBC Micro classic played in class; highlighting the importance of computing in Education. Available to buy online too! 😄 #Gaming #Nostalgia #4Mation #EdTech

The Acorn Archimedes A3000. What your school might have if it still had funding during the early 90s.

Even though I was there, I really enjoyed watching this again! Well worth a view 😃

YouTube video by Colin Hoad Making New Videos About Old Computers - February 2026

My talk from last week's ROUGOL meeting is now up on my channel: youtu.be/Igljzw4o71U

It was a fun evening, and I really enjoyed it!
@rougol.bsky.social

Voices from a Future Passed - on sale from 1st March The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March. Voices from a Future Passed

www.riscository.com/2026/voices-...

Star Trek at 60 | Science Museum Boldly go where no one has gone before with our special season celebrating the 60th anniversary of Star Trek.

*Finally* able to talk about the Star Trek @sciencemuseum.org.uk team-up we are organising for the 60th anniversary! Special events, world first film season, exclusive merch, props and costumes from the Paramount archives, and more! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60

21st March this year is the RISC OS North exhibition at the Village Hotel, Warrington, WA1 1QA

Awesome!

RISC OS Frosted will be demoing at RISC OS North 2026

Top, the "Elite" logo - a gold aguila with silver wings and helmet behind the word "ELITE." Left is a screenshot for the BBC Micro B and B+, and right is a screenshot for the BBC Master; both show the player, a first person spacehip, focusing on an enemy ship with stars flying in the background; gauges appear in the bottom left and right, and the now industry standard isomettric radar on the bottom of each screenshot shows the player is surrounded. Below is dense copy, describing the complex aspects of gameplay (exploration, combat, trade, and quests); below that, the Superior Software logo (a red and white interlinked pair of Ss), the Acornsoft logo (an egg), and an order address (mail and phone only) are listed below.

"Elite, the widely acclaimed 3-D space game, is the highest selling game ever published for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron..."

Clip of news article from the February 1996 issue of Acorn User, headlined 'Acorn workstation to take US?'

30 years ago, Acorn signed a licensing agreement with Oracle concerning the development of referencing designs for the Network Computer.

It was essentially cloud computing, but many years before it was viable, and was gone by 1999. Pretty much Acorn's last hurrah.

archive.org/details/Acor...

AcornUser190-Jan98 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Here's the article I wrote on how I put together Acorn User's December 1997 cover CD, which used Hyperstudio to create a multimedia interface for Acorn, Mac and PC.

Had just as many issues with this, as with the 200th edition CD, all a bit of a dog's dinner!

archive.org/details/Acor...

Incoming!
riscosopen.org/forum/forums...

#riscos #opensource #magazine

General announcement: removal of AI content from my channel Over the weekend I had a cleanup on my channel to remove the few bits of AI-generated content that I have - in hindsight - deeply regretted using. It wasn't extensive, but there was enough of it to have drawn some notice recently and I decided I should do the right thing and get rid of it. This has included: Cutting segments of the introduction to the "Repton Series" video to remove several AI images Cutting the introduction entirely from the "Imogen" video to remove several AI images Removing a segment from the "Polymer Picker" video to remove an AI image Replacing all the thumbnails for the 2024 Advent series to get rid of "AI Santa" YouTube doesn't permit sophisticated editing of existing videos besides chopping out sections, so that's what I've had to do (it was that or deleting and re-uploading, but that would result in all views, comments, likes etc. being lost, which would be a shame). My use of AI images was a mistake that I first made in the latter days of 2023, and one I've definitely learnt from - and won't be repeating. Please be assured anything you see on my channel now will be solely my own creation, or else the work of human artists I may commission, from time to time. Thanks for your continued support.

CJEMicros getting back up to speed and need your help Technology News and Views

CJEMicros getting back up to speed and need your help

www.iconbar.com/articles/CJE...

We are really pleased to hear from CJEMicros who have emailed us to let us know that they are recovering after the fire at their premises last year.

It was just over 8 years ago that I attended an ABUG event in Manchester and met up with some of the most dedicated Acorn computer enthusiasts in the universe. It was also nice to chat with Prof. Steve Furber. Over the years he has given up so much of his own time attending events like this.