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Flash (SWF) player written in ARM assembler (personal project). The declining usage of the former, and the unproductivity of using the latter, are cheerfully dismissed. http://flas…

I haven't used it yet, but it seems to be faring okay. http://riscpi.co.uk/sales-riscospi/?doing_wp_cron=1403977657... You can also download RiscPC or Archimedes emulators, e.g. ht…

A welcome return to the Acorn/RISC OS days where "100% ARM assembler" was a back-of-the-box boast for many games and applications (Sibelius).

I am reminded of the 'Cool Cam' anecdote, in which morale was shifted from "Not only that, but everyone had grown tired enduring the stress of the weekly 'why-shouldn't-we-cancel-t…

The Archimedes had the ARM2. Same instruction set as an iPhone... in 1988. I shipped a game on it. 100% Assembly. Just out of curiosity, which game was this? (Just Another Archie p…

How I kicked the same problem: Spend a day procrastinating. Contemplate how unpleasantly wasteful it was (even if it felt superficially 'fun' at the time.) Spend time being product…

"Counting 600 coins per minute, Coinstar machines detect the metal content of the coin, as well as the size to accurately identify the coin denomination - and efficiently sort out …

One of the operating systems that may be ported to the Pi is RISC OS, which includes a reasonably decent implementation of BASIC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC ) which it…