On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi grim, > >> I have RISC OS 2 ROMs which have always worked fine for me on Archie; >> but they don't seem to work too well with ArcEm. > > Just to make sure it's really 2.00, is the rom file's SHA1 digest > b82a78830dac386f9b649b6d32a34f9c6910546d?
Yes, the checksum matches. Thanks - I hadn't thought to check that. >> The problem I have seems to be mainly with screen modes. When I boot >> with the RO2 ROMs, I see a "Supervisor" star-prompt. I issue *desk. >> and then get a mode-0-style, compressed desktop. Palette doesn't let >> me switch to any other mode. > > Looks like a CMOS RAM setting is constraining you, probably because your > hexcmos file contains RISC OS 3 settings, i.e. the same byte means > something different between the two OS versions. That makes sense - I think you must be right about this. > `*Status' may help, in particular the ScreenSize setting. `*Configure' > changes it. > > Alternatively, David Gilbert, author of arcem, provided a hexcmos file > suitable for RISC OS 2 back on the arcem-devel list around 2003-06-26; > the subject's "hexcmos for RiscOS 2". Sourceforge's archive appears to > be down at the moment. I'll definitely check that out. I have an Ibix The Viking disk image, and getting it to work would be the main aim of the exercise. I realise how sad that sounds! Thanks for your help, grim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ arcem-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-user
