Hi Gerald,
Again I came a little further.
From the beginning that I did not get the message to select a place
where RPCEmu should find the roms was strange to me. Instead of asking
it crashed immediately.
So for tryings I booted an older Mac with OS10.6 and downloaded RPCEmu
and booted the machine. And voila!
Got a message to select a place for the config files, and the rom files.
And after that it booted!
(only din't got Elite to work... must be Risc OS 3.71 thing)
So I guess this must be a MacOS thingy.
The mac I tried before was MacOS 10.9. and gave all the problems.
May I ask what MacOS version you work with?
Cheers
Koen
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On 24-09-14 10:03 AM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Hi Koen,
This is more of a RISC OS issue, rather than a RPCemu. You'll need to make sure
you have the correct !Boot sequence, with all the modules. Also, check to see
what modules have been unplugged. It sounds to me like you have a version of
!Draw which is too new for the version of RISC OS you're loading (or was it
included in ROM in that version?).
The settings I use are SA110, 128MB RAM, 2MB VRAM...and these work on all four
of my installs: RISC OS 3.70, 4.39, 5.21 and 6.20. You don't really need much
more than 128MB (in fact, probably don't even need that much). OK, StrongARM
needs RO3.7. Best thing to do is to try different configs to see what works
best for you.
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 23 Sep 2014, at 22:01, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gerald,
Sorry to bother again, but I think my RPCEmu is not working fine.
It boots up all right (well I think) but when I click Apps to open !Draw,
Then I get a view errors.
- File 'Desktop_Draw' not found
- NoSuchSWI:SWI not known
And when I try again I get
- There is not enough free memory to start this application
My configuration at the moment is ARM7500, with 256 MB memory and no VRAM.
Using RiscOS3_60
When I alter these settings, I get a blue screen when I start up and it stays
like that.
Could you help a bit more?
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 09:55 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
First thing I would do, would be to set up a working RiscPC, with the basic
!Boot (I've stuck mine in HostFS). The boot sequence can be downloaded from
various places - I would start looking: RPCemu site, www.riscosopen.org (where
you can also find RISC OS 5), and www.riscos.com.
To get the data from your old hard disc images, I'd fire up Arculator and
extract the contents out (can't remember how to with Arculator - and I can't
find a good Mac OS version).
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 20:34, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Ok, next problem comes up.
Not easy to set the Emu up.
I have an 'hd4.hdf' and 'hd5.hdf' from an old arculator, so I copied them on
the place where RPCEmu wants them (there is some example hd4 file)
And booted the RPCEmu. But the screen stays blue.
(thought Windows had a blue screen patent???)
Why doen't it take my hd4 drive?
I have also a disc called RiscOS3.adl but also this one does not want to boot.
any suggestions?
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 08:51 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Yeah, I found that when I was trying to simulate running it for the first time
- it seemed to 'remember' the settings from somewhere else. I wonder if it's
used a similar plist file in the System/Library/Preferences folder...
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 19:45, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Oh I just realized that I did not reply to the mailing list...
Ooops.
Now a strange thing has happened. Since I removed th plist file, it is gone
forever????
It's not in the library folder anymore....
Ok point to get mad....
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 08:25 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Annoyingly, none of my replies has gone to the rpcemu mailing list - they all
bounced back as undeliverable...not sure why. But, I'll try again.
Anywho, what does it say in the plist file? i.e. where does it think that the
data directory is?
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 19:17, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gerald,
Well something is defenetly going wrong.
because it doesn't absk me to point the rom files.
Should I contact Francis Devereux?
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 07:46 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
When you run the application for the first time, it will attempt to create one. If
it can't find any ROM files in the rom directory, it should say that no ROM image
is found, and ask you to point to the location of one (which it will then copy
into the data directory). You should be able to change this location through
File->Preferences, or by editing the plist file (you can point this to an empty
folder if you wish).
I can't remember where the default location of the data directory is.
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 17:04, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Deleted the application and the 'org.devrx.RPCEmu.plist'
Then downloaded again and read the manual once more. There it talks about the
Data directory.
Where should I normally find this data directory? (which should contains your
hard disc files, ROM image and rpc.cfg file)
Or should I create that myself?
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 05:32 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Yeah, that won't help - you'll need to re-install from scratch.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 16:25, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hmmm,
Now I am a bit confused.
I deleted the 'org.devrx.RPCEmu.plist'
How can I set the directory to DefaultDataDir?
And what data directory should I delete?
Besides the 'DefaultDataDir' there is also : 'English.lproj' folder and the
follwoing documents : 'RPCEMU.icns' - 'hostfs,ffa' - 'hostfsfiler,ffa'
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 05:04 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Have you changed the data directory location? You can check where this is:
"OS X specific settings, such as the location of your RPCEmu data directory, are
stored in ~/Library/Preferences/org.devrx.RPCEmu.plist. If you have problems setting up
RPCEmu and need to start again from scratch you can delete this file and your data
directory."
If it is pointing towards the DefaultDataDir, then yes, the ROMS go into the
roms sub-folder (you should have other sub-folders alongside roms).
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 15:48, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gerald,
Yes I know, was hasitating to post the links, naughty me.
But I did put them in the roms folder, but still no starting up :(
To be clear where I have put them :
opened the 'package contents' of the RPCEmu.app
browsed to : contents/resources/DefaultDataDir/roms
and there was also a little 'roms.txt' file in it
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 04:41 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Hi Koen,
As far as I'm aware, RISC OS 3.50+ is illegal to distribute freely (like any
other commercial software package) and, hence, those links are probably
breaking the law.
However, that said, the RISC OS 3.60 archives supplied will unzip to 4 1MB
files which can be dropped into the roms folder.
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 15:09, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gerald,
Got them from : http://rolf.yuss.org/~aaront/
Or from : http://www.4corn.co.uk/aview.php?sPath=/roms
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 03:05 PM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Hi Koen,
You should have, typically, 4 ROMs of 1MB in size (this is based on my 3.7
install) - of course, it is entirely feasible (and accepted by RPCemu) to have
this 4MB as 2x2MB or 1x4MB.
Where did you get your RISC OS 3.6 ROMs from?
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 13:35, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gerald,
Just put the 3.6 version in the roms folder.
And again it crashes.
When I start the application I get the following message :
ROM Image of unsupported size: expecting 2MB, 4MB, 6MB or 8MB, got 524288 bytes
And then it quits.
Cheers
Koen
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On 15-09-14 10:49 AM, Gerald Holdsworth wrote:
Hi,
RISC OS 3.11 won't work with RPCemu, as it emulates a RiscPC and not an
Archimedes. 3.6 should be OK - I have 4 different setups for 3.7, 4.39, 5.21
and 6.20.
In what way will it not start?
Cheers,
Gerald.
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 09:19, Koen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Being curious as an Acorn BBC Master player, I wondered how a Archimedes would
work on my Mac.
I found on http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu site a link of RPCEmu for mac.
So I downloaded it and also downloaded the ROM images that are needed.
I looked in the RPCEmu application and found the 'roms' folder and placed 4 rom
images (3.11 or 3.6) hoping the emulator would start.
Unfortunate it didn't.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
Koen
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