rchimedes Live!

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About Archimedes Live!

Archimedes Live is a project by Paul Stone which allows anyone to try out an emulated Acorn Archimedes computer in their web browser. The Archimedes, first released in 1987, was Acorn's 32-bit successor to the BBC Micro. Acorn also created the ARM2 processor at the heart of the Archimedes - the ancestor of the ARM chips that power billions of smartphones, computers and other devices around the world today.

The emulator itself is a WebAssembly port of Sarah Walker's excellent Arculator Archimedes emulator.

Thanks to Matt Godbolt for creating jsbeeb and demonstrating how awesome a web-based emulator could be. Thanks also to Dominic Pajak, creator of the famous BBC Micro Bot, and Owlet BBC BASIC Editor which have allowed people to code, share and remix thousands of wonderfully creative BBC BASIC programs.

The RISC OS "System" font used on this site was converted by Peter Howkins.

Archimedes Live is a work in progress, with many bugfixes, improvements and new features still to come. Thanks to the StarDot forum community for help with testing, and for providing tips, help and other expertise on everything Acorn related.

This project is open-source. You can contribute on GitHub with code and helpful bug reports.