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oseiskar.github.io 5mo ago

WebGL Raytracer

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www.theregister.com 6mo ago

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about struggle to spot illegal ads

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www.ft.com 7mo ago

Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting

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www.pcgamer.com 7mo ago

Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,'

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www.youtube.com 8mo ago

The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 [video]

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www.dexerto.com 9mo ago

Britain's most tattooed man says UK's age check told him to "remove his face"

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www.tomshardware.com 9mo ago

China wants to rid itself of Western tech by 2027 (2024)

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dl.acm.org 9mo ago

Design-Driven Deception of Face Recognition: An Empirical Study

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www.theguardian.com 9mo ago

Friedrich Engels 'took creative liberties' with descriptions of class divides

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www.techzine.eu 9mo ago

Dutch restrict Nexperia to keep its chip secrets outside of China

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institute.global 9mo ago

Governing in the Age of AI: A New Model to Transform the State (2024)

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www.theguardian.com 9mo ago

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

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en.wikipedia.org 9mo ago

History of mass surveillance in the United Kingdom

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www.jsnover.com 9mo ago

Monad Manifesto (2002) [pdf]

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www.thetimes.com 9mo ago

Tony Blair: Bring in digital IDs to get tough on populism

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www.macpierce.com 10mo ago

The Camera-Shy Hoodie

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www.bbc.co.uk 10mo ago

Teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result

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www.roguebasin.com 10mo ago

Berlin Interpretation (2008)

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yanniss.github.io 1y ago

Yannis's Law: Programmer Productivity Doubles Every 6 Years (2003)

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www.xm-arts.de 1y ago

About Demos (1997)

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www.mcmordie.co.uk 1y ago

A technical history of Acorn Computers

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www.glennklockwood.com 1y ago

Historical Performance Benchmarks

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www.channel4.com 1y ago

Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust

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musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com 1y ago

Primo Research Assistant launches- a first look and some things you should know

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f1000research.com 2y ago

Generative AI, UK Copyright and Open Licences

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www.cgsecurity.org 2y ago

PhotoRec, Digital Picture and File Recovery

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www.workflowpatterns.com 2y ago

Workflow Patterns (2023)

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www.essex.ac.uk 2y ago

Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality (2022)

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www.roguebasin.com 2y ago

Berlin Interpretation (2022)

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www.mcmordie.co.uk 2y ago

The end of the dream – Phoebe (1998)

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The car in the article has the steering wheel on the left, which is the wrong side for vehicles driving on the left-hand side of the road. Domestically-produced cars in both the UK and Japan have the steering wheel on the right.

RISC OS has the concept of "OS units" which don't map directly onto pixels 1:1, and it was possible to fiddle with the ratio on the RiscPC from 1994 onwards, giving reasonably-scaled windows and icons in high-resolution modes such as 1080p.

It's hinted at in this tutorial, but you'd have to go through the Programmer's Reference Manual for the full details: https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/wimp-prog/window-theo...

RISC OS 3.5 (1994) was still 2MB in size, supplied on ROM.

Whole Earth Index 9 months ago

An influential architect whose ideas form the basis of 'design patterns' in software development.

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

And the co-creator of ARM, Sophie Wilson, still works for Broadcom - the company which bought part of the remnants of Acorn (Element 14). This is where Eben Upton worked before going off to start the Raspberry Pi foundation.

Jack Lang was involved in the Pi, having also been involved in Netchannel, the STB company which used the Acorn technology and had funding from Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn.

David Braben, co-author of Elite (and author of Zarch/Lander for the Acorn Archimedes) was an early Pi supporter.

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

Acorn Archimedes 400 series, and the 500 series that followed it (in practice only the A540). The original ARM workstations.

The single board computer Pi naming scheme is based on the BBC Micro (Model A, Model B).

As for the 'plus' - Acorn A7000+ was the last of the Acorn desktop computers to be released.

There is a heavy Acorn influence with Raspberry Pi, for good reason.

The various Sun 'JavaStation' NC models retain the SPARC CPUs of their workstation line - they definitely do not use ARM.

JavaOS was in ROM, on a module that can be removed (SIMM-style form factor). At one point people started to use BOOTP to run Linux compiled for SPARC as a replacement, as JavaOS was unpleasantly slow on JavaStation hardware.

The ARM7500FE is considerably slower (in terms of clock speed) than a StrongARM, but the FPU apparently makes StarFighter 3000 run very well.

StrongARM with an FPU would have been incredible, however no FPU option exists for the RiscPC. There was a commercial software package that would allow the FP capabilities of the 486/586 copro to be used from RISC OS, but I'm not sure how effective it was.

I think it was possibly the first to go into a desktop computer.

ARM250 datasheet here: https://home.marutan.net/arcemdocs/ARM250.pdf

For Acorn, this chip really helped to bring costs down for the A30x0/A4000 machines - the Electron of the Archimedes era. The RiscPC equivalent was the A7000/A7000+ with the ARM7500/ARM7500FE, the FE being novel for the inclusion of the FPU which ARMs had traditionally not included.

If possible, get the batteries removed from the motherboards - the leaks cause immense damage.

Rechargeable AA batteries in a battery holder are a sensible replacement.

If the hard drive has packed in then a SD to IDE/PATA adapter is available.

It's an entertaining watch, although a fair bit of dramatic licence is taken when depicting various anecdotes that would be well-known to readers of The Micro User and similar magazines of the time.

I'm not sure what the state of Pi 5 support is, but RISC OS seems to work on the Pi 1, 2, 3 and 4.

ArcEm is a decent emulator for the Archimedes series, and RPCem is the equivalent for the RiscPC which succeeded it. OS ROM images are available from a variety of places.

For floppy disk emulation, ADFFS is what you are looking for, and some games have been released in this format with the consent of the copyright holders.