In article <[email protected]>, Bob Latham <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi,
> I thought I would have a go at trying to get RPCemu working on an XP > laptop. Not responded previously as I have no experience with XP. I've just installed on my linux boxes, so have no idea what significant differences there may be. However since you've not had other replies I'll make a few comments in case they help. > I have installed the application. I have a decompressed rom image of > 4.39 4M version. Eventually, pretty much by accident I found the > "working directory" and put the rom inside the roms directory. I've only used RO 4.02. Do you know that '4.39' (which I know nothing about) works OK with PRCEmu? Also, when I first tried setting up RPCEmu I found that it was vital to have a 'clean' version of the ROM images. I'd initially taken my from one of my old RPCs and it was being patched during bootup. The result didn't run. Had to boot the RPC without letting it run though !Boot to get a workable set of images. (And then bought copies from ROL anyway!) > RPCemu now appears to start to boot, I get the StrongARM splash etc. and > then I get a green screen with a menu which appears to be from OS4.39. > At that point I'm stumped and have not got answers to very fundamental > questions. What processor have you chosen? Or is there no option for this on the Windows version? > I have downloaded the 1GB disc image but don't know what to do with it. > There appears to be a hard disc file in the working directory of zero > bytes, do I replace it with the downloaded one? How do I put something > in this hard disc file like !Boot? What about file types, how does that > work? If you've unpacked the image from the zip (?) you can give it the name 'hd4.hdf' and put it in place of any existing 'hd4.hdf' ***if*** you have nothing yet in the existing hd4.hdf file. It will then be identified as 'HD4' by RO if your emulated RPC has been set to know there is one 'ADFS disc'. The best way to deal with filetypes for any transferred RO files is to put them into a zip at source using something like sparkfs. Put the zip into the 'hostfs' directory (if that is what it is called on the XP version). Then when RPCEmu runs you can find them as zips on your emulated RPC in the host 'disc'. There is a self-extracting program for getting them out of a zip. Use that to transfer sparkfs asap and that'll make life easier from then on. > I'm moving all the files I need to the XP laptop with Lanman98 if that > helps. The manual says quite a bit about floppy discs, why? Are they any > use now at all or have I missed the point entirely? Pass. I suspect they are an artifact of ancient days. Never used any with RPCEmu. :-) One general point. Once RPCEmu is working treat it like a 'real' RPC. i.e. do the same things you'd have to do to make the 'HD4' bootable, etc, etc, when starting with a 'naked' RPC with no boot sequence or cmos settings, and so on. I'd long forgotten how to do all that, so have to re-find out! As above, apologies and warnings since my experience is with the Linux version and I setup my RPCEmu ages ago. So any/all of the above may not be so in your case. Cheers, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
