The Great RISC OS

[InTheSand]

Not sure about "full time", but I certainly used it lots when at college many moons ago! This was at the time when educational computer rooms in the UK were still mostly full of BBC Masters and had the odd few Archimedes.

Unfortunately, the Archimedes were usually found running BBC BASIC programs or text-mode PC applications via the Acorn-supplied PC emulation software.

RISCOS did get some use though, via native applications such as Pro-Artisan (graphics) and Impression (DTP).

I still have a couple of Archimedes, but they don't get used much! There are a couple of emulators available for Windows if you're feeling nostalgic!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Yeah, it was pretty good for the time, and nice when running on the Archie's 256-colour screenmodes on a multisync monitor.

I also remember using "!Translator" to convert lots of Amiga IFF pictures to the Artisan format, and wrote a very rudimentary converter in AMOS to go from an Archimedes uncompressed sprite file back to IFF. Ah, those were the days!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Me personally? Since 1989, when the Amiga A500 dropped to a reasonable price in the UK.

What sort of Amiga stuff do you own? Which country are you in? Do you own any other "vintage" stuff? I guess you might have an Archimedes seeing as you've mentioned RISCOS...

 - Ali