Last updated: Tuesday, 24. January, 2017
There
are actually some emulators in the Windows-World and some in the Unix/Linux-World
that are able to emulate the new Acorn machines:
Archie
is an Acorn Archimedes emulator for DOS. It only emulates older machines like
the A3000. There was a long time no development and now the homepage is closed.
I've added the last download of Archie 0.9 to this site. If this is a problem
for the author, please contact me.
The
commercial brother of RedSquirrel. Runs faster and works better then Red Squirrel.
The last version was
1.4.
Development for Virtual Acorn has discontinued for the benefit of Virtual RPC.
If you are looking for downloads of all available upgrades,
visit the VA5000 Upgrades-section.
Successor of Virtual Acorn.
Description from the developers website:
'VirtualRPC-SE runs software intended for Acorn RISC PC, Acorn A7000, Acorn
A7000+ and other computers fitted with RISC OS 3.5 or later. VirtualRPC-SE can
also run the vast majority of software intended for older Acorn machines.'
Emulator by Tom Walker. Works fine and gets better with every new version. Now emulates ARM2, ARM250 and
ARM3 machines with multiple RAM-sizes, HD-disc access and IDE-filing. If you need a formatted 50 MB IDE image,
download it from the Tools-Section at this site.
See this article on
drobe for some interesting infos:
A deeper look inside Acorn emulatorsAnother
Emulator by Tom Walker. Emulates A7000 and RiscPC machines with RISC OS
3.X, 4.X, 6.X. Now with IDE emulation and HostFS support. There is also a
Linux port available.
If you need a formatted 50 MB IDE image, download it from the Tools-Section
at this site. Visit the homepage to get more informations.
See this article about the Linux port of this emulator:
RPCEmu ported to LinuxThe continued emulator RPCEMu after the walkaway of Tom Walker.
This is the newest version of RPCEmu to install and start and you find some ROM images linked at this site.
ArcEm
An
open source emulator. Only emulates Archimedes-machines, but exists for Windows
and Linux and RISC OS. Current version is 1.0.
ARMphetamine
Emulates
correctly an ARM-processor. No more info's available at the moment.
Riscose
Even one more emulator. This time for Unix-based machines. Don't have the system
to test this one, so please help me, if you've got one version of Riscose running
on your system.
ROM images
You can create ROM images from your real machine. This is described
here.
You could also download ROM images
here.
Tools
Here you'll get some tools for easier use of emulators.
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I've created a little tool for the easier use of ArcImage. Is it running
under Windows 95/98/ME. This is just a beta release.
Development is stopped, because the program doesn't work on
Windows 2000/XP and later version.
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Originally created by Jasper Renow-Clarke, v1.12 modified by Tom Humphrey.
This small tool helps you reading Acorn discs into your PC directly from
the PC-floppy. It creates ADF-Discimages. v1.12 also reads and writes
HD-Discs.
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This
utility can read/write the contents of ADF disc images on Acorn
machines. It consists of two programs, a Frontend and a Backend (that
can be run independently). Use it to create disc images of your discs
on the Acorn and read them on the emulator.
You
need to copy it to a real Acorn and then unpack it! This is no Windows
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A formatted ide disk image (50 MB), absolutely clean
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A
formatted ide disk image (50 MB), absolutely clean too :-) Just copy the
content of this zip into the Arculator- or RPCEmu-dir.
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A
formatted ide disk image (256 MB). Just copy the
content of this zip into the RPCEmu-dir.
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A
formatted ide disk image (1 GB). Just copy the
content of this zip into the RPCEmu-dir.
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Programming
A
tutorial on programming WIMP was shown at growse.com a while ago. The site was
deleted, but I saved the article, so you can see it
I
found a RISC-OS-SDK on the net. So here's the link for you. Comments following
later:
There's
also an interpreter for BBC Basic on the net called Brandy.
Here's the link:
Help
Don't
know, how to get the emulator running ? Here you find a short description on
how to configure both Acorn emulators:
The link is dead, if someone saved this article, please contact me!
Maybe
there are some people out there who won't use my tool
ArcDisc
to create discimages. If you are one of them and you want to know all about
ArcImg, then visit
Another
big part goes to the emulators of "older" Acorn machines, like
the Acorn Electron or the Acorn Atom. The emulation of these computers is one
step ahead of the newer machines. At the moment I know one good emulator for
the BBCMicro,
Acorn Atom Emulator
The
Acorn Atom Emulator is now at version 1.33 and there should not be any update
in the next time.
BeebEm
BeebEm is actually at version 4.14 and emulates the BBCMicro.
pcBBC
Another emulator for the BBC Micro but I haven't tested it.
On the site you can download a working demo of this emulator, only running 10 minutes.
ElectrEm Future & ElectrEm Classic
An emulator for the Acorn Electron. The new designed version is currently at version 0.6c. The old version Classic is available in version beta 9:
ElectrEm Classic and ElectrEm Future.
B-EM
A freeware BBC Micro emulator. Supports reading of
FDI discimages. Current version is 2.2.
Elkulator
A freeware Acorn Electron emulator. Current version is 1.0.