I can't explain the differences in behaviour people report, but I've just had a go and the standard way to config and make worked OK. I'll give some details below of what I did in case it is of interest.
My first port of call was to install allegro. The snag here is that synaptic (my customary iinterface of preference) does *not* show the versions I expected. I had to install the allegro4 dev package which pulled in *4.4* packages. No references at all to allegro 4.2 packages. Only alternatives were allegro 5. Out of curiosity I then tried running a copy of my old 0.8.8. RPCemu. This failed with a complaint about not being able to find allegro 4.2. So I guess it was unable to find and try 4.4. However having simply selected the dev package and accepted what it required I proceeded to config and make 0.8.11 anyway. Despite lots of lines I didn't understand this seemed to complete OK. I then copied across to it the 4.02 rom image and my files from my earlier 0.8.8. This then ran quite happily! :-) As in the past, giving me a RO4.02 RPC behaviour which is what suits me at present. Screen mode, etc, all as previously. I had no need to move/copy m4 files, etc. So I wonder if one factor may be that 0.8.11 is happy to find and use allegro 4.4 but 0.8.8 falls over not finding 4.2? Anyway, a brief play... erm experiment showed 'business as usual'. I even got the 'roller skates' effect with the mouse which I suspect is because the mouse is a fancy 'gaming' one that tries to act cleverly. No idea if this helps anyone else. This all on xfce mint long term support distro. (I've forgotten is that is based on 16 or 17!) If there is a problem with simply using my old rpc config files, etc, please let me know. But it seemed OK on a brief tryout. Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
