Can anyone help me please [BBC Acorn Archimedes]

[trickymicky]

Hello everyone. I am very new to this site and not sure whether or not it can help me in my quest.
I am looking for a way to play old style BBC Acorn Archimedes games, 2 games in particular, Premier manager and Cataclysm.
Is it possible to down load these games and to down load a system to play them on to a PC.
I would appreciate any help possible with these matters.
Thanks, in advance.
Mick.

[Zorlon]

It's just an Acorn Archimedes BBC was an older computer

Yes and no

First thing you need is an emulator of the system to let you play on a windows system
There are 4 that I know of but it's been too many years since I looked at those to be able to tell what is the best of those

I will list the live ones though
http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/index.html
http://red-squirrel.org/
http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/index2.htm
http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/
Note read the web sites carefully some of those base emulators do have branch versions done by other groups that may be more up to date


RISC OS ROM will also be needed (think of it as a bios image)

Finally you will need diskette images

Also note that this system can seem complicated to start with because there are several versions of this computer with several components to it that had been upgradable, a bit like standard PC's of today

[trickymicky]

It's just an Acorn Archimedes BBC was an older computer

Yes and no

First thing you need is an emulator of the system to let you play on a windows system
There are 4 that I know of but it's been too many years since I looked at those to be able to tell what is the best of those

I will list the live ones though
http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/index.html
http://red-squirrel.org/
http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/index2.htm
http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/
Note read the web sites carefully some of those base emulators do have branch versions done by other groups that may be more up to date


RISC OS ROM will also be needed (think of it as a bios image)

Finally you will need diskette images

Also note that this system can seem complicated to start with because there are several versions of this computer with several components to it that had been upgradable, a bit like standard PC's of today

Thanks for the reply Zorlon. I'm busy at work at the moment but will follow up your leads when I have some free time.