Xcentric - Acorn Archimedes Demo - The Experience 

It's because it wasn't designed to be a games machine. It cost about 4 times more than an Amiga. It just had no chance in that area. Acorn was trying to compete with the PC.

@@robertwilson3866 Sure, but the PC wasn't designed to be a games machine either, and it cost more than 4x the price of an A500 when the A500 was first released... (a decent PC, with a 286 CPU, VGA graphics and a SoundBlaster card). These were rare and expensive PCs back when the Amiga launched, which is why the Amiga was, early on, so popular for games, as it would give you pseudo-VGA (64 colors in half-bright mode) and pseudo-Sound (8bit stereo) all in a cheap package. As you said, Acorn was trying to compete with the PC, which at that time was nearly impossible due to the rise of many cheap PC clones. Still, Acorn s previous BBC Micro's legacy as a school/education machine provided Acorn a niche market for their RISC PCs, as schools could stick with their familiar teaching tools, eg the same BASIC language etc... Also, government expenditures on computer hardware is likely, if one is available, to be in a machine from that country itself, so the government can support it's national PC industry and make sure their expenses doesn't end up in another country's economy like the US, Japan or China, thereby pumping more money in it's own economy...

@@robertwilson3866 One thing though, I would have loved to have seen some games that use the RISC PC system to it's fullest, eg, not ports of Amiga/AtariST/PC games, but native games developed on and for the RISC PC. I've seen the one where you fly over a polygonal heightfield (can't remember what it's called), which was impressive, but I think the RISC PC would have been able to render more filled or shaded polygons per second than an Amiga with an 68000 or 68010/20

If you do want to capture Blu on real hardware then you'll need a RiscPC with ARM6 or ARM7. It doesn't work on a StrongARM.

@@xyzzy3000 Alas I only have A30x0 machines. By the RiscPC era I'd moved on to x86 PC...

It's here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hbUPSvtduHs.html

@@robretro1875 Thanks. Here's another one which I only found out about 10 minutes ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X074z61Ixz0.html

@@xyzzy3000 oh, I didn't know that one either. The "spinal column" part looks very cool. The rest so-so, but it looks like something went wrong with the capturing, I'm not sure.