ArcEm – The Acorn Archimedes Emulator

RPCemu is much more modern:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marutan.net&#x2F;rpcemu&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marutan.net&#x2F;rpcemu&#x2F;index.php</a><p>If you just want the OS on x86 with minimal hassle there is also a commercial emulator:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualacorn.co.uk&#x2F;index2.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualacorn.co.uk&#x2F;index2.htm</a><p>This company now owns the source code for one of the two forks of RISC OS. The other is now fully FOSS and runs natively on the Raspberry Pi:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosopen.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosopen.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;</a><p>Here is a good beginner&#x27;s distro of it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosdev.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosdev.com&#x2F;direct&#x2F;</a>

For context, this emulates RISC OS [1], the operating system designed for the Acorn Archimedes computer[2] — which used the ARM 2 CPU [3] designed by Acorn. Originally, &quot;ARM&quot; meant &quot;Acorn RISC Machine&quot;.<p>RISC OS can also be installed on a Raspberry Pi [4].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RISC_OS" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RISC_OS</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acorn_Archimedes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acorn_Archimedes</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ARM_architecture_family#ARM2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ARM_architecture_family#ARM2</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosopen.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;raspberry-pi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riscosopen.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;raspberry-pi</a>

Originally written by this chap in the late 1990s: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treblig.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.treblig.org</a>

You got to love an emulator showcasing an archaic OS with screenshots taken on other archaic OS&#x27;s (and I&#x27;m not intending that in a snarky way; it shows how old some of the early home-computer emulators now are becoming)

This is cool, I remember using Acorn computers, and I liked RISC OS at the time.

So can you run the Domesday Project (off a virtual LaserDisc)?