Re: Acorn RISC OS Educational Software

[castlevarich]

Re: Acorn RISC OS Educational Software

 

I know that most people who read this have

probably never seen an Acorn computer in a

school, and some of you might not even know

what one is, but I'm hoping there will be one

or two of you out there who will go all misty

eyed at the mention of a RiscPC.

 

If anybody still has any old Acorn educational

software lying about, would you check through

what you've got and see if you have any of

these -

 

Anglia Multimedia CDs

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Through the Window

Ancient Greeks

Ancient Egyptians

 

Sherston

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Wake UP World!

Crystal Rain Forest Version 1 or 2

 

and a RISC OS copy of the

 

AEGIS Geographical Information System

 

that was developed by the Hatfield Computer

Unit in the late 1990s.

 

It is impossible to get hold of RISC OS copies

of any of these now, unless you're lucky

enough to see them on Ebay, and I'm trying to

locate them for a Special Needs school, so

if anybody has Acorn copies of these, would

you please leave a message saying that you

have them.

 

Very few copies of some of these were ever

sold before Labour killed Acorn in education,

so you might well have the ONLY copy still in

existence.

 

The Sherston titles may well be the most likely

ones to find, because they may have been produced

in a triple format Mac/Acorn/PC CD. IF you have

a PC version, would you please check whether it's

one of those triple format ones.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Jon Robinson (Leeds)

[trevj]

Well Jon, I'm sorry but I don't have any of these. However, in replying to your post here, my count will be at 5. This is apparently the required threshold to permit me to send the private message you emailed me about! Thanks :-)

[creatinghavocagain]

John,

 

I'll take a look but I think I threw my copies out last year. However, from my memory I think many of these titles may be RISCOS version sensitive and if you are using a ewer version of RiscOS then they may not work.

[dwhyte85]

I remember our head of IT at Trevelyan Middle School and his utter disgust with children knowing how to cut and paste and not knowing how to use an Acorn! I know Treveleyan Middle School, Windsor used to have 2 suites with Acorns & loads of software - if anyone works at the school from here they may be able to help you - unless they binned it all. Edited December 3, 2010 by dwhyte85

[jimmy_2k]

I can't believe I finally sold my Risc PC which I had saved from my first school IT job. Was in mint condition with the i486 card. However I didn't use it and needed the space.