Many thanks Tim! You resolved my issues! Indeed, I had several installations of RPCEmu and this was from the wrong installation. After cleaning up, and finding the correct directory, I was able to get things running with a blank harddisk image (to make sure I was editing the correct hd4.hdf file) and then after prepending my own hard disk image with 512 zero bytes, I had my old machine running in the emulator! Amazing.
I have a couple of warnings that I suspect I probably also had on the old machine, but most things seem to work. The drive is full of my old BASIC programs, whose purpose/function mostly elude me now, but I’m looking forward to rediscovering them. :-) I don’t suppose the emulator has a feature to emulate the presence of the Impressions Publisher dongle, so I can open up my old documents? That is the only real issue I have left to solve... Great to have the HostFS integration to extract files from the hard drive, I’m impressed, both with the old RISC OS for having a mechanism to recognise/discover pluggable file systems, and RPCEmu for being able to present a virtual filesystem to RISC OS. A very nice tight integration. :-) Pete > On 27. Apr 2020, at 21:05, Timothy Coltman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 27 Apr 2020, at 19:42, Peter Moore <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi guys! >> >> I installed the new RPCEmu, and managed to dump an image of my RISC PC 600 >> hard drive using `dd` on linux. >> >> I copied the raw hard disk image to the RPCEmuDataDir as hd4.hdf and have >> RISC OS 3.60 roms in place. >> >> I followed the instructions on https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf >> <https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf> but when i run the first >> command I get the following error: >> >> <Screenshot 2020-04-27 at 20.33.10.png> >> >> RISC OS 24MB >> >> Supervisor >> >> *dir aufs::4.$ >> >> Disc drive not known (Error number &108AC) >> * >> >> > > Strange - your boot messages don't include ADFS. Is your CMOS corrupted? I'd > try copying the one from my recent Mac release, as that's the one supplied > with the source, so should contain some sensible defaults. If that doesn't > work, check to see if the module is unplugged (*RomModules). > > Incidentally, which release are you using? The "plist" file you included > looks like one of Francis Devereux's from the 0.8.x versions (judging from > the file name). > >> >> Does the raw device file produced by dd need to be altered in any way for it >> to work? > > It looks like it (Sarah is the original author of RPCEmu): > > https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18291#p254144 > <https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18291#p254144> > > There are some instructions here: > > http://www.riscos.info/pipermail/rpcemu/2011-March/001261.html > <http://www.riscos.info/pipermail/rpcemu/2011-March/001261.html> > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > RPCEmu mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
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