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Just to offer another option... You can download the HardDisc4 and System Resources from RISC OS Open. Their current Boot structure etc. works right back to RISC OS 3.1.

What files are in your 'HardDisc' area? Do you have something called !System?

If you can, grab the HardDisc4 and System archives from riscosopen.org. Alternatively, use the old Acorn 'universal boot', as either should work.

Wow. CECC!

They were just down the road from here. I remember their 'EcoMen' launcher thingy for the local school Econets.

Regarding !Boot, any particular reason for using Acorn's?

From what I have seen of ROOLs HardDisc4, there is support for 3.1. It also benefits from being under active development.

P.S. LineEditor? Genius!

I always liked the New-Look. Perhaps the option to turn-on rather than turn-off? It will be off by default. If people want it added, I'll need to code another Module to add a *Configure item and find some free bits in CMOS to store the configuration state. At the minute it's somewhat academic as th...

NewLook only contains an update to Window borders to give them the 3.5 look. I did compare a few versions of !Edit and couldn't tell any difference between them, except for the version number, so we'll leave it as is. I think you need to find the module romapps3d that modified the resource files by...

I think we're going to go with a ZIP file system Module and ZLib instead, it makes more sense going forward as it could be merged into RISC OS 5. It also avoids all those pesky copyright issues and approvals. If an image FS can be grafted into your ZLib implementation, then it does indeed sound goo...

Best suggestion I have seen so far is SparkPlug, but please remember to remove the check for System$Path in the !Run file. Drives me crazy every time, that one! I am also surprised that Acorn's core fixes, the latest networking and toolbox stack will actually fit! Speaking of networking, is Access (...

Have a read of this thread http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthrea ... adid=12152

Did you change the config file to disable native screen sizing? (So let the Pi GPU resize anything from RISC OS)

Is it not buried in the universal boot sequence? Either Acorn's, or the latest from ROOL.

I remember the DCI4 EconetA. It had some odd bugs (or exposed some in RISC OS!). I seem to recall machine freezes, particularly if CDFS was active.

Yes, back in 1994, those SLCD drives started appearing (a forerunner to ATAPI). Cumana produced a board which added SLCD capability to the Risc PC IDE bus. The tiny PCB would sit in the bottom slice and CDFS was soft-loaded during the boot sequence. When RISC OS 3.6 came along a year later, 16-bit a...

Looks like an A4000 or A5000 keyboard. I saw Acorn varied them when looking at equipment in schools. Note that the interface isn't PS/2, as that first appeared on the Risc PC.

The Acorn I/O podule is this http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesA2G/Acorn_AKA10_IO.html but there were clones. It provided a BBC-style ADC which could be read with OSByte xxx or BASIC's ADVAL keyword. I had SR2000 too, but the previous gossip was definitely Saloon Cars. I think...

I suspect there were multiple versions, even for the original game. I also played it on RISC OS 3. I think by the time Deluxe appeared, it would have been RISC OS 3 compatible. My big frustration with the Arc games is that they failed to work on newer machines, and/or has annoying key disk requireme...

Although it is for RISC OS 5, this guide explains a fresh setup step by step. If you follow and understand, then you can do similar with RISC OS 3.7. In fact, you can swap out the RISC OS 5 image and keep the ROOL HardDisc4 since it works on RISC OS 3.1 and later. https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/doc...

These were amazing!

I seem to recall using PrinterJX on RISC OS 2 in a stupidly high quality mode where a single sheet would take about twenty minutes to print! Looked alright though, for a 9-pin dot matrix which cost buttons to run.

There was a Body Building article in the Micro User which showed how to wire up alternative PHROMS via the 'ashtray' socket. I am sure I've seen information on how the 'ROM filing system' is supposed to work, so you can blow your own ROMs which hold your own software.

Since you have bags of space in there, you could fit an Ethernet/WiFi adaptor too. I use a cheap Aldi one on my Pi, and since it presents as an Ethernet router, it 'just work' with RISC OS.

I wonder if some sort of crazy hinged screen could work, making it into a 'luggable'. Hmm...

I think the floppy access only works in some situations, perhaps certain versions of Windows? I don't see the point. It is easy to make images of floppies or CDs, and they are an awful lot more convenient to use. For me, it would be RPCEmu all the way. Not sure I would want to put £1 in the directio...

Gerald, is your code from Jon Welch? I recall he ported Arculator to OS X some time ago, and it was reasonably polished. If it could be brought into line with the current repo, that would be great.

I'm sure TUPE is nothing to do with the EU, Thatcher brought it in to make it easier to move public sector functions into the private sector. And we'd only be passing control from the EU to a rightwing conservative government if The People vote for a rightwing Conservative government. There are pro...

I shall stick up for Leave (the principle, not the campaign!). For me, is comes down to one thing. Who is running the country? (Making the laws). Those countries in the EU (currently including the UK) have bound themselves into treaties which make the EU supreme over their nation states. The EU Comm...

Is this any use? I found it worked for me, and I updated the pages a tad.

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documen ... c%20OS%20X

This is something I don't understand about the RISC OS community. The desire for software written for Arthur to run on RISC OS n. I have software written for windows XP that doesn't run on Windows 10, in fact I had one piece of third party software which MS actively un-installed as part of my upgra...

Isn't an Atari-style Joystick or gamepad (Sega Master System) a pretty safe bet?

You can easily knock up an interface which should work to the vanilla Beeb A2D mechanism. I think this was one of the first Body Building articles. And there were commercial adapters.

I recall that there was some software (JoyMaster?) which allowed the Acorn Joystick events to be mapped to keypresses or mouse movement. This would allow for pretty much any game to become compatible with the A3010 ports. A long time ago, I had one of those double Atari interfaces which plugged into...

I can't believe that the function key strip is still attached to the keyboard!

Wouldn't perhaps USB be handy if it allowed: 1. Flash drives to be connected so they appear to the Arc as a SCSI or IDE hard disk 2. Keyboards and mice to be connected via an adaptor circuit so they appear to the Arc as the original interfaces ? No need to faff about with extra drivers, especially w...

Yeah, those USB to WiFi jobbies need a lot of software support, which simply doesn't exist in RISC OS. Maybe one of the RISC OS wizards will look at the BSD/Linux drivers and WiFi stack and work out a suitable architecture? It is probably a lot of work for the sake of a £20 or less adaptor. But I ag...