>In message <378229865.417560.1629829850110@mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 18:53:48 BST, David Feugey
>> <dfeugey@ascinfo.fr> wrote:
>
>> In message <747934817.371552.1629823670136@mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
>>>>> 1/ Adapt RISC OS to QEMU. Problem: since QEMU is mainly a Linux beast
>>>> QEMU is cross-platform and has been for a very long time.
>>>
>>>I never say it's not.
>
>> You claimed it "is mainly a Linux beast". Which suggested that you didn't
>> think it was.
>
>Mainly <> only
"Mainly" has no meaning in this context. So your original statement is basically nonsense. Unless you think that anything that originated on a Linux or Linux-like system is problematic for some reason?
>>> That's not my idea. I was more on simpler changes: a machine type with
>>> some enhancements and a RISC OS 5 version to exploit them.
>
>> What enhancements would you be thinking of then? Updated instruction set
>> is the main enhancement, RiscPC is stuck at best on a 25-year old version
>> of the ARM architecture that the rest of the world moved on from a very
>> very long time ago.
>
>Enhancements: better graphic support (more than 8 MB framebuffer).
>Viewfinder like graphic acceleration. Extended memory map. Virtual USB
>support, etc.
>
>Major enhancements: some paravirtualisation drivers, tweaked for
>RPCEmu+RISCOS 5.
Did you not, maybe, think that the 27 year old RiscPC architecture may be quite a poor place for these additions? That hijacking a free RiscPC emulator to bolt vast amounts of unrelated Stuff onto it in this way might be poor practice, and something that no developer would actually want to do? That a better approach would be to emulate something a _tad_ more modern, and that since you and the "RISC OS community" don't have the resources to write something from scratch, that using QEMU might not be a better idea?
>>>Since I have only a 44 year old UK OS on my desk, it's important for me.
>>>But I'm probably wrong :)
>>
>> You're not just wrong, you're absolutely barking.
>I use RISC OS for my work, and make all my business (and a lot of money) with it.
If you were making "a lot of money" with it then you wouldn't be proposing hijacking a free volunteer-written emulator would you?
Sarah
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