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by morb
Sun Mar 27, 2016 11:28 pm
Forum: Pi
Topic: Pi2 + ADFFS
Replies: 1
Views: 5150

Pi2 + ADFFS

Hello all, So I'm writing this from RISC OS running very nicely on a Pi, a pleasant experience all told. What combination of factors do I need to run games, though, I wonder? -- The Pi in question is a Version 2 Model B+. I downloaded the Pi-ready RISC OS SD image, which tells me it's version 5.21, ...
by morb
Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: What games would you like released next?
Replies: 7
Views: 6370

Re: What games would you like released next?

I was in touch with Merlyn Kline (Minerva) a while ago. Maybe you could try contacting him: http://www.binary.co.uk/binary.html My brother has some fond memories of Thundermonk, and so we'd both like to see this released at some point -- as a very early Arc game, I seem to remember it had RISC OS 3...
by morb
Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Getting RISCOS5 to run on Red Squirrel
Replies: 1
Views: 2922

Re: Getting RISCOS5 to run on Red Squirrel

Excellent, can't wait to try this.
by morb
Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:05 pm
Forum: Pi
Topic: Trapping LDR's in page zero
Replies: 9
Views: 7705

Re: Trapping LDR's in page zero

Whilst testing this today, it's highlighted an interesting question - what to do about bugs in games? The second game I tested (Fire & Ice) tries to read from a variable it's yet to define and ends up reading from page zero. This is a problem because the JIT reports any read from a page zero ad...
by morb
Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ADFFS under emulation
Replies: 14
Views: 13933

Re: ADFFS under emulation

Have you tried Arculator? From what I remember, it was pretty good at emulating the older machines at a sensible speed. The issue I have with Arculator - well there's a couple. Let me run it and see. Well, for one, when I click 'capture mouse', the mouse handling becomes painfully slow and jerky. C...
by morb
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ADFFS under emulation
Replies: 14
Views: 13933

Re: ADFFS under emulation

I did see this caveat and have tried to work around it without success. My approach was to create a large RAM disk, but I've now tried the others you suggest: again, all to no avail. I aim for about 7mb in Applications (free), because, well, why not. VA5000's not been available since 2004 or somethi...
by morb
Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ADFFS under emulation
Replies: 14
Views: 13933

Re: ADFFS under emulation

Hi Jon, Just the same problem with v2.47b I'm afraid. I'm testing against your Lemmings (1991) and Magic Pockets (1993) releases. Both behave identically with a crash on mount. I also get a crash when trying to create blank floppy images with the Format... menu option. Taking a cue from another thre...
by morb
Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: ADFFS under emulation
Replies: 14
Views: 13933

ADFFS under emulation

Greetings all! I'm interested in running ADFFS under Archimedes emulation (e.g. ARM3 RISC OS 3.1,) on a Windows laptop. Is this a reasonable thing to do, or completely misguided? Are there any success stories? Because I'm finding some frustration. Firstly, there are several emulators available which...