On Aug 6 2008, Theo Markettos wrote:
Very many thanks for the fast reply
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:03:14PM +0100, P.J.G. Long wrote:
I hope you won't mind some silly questions
I have compiled rpcemu on effectively a debian etch system, using 3.7
roms
1) It seems to start very quickly, giving mips readings >110 all the
time
Good :)
3) However at start up I get
a) a message in the terminal window saying
updatewindowsize: 640 256
updatewindowsize: 640 480
That's just some debugging output - RISC OS has changed screen mode and
that's the emulator noticing.
b) a Warning window
Invalid shut down state detected in CMOS
Your emulated CMOS RAM checksums don't match - that'll be because the
default CMOS image isn't for RO3.7. Boot rpcemu with Delete held down
(simulating a power-on-Delete in RISC OS) and RISC OS should reset its
CMOS.
Success
4) Any attempt to increase the screen resolution from 16 cols 640x480
is met with greyed out menus, is there a way around this? Screensize
seems to be 320K, vram=2M
Do you have a boot sequence on the emulator?
I have downloaded the formatted disk + universal boot sequence. The disk
appears as drive 4 on the icon bar, but gives the error
Error when reading ADFS::4.$ - Disc not understood - has it been formatted?
when selected.
Until a modefile is loaded
you won't be able to select modes other than numbered one (eg mode 32,
800x600x256 cols). Either install a full boot sequence, or put a modefile
on the emulator and do *LoadModeFile <path to modefile>
5) How is HOSTFS started, I seem to have tried all possibilities of
*configure filesystem hostfs
Is the HostFS module getting loaded? It should be - check it shows up
under *Modules.
It doesn't seem to be there!
You'll need a directory called 'hostfs' at the same level as the rpcemu
executable. Put your files in there.
Is this case specific in Linux, it was HOSTFS from the download?
Normally HostFS is run from the emulated ADFS image (in !Boot.Choices
somewhere), so you can't configure it as the default FS. But if you copy
the module into a 'podulerom' directory then RPCEmu will build a fake
podule ROM to load the module at startup, and you should be able to
*Configure Filesystem it. (I haven't tried this).
Hope that covers everything :)
Theo
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