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- Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: Some software issues with my newly acquired A7000+
- Replies: 5
- Views: 554
Re: Some software issues with my newly acquired A7000+
3) A bit about burning CDs on the machine. Is it right that it has to be ISO9660? I changed the setting on ImgBurn. All I want to do is transfer a lot of things on CD-R from PC and read them in the machine. It's better than painfully copying stuff through floppies. The type of the burned CD in wind...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:55 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: TOP 10 GAMES A3010?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1588
Re: TOP 10 GAMES A3010?
Roughly sorted by "time spent playing" (I think I played all of them on an A3000, so should be fine on an A3010). Maybe I'm the only one who never got into playing Elite, neither on the CPC nor on the Archimedes. Despite wasting an incredible amount of time playing stuff, I can only do a T...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:53 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: Risc-pc CD-ROM drive compatibility
- Replies: 5
- Views: 533
Re: Risc-pc CD-ROM drive compatibility
Hi there, Is there a list of Riscpc compatable cd/dvd rom drives. Not that I know of. Compatibility depends on the driver used, the RISC OS 3.7 CDFSSoftATAPI is completely different to the RISC OS 4.x one. Keep an eye on power consumption. Many writers need more than 2A@12V, which means they won't ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:11 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: RISCOS - Mice, 5 1/4" Drives and internal ZIP drives.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 805
Re: RISCOS - Mice, 5 1/4" Drives and internal ZIP drives.
So . . . Use Blitz interface - if it works then OK. If I decide to use the internal interface then I need the PowerATAPI - Right? Just making sure I understand everything correctly. Yes, correct (although I have no first hand experience of using PowerATAPI for ZIP operation, only for CD-ROM operati...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:01 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: RISCOS - Mice, 5 1/4" Drives and internal ZIP drives.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 805
Re: RISCOS - Mice, 5 1/4" Drives and internal ZIP drives.
And, finally . . . Has anyone used an internal iomega Zip Drive on a RISCPC? It connects to the IDE port and meets the ATAPI specifications! This drive was purchased during the Omega development - so I was thinking it may work with the Blitz interface - I may get time to test this later on - but an...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:21 am
- Forum: new projects in development: games
- Topic: New RISC OS Port - The Great Escape test build (soon)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3727
Re: The Great Escape test build (soon)
Who's up for a bit of alpha testing? It'll likely need RISC OS 3.7+ initially but I plan to lower that requirement in the future to support Arcs. I always hated that game on the Amstrad CPC - was the Spectrum version any better? Despite knowing the movie inside out, that game never worked for me......
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:36 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: Acorn AKA20 We32206 Floating Point Co-Processor
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2012
Re: Acorn AKA20 We32206 Floating Point Co-Processor
On the RIscPC I did write the software to using the x86 card as the FPU. So if you have an 586-133MHz card that is probably the fastest FP Acorn machine. Was this the one marketed by Warm Silence Software? I've looked around for it for years but it seems to be MIA. WSS' website is still (a)live, al...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:26 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: RISCOS 4.39 ROM Backup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 926
Re: RISCOS 4.39 ROM Backup
Thanks hubers, looks like I might have trouble formatting the card on a PC using an emulator like rpcemu anyway. Anyone know of a copy of the RISCOS 4.39 CD? The only one I can find on the webs is a dead link and the 3DQ documentation assumes that you already have a live set up and doesn't cover Th...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:39 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: RISCOS 4.39 ROM Backup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 926
Re: RISCOS 4.39 ROM Backup
I have a pair of 4.39 ROMS in my RiscPC I'd like to make a backup of in case anything happens to my RPC as I understand they're not easy to get hold of and to use in Arculator (assuming I can) to create a fresh SD build How can I extract the ROMs from the command line and is it just a case of burni...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:13 am
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: Joystick interfaces
- Replies: 5
- Views: 847
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: Joystick interfaces
- Replies: 5
- Views: 847
Joystick interfaces
Hi, I am trying to remember details about the various ways to connect joysticks to RISC OS machines (pre USB). I am interested in details like digital/analogue, how many ports, which variants, was there software to emulate the keyboard, was there software to provide the A3010 Acorn Joystick SWIs, ho...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: Arculator v2.0 released!
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14298
Re: Arculator v2.0 released!
Thanks a lot for this new version - the machine config alone is really great! Still experimenting with all the new stuff. There seems to be a problem with connecting existing .hdfs with e.g. ADFS and ZIDEFS IDE, but it is too early to suggest a bug! Arculator used to have a bug where it added a poi...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:45 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: Arculator v2.0 released!
- Replies: 82
- Views: 14298
Re: Arculator v2.0 released!
Thanks a lot for this new version - the machine config alone is really great! Still experimenting with all the new stuff. There seems to be a problem with connecting existing .hdfs with e.g. ADFS and ZIDEFS IDE, but it is too early to suggest a bug! I also wasn't immediately successful in providing ...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:35 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: New version of Archimedes MIST core
- Replies: 0
- Views: 907
New version of Archimedes MIST core
Hi, Slingshot (Atari-Forum) aka gyurco (GitHub) has released a new version of the MIST Archimedes Core, originally by Stephen Leary. There is now reading the CMOS content from file as well as IDE emulation (Risc Developments podule) implemented. A big step forward. Remaining problems include the rat...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2193
Re: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
Always use an Acorn-style serial cable and "Internal" blockdriver, never "InternalPC". That's interesting. Does the 'InternalPC' one add some additional overhead, then? Could that be what I'm seeing? No, "Internal" and "InternalPC" are basically the same, onl...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:39 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2193
Re: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
I'm not sure why I'm seeing such terrible performance from the SLIP driver. Perhaps I've a shonky version. I'd quite like to get that working to prove it's not just PPPD papering over the cracks. I forgot to mention that during my "serial IP world" phase, I always used Freenet1 as a TCP/I...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2193
Re: !FTPc triggering system hang? (+ serial TCP/IP on A3000)
Quick update on where this has gone since I managed to get FTP working. ... Random thoughts from past experience with the A3000 serial stuff. Always use an Acorn-style serial cable and "Internal" blockdriver, never "InternalPC". Always use the patched serial driver when using RI...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:02 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: Best emulator for playing Archimedes games?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2029
Re: Best emulator for playing Archimedes games?
I have access to PC, Mac, Linux, and RISC OS (on Pi), so possibly have lots(?) of options in terms of emulation. RISC OS: ADFFS and ArchiEmu. PC: Arculator. Mac, Linux: port Arculator yourself :-) I have Karma in an ISO file, so assume I either need to copy the files off (while preserving the file ...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:17 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: Latest version of Riscos on PC via Rpi emulator
- Replies: 3
- Views: 938
Re: Latest version of Riscos on PC via Rpi emulator
I'm wondering if I can run the latest version of Riscos on a PC using a Raspberry Pi emulator - to run Riscos PI (I'm yet to find any good Raspberry Pi emulators though) Has anyone done this, is it workable? Not that I know of. However, I struggle to think of a good reason to want to do so - "...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:42 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: How to clone a 'master' disc on Archimedes
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4998
Re: How to clone a 'master' disc on Archimedes
Windows NT is definitely not suitable to run OmniFlop, older or newer. It installs and starts but has been reporting driver issues. I tried all available versions of OmniFlop. Did you properly install the floppy disk drive driver as well as the floppy disk controller driver, or only the former? Wha...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:07 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: New A3000 owner - dumb questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1415
Re: New A3000 owner - dumb questions
That page also says " The A3000 is ideally suited to this modification as it has an unused battery holder built into the case " but my case doesn't seem to have a battery holder. I think the later A3000s (e.g. all German variants) don't have a battery holder at all. Not sure if "card...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: My new A3010 is up and running. A few questions...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1189
Re: My new A3010 is up and running. A few questions...
I can read DOS disks on the Archie, but I have no modern way of creating and using them on my PC - it's too new, and Win10 makes things even harder in this respect. I've tried out a USB floppy drive but to no avail. I have successfully used an USB floppy drive on a Windows 7 PC without problems. Fl...
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: How to clone a 'master' disc on Archimedes
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4998
Re: Omniflop under Windows NT @ 486 33 MHz
You could try ArcDisc, which should run on Windows 95. http://acorn.revivalteam.de/?site=DiscImaging On the same page: ADFimager for RISC OS usage. No personal experiences, I use OmniFlop on an old XP laptop for such things. I don't think any of those support copy protections of any sort. Have fun h...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:50 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: A3000 early spring clean
- Replies: 6
- Views: 893
Re: A3000 early spring clean
The BENQ monitor shown can probably display the A3000 modes natively without any conversion. I have one on my A5000. MODE 12 displays correctly and does not give the letterbox display that one gets with the LCDGamesModes module. The inputs are limited, however. There is only a single VGA/SVGA conne...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:44 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: WANTED: Patch for Risc PC support of Acorn's software PC Emulator (!PCEm)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1589
Re: WANTED: Patch for Risc PC support of Acorn's software PC Emulator (!PCEm)
But I've yet to figure out the mouse driver ... this makes using Windows a bit of an arse. ISTR that no mouse driver was needed for Windows 3.0, since it was "hardcoded" to support a Microsoft bus mouse, which was emulated by PCEm. For DOS of course, you needed the Microsoft mouse driver,...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: A confused A7000
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1255
Re: A confused A7000
The A7000+ was released after ART was closed iirc, so the relevant RISC OS (3.71?) doesn't have an ART banner. This machine looks to have been upgraded to 3.7, though I had thought that version could detect the ARM7500. The original A7000 was shipped with RISC OS 3.6 IIRC, so I would guess that 3.7...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: Ethernet Adventures for a RISC OS Newbie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1456
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:52 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: A4 Laptop - replacement electrolytic capacitors and CMOS battery
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4462
Re: A4 Laptop - replacement electrolytic capacitors and CMOS battery
I would like all details you can possibly provide, since my A4 also needs a battery replacement.
Thanks
hubersn
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:56 pm
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: A3000 post-battery-leak-repair
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6692
Re: A3000 post-battery-leak-repair
But whenever I try and send anything to the A3000 I get a permanent "negotiating" message on the receive window of !Connector. It sounds a lot like the typical handshaking problem when using a "standard" cable. See here for info, answers 2.7 and 2.8 for general info and nullmode...
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:07 am
- Forum: 32-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: Write-an-Acorn-Floppy-Disc-from-an-image USB project
- Replies: 3
- Views: 683
Re: Write-an-Acorn-Floppy-Disc-from-an-image USB project
I think our very own cowlark has tackled DFS and ADFS: http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/ But only reading them - the point of the project I mentioned is being able to write to real discs. I had a use case this weekend: an A3010 with 2 MiB RAM in need of some games to play - so ADFFS could not be used....