Hi Pat, > ..yep I'm running AMD64 cpu and 64bit version of Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). > For some reason I cannot get hard disk images to work. I've downloaded > from the ArcEm site the 20Mb and 64Mb formatted images and called them > 'HardImage0' and 'HardImage1' respectively.
Yes, they're the correct filenames for the first two drives. > I then updated my './arcemrc' with (hopefully) the correct disk > params. Thus:- > > == > MFM disc > 0 612 4 32 256 > MFM disc > 1 1024 8 32 256 > == `strace -e trace=open ./arcem' suggests it's reading /home/ralph/.arcemrc for me, not ./arcemrc, so your disk params aren't being seen at the moment. Yeah, I know, $PWD for some files, $HOME for others. > Now one of my goals here is to get ArcEm running the 'ELITE' game. So > I also downloaded an ".arc" image of it here:- > > http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/arc/index.htm > > and renamed it to 'FloppyImage0' in my arcem directory. OK, b5052410.arc is a !SparkFS image, in other words, the equivalent of a ZIP or tar.gz in the RISC OS world. It's not a floppy image. There's also b5052420.zip for download off that page and that contains ELITE.ADF which is an 800KiB floppy image, suitable for calling FloppyImage0. > floppy format ADFS 800KB used for drive 0's r/w, 428909 length, image. > inserting floppy image FloppyImage0 into drive 0: ok > > From the above, it appears to have detected the drive 0 and drive 1 - > only giving errors for drive2/3. But I cannot access them from ArcEm > GUI. The ./hexcmos file from CVS seems to define no floppy drives and one hard disc exist. IOW, auto-hardware detection didn't exist on these machines, you used to change the setting in battery-backed RAM. To change this, you can run !Configure under Apps IIRC and then increase the number of Floppies to 1 and ST506 drives to 2. You should then see a floppy drive on the icon bar, click that to give a Filer window showing !elite, double-click that to put it on the icon bar, and then click it there to start the game. > I also see (as pre previous posters in this list) the following:- > > == > Read data command exiting due to failed file seek > seek: cylinder address greater than or equal to configured, 0 >= 0 > == > > ..but I don't know if this is referring to the HardImage0/1 (which is > present) or HardImage2/3 - which is not configured. Can anyone help > with this error message? If you still get it after setting up ~/.arcemrc, let us know. > BTW: I have ROM image 3.10 (I think) which I managed to track down > after extensive googling/newsgroups (sigh) here's the byte count:- > > == > -rw-r--r-- 1 patb patb 2097152 2008-10-29 12:33 ROM > == Run sha1sum(1) on it and see if it matches one of these digests. arthur-0.30.rom 6aebd686d97dfdf6726fa5f3246ef35b840b286d 524288 arthur-1.20.rom 1181ff9c2c2f3d6d414054ec33b2260404bafc81 524288 riscos-2.00.rom b82a78830dac386f9b649b6d32a34f9c6910546d 524288 riscos-3.00.rom b4fa494d51dd704c9da9653c2acc6acd08cc8cf4 2097152 riscos-3.10.rom 68533e0a93657a879c1697c04f32d517345b1a61 2097152 riscos-3.11.rom 3487729e87bebc9cb51665838c27beff22f7b3bd 2097152 riscos-3.19.rom ba8c7abe0e6c6c5d7138481c6c052425cbc8b8f4 2097152 riscos-3.50.rom c31318e712ee7de92e46f9df6c791b614d4c9304 2097152 riscos-3.60.rom 3cf75aa4d4dc8fe57110a124fbd1560d46c549b1 4194304 riscos-3.61.rom 71e67684e1d22f422ab9c586c6b0f900384e8f14 4194304 riscos-3.70.rom 42c3dd0ae43149849b674ea025cb2206512a5b4a 4194304 riscos-3.71.rom c5fe0645e48894fb4b245abeefdc9a65d659af59 4194304 riscos-3.80.rom 7e461a6aeb9b1cdc03ea734d0c3a9e1a65d3f98a 4194304 ncos-1.06.rom 4400bd142eebdc71b7ac1794f2cf7dc39de983e2 4194304 ncos-1.11.rom 7c9e2039bc096038ab236719211a236e9a28192f 4194304 arthur-0.30.rom MOS Utilities 0.30 (17 Jun 1987) arthur-1.20.rom MOS Utilities 1.20 (25 Sep 1987) riscos-2.00.rom MOS Utilities 2.00 (05 Oct 1988) riscos-3.00.rom MOS Utilities 3.00 (25 Sep 1991) riscos-3.10.rom MOS Utilities 3.10 (30 Apr 1992) riscos-3.11.rom MOS Utilities 3.11 (29 Sep 1992) riscos-3.50.rom MOS Utilities 3.50 (18 Feb 1994) riscos-3.60.rom MOS Utilities 3.60 (13 Apr 1995) riscos-3.70.rom MOS Utilities 3.70 (30 Jul 1996) riscos-3.71.rom MOS Utilities 3.71 (19 Feb 1997) riscos-3.80.rom MOS Utilities 3.80 (28 Apr 1998) ncos-1.06.rom MOS Utilities 4.50 (26 Oct 1996) ncos-1.11.rom MOS Utilities 4.50 (26 Oct 1996) When you get to a `*' prompt for the CLI, e.g. F12 from the Desktop, the command `fx0' should print out the OS version too. > BTW(2): I have also tried 'linux32 ./arcem' to force 32bit linux on my > AMD64 - did not see any difference :-/ Well, at least that means it's not a tricky 32/64-bit problem. IIRC, Dr. David Gilbert, the original author, developed it on a 64-bit DEC Alpha, but the hands that followed, like mine, might not have been so careful. Cheers, Ralph. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ arcem-user mailing list arcem-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-user
