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.

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