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Ohh... First time I have seen those mentioned here! I don't know where they are now, but I had a good look at one of those BNFL systems at a local school. Essentially an Archimedes version of the Domesday setup. An A3000 with a genlock minipodule, RS232 chip, and a SCSI hard disk. It was a simpler L...

TSP supported their own API and also the Acorn one. It also provided comprehensive keyboard and mouse emulation.

The 'delta cat' interface was an analogue stick with three buttons which plugged into the mouse port. I think this was the Interdictor option.

Wasn't the first release (or perhaps preview?) of Impression an Arthur app?

What about. Acorn's ArcWriter?

Pro Artisan? I only used it under RISC OS but it was a non-desktop experience!

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Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:26 am

Perhaps it would allow Econet and Ethernet to be fitted at the same time?!

Can put Econet on the network connector and Ethernet on a mini podule.

Ah yes, of course. Still, at least it frees up the minipodule!

Presumably this will work on the A3020 and A4000 too...:) No point, you can plug a module straight in, the pins from the Arm250 are tracked to the econet connector already. #-o quite right, I should really have checked the obvious before posting... Perhaps it would allow Econet and Ethernet to be f...

Good spot. Don't think so.

I remember those early Cumana SCSI devices. Didn't they appear with A5000s, so RISC OS 3?

So how did it go?!

Wow. I am slightly surprised it worked, but good result.

Of all the daft nonsense to remember! I think it was mentioned in the RISC User review of the A540, almost in passing (probably Acorn trying to keep a lid on expectations for more revisions of RISC OS).

That SWI number is MessageTrans_CloseFile according to the PRM info on riscos.com.

Didn't MessageTrans come in with RISC OS 3? So it may not work on 2.

I assume you have checked *Unplug and done a delete power on?

Back in the day, when I broke ROM legs, I would tin some wire and solder it on!to the stub. Then trim to size carefully. Has a high chance of breaking if you move the ROM again, but hey-ho...

Interesting.

If you are looking for feature-creep, can I suggest joystick support? You could probably use most of USBJoystick for the HID-to-SWI stuff.

This isn't entirely serious. I have done nothing with USBJoystick itself for a long while! But it could be a bit of polish for a rainy day...

Can you extract WindowManager from 2.01 and soft-load it (pre-desktop)?

I have a vague recollection that the changes to support 8MB were in the Wimp. Maybe.

Wow, the boxed games! Amazing. Welcome!

I think Aleph One and Watford Electronics came out with 386/486 podules in about 1991/92. Quite a bit later than the Archimedes launch and Acorn's PC Emulator solution.

Wow. Didn't know there was a version 2!

I remember the enhanced DOS SB emulation meant I could play Grand Prix 2 with sound, which was nice.

From what I remember, you could get sound working in Windows 3 and 95 with the Aleph One drivers. I am positive I did this back in the day. I did also have PCSound Pro, and its main improvement was the SoundBlaster emulation, which became good enough for DOS games. I don't recall it making any diffe...

Hello! Similar start to me. It is easier than ever to get back into those 8bit games...

Hi Patrick,

Welcome to the community!

My memory could be terrible, but from what I recall of PiRat it was just a fancy front-end to the NVCS/Archive disk copier utility. I used that to duplicate loads of key disks back in the day.

Porting the OS to other platforms would widen the audience significantly. Really? RISC OS has never run on so many platforms, nor has it been cheaper. I would suggest that polishing the existing ports would help more. And that includes utilising all of the hardware in each platform. In the Pi, we h...

Welcome. What an amazing collection!

Aye, that Doom thread is particularly amazing. With the 8-bit side, all of these modern hardware add-ons make it much more appealing to use a real physical beeb. So that is certainly an investment in terms of cash and physical space! I wonder if one day the same will apply for the 32-bit machines? M...

Thanks for the kind words. Enjoying it, yes. It's funny how something so basic, and with annoyances like no Wi-Fi support, sort of beckons you back in! And I still need to sort out my development environment properly. It's a bit like the various bits of DIY around the house... I should get back into...

I think it's worth considering Steffen's point, if you're not bothered about the exact 'retro-experience'. A Pi of any flavour, even a basic Zero, will run ADFFS, which will allow you to run boatloads of games - not just those which are Risc PC onwards. Of course, if you want the exact 'look' hardwa...

Hello, I've been lurking here for years, and keep forgetting to introduce myself. Apologies for the delay. I've been an Acorn user since I was a kid - my earliest computer memory is fiddling with a Model B when I was about seven, in 1987. My dad taught Computer Studies in a local secondary, so there...

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...