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.