wraggster
November 9th, 2012, 12:48
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The processor in the Raspberry Pi – an ARM11 built by Broadcom – actually has a long and storied history. Much as how the Intel i7 in a top-of-the-line desktop can still run code written for the original IBM PC, the ARM chip in the Raspberry Pi is also based on decades-old technology.
The first ARM-based computer was the Acorn Archimedes, a mid-80s computer with 512kB of RAM and no hard drive. The Archimedes ran RISC OS, a very nice graphical operating system written explicitly for the ARM architecture. RISC OS is now available for the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2338), finally bridging the gap between educational computers from 1987 and 2012.
Of course, a very much updated version of 25-year-old operating system running on a Raspberry Pi doesn’t mean much without a ‘killer app,’ does it? For the original Acorn Archimedes the killer app – and one of the best video games of the 80s – wasElite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)), a space trading and combat game that featured vector-style ships. [Pete Taylor] downloaded the Raspi RISC OS image and got Elite running (http://kimondo.co.uk/elite-making-a-game-that-looks-as-good-as-the-box-art/) using an Archimedes emulator (http://arcem.sourceforge.net/) and, of course, the Archimedes port of Elite (http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/arc/index.htm).
It’s a pretty neat development if you’re in to alternative OSes and one of the best space-based games ever made. Well worth a download, at the very least.
http://hackaday.com/2012/11/08/raspberry-pi-gets-risc-os-can-now-play-elite/
The processor in the Raspberry Pi – an ARM11 built by Broadcom – actually has a long and storied history. Much as how the Intel i7 in a top-of-the-line desktop can still run code written for the original IBM PC, the ARM chip in the Raspberry Pi is also based on decades-old technology.
The first ARM-based computer was the Acorn Archimedes, a mid-80s computer with 512kB of RAM and no hard drive. The Archimedes ran RISC OS, a very nice graphical operating system written explicitly for the ARM architecture. RISC OS is now available for the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2338), finally bridging the gap between educational computers from 1987 and 2012.
Of course, a very much updated version of 25-year-old operating system running on a Raspberry Pi doesn’t mean much without a ‘killer app,’ does it? For the original Acorn Archimedes the killer app – and one of the best video games of the 80s – wasElite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)), a space trading and combat game that featured vector-style ships. [Pete Taylor] downloaded the Raspi RISC OS image and got Elite running (http://kimondo.co.uk/elite-making-a-game-that-looks-as-good-as-the-box-art/) using an Archimedes emulator (http://arcem.sourceforge.net/) and, of course, the Archimedes port of Elite (http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/arc/index.htm).
It’s a pretty neat development if you’re in to alternative OSes and one of the best space-based games ever made. Well worth a download, at the very least.
http://hackaday.com/2012/11/08/raspberry-pi-gets-risc-os-can-now-play-elite/