Archimedes Live (@arclive) is a WebAssembly-powered Acorn Archimedes emulator. It’s fun using RISC OS again and loading disc images of games I played in the early 1990s. archi.medes.live…
Source control in the 1980s using a pink dinosaur, part of Paul Fellows’ tales of Acornsoft, Arthur and RISC OS:
We had 7 or 8 guys trying to write an operating system to go into a ROM, so you’ve got to get it right, and they’re all doing different bits of it and some of these share system files. No CVS, no source control, no Sourcesafe, none of that. The solution was the main system header file with all the constants, SWI numbers and addresses of everything lived in. You could edit that if you...
