Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Nov 24, 7:17 pm, sicklittlemonkey <nick.westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had an A5000, so came in at RISC OS 3 and missed the problems you
> mention. Sure it would have been better if the OS was pre-emptively
> multitasked etc, but these things didn't bother me much at the time.
> The Amiga had the edge in some areas, but the Archimedes managed to
> compete for a few years there with its strong CPU performance and
> various innovations, and many Amiga games were ported to it. Until as
> Marcus said, the PC killed them all.

Of course, I missed the problems with Arthur completely, too - I
didn't get real hardware until April of this year, with a used RiscPC
with 4.02 and Select 4 (RISC OS 6) Preview. ;)