I spend about 1 hour researching each operating system and test driving it myself before my mum does. These videos take about 1 hour to record and 2-3 hours to edit. So you could say a normal OSFirstTimer video is a 5 hour process to make. The final rendered footage is usually 200 gigabytes which is then compressed to less than a gigabyte down to a 720p mp4 file and uploaded to youtube where it is further compressed. If working on this channel was a full time job there would be a video every day
It's crazy to think that this video has been released seven years ago. I was a 14 y/o kid back then, I still remember watching this video a few hours after it got uploaded. The intro song alone gives me extreme nostalgia.
I had many acorns back in the day and it took me a long time to get used to not having that drag drop save on PC that your mum seemed to not like. The thing is, if you open a file, you navigate to it and click it, so you have the folder open anyway. So when you want to save, its already open there ready to be dragged and dropped into. You don't have the whole convoluted navigation system in the save dialog that you do these days, where it seemingly randomly changes what folder it thinks you should be in and you have to re-navigate where you want to save the thing. The amount of drag and drop integration in riscos was revolutionary at the time, for example you could drag the save from one program into the window of another program, it would load the file in that program and you'd never need to save the inter mediatory file. Ahhh the memories, thanks for this trip down memory lane :)
But that folder would only already be open if you're editing an existing doc, if you're creating a new one (or want to change the save folder) it adds unneccessary steps. Modern save dialogs have a default (my documents, my pictures, desktop...), and if you change it once (which is not complicated, you just start in computer or desktop and navigate to the save folder like you normally would), it remembers.
Anyone who went to school in the early 90s in the UK used Risc OS, it was the UK education standard platform back then. It is a bit quirky, but GUI standards were still developing then, and there was a lot of law-suits over "look and feel" etc. so developers did their bit to make their systems unique. It's a pretty nice OS when you get used to its drag-n-drop ways. It's still developed today and is actually compatible with the ARM based Raspberry Pi.
Other than you not realising that Maestro does indeed play music, you were pretty spot on. For someone reviewing an OS twice your age, you did fantastically!
"And right now you've only got a RapeME file." We always hear strange things. :P At first I thought those inverted exclamation marks were i's and the apps were called iPaint, iDraw, et cetera, just like Apple's products. "Push this out of the way." Noooooooo, not again! In one of the Windows videos I remember her saying it's stupid to center a background, but in this operating system she says it's quite nice. :P
I used this back in the 90's. First on the A310 and later on the A3000 and A5000. One had a whopping 80MB IDE Hard drive. It was simple to use and no frills in my opinion. The BBC Basic V was easy to use, and programming was made alot easier by the SWI calls. I loved using it and spent many a happy hour on an Acorn. Thanks for sharing :)
@@bangerbangerbro Many 19 year olds would not know about it since by the time they were old enough to have an interest in such things the computer would have been obsolete.
Chroma Key can be fantastic but if you don't have a green screen it can be problematic. I currently stand against a white wall in my house to do the chroma key effects and you can tell the result is a lot worse than if I were to use a real greenscreen. Using a white wall is what makes me transparent rather than Opaque.
I'm just trying to make the intros a little more interesting than they have previously been since the channel Is getting bigger now. I don't have a real greenscreen though so that's why I am always a little transparent in the title.
It *is* called the Desktop in RISC OS. In fact, if you're in a command line only mode, you type DESKTOP to go in to the Desktop. Pinboard is a separate program that allows you to put icons on the desktop background, and to have wallpaper, which you can't do by default. You can see that program at 04:07. Icons running on the icon bar can be closed by middle-clicking on them, because middle button is the Menu button in RISC OS. When you start using RISC OS you need a 3-button mouse and the knowledge that the use of the middle button to bring up menus is an integral part of the using the Desktop. (Why the trackball!?) It's also useful to know how to use the right mouse button; that provides some handy features that are sadly missing from other GUIs like Windows to this day.
Acorn computers were _very_ popular in British schools until Win '95 came out - initially the BBC Micro (CLI - if you could find an emulator that would be almost as challenging as MS-DOS, but then again it had a built-in BBC BASIC interpreter so even if you couldn't do anything useful, you could write your first "Hello World" without needing any additional programs / editors) then the Archs (Acorn Archimedes range, notably the A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000; eventually followed by the Risc PC - notable for having an expanding case: you could buy additional 'slices' and longer bolts to hold it all together). The Task Manager briefly shown was very powerful - you could see at a glance how much system memory was being used for various purposes and even control how much memory applications and built-in features (e.g. the icon cache) used. Another novel feature of the OS was the structure of applications - the other reason they have a pling (!) at the start is they're a modified folder tree. Shift double click and the application folder opens, which contains all the resources the application needs. !Boot (much abused by viruses) tells the OS what to do as soon as it sees the application (e.g. setting up file associations and icons), !Run is the main run file, !Sprites contains the sprites the application used (Sprites themselves were a novel format - they could contain multiple separate images within the same file, including low res and high res versions of the application icon), !Runimage is the main program itself. Oh, and it was 32-bit. Back in 1988. Seven years before MS caught up. The computers could have been a big hit, but Acorn were quite small and got caught in the trap of only marketing to education. Still, one small bit of Acorn is alive and kicking - ARM. Originally Acorn RISC Machines, then Advanced RISC Machines, it designs chip cores but doesn't actually manufacture them - instead licensing them out to manufacturers.
Yes but with a white wall rather than a green screen. The technique is called chroma key and you can use any plain color to do it but green is the best followed by blue. Any other colour gives you a poor result which I tried to cover up as much as possible in this video.
Aaaah the memories! To keep your desktop wallpaper save your desktop, it is a very fast and easy OS just needs a few hours playing around to get the hang of it!. RISC OS on your A5000 ran from ROM and couldn't be corrupted :) the !Boot folder did the work of loading bits and pieces not in the ROMs and holding shift bypassed it in case something went wrong. I use a Mac because is is similar to RISC OS in a way! I miss my Acorm!
+Knuckles the Echidna Was wondering when i'd hit a comment where someone would mention saving the pinboard! And yeah, +OSFirstTimer dude get a Pi (not one of the first batch) and run it native :) (missed out on riscos back in the day, junior school got one just as i left, senior was all RM pc clone trash boo hiss)
7:16 Before you start baking a cake, you gather the ingredients needed for the recipe. Before you start your day at work, you gather all the apps you'll need.
I think after 30+ years, it's about time Microsoft added drag saving from an application. It's a lot easer than going through menus to get the correct directory (folder) where you want to save the file. I had an Acorn A5000. The Desktop is the pinboard and the icon bar. To enter the multitasking Desktop you would type *desktop
both virtualacorn and rpcemu runs fine on win7 (8 as well) and the same was true back in 2013... if you really wanted to go hardcore in emulation, run virtual xp under 7, from that xp run winuae and start AmigaOS then run RiscOs from the Acorn Emulator (Arculator?) for AmigaOS:) (you can add a bonus virtual linux between w7 and xp for maximizing the fun. also dont forget to run ShapeShifter, a MacOS emu in AmigaOS in the same time as you run RiscOS under AmigaOS - to showcase teh Amiga multYtaskin powah!:):) great videos btw, and your mum is really cute when does first time dating with those obscure OSes:I)
I remember using this OS. Very chunky Acorn laptop with a greyscale display. You could play music with that Meistro program or whatever it's called, it even had a small selection of different voices. The pin board image did not save automatically even on the original Acorn, you had to save some kind of boot profile as I seem to recall.
they added the boot profile with Risc OS 3 I think ... it was a mixed blessing. Before that, there was no boot up, everything was held in ROM, and you turned the machine on, and it loaded instantly and never corrupted. Adding boot meant a startup time of several seconds, and the risc of the OS corrupting (although I think that only happened to me once. Unlike Windoze where it happens once ever few years, even on win 7).
Richard Foulkes Yep, I have real fond memories of this OS and the laptop. Couldn't even tell you where it was now, I'm not even sure if I still have the laptop.
I don't buy computers as often as you think. My desktop computer is something I replace every 6 years. When I get a new computer then I will think about a 1080p monitor ;) I got this computer in 2010 but I wanna keep it until 2018 so it may take a while.
The thing with the programs loading to the iconbar is simple: You just have one instance of a program running but you can handle a virtual limitless amount of documents with that, meaning that you just have ONE icon for say 20 open texts. For having applications automatically started, try the !Configure application, although I admit that this might be too much for a first time use ;) I still find it the most intuitive classic (stacking windows) GUI, and I really use many different ones.
In my opinion these video's are the most interesting. We all know how modern versions of Windows and OS X look like and then there's Linux which looks whatever you want, but for me the most interesting videos are the really old and unknown versions of Windows and Mac OS and these operating systems that have absolutely nothing to do with Windows, Mac and Linux. It's really interesting to see what other companies came up with.
Actually ARM and RISC OS have the same origins, the company which developed the ARM in the first place was Acorn, who developed RISC OS. The ARM 1 was an add on to their BBC Micro, and their Archimedies had the ARM 2. RISC OS is on the Raspberry Pi!
As soon as "run OSFirsttimer" faded out, my laptop popped up a critical battery alert, then the screen went blank (computer shut down). When I plugged in and booted I was scared Risc OS 3.11 would be installed.
Try OS390/400 IBM Mainframe OS. It runs from the 1970s upto present day in various companys and even new Programming Projects are done on it.The OS is also developed by IBM actively today. You cant install it but there are serveral free Hoster out there.
It allway nice to see your video specifically your accent , how long does it takes to do a video how many time to you repeat it and how many memory it useing
The desktop is the pinboard and icon bar and open windows, etc. (Everything you can see) Press F8 to exit the desktop. (Or menu click on the Acorn icon) Then type *Basic for BBC Basic *Time to display the time/date. *DOS to use files using the Microsoft DOS filing system *ADFS to use the Advanced Disc Filing System by Acorn that could have more files in a directory, file names longer than 8 characters etc than DOS OS. *RMFS to uses files stored in the ROM. Type *Roms to list some of the roms. Type *Desktop to return to the RISC desktop.Remember that the OS is stored in ROM, so you can't get a virus or if you do then just format the hard drive and the computer will still run with no need to install the OS.
Ah, just noticed the RISC OS Wiki link in 'About', thanks for that. It would still be great to clarify on the video that 3.11 was just a minor evolutionary step. It's sad that judgements are made, whilst lacking a basic understanding of how things work...
love these videos guys! keep it up! these videos are really funny. can you get her to try out win 95 or 98 maybe? or is she too familiar with those. please respond
Most of the difficulties people face when trying to use RISC OS boil down to: a) People have become used to using 2-button mice. Even Windows 7/8 uses the 3rd button very rarely. A 3rd button that must be used all of the time feels odd. b) Modern OSes work through a program idiom. Run MS Word, select File->Open, that opens a file selection dialog, find the file. This is based around a file idiom. There are no file open dialogs. Just drag the file to the program to load and drag it away to save.
Well Hello! I still use an Acorn RISC PC running RISC OS 4. I use it mostly now for music although I still do some of my art with it. I run a sequencer program called Melidi and the Sibelius 7 notation software in the machine it was written for. Guess what? It's all NEVER gone wrong, NEVER locks up, it NEVER crashes and is faster than the modern PC I am forced to use. Thanks to the philosophy behind how it was all thought up, I can still transfer files across from that machine to the modern PC or Laptop. And yes, you guessed it, I do that by using a Floppy Disc Drive! This system would have been a real competitor for the Big Boys but why it didn't work out like that is another story.
If it weren't for this video, I would still not know how to close applications running on RiscOS (on my Pi Zero). At first I didn't realize I was dealing with the same system Diana tried!
animesaint :3 I often wondered why I stopped... Back on them now, though :) sooo much fun and they just work and fast. Sure, there's no photoshop, apache2 distro or minecraft, but it will never be unusable due to a windows/mac/linux or any virus! When I moved to a PC, I found the concept of 'reinstalling your operating system' really alien... Why would you need to do that... Windows.
Yeah but he's a 19 year old kid who cant contain his enthusiasm for technology, and that should be applauded and supported. And his mum is a great side kick in this duo. With a little spit and polish this channel could be quite fun and interesting. I think that the host should back off a bit more and not take over so much of what the mum does, talk slower and clearer, and not just look at Operatingsystems. If they broadened this to a channel that looked at UX/UI design of software in general this could be a real fun hit.
I really like these vids. Don't stop now whatever you do. Do me a big favour and tell me, is it possible to run the newest acorn that runs on a rasberrypi on any computer as a o.s. desktop.?? please make a video on the newest one . i would like to see Risc o.s. Your mum and you are great at these videos.
Please DO link to the 'History of RISC OS' Wiki. Acorn released its first GUI in 1986, the iconbar, etc. appearing a year later. Their earlier, but technically superior, ARX OS was delayed into extinction. P.S. Pinboard runs 'on' the desktop, and can be quit it in the Tasks window.
Desktop sounds like it's in relation to the pinboard and the taskbar where as the pinboard is referring to the thing all those icons are pinned to. Right?
I thought each computer had a different OS and for a different OS you needed a different PC. I didn't realize this until I was 10, so you're not alone.
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I spend about 1 hour researching each operating system and test driving it myself before my mum does. These videos take about 1 hour to record and 2-3 hours to edit. So you could say a normal OSFirstTimer video is a 5 hour process to make. The final rendered footage is usually 200 gigabytes which is then compressed to less than a gigabyte down to a 720p mp4 file and uploaded to youtube where it is further compressed.
If working on this channel was a full time job there would be a video every day
That is a very nice intro on this video
Most likely pc-bsd but she has already tried an os with kde so I am putting it off for a while.
Absolutely loving this conversation, and what a quick learner your Mum is. She's fab.
whoa whoa whoa, he is 19?
He looks like he is 15.
true dat!
He also acts like one.
@Jdrocco what the fuck
It's crazy to think that this video has been released seven years ago. I was a 14 y/o kid back then, I still remember watching this video a few hours after it got uploaded. The intro song alone gives me extreme nostalgia.
@@EpicLPer Someone making MLP videos isn't exactly in the position to call others childish.
DUDE I REALLY ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS I FORGOT THAT YOU WERE THERE FOR A GOOD LONG WHILE AND WAS RELIEVED TO SEE YOU AGAIN
I had many acorns back in the day and it took me a long time to get used to not having that drag drop save on PC that your mum seemed to not like. The thing is, if you open a file, you navigate to it and click it, so you have the folder open anyway. So when you want to save, its already open there ready to be dragged and dropped into. You don't have the whole convoluted navigation system in the save dialog that you do these days, where it seemingly randomly changes what folder it thinks you should be in and you have to re-navigate where you want to save the thing.
The amount of drag and drop integration in riscos was revolutionary at the time, for example you could drag the save from one program into the window of another program, it would load the file in that program and you'd never need to save the inter mediatory file.
Ahhh the memories, thanks for this trip down memory lane :)
But that folder would only already be open if you're editing an existing doc, if you're creating a new one (or want to change the save folder) it adds unneccessary steps. Modern save dialogs have a default (my documents, my pictures, desktop...), and if you change it once (which is not complicated, you just start in computer or desktop and navigate to the save folder like you normally would), it remembers.
Anyone who went to school in the early 90s in the UK used Risc OS, it was the UK education standard platform back then. It is a bit quirky, but GUI standards were still developing then, and there was a lot of law-suits over "look and feel" etc. so developers did their bit to make their systems unique. It's a pretty nice OS when you get used to its drag-n-drop ways. It's still developed today and is actually compatible with the ARM based Raspberry Pi.
I did
Other than you not realising that Maestro does indeed play music, you were pretty spot on. For someone reviewing an OS twice your age, you did fantastically!
I love your videos, your mom is awesome and your reviews are just fun to watch. Aside from "more faster and more big", I liked it.
"And right now you've only got a RapeME file."
We always hear strange things. :P
At first I thought those inverted exclamation marks were i's and the apps were called iPaint, iDraw, et cetera, just like Apple's products.
"Push this out of the way." Noooooooo, not again!
In one of the Windows videos I remember her saying it's stupid to center a background, but in this operating system she says it's quite nice. :P
I used this back in the 90's. First on the A310 and later on the A3000 and A5000. One had a whopping 80MB IDE Hard drive. It was simple to use and no frills in my opinion. The BBC Basic V was easy to use, and programming was made alot easier by the SWI calls. I loved using it and spent many a happy hour on an Acorn. Thanks for sharing :)
I love the fact you're only 19 and you know about RISC OS & Acorn. Top man!!
Yep, I'm 35 and we had Acorn machines at Primary School, way back in 1990 or so. Acorn computers are great, wish I had one. Thumbs up!
MarcusMarkyMark Why wouldn't he? If he was 19 then it must be roughly the same age as him. With the internet you can find out about all this stuff.
@@bangerbangerbro Many 19 year olds would not know about it since by the time they were old enough to have an interest in such things the computer would have been obsolete.
Maestro DOES play the music. You missed a great opportunity there. I'm pretty sure RISC OS shipped with a few music files that you could have played.
Love your interaction and hope u are doing a good deep teaching your mom do keep making would love to see more!!!!! ;)
You are getting better and better with each video :)
Chroma Key can be fantastic but if you don't have a green screen it can be problematic. I currently stand against a white wall in my house to do the chroma key effects and you can tell the result is a lot worse than if I were to use a real greenscreen. Using a white wall is what makes me transparent rather than Opaque.
"What's the point of that?" - Mum
RUclips Boy What on earth makes you think your correction is even remotely accurate? It's even spelled "Mum" in the title of the video.
RUclipsBoyPlays [RUclipsBoy] its mum austrailian and uk [british] people say it
+Sycabara spelt*
Born To Be ♂PrincessAlicia♂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt
-_-
I'm just trying to make the intros a little more interesting than they have previously been since the channel Is getting bigger now. I don't have a real greenscreen though so that's why I am always a little transparent in the title.
“And this is what Windows looked like back then.” “Oh, is that what Windows looked like back then?” “Yeah, that's what Windows looked like back then.”
It *is* called the Desktop in RISC OS. In fact, if you're in a command line only mode, you type DESKTOP to go in to the Desktop. Pinboard is a separate program that allows you to put icons on the desktop background, and to have wallpaper, which you can't do by default. You can see that program at 04:07.
Icons running on the icon bar can be closed by middle-clicking on them, because middle button is the Menu button in RISC OS.
When you start using RISC OS you need a 3-button mouse and the knowledge that the use of the middle button to bring up menus is an integral part of the using the Desktop. (Why the trackball!?)
It's also useful to know how to use the right mouse button; that provides some handy features that are sadly missing from other GUIs like Windows to this day.
RISC OS 3.11 is the operating system that I used when I was a kid at Linwood School.
Acorn computers were _very_ popular in British schools until Win '95 came out - initially the BBC Micro (CLI - if you could find an emulator that would be almost as challenging as MS-DOS, but then again it had a built-in BBC BASIC interpreter so even if you couldn't do anything useful, you could write your first "Hello World" without needing any additional programs / editors) then the Archs (Acorn Archimedes range, notably the A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000; eventually followed by the Risc PC - notable for having an expanding case: you could buy additional 'slices' and longer bolts to hold it all together).
The Task Manager briefly shown was very powerful - you could see at a glance how much system memory was being used for various purposes and even control how much memory applications and built-in features (e.g. the icon cache) used.
Another novel feature of the OS was the structure of applications - the other reason they have a pling (!) at the start is they're a modified folder tree. Shift double click and the application folder opens, which contains all the resources the application needs. !Boot (much abused by viruses) tells the OS what to do as soon as it sees the application (e.g. setting up file associations and icons), !Run is the main run file, !Sprites contains the sprites the application used (Sprites themselves were a novel format - they could contain multiple separate images within the same file, including low res and high res versions of the application icon), !Runimage is the main program itself.
Oh, and it was 32-bit. Back in 1988. Seven years before MS caught up. The computers could have been a big hit, but Acorn were quite small and got caught in the trap of only marketing to education. Still, one small bit of Acorn is alive and kicking - ARM. Originally Acorn RISC Machines, then Advanced RISC Machines, it designs chip cores but doesn't actually manufacture them - instead licensing them out to manufacturers.
Yeah, Windows 95 ruined a lot of OSes. Amiga, Acorn, DOS, and Win 95 also messed up the roadway to success for other OSes, like Linux. :(
People on the RiscOS Forums have confirmed that ;)
back when i was 5 1995 we had acorn computer in our class with the same os risk os was way ahead of its time
9:48 press select *to set a selection*
Who cares what my age is... at least you won't feel like a pred anymore
Pred as in Predator ?
VirtualAcorn will now happily run under windows 7 and 8.1 without any emulators within emulators.
This was painful to watch and I haven't even used RISC OS since I was about 10.
Yes but with a white wall rather than a green screen. The technique is called chroma key and you can use any plain color to do it but green is the best followed by blue. Any other colour gives you a poor result which I tried to cover up as much as possible in this video.
Aaaah the memories! To keep your desktop wallpaper save your desktop, it is a very fast and easy OS just needs a few hours playing around to get the hang of it!. RISC OS on your A5000 ran from ROM and couldn't be corrupted :) the !Boot folder did the work of loading bits and pieces not in the ROMs and holding shift bypassed it in case something went wrong. I use a Mac because is is similar to RISC OS in a way! I miss my Acorm!
***** It's quite useful if you don't want anyone messing up your desktop although not really necessary these days.
Knuckles the Echidna I still would like a 'home' position for my icons on boot for Windows, though ;)
+Knuckles the Echidna Was wondering when i'd hit a comment where someone would mention saving the pinboard! And yeah, +OSFirstTimer dude get a Pi (not one of the first batch) and run it native :) (missed out on riscos back in the day, junior school got one just as i left, senior was all RM pc clone trash boo hiss)
I'm glad you found the answer to that. I'm in IT so I tend to have to think outside the box.
Yea when I was researching risc os I noticed a few RUclips videos of it running on that.
Why didn't this channel have 100,000 subscribers a year ago?
we just made it now!
22:14 YA DAWG! I herd you like emulation, so I put emulator in your emulator so you can emulate while you emulate ;)
You deserve a medal.
QVear #Emulception
Its not really an emulator... It's virtualization more of emulation.
= Emulation
7:16 Before you start baking a cake, you gather the ingredients needed for the recipe. Before you start your day at work, you gather all the apps you'll need.
I think after 30+ years, it's about time Microsoft added drag saving from an application.
It's a lot easer than going through menus to get the correct directory (folder) where you want to save the file.
I had an Acorn A5000.
The Desktop is the pinboard and the icon bar.
To enter the multitasking Desktop you would type *desktop
I wanted to have an interesting pre-intro and that's what I came up with.
both virtualacorn and rpcemu runs fine on win7 (8 as well) and the same was true back in 2013...
if you really wanted to go hardcore in emulation, run virtual xp under 7, from that xp run winuae and start AmigaOS then run RiscOs from the Acorn Emulator (Arculator?) for AmigaOS:)
(you can add a bonus virtual linux between w7 and xp for maximizing the fun. also dont forget to run ShapeShifter, a MacOS emu in AmigaOS in the same time as you run RiscOS under AmigaOS - to showcase teh Amiga multYtaskin powah!:):)
great videos btw, and your mum is really cute when does first time dating with those obscure OSes:I)
I remember using this OS. Very chunky Acorn laptop with a greyscale display. You could play music with that Meistro program or whatever it's called, it even had a small selection of different voices. The pin board image did not save automatically even on the original Acorn, you had to save some kind of boot profile as I seem to recall.
they added the boot profile with Risc OS 3 I think ... it was a mixed blessing. Before that, there was no boot up, everything was held in ROM, and you turned the machine on, and it loaded instantly and never corrupted. Adding boot meant a startup time of several seconds, and the risc of the OS corrupting (although I think that only happened to me once. Unlike Windoze where it happens once ever few years, even on win 7).
+Rick You had an A4 laptop? That'd go for a bomb on ebay nowadays
Richard Foulkes Yep, I have real fond memories of this OS and the laptop. Couldn't even tell you where it was now, I'm not even sure if I still have the laptop.
I don't buy computers as often as you think. My desktop computer is something I replace every 6 years. When I get a new computer then I will think about a 1080p monitor ;) I got this computer in 2010 but I wanna keep it until 2018 so it may take a while.
The thing with the programs loading to the iconbar is simple: You just have one instance of a program running but you can handle a virtual limitless amount of documents with that, meaning that you just have ONE icon for say 20 open texts.
For having applications automatically started, try the !Configure application, although I admit that this might be too much for a first time use ;)
I still find it the most intuitive classic (stacking windows) GUI, and I really use many different ones.
Yes, every now and then I purposely make the answer 42..
"Were all used to the modern desktop"
*sees windows 8 start menu*
That shit is not a desktop, burn it now
***** IKR!!!!
***** /del MS-DOS
MS-DOS deleted
errorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerror
***** UNExistin dos -0.235
0:00 you’re taking me a bit further back just by using that flip phone noise
You know, I really like the blend effect used in the intro. I think you should keep white walls, since they lend themselves well to this effect.
god i miss Risc OS used this back 1996 at school was the best
Your mother has the patience of a saint.
In my opinion these video's are the most interesting. We all know how modern versions of Windows and OS X look like and then there's Linux which looks whatever you want, but for me the most interesting videos are the really old and unknown versions of Windows and Mac OS and these operating systems that have absolutely nothing to do with Windows, Mac and Linux. It's really interesting to see what other companies came up with.
Actually ARM and RISC OS have the same origins, the company which developed the ARM in the first place was Acorn, who developed RISC OS. The ARM 1 was an add on to their BBC Micro, and their Archimedies had the ARM 2.
RISC OS is on the Raspberry Pi!
Guess what? You are AWESOME!! Another sub in that sub box. Keep it up!
Centring was ok in this os since when it was stretched it looked too pixelated. But seriously I am sure I didn't say "rapeme file".
Because it is completely uncompressed. That's why we have compression these days otherwise a 1.5 hour 1080p movie would be way over a terabyte
twm had an iconbar in 1987 and likely before that uwm [Ultrix] in 1985 - you can still run both of these under Linux
I will try Solaris soon. MikeOS is most likely next though
I get 20% of people telling me they love my accent and 80% saying they hate it... people these days :(
Lol I was downloading a Linux distro from a torrent mirror. Why else would it be open?
As soon as "run OSFirsttimer" faded out, my laptop popped up a critical battery alert, then the screen went blank (computer shut down). When I plugged in and booted I was scared Risc OS 3.11 would be installed.
Did it install Risc OS 3.11?
I think you have confused the linux kernel(developed by Linus) and the GNU/Linux system.
Fun fact: the iPhone 2G prototypes run on Acorn OS the prototypes are called iPhone P series
It was pretty a risc to talk about the origin of the taskbar 😉
Believe it or not, the Acorn A5000 was built where I live, in Cambridge, in the 1990s.
Thanks to these videos im starting to migrate to ubuntu 13.04.
Try OS390/400 IBM Mainframe OS. It runs from the 1970s upto present day in various companys and even new Programming Projects are done on it.The OS is also developed by IBM actively today. You cant install it but there are serveral free Hoster out there.
18:13 to 18:17 the mum says "i have got it now i going to center cling on it" it had me dying because no of them even noticed
Nice chroma keying and intro. Also did you use after effects for the chroma keying?
I think that the pinboard is an overlay that adds icons to the desktop.
It allway nice to see your video specifically your accent , how long does it takes to do a video how many time to you repeat it and how many memory it useing
Awsome Video .. thumbs up
The desktop is the pinboard and icon bar and open windows, etc. (Everything you can see)
Press F8 to exit the desktop. (Or menu click on the Acorn icon)
Then type *Basic for BBC Basic
*Time to display the time/date.
*DOS to use files using the Microsoft DOS filing system
*ADFS to use the Advanced Disc Filing System by Acorn that could have more files in a directory, file names longer than 8 characters etc than DOS OS.
*RMFS to uses files stored in the ROM.
Type *Roms to list some of the roms.
Type *Desktop to return to the RISC desktop.Remember that the OS is stored in ROM, so you can't get a virus or if you do then just format the hard drive and the computer will still run with no need to install the OS.
Ah, just noticed the RISC OS Wiki link in 'About', thanks for that. It would still be great to clarify on the video that 3.11 was just a minor evolutionary step. It's sad that judgements are made, whilst lacking a basic understanding of how things work...
Something off a royalty free website but I forgot what it is...
just thinking about how that intro couldnt possibly render on a dos computer
i remember risc os and machine in primary school. I also remember the networking infrastructure was very complex and reliable..
love these videos guys! keep it up! these videos are really funny. can you get her to try out win 95 or 98 maybe? or is she too familiar with those. please respond
@Aaron Gosselin its called an intro not a real command and it can be programmed to take the command run.
Most of the difficulties people face when trying to use RISC OS boil down to:
a) People have become used to using 2-button mice. Even Windows 7/8 uses the 3rd button very rarely. A 3rd button that must be used all of the time feels odd.
b) Modern OSes work through a program idiom. Run MS Word, select File->Open, that opens a file selection dialog, find the file. This is based around a file idiom. There are no file open dialogs. Just drag the file to the program to load and drag it away to save.
You know it's interesting if its half way through the video and she hasn't changed the background
gr8 nice work once again
I Love The Intro
Well Hello! I still use an Acorn RISC PC running RISC OS 4. I use it mostly now for music although I still do some of my art with it. I run a sequencer program called Melidi and the Sibelius 7 notation software in the machine it was written for. Guess what? It's all NEVER gone wrong, NEVER locks up, it NEVER crashes and is faster than the modern PC I am forced to use. Thanks to the philosophy behind how it was all thought up, I can still transfer files across from that machine to the modern PC or Laptop. And yes, you guessed it, I do that by using a Floppy Disc Drive! This system would have been a real competitor for the Big Boys but why it didn't work out like that is another story.
If it weren't for this video, I would still not know how to close applications running on RiscOS (on my Pi Zero). At first I didn't realize I was dealing with the same system Diana tried!
I always fiddling around acorn when I was at school
animesaint :3 I often wondered why I stopped... Back on them now, though :) sooo much fun and they just work and fast. Sure, there's no photoshop, apache2 distro or minecraft, but it will never be unusable due to a windows/mac/linux or any virus! When I moved to a PC, I found the concept of 'reinstalling your operating system' really alien... Why would you need to do that... Windows.
Haha! I got the joke at 14:53! "Is this OS driving you a little nuts?"
This OS was released the same year I was born. :)
I feel the same way ;)
A trackball is more ergonomic (better for you). And no I am not saying "economic" as in price.
Awesome channel idea, love it!
If you take requests, could you look at Plan 9/Inferno?
Started out being very interested. The hosts manic behavior made me stop watching after 9 minutes though and I think I hung on rather well.
Yeah but he's a 19 year old kid who cant contain his enthusiasm for technology, and that should be applauded and supported.
And his mum is a great side kick in this duo. With a little spit and polish this channel could be quite fun and interesting.
I think that the host should back off a bit more and not take over so much of what the mum does, talk slower and clearer, and not just look at Operatingsystems.
If they broadened this to a channel that looked at UX/UI design of software in general this could be a real fun hit.
chris vighagen Very interesting suggestion.
RileyGuy1000 thank you :)
chris vighagen Np.
This is very interesting, never even heard of this OS before o_o
I really like these vids. Don't stop now whatever you do. Do me a big favour and tell me, is it possible to run the newest acorn that runs on a rasberrypi on any computer as a o.s. desktop.?? please make a video on the newest one . i would like to see Risc o.s. Your mum and you are great at these videos.
Please DO link to the 'History of RISC OS' Wiki. Acorn released its first GUI in 1986, the iconbar, etc. appearing a year later. Their earlier, but technically superior, ARX OS was delayed into extinction. P.S. Pinboard runs 'on' the desktop, and can be quit it in the Tasks window.
did Lander on risc os ever have sound because in the Fred Harris video it (does) have sound look for yourself type in bbc a3000 into youtube thanks.
Desktop sounds like it's in relation to the pinboard and the taskbar where as the pinboard is referring to the thing all those icons are pinned to. Right?
31:15 "Ooh! We've lost internet connection." Bahahahahah :D
I used to think windows was the only os.
FAIL
What a gruesome world it would have been...
I thought each computer had a different OS and for a different OS you needed a different PC. I didn't realize this until I was 10, so you're not alone.
@@KoKoKen XD
I thought Windows was a reskinned Mac OS X :/ (we have macOS at home and Windows in school).
I also like your accent! It's austrailian, right? :)
I speak german, but people also like my "vienna-like" accent, because I am from vienna :D
It is called the Desktop, though. It was called that long before it even had the pinboard.
She is way to familiar to them so we won't be trying them out most likely.
You can play music on Maestro by middle clicking it and selecting PLAY.
28:24 "We didn't have enough money for it."
Best!
I think you need to consider NeXTSTEP too when considering who came up with the iconbar / taskbar