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Andy Piper<p>There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.</p><p>It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!</p><p>The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the <a href="https://www.arcatku.org/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Archive of Retro Computing</a> has taken over the event space with this display.</p><p>It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.</p><p>There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatung_Einstein" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tatung Einstein</a>, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…</p><p>From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.</p><p>My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.</p><p>Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.</p><p>My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).</p><p>We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!).</p><p>As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…</p><p>Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.</p><p>A fun trip down memory lane!</p> Share this post from your <a href="https://jointhefediverse.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">fediverse</a> server <p></p> <span class="">https://</span> Share <p class="">This server does not support sharing. Please visit .</p><p><a href="https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/08/25/retro-tastic/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/08/25/retro-tastic/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/acorn/" target="_blank">#Acorn</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/acorn-electron/" target="_blank">#AcornElectron</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/amiga/" target="_blank">#Amiga</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/amstrad/" target="_blank">#Amstrad</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/archimedes/" target="_blank">#archimedes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/bbc-master/" target="_blank">#bbcMaster</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/bbc-micro/" target="_blank">#BBCMicro</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/commodore/" target="_blank">#commodore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/computing/" target="_blank">#Computing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/exhibition/" target="_blank">#exhibition</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/gaming/" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/nintendo/" target="_blank">#nintendo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/retro/" target="_blank">#retro</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/risc-os/" target="_blank">#riscOs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/risc-pc/" target="_blank">#RiscPC</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/zx-spectrum/" target="_blank">#zxSpectrum</a></p>
Paolo Fabio Zaino ☮️🌍💻🎸🎮☕️🍩🍕<p>This weekend I had some time to continue working on Project Merlin, so progress tracking update!:<br><a href="https://riscoscommunity.org/projects/risc-os-merlin/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">riscoscommunity.org/projects/r</span><span class="invisible">isc-os-merlin/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RISC_OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISC_OS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a></p>
Andrew F.<p>Today I had cause to get out my old <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Acorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acorn</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a> 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> can date back well over 30 years - same with the <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/HIG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIG</span></a>.</p><p>I need to find a modern equivalent that clearly shows the basics for an "intro to usability" post. Most <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/designSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>designSystems</span></a> seem overly focused on their components, rather than the principles of a good WIMP system.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Paul<p>Very pleased with The Pi Hut - bought something from them and it dispatched same day (actually dispatched, not 'marked as to be sent at some point in the next week' like eBay sellers) and arrived next day. Highly recommended.</p><p>Now waiting for RISC OS Open to ship my SD card so I can give it a whirl (yes I could make my own card but I'm lazy and it means the project gets some money, although 2GB card feels like skimping).</p><p><a href="https://social.xk7.net/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://social.xk7.net/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a></p>
Andrew F.<p>Setting up a new <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Macbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macbook</span></a> and redug out <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcwoods" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcwoods</span></a></span> 's guide to setting the pointer colours to match <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a>: <a href="https://withbighair.com/retro/2023/02/19/Replicating-the-RISC-OS-mouse-pointer-on-Mac-OS-and-Windows.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">withbighair.com/retro/2023/02/</span><span class="invisible">19/Replicating-the-RISC-OS-mouse-pointer-on-Mac-OS-and-Windows.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Phil M0OFX<p>Does anyone have a friend who used to work for the <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a> Ethernet card company, i-Cubed Ltd.?</p><p>I'd like to hear the story behind this line in their code:</p><p>"Save the world! Eat more fish! Angstrom for Parliament!"</p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
OSNews<p>The 32bit RISC OS needs to be ported to 64bit to survive, seeks help</p><p>RISC OS, the operating system from the United Kingdom originally designed to run on Acorn Computer's Archimedes computers - the first ARM computers - is still actively developed today. Especially since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi, new life was breathed into this ageing operating system, and it</p><p><a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/142025/the-32bit-risc-os-needs-to-be-ported-to-64bit-to-survive-seeks-help/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">osnews.com/story/142025/the-32</span><span class="invisible">bit-risc-os-needs-to-be-ported-to-64bit-to-survive-seeks-help/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a></p>
Paolo Fabio Zaino ☮️🌍💻🎸🎮☕️🍩🍕<p>I am delighted to announce that the 2nd of four <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/risc_os" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risc_os</span></a> AI Assistants, designed for beginners and those wanting to enjoy playing with AI and BBC BASIC, is now available to everyone! 😊</p><p>More details on how to access it for free in the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/19699" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/</span><span class="invisible">topics/19699</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/customgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customgpt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bbcbasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbcbasic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Archimedes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archimedes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/acorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acorn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a></p>
Willard Goosey<p>Bringing an old hobby to a new home: On the Tandy CoCo 3 I used to draw new icons for the GUI (multivue) for fun.</p><p>This is my first "for fun" icon for RISC OS. A manual typewriter. Maybe for a text editor or viewer?</p><p>I might try a version with a Selectric golfball or maybe even a daisy wheel...</p><p>One neat thing is that the RISC OS icons are the same size as multivue icons: 32*32. Having more than 4 colors is going to take some getting used to.... 😊</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RiscOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiscOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Icons</span></a></p>
Adam Jurkiewicz<p>Czasem warto spróbować coś zmienić więc zamiast <a href="https://linux.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> to <a href="https://linux.social/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a></p>
Rafael Capitão<p>A Autoridade de Proteção de Dados da Austrália publicou um novo guia para avaliar os <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a> de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacidade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacidade</span></a> em tecnologia de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reconhecimentofacial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reconhecimentofacial</span></a>. É um excelente ponto de partida para entender como algumas Autoridades de Proteção de Dados estão se manifestando sobre o uso da <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biometria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biometria</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-guidance-for-organisations-and-government-agencies/organisations/facial-recognition-technology-a-guide-to-assessing-the-privacy-risks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-gu</span><span class="invisible">idance-for-organisations-and-government-agencies/organisations/facial-recognition-technology-a-guide-to-assessing-the-privacy-risks</span></a></p>
Andy Piper<p>Oh! <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a> for <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> now has wifi *and* Ovation Pro bundled... I wrote all of my university essays in Ovation, now if only I'm able to recover them from the old Risc PC to a Pi... this is great! <a href="https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2024/04/27/risc-os-5-30-now-available" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">riscosopen.org/news/articles/2</span><span class="invisible">024/04/27/risc-os-5-30-now-available</span></a></p>
Tim (Wadhwa-)Brown :donor:<p>Less noise, more signal version of <a href="https://twitter.com/timb_machine" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">twitter.com/timb_machine</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ATT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATT</span></a>&amp;CK, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/purpleteam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>purpleteam</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blueteam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blueteam</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/threatmodelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threatmodelling</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cisco</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/redteam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redteam</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EMFCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EMFCamp</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/uncon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uncon</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kde</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenVAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenVAS</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Portcullis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portcullis</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Indymedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indymedia</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AS28792" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AS28792</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solaris</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RISCOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RISCOS</span></a> adjacent security researcher.</p><p>Also, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/brentfordfc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brentfordfc</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dogops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogops</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> fan.</p>
Willard Goosey<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/reintroduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reintroduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a><br>I'm Willard. I live in Socorro, New Mexico, USA<br>I work in fast food and it has eaten my life, I don't really do much else. So I boost the people on here that do.<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputer</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cats</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cars</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RiscOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiscOS</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPG</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Book8088" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book8088</span></a></p>