Hi all ! I liked 'playing' with RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi. Yet it always remained something of a difficulty, as I always had to manually change the connection to the screen. And yes, I know there is a possibility to connect through some sort of remote display. I just never got around to that.
So, I am VERY pleased with the Easy-Start-Bundles ! Now I can enjoy RISC OS through my main computer setup, which runs Ubuntu 18.04, with the MATE desktop. And I even get network connection, out of the box ! Thank you so much for this pleasure ! Just one small remark: starting rpcemu from the command line (after compiling, of course) was straightforward. Starting it from the menusystem of the desktop however, was not. It gave an error, complaining about some files not being present (./roms, for example). I checked and lo and behold, the roms were present. So I surmised that the menusystem just didn't change directory in a clear way. So I made up a little script (called RISCOS5.sh), with the following content: #!/bin/bash # # A script to start RPCemu with RISCOS 5! # cd /home/USER/PROGRAMS/RPCEmu/rpcemu-0.9.3-recompiler-RISCOS5 ./rpcemu-recompiler I made another script (called RISCOS371.sh) for the Easy-Start-Bundle with RISC OS 3.71, in the same fashion. Both scripts were saved in a directory called RPCEmu (in my case under another directory, called PROGRAMS) in my home-folder. Of course these scripts could be placed anywhere where one has read-and-write access. After that I just edited the menu-system of Ubuntu MATE, created two new items in the menu-system and pointed each towards their respective script. That did it :-) Both instances of RISC OS emulated through RPCEmu now start from their own menu-item. I realize that this is not great programming. Yet, perhaps this might be helpful for others trying to 'play' with RISC OS on Linux? Just remember two things about such scripts: 1. adjust the path to where your installation of the compiled rpcemu resides. 2. make sure the scripts are executable. Thanks again and keep up the good work ! Sincerely, Peter Veltmans _______________________________________________ RPCEmu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
