#ACORN ARCHIMEDES

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Rick Dangerous 🏢 Core Design 📅 1989 🖥 Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum

[game-levels]

[itsuko-pixelartgallery]

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Clock Signal 2024-05-27 - A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum

[robotnik-mun]

Sam Maxwell wasn't to everyone's taste, and that's fair- his style is pretty off-beat. But you know what? I always did like this image, showcasing Archie Sonic heroes and villains like this. I always liked the way how the stark black and whites and the heavy inks gave it such an intense feel. It's one of those images that almost feels like a 'Platonic Ideal' of Archie Sonic for me, even if Julian never did get to encounter Von Stryker or Mogul.

Ah well, I still love it.

[koney-scanlines]

acoRN A3010. it’s iN deCent conDiTiON, caN rEad AnD wRitE FLOpPieS, aNd bOOts perfEctLY FrOM rOm!

[vgperfection]

Archimedes A3000 back from the dead

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[themightymadman]

1992 Acorn A4 Laptop Repair, Restoration, & Modifications

[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic The Hedgehog #31

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Sonic The Hedgehog #31

No, that’s supposed to be “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive”. Sonic The Hedgehog #31 Archie Comics Publications (February, 1998) COLORIST: Barry Grossman LETTERER: Mindy Eisman EDITOR: Scott Fulop “Robot Rides The Rails” WRITER/PENCILER: Ken Penders INKER: Jon D’Agostino Knuckles: “Lost…And Found” part 1 WRITERS: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders PENCILER: Ken…

[doobnnoob-tf2]

The Mercs go to the park. What are each of them up to?

Scout: he's the first one out of the vehicles, not even waiting for them to completely stop before he's out of his seatbelt and throwing open the door. he starts off attempting to flirt with a few moms there, before he turns his attention to a group of kids playing catch. he spends the rest of the afternoon there teaching them how to properly play baseball

Soldier: no one knows how he did it, someone suspects he stole a bag of peanuts from an old lady. but he's gotten together all of the squirrels in the area and has trained them into being his own, personal army. some are even wearing acorn caps as tiny helmets and they all sit up in trees and pelt every adult, child, and animal with various nuts as they pass by below

Pyro: they immediately bolt for the play equipment before anyone can stop them, which startles quite a few of the parents. however, when a group of older kids enter the park and start to bully some of the younger kids, they're quick to scare them all off. after that, the parents appoint them the park babysitter for the afternoon and they spend the rest of their time playing on the equipment with the kids

Demoman: it's hot outside, so he grabbed his swim trunks and goes right for the water area with all the sprinklers and whatnot. he gets many looks, but no one bothers him after he starts pretend fighting the giant dragon that sprays water out of its mouth from time to time. it's entertaining for the adults and kids. it all comes to an end when after he thinks he's defeated the beast, it blasts him in the back. he has a very dramatic death scene and the kids all go pick flowers to lay on his "corpse"

Heavy: he goes and finds a shady bench to sit at with Medic, both to people watch and to feed the birds. he brings along one of his books as well as a portable music player to enjoy since they wanted to have their own private space without bothering anyone else. eventually, he has to take over feeding the birds solely and ends up covered in them by the time they're due to leave

Engineer: he already knew the park had a cookout area, and brought along things to cook for the team. what he didn't expect to have happen was for everyone else there to start bringing over things they brought as well for him to cook too. often paying him in beer to do so. he doesn't mind at all and enjoys the company it brings. however, there are several husbands and dads that glare at him from afar for showing them up when suddenly no one wants their cooking anymore

Medic: he finds a nice, shady, quiet spot with Heavy to sit and listen to music and chat and feed birds with. what he wasn't expecting however was for there to be a stowaway. not long into feeding the birds, he has a very jealous Archimedes attacking his head for daring to give other birds attention. which quickly turns into him watching Heavy feed the birds while he handfeeds Archimedes on his lap

Sniper: he said his plans to everyone before leaving: he was going to find a spot in the grass and lay down and take a nap. and when he got there, that's just what he did. he found himself a very nice spot, laid down, and dropped his hat on his face to sleep. someone eventually looks over and sees he's missing. no one thinks of it until they hear talks of a man who was currently in the dog park area, covered in dogs and playing with them all while their owners watch on

Spy: he sees the lawn care people leaving as they're pulling in and already knows what's to come. he smells the fresh cut grass the moment Scout opens the door and bails out and he can feel his eyes watering and getting itchy. he has a grass allergy and ends up turning into a miserable, grouchy mess, finding himself a bench far, FAR away from the others to sit at. he sits and complains to himself in as many languages are he can, sneezing and resisting every urge to rub his eyes

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[humor-y-videojuegos]

Zool 🏢 Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. 📅 1992 🖥 Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, BlackBerry OS, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Master System, Mega Drive...

[arconinternet]

The Crystal Maze (In-browser/download, DOS/Acorn Archimedes, Digital Jellyfish Design, 1994)

You can download this game based on a classic British game show for use in DOSBox here, or download it, bundled with DOSBox and the all-important game manual, here.

The manual is important because different team members have different strengths and weaknesses in the various minigames.

[mingos-commodoreblog]

CLK Release 2024-05-05

A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.

[jadeyarts]

Please tell us about the mind palace Locke thing if you want, I love your hedgehog and pals analysis

for the last three years my partner and i have slowly deluded ourselves into believing locke and max have had an affair for about... five or seven years? based on something one of them said in reference to the other that made us go, "it kind of sounds like they're having an affair." and so the more we thought about it the more we were like... things just kinda make more sense if they were having an affair? SO. we've got this mind palace where, yeah, locke and max had been hooking up for a while before max got banished to superhell or whatever that place was called i honestly forgot.

of course then you've got... everything going on with what kenders actually does with locke and how he navigates his relationships - marriage to lara, making moves on her after she's already moved on, then briefly having some kind of thing with rouge, a young woman only two years older than his only son - so like. how do you reconcile kenders "obscenely straight family man" locke with "has a gay little thing going on with king acorn" locke?

the thing with the guardians in archie is it's entire situation is, both textually and as intended by kenders, generational trauma. sometimes what he intends and what he actually writes are kind of at odds with each other, and how he executes it may not always be well written, and its themes might not come across as strongly as another work... but it is very much so about generational trauma on purpose, and is still very noticeable. and things like generational trauma come with... enforcing certain ideals and rules onto your descendants that may have been useful or necessary once, but are no longer needed.

and locke talks an awful lot about how he was once like knuckles, how he had all the same frustrations knuckles had, how he had the same upbringing knuckles had... before eventually deciding his ancestors were right, buying into everything they told him, and forcing himself to be what he thinks he is supposed to be. so if you go, "knuckles has some hangups about relationships because of his upbringing," then it becomes clear that the same thing must have happened to locke, and that he'd have the same or at least similar hangups, right?

so then when knuckles goes to locke for relationship advice and says something along the lines of "i like my boy friends wouldn't it be better if boys just stick to boys and girls stick to girls" and locke's response is like "yeah, but then wouldn't they want something more?" - it kind of has some "it's only natural for a man to prefer the company of other men but it's our duty to further our lineage" repressed mentality vibes, a line we are equally deluded about in the context of locke having an affair with a married man who will inevitably return to his wife, especially when combined with archimedes literally saying to locke that "you and women have always been a bad combination"

so anyways those echidnas sure can internalize homophobia and repress themselves like a championship sport!