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Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

It is the early to mid 90s and you just forked out for an Acorn Archimedes or RiscPC machine, which…

1 year ago

Retro addons: Cumana Oscar Parallel Port CDROM Drive

I recently wanted to find an easy way to transfer large files to my Archimedes A3010. In particular the data…

2 years ago

Video: 8bit PC Audio With No Sound Card!

In my blog series about restoring the Schneider EuroPC I mentioned that I wanted to test the parallel port using…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 4

After a lot of work I did in parallel for my previous post, almost everything is done. Now we need…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 3

I last left this machine in a state where it boots RISC OS 3.11 when using a bench power supply,…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 6

We are almost complete with this Euro PC restoration after the previous ROM upgrade. Now we need to do some…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 2

In the first post of this series I removed the leaky battery and cleaned up underneath. Now it is time…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 1

After restoring an Acorn Archimedes A3010 and a Risc PC, I really wanted to try my hand at the A3000.…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 5

After the magic smoke incident in the last post I decided to replace the capacitors and go from there. (more…)

2 years ago

Acorn RiscPC #2: Restoration Part 1

Another RiscPC recently hit my saved searches on eBay and given that it had a second slice to it I…

2 years ago