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Elementary Archimedes
I’ve been enjoying your series on emulating early home computers, several of which I was fortunate to be able to play with during my school days. Even for those machines I didn’t encounter, the articles give one a good overview of the various emulation options and useful information – practical advice I could use when I recently had to resurrect and check software from an old Macintosh disk, for example.
I notice that you’ve now covered emulation of two BBC Micros, and this letter is to ask you to please cover a third (if you’ve not already planned to do so): the Acorn Archimedes, and specifically the A3000.
It was a contemporary of, but superior to, the Atari ST and Amiga 500 (which you’ve also covered). I’d be interested to hear your experts’ advice on the easiest way to re-experience the machine which hosted not just the best version of
Lemmings,
but also the best version of
Elite
(as well as David Braben’s lesser-known masterpiece,
Lander/Zarch.
If ever you need to train your fine and precision mouse motor skills, this is the game to use!)