On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:47:28PM +0100, Chris Young wrote: > This is perhaps a bit of a mad idea, but I was looking at the > arcem_support module and wondering what else could be done with it. > Using this with some new commands, I think it would be possible to > write a GUI that runs within ArcEm, and allows you to change discs, or > quit, or anything else the native GUIs can do (or could do). >
Whilst a quite clever idea, unfortuanately it fails to take into account a major part of ArcEm's remit. The ability to run more than operating systems than RISC OS 3.1x. Unless similar code was provided for Arthur, RISC OS 2, ARM Linux, and in theory RiscIx and NetBSD you would still need the functionality in the GUI. OS agnosticism is also the reason why hard coding the 'reset' CMOS values to the RISC OS 3 values probably isn't the correct thing to do (your recent cmos patch). As I beleive if the CMOS file wasn't present before, RISC OS (of whatever version) would fail it's checksum and generate RISC OS's default cmos values (the values you would get by pressing 'R' down whilst turning the power on), each version of RISC OS has a different set of defaults (and I believe contradicting meanings for some CMOS bits between versions). Also we probably shouldn't ship every platform to boot off HostFS if HostFS isn't working on that platform yet. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
