Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

[sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com>]

On Nov 26, 3:00 am, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. ;)

Ah yes, I remember the name Arthur now, said disparagingly. ;-)

And the Risc PC seemed like a great machine, though I never owned one.
A friend and I had a contact at Acorn NZ, and when the first Risc PC
arrived they called us in to test some software.

Our Apple II emulator (written in ARM assembler) failed to run because
the new ARM had a different pipeline, so some calculations using the
PC register were off. We fixed this and tested again, to see the
emulator which had run at near 1MHz on the A5000 run at several times
normal Apple II speed. Email me if you want to check it out.

Hmm, now I feel the need to buy a Risc PC too!

Cheers,
Nick.