When my Iyonix stopped working earlier this week, I decided to move as
many things as possible to RPCEmu on my Linux box. I have now managed to
resurrect the Iyo (PSU problem - again), but I intend to keep the RPCEmu
setup up to date, just in case.
While working with the emulator on a daily basis, I noticed a few
things:

 - Using a RiscPC keyboard, the ` and ' keys are switched around.
   Question: Which part of the source code do I have to change to fix
   this?

 - Ctrl+End is not a good choice to call up the menu.
   I have used this key combination with StrongED for many years and
   not being able to use it is more than a minor nuisance.
   Question: Which part of the source code do I have to change to fix
   this?

 - Top bit set characters in filenames can be problematic.
   I know, you shouldn't use any, but spaces tend to creep in almost
   unnoticed. RISC OS fakes them in filenames by coding them to 160 and
   RPCEmu uses the ISO-8859-1 character set while most Linux distros
   will be on UTF-8 these days. This can cause problems if you want to
   access such a file from Linux.
   Question: Is there a way around this?

 - Servers running inside the emulator cannot be reached and active FTP
   doesn't work.
   Not surprising. Would be nice if there was a way around this (maybe
   some more iptables magic? need to study this...).

 - Networking is unreliable with RISC OS 5.19.
   Spurious errors occurred during an AntiSpam session of around 40
   messages. The session had to be restarted several times and each time
   processing a different message would produce another kind of
   nonsensical error. In the end I gave up and switched to RISC OS 4.39,
   which worked like a charm.
   This is probably more of an RO 5.19 problem than something to do with
   RPCEmu, but I thought I would also mention it here for completeness.

Also, is there any chance of the serial port and mouse scrollwheel ever
being made to work?

Details of RPCEmu used: version 0.8.9, recompiler, SA110, 256M.

Regards,
Frank


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