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A9home is USB1.1 only. Use small sticks, at most 2 GiB and FAT12/FAT16 if you want to use them with the bare system (because RISC OS integrated DOSFS had not been extended to handle FAT32 and long filenames back then). You have to configure MassFS to explicitly include the USB stick to be "supported...

A bit of beeb emulation. I've noticed Apple II, SNES and CPC emulators - were they useable? Regarding CPC emulators: on RPCEmu, you can use Andreas Stroiczek's (known as "Face Hugger" in CPC world) !CPCEmu version 1.10 from here http://www.huggers-world.de/mops.html It does not emulate the CPC Plus...

Never heard of the Magnetic Image interface (how was it connected to the Arc?), but I remember playing Spheres of Chaos with a Joystick interface called "Gamer's Upgrade" which was created by IOC in Germany, software was done by Matthias Seifert (author of Rockfall). It was connected to I2C, so it h...

Hi all, Opinions on the best (free) Archimedes emulator? ArchiEmu of course. On Windows, Arculator. On Linux, ArcEm. Also, is there a repository of applications (like the Amiga and Atari TOSEC archives) There is also a TOSEC archive for the Archimedes, but it is rather incomplete. Good source for o...

That was the top hit on Google at the time (and still is by the looks of things!) d. Things seem to look better now, I am currently changing all my blog post references (which seem to rank high in Google (maybe only when searching from Germany?), no idea why - it can't be the number of visitors!) t...

Have a look on here: http://jaspp.huber-net.de/ All the stuff released by JASPP, they have rights to distribute. There's nothing for the Arc like stairway to hell, or world of spectrum - lots of people still enforce their rights. A bit of judicious googling will throw some more - I'm a little reluc...

I forgot an interesting source for some floppy discs e.g. those bundled with the various machines:

http://www.lewisgilbert.co.uk/archiology/osdiscs.html

1. Is there anywhere a usermanual for A410 and A3000 online? I have none. 2. Is there anywhere a usermanual for RISC-OS 3 online? I have only a book RISC-OS 2 (from 1989) Look here: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/ E.g. the A3010 Welcome Guide is for RO3.1 obviously. T...

You need to find a flex ATX or small type PC PSU but you will need to find one that has a Minus -5 Volt line on the ATX connector, some PC's psu have this wire missing this is usally a white wire on the PC side and the Purple one on the original Acorn PSU. Is the -5V voltage needed for anything els...

I've never been very interested by software on the Archies using serial port protocols or whatever, so my question is what kind of software could I use on an Archimedes connected to an Archimedes running QDBug to use this functionality ? ArcTerm ? Some others, shareware or public domain, you could ...

Would a hard drive working with the Acorn SCSI podule work directly with the Cumana's ? Yes, as long as you only use the first partition (Acorn SCSI only supported one partition anyway, IIRC). In fact I don't understand how many layers there are with these podules, what is software, what is hardwar...

Hello. I've just repaired my A540. It has a Cumana SCSI podule. I don't understand why to get my SCSI hard drive recognized by RISC OS, I simply have to launch the !Configure built-in app and add a SCSI hard drive. With IDE podule it doesn't work this way. Would that mean that the SCSI 'handling' i...

AAAAAhhhhh thank you. Very strange this machine doesn't have it, although it's got a boot sequence etc ... Danke ! CDFS is not part of "Universal Boot", and IIRC Acorn never delivered a standalone CDFS update. So RISC OS 3.5 machines only have it via SCSI and IDE podules. To Acorn's defense, the fi...

Ok so I've got this nice German RPC with RO 3.50, but how can I tell it it's got a CD ROM drive ? In the configuration panel, there's no CD ROM choice, and status doesn't report any CDFS module ... I'm a bit lost. After the Archies I must admit it has started to be too complicated for me ... #-o CD...

256 MB, though I have a vague memory that RISC OS won't actually work if RAM is maxed out. RISC OS works fine, but it can lead to address exhaustion sooner than with less memory if applications allocate dynamic areas with size "as much as possible" and no DA clamp is in place. There were also possi...

litwr wrote:Is it possible to make the emulation 4-5 times slower? It is too fast now, impossible to use.

Does the Linux version not have the "Limit speed" option that the Windows version has in the "Options" menu?

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hubersn

trixster wrote: I was about to ask about the sync settings.

Don't forget to do a
*configure sync 0
for seperate sync.

I think it is not sufficient to just change the jumpers.

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hubersn

I could not even find out where to put the floppy images and how to access them! OK, getting more successful by the hour... Put the disc images somewhere inside the MAME dir (I think "software" is the default place). The keyboard key to invoke the emulator's menu is Scroll Lock. If, like me, you wo...

and ignore all warnings (like e.g. an incorrect CRC and SHA1 of the cmos file - how can something variable have a fixed checksum???) :-) I found some old MESS docs that helped a bit: http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=a310 Due to recent developments most third party docs will be ou...

Archimedes emulation in MAME has progressed significantly in the past couple of months, and most games are now playable. Any hints on how to get MAME (0.181) actually to work (as an Archimedes - I managed to get it to emulate an Amstrad CPC6128)? I tried and failed. And haven't been able to find an...

Archimedes emulation in MAME has progressed significantly in the past couple of months, and most games are now playable. Any hints on how to get MAME (0.181) actually to work (as an Archimedes - I managed to get it to emulate an Amstrad CPC6128)? I tried and failed. And haven't been able to find an...

Thanks Steve, it displays CDFS in the modules list so it must be good :D Are there any specific CDROM drives you can recommend for use with these cumana cards? I tried a SCSI CDROM from my A3010 but it doesn't seem to like it. It says Bad Drive whenever I click on it :shock: You should first try if...

RISC OS is currently not suitable for serious web browsing, no matter what hardware you use. Connecting a RISC OS machine to WLAN needs special hardware (something that plugs into LAN and is capable of providing a WLAN client). Using RISC OS for E-Mail needs (if IMAP access is needed) commercial sof...

Provided you set the file type to Floppy they will be opened by ADFFS. There's no requirement to remove the /JFD suffix, ADFFS internally strips off the PC file extension so that disc swapping still works. Oh! Didn't know that - was that a recent change? I know I had to strip the "extension suffix"...

Hi Folks, So now I've got 4M RAM and and IDE drive on my A3010. I have a number of *.adf files. If !ADDFS is loaded, will the adf files run normally? If not, what do I have to do to make them executable? Also, to run a 2nd disk with jfd suffix, I seem to be having problems with that. The diskette i...

IanS wrote:Is the ARM3 a problem?, I guess I should try RISC OS 2.00.

ARM3 support was added in RISC OS 2.01, but I am fairly sure that this was only "detect and switch on cache", so 2.00 would also work, but with cache disabled (and hence even a bit slower than an ARM2).

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hubersn

And you could just can the RiscPC and use the Pi instead but where's the fun in that? Using an array of emulators is also fun, but a completely different kind of fun :D Bizarrely, some people want absolute compatibility with older software - the stuff that Aemulor doesn't cope with, or that require...

I get the impression that the host machine (with the podule bay) is just supplying power and space for the Pi. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're short on desk space...and don't mind switching on your RiscPC every time you want to use your Pi... :) Ah, but if you are short on desk space,...

terriblefire wrote:My MiST board lives again. I may get some work done on the core over xmas.

Good news!

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hubersn

Any ideas or help, please let me know. Have you tried the latest RISC OS 5 HForm? Since USB works via the SCSI command set, it also supports SCSI. This would allow to restrict the number of cylinders to format it down to 512MB (or better: 499MB to allow a smaller LFAU). Or you could try to patch MO...