Great to hear about the fixes!
I'm not sure about the shared-c-library but it would appear that:
V4.85 is included with RO 3.71
V5.53 was hosted on the iyonix site you linked (seems to be 26-bit judging from the webpage)
V5.77 is included in UniBoot2 (maybe this one is 32-bit?)
For what it's worth, !Doom is happy with either V5.53 or V5.77. I don't know if the later versions break things though.
I can understand you wanting to keep the recommend install stuff to a minimum. I've never used a real Risc PC, only older Archimedes models, which is why I struggled a bit. Heh!
On 20 December 2017 at 21:56, Peter Howkins <rpcemu.howkins@marutan.net> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 03:39:38PM +0000, J Percival wrote:
> Hi there! Been using this great emulator for a while but have noticed some
> issues. You're probably already aware of them but I thought I would
> mention them anyway. These refer mainly to the 0.8.99 super-secret
> pre-release.
>
> Setup:
> Windows 10/64-bit
> V0.8.99 Interpreter
> RISC OS 3.71
> Configuration: 2/8MB VRAM, 32MB RAM, Sound Enabled
> - HostFS shows as empty both from the desktop and command line. No
> files/folders added via Windows or RISC OS appear even though it will
> happily create them (ok on 0.8.15). I wondered if it might be a
> permissions issue at first but that doesn't seem to be the case.
It was related to us not setting the correct character encoding in the
hostfs code, it was trying to use unicode. This has been fixed now.
> - Keyboard handling problem after a menu is accessed via ALT (largely acts
> like ALT gets stuck down afterwards) (ok on 0.8.15).
Yep, we spotted this very weird behaviour too, it's now been fixed.
> - Graphical corruption when configured as RiscPC/ARM810.
This, I'm probably not going to investigated now, as ARM810 is very very
experimental code ... unless someone wants to give me an arm810 card I can
test against :)
> - Starting as an A7000 model means mouse doesn't work when switched to a
> RiscPC model and vice versa.
Ooh, well spotted, this is an 6 year old bug. I've got a fix in now. (this
is a fullscreen/mouse capture issue only, not 'follow host mouse')
> - Configuration options let you try and set VRAM on an A7000 model at
> which point it says it needs to restart (but doesn't do so
I've fixed this issue of the erroneous 'you must restart'.
> and then
> indicates it being present until the emulator is closed and reloaded.
> Maybe it would be better to have separate options provided and saved for
> each machine type.
But I'm not going to fix this now, eventually I have a different idea
about how machines and models should be setup.
> - In fullscreen mode there doesn't seem to be any way to switch back to
> windowed mode. Selecting the fullscreen option again via ALT-S does
> nothing and the conventional Windows Alt-Enter also has no effect. In
> addition the menu bar doesn't show up when you press ALT, which is a minor
> thing but could definitely confuse some people.
The keyboard shortcut for leaving fullscreen is crtl-end
> Finally, a few difficulties I had with the emulator when I was starting
> out:
> Getting RISC OS up and running was easy enough but the universal-boot
> provided on your website seems to be missing the Shared C Library. I ended
> up using the 'UniBoot 2' version at
> [1]https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/UniBoot- for-RISC-OS/
> instead.
I presume you mean the 32-bit Shared C-Library? Which used to live at
http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/system.shtml
now
https://web.archive.org/web/20150412211454/http://www. iyonix.com/32bit/system.shtml
One reason I generally don't provide large amounts of pre-setup stuff as
theoretically the emulator is just like a real Risc PC in respect to
allowing people to pick the version of the OS and the software themselves.
Also, it's too hard to support everyone's issues with risc os in general.
> I was then confused why I couldn't change the display mode in RISC OS
> until I eventually remembered that the newer machines rely on monitor
> definition files. Could these perhaps be provided with the emulator?
I believe all the boot sequences include the MDFs?
At some point soon, I'd like to roll a second test version (0.8.100) to
allow everyone to check their reported bugs are fixed now, and a second
chance to spot new ones.
Peter
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