Hi Ralph,
Thanks for the swift reply! I've got some further questions,comments etc - see
inline..
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`strace -e trace=open ./arcem' suggests it's reading
/home/ralph/.arcemrc for me, not ./arcemrc, so your disk params aren't
being seen at the moment. Yeah, I know, $PWD for some files, $HOME for
others.
Yeah,
sorry I was being lazy. I checked the 'arch/ReadConfig.c' where this
file is read and it does appear to be $HOME for linux. Furthermore the
supplied 'arcemrc' from the downloaded CVS sandbox needs to be
".arcemrc" in $HOME too.
As a suggestion I think this should be handled by the makefile
'install' target. It doesn't work at all for (my) linux right now - it
attempts to copy the wrong binary to /usr/local/bin. It should copy the
correct binary and then copy the configuration file to $HOME and prefix
a '.' to it.
A 'man' page wouldn't go amiss either. It could be a simple subset
of the online manual in nroff and copied into /usr/local/man as part of
the makefile install target.
As a suggestion the location of the
configuration file and (say) ROM should be overridden by commandline
args to the 'arcem' binary and/or the ROM location can be entered in
the configuration file (if not supplied via cmdline). Currently it's a
PITA on my system as I must be in the actual directory of the arcem
binary - otherwise it won't detect the ROM file.
If it's still an 'active' project I might update the code/makefile to implement
the above. Let me know etc.
> Now one of my goals here is to get ArcEm running the 'ELITE' game. So
> I also downloaded an ".arc" image of it here:-
>
> http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/arc/index.htm
>
> and renamed it to 'FloppyImage0' in my arcem directory.
OK, b5052410.arc is a !SparkFS image, in other words, the equivalent of
a ZIP or tar.gz in the RISC OS world. It's not a floppy image. There's
also b5052420.zip for download off that page and that contains ELITE.ADF
which is an 800KiB floppy image, suitable for calling FloppyImage0.
Yay! That did the trick ;-)
The ./hexcmos file from CVS seems to define no floppy drives and one
hard disc exist. IOW, auto-hardware detection didn't exist on these
machines, you used to change the setting in battery-backed RAM. To
change this, you can run !Configure under Apps IIRC and then increase
the number of Floppies to 1 and ST506 drives to 2. You should then see
a floppy drive on the icon bar, click that to give a Filer window
showing !elite, double-click that to put it on the icon bar, and then
click it there to start the game.
Ta(2).
It took me a while to work out why my 'double clicks' on my PC didn't
execute !Configure. Thus I used F12 key to get cmdline prompt and did:-
*configure Floppies 4
*configure Harddiscs 2
Then
I worked out that the double-click delay and keyboard repeat rates were
badly setup for my PC. Only a RAPIDO double-click launched the
!Configure submenus. Then I managed to alter the mouse and keyboard
delay rates for my PC ;-)
Maybe online manual (+ man page?) should have a section on the mouse and
keyboard delay rates and their configs.
If you still get it after setting up ~/.arcemrc, let us know.
See above. This is working now AFTER I copied it manually to $HOME and renamed
it to ".arcemrc"
Run sha1sum(1) on it and see if it matches one of these digests.
arthur-0.30.rom 6aebd686d97dfdf6726fa5f3246ef35b840b286d 524288
arthur-1.20.rom 1181ff9c2c2f3d6d414054ec33b2260404bafc81 524288
riscos-2.00.rom b82a78830dac386f9b649b6d32a34f9c6910546d 524288
riscos-3.00.rom b4fa494d51dd704c9da9653c2acc6acd08cc8cf4 2097152
riscos-3.10.rom 68533e0a93657a879c1697c04f32d517345b1a61 2097152
riscos-3.11.rom 3487729e87bebc9cb51665838c27beff22f7b3bd 2097152
riscos-3.19.rom ba8c7abe0e6c6c5d7138481c6c052425cbc8b8f4 2097152
riscos-3.50.rom c31318e712ee7de92e46f9df6c791b614d4c9304 2097152
riscos-3.60.rom 3cf75aa4d4dc8fe57110a124fbd1560d46c549b1 4194304
riscos-3.61.rom 71e67684e1d22f422ab9c586c6b0f900384e8f14 4194304
riscos-3.70.rom 42c3dd0ae43149849b674ea025cb2206512a5b4a 4194304
riscos-3.71.rom c5fe0645e48894fb4b245abeefdc9a65d659af59 4194304
riscos-3.80.rom 7e461a6aeb9b1cdc03ea734d0c3a9e1a65d3f98a 4194304
ncos-1.06.rom 4400bd142eebdc71b7ac1794f2cf7dc39de983e2 4194304
ncos-1.11.rom 7c9e2039bc096038ab236719211a236e9a28192f 4194304
arthur-0.30.rom MOS Utilities 0.30 (17 Jun 1987)
arthur-1.20.rom MOS Utilities 1.20 (25 Sep 1987)
riscos-2.00.rom MOS Utilities 2.00 (05 Oct 1988)
riscos-3.00.rom MOS Utilities 3.00 (25 Sep 1991)
riscos-3.10.rom MOS Utilities 3.10 (30 Apr 1992)
riscos-3.11.rom MOS Utilities 3.11 (29 Sep 1992)
riscos-3.50.rom MOS Utilities 3.50 (18 Feb 1994)
riscos-3.60.rom MOS Utilities 3.60 (13 Apr 1995)
riscos-3.70.rom MOS Utilities 3.70 (30 Jul 1996)
riscos-3.71.rom MOS Utilities 3.71 (19 Feb 1997)
riscos-3.80.rom MOS Utilities 3.80 (28 Apr 1998)
ncos-1.06.rom MOS Utilities 4.50 (26 Oct 1996)
ncos-1.11.rom MOS Utilities 4.50 (26 Oct 1996)
Ok - did the cmd and it's matched your 3.10 rom image exactly - cheers!
Well, at least that means it's not a tricky 32/64-bit problem. IIRC,
Dr. David Gilbert, the original author, developed it on a 64-bit DEC
Alpha, but the hands that followed, like mine, might not have been so
careful.
Yeah, it appears to be fine on 64bit linux right now - but I'll let you know if
that changes. :-)
OK... now I have managed to get that ELITE floppy image running - Yay! But now
I need to work out the following:-
1. The whole emulation is running too fast. I need to slow it down.
2. I need to get a fullscreen of the ELITE game and/or ArcEm desktop.
Cheers,
Pat/
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