Anyone ever own an Acorn computer?

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My first comp was an Acorn A3000, bought as an xmas present when I was about 5. Anyone else own an Acorn? What games did you play? :p

I remember a quality WW1 flight sim called Chocks Away.
 
A3010 (the revision with the ARM250 "GT" chip that was like an extra 4MHz or something over the standard A3xxx 16 v 12?) mine had 4MB and a 120MB HDD instead of the standard 1MB and no HDD.

Chocks away was the bomb :P

I can't remember all the games but some I played included

Wolfenstein 3D
Marsquake
Lemmings :P
Lotus turbo challenge (IIRC it didn't run properly on my 3010 :( and had to sneak in playing it on the 3020 and 5000s at school)
Elite
Star fighter 3000
Asylum
Twin World
Cannon Fodder

and loads more will update as I remember.

I actually dumped the ROMs before I retired it and run RISC OS emulated under windows sometimes for nostalgia.
 
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Acorn Electron or something along those lines i believe it was, it was the same as the ones they had in our school at the time.

I really don't remember too much about it though other than they had that stupid pob or pob like thing at school that supposed to teach you.

Amstrad cpc464 was the first PC i personally had but i remember a mate having a "proper PC" at that time. I loved how basic the code was to write on the trusty old Amstrad.
 
I never owned one, but had a few games to play in the school computer room during lunch breaks (after sneaking in or pretending to be doing work lol). Loads of the standard A3000 and there was aone fully loaded A5000, awsome for 2 player Chocks Away and Salon Cars. Other games included lemmings, Chuck rock, Moonquake, twinworld, cystal maze and zool.

There was also a few newer Achamedies,with green function keyes - I cant remember the model number (A3010?) that were noticable faster then the bigger red key A3000s. These were used in the art rooms mostly. I used to take in my Amiga A1200 and show how pixel art was ment to be done in DPaint ;)
 
Acorn Electron, and we used to buy the magazine (bytes or something) where you would type in hundreds of lines of code to find it did'nt work, and then realising in the next issue the code had a typo :S

I remember repton the most, excellent game with at least one sequel.
 
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