Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by DaoVeles 701 days ago
When you see projects like this from start to finish you get to appreciate both how they used to squeeze so much out of the hardware, but also just how efficient our modern computers are in terms of materials.

I mean a Raspberry Pi Zero would run circles around this thing and that is awesome but it also loses a little of the charm at the same time.
1 comments
buescher 700 days ago
What's sort of neat with a Raspberry Pi - as far as retrocomputing - is that you can run RISC/OS, the operating system for the Acorn Archimedes, which was the first ARM computer and sort of the British Amiga. On real ARM hardware, even. I haven't figured out a use for that, but it's so cool.
link
lproven 699 days ago
The latest version has RasPi wifi support:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/rool_530_is_here/

It is more or less usable as a daily-driver OS except for the modern WWW.

Some users VNC to a Windows PC for the browser, and use RISC OS for everything else.

link