Re: Further ArcEm development (or not)

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Howkins
on SourceForge. Whilst no guarantee of consensus, so far no one has agreed with you suggestion of a move. I suggest at this point we defer to Ralph Corderoy's opinion as he is the maintainer with the continued interest in the project. Peter -- Peter Howkins peter.

Re: An idea - one for the RISC OS programmers probably

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Howkins
uick play zeroing the CMOS on startup, it flashes the Red Border on startup (CMOS checksum error), but then boots with all 0 values. Very unhelpful. I'll have a more detailed look through the docs and see if I can find any more info. Peter -- Peter Ho

Re: An idea - one for the RISC OS programmers probably

2006-05-03 Thread Peter Howkins
sion of RISC OS has a different set of defaults (and I believe contradicting meanings for some CMOS bits between versions). Also we probably shouldn't ship every platform to boot off HostFS if HostFS isn't working on that platform yet. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New website Live + Editing instructions

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Howkins
em back into cvs (the webpages are an anon/read-only checkout of the module). Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrat

Re: Release type thoughts

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Howkins
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:47:06PM +0100, Peter Howkins wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:12:27PM +0100, Peter Howkins wrote: > > 1) Redo the website. I mocked up a plan of a 4 page website, user page, > > I've got a lot more done on the website, I'd like to check it

Re: OSS, network (was: Re: Amiga port, hostfs, and other questions)

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Howkins
Yeah, 16MB is the limit. Even with evil thoughts in my head about Dynamic Area fudging, we can't get to the 64MB that Peter N points out that Firefox needs. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: Release type thoughts

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Howkins
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:54:47PM +0100, Ian Jeffray wrote: > It's "Gamepark Holdings" not "Gamepak" ... and I'll get you some > better screenshots ;) > Updated, and yes any good screenshots gratefully recieved, for any of the platforms. Pe

Re: Release type thoughts

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Howkins
ould read "Unix/MacOS/Amiga only". In fact, you can probably take that > out as it is mentioned in both the features table and in the manual. > Updated, I've left it on the front page though. Of course the solution is too make it work on all the other platforms too :) Peter

Re: Release type thoughts

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Howkins
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:12:27PM +0100, Peter Howkins wrote: > 1) Redo the website. I mocked up a plan of a 4 page website, user page, I've got a lot more done on the website, I'd like to check it into CVS, but ideally in seperate repository to arcem. Other Sourceforge projects

Re: Amiga port, hostfs, and other questions

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Howkins
e used CVS before, as that would help me give you the right level of info. > I promise to be a bit quieter from now on :) Hah! Don't worry too much, you've made me to go and look at code and actually understand it :) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Amiga port, hostfs, and other questions

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Howkins
in between the > hostfs_read_object_info and strcasecmp calls : > for (c=0;c { > if (ro_leaf[c]=='/') >ro_leaf[c]='.'; > } > or something along those lines. Good to know that it doesn't look too tricky to fix,

Re: Porting ArcEm

2006-03-31 Thread Peter Howkins
), the &15 and >>4 are to break the 8bits worth of pixel data into 2 4 bit parts. Hope this helps, and is accurate, as I had to work out most of it myself by reading the code :) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This

Release type thoughts

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Howkins
what apps they'd like bundled on the HD image? I suspect there's still a lot of bug fixing that ought to be done for a release, but these couple of things are to update the public image of the project and to try and make it less of a geek toy and more something you ca

Re: Porting ArcEm (and thoughts about further DispKbd.c refactoring)

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Howkins
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:54:37PM +0100, Chris Young wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:49:16 +0100, Peter Howkins wibbled on for an age: > > > OK, hope this helps > > > > - DisplayKbd_InitHost() > > Called once on program startup, this is where you should put

Re: Porting ArcEm

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Howkins
te from (vidc20 support in theory, if vidc20 video data for 1,2,4, and 8 is in the same format as vidc1/2). [3] VIDC_PutVal() can be refactored to shared code too, once there's a single function name on all platforms for the resizeWindow() callback that happens on screensize change. -- Peter

Re: Porting ArcEm

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Howkins
n do the > platform specific stuff properly. > Ask away and I'll do my best to answer them. There might be a few more changes coming to the code related to platform porting (with the intention of reducing the amount of duplicate code in each platform even more). Watch the list for ann

Re: ArcEm vs RPCEmu

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Howkins
qemu > I'll check through this one a little later. I'm a little confused about QEMU versions, is this the work based on Nick Burret's SWI magic or Daniel Clarkes hardware emulation? Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: ArcEm Display refactoring

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Howkins
ses problems on the other platforms it can probably be added back into the riscos and gp2x DisplayKbd_InitHost() functions. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that

Re: ArcEm Display refactoring

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Howkins
bit crusty, although it wouldn't be too tricky for me to maintain the VC6 alongside the VC2005 version if anyone is still interested. Incidentaly it's free for a year, but still freer than VC6 was. A more direct link is here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx Peter

Re: ArcEm vs RPCEmu

2006-03-09 Thread Peter Howkins
tasheet: http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/91c111.pdf Emulation: QEmu hw/smc91c111.c > Naturally, the ROM legality issues remain, but this is something I'm > perusing, but would rather not comment on specifics of right now. > Let us know if anything comes of this. Peter [1]

ARM3 Support

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Howkins
d prompt. This support was made possible with the assitance of Tom Walker. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile

Re: ST506 disk image

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Howkins
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:37:10AM +, Peter Howkins wrote: > > MFM disc > 1 612 4 32 256 > > I took a guess this was related to the initial Arcem package I'd installed > years ago and downloaded the 20MB ext2 image from Dave Gilberts page > ftp://ftp.arm.uk.linux.o

Re: ST506 disk image

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Howkins
Form on disc 4 and picked the first option off the list 20Mb Miniscribe 8425 There were some warnings about out of range cylinders, this is probably becase the known shape of a Miniscribe disc is different to the shape described in the MFM Disc config l

Re: Hostfs, scrollwheel, qemu

2006-02-28 Thread Peter Howkins
> base for something else, then the source is available on request; I > don't have anywhere convenient to put it at the moment. > I've an idea about that, mail sent offlist. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Th

ST506 disk image

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Howkins
about that afterwards. Peter [1] This assumes disk images are written in a nice sensible linear format -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends application

Re: ArcEm port to GP2X

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Howkins
ither emulating a real network card (an Ether1 looks promising), or writing a RISC OS module that implements DCI4, and passes network packets directly to the Host. I haven't got very far with either of these ideas yet, as I have been working on other things.

Re: ArcEm port to GP2X

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Howkins
ing), or writing a RISC OS module that implements DCI4, and passes network packets directly to the Host. I haven't got very far with either of these ideas yet, as I have been working on other things. -- Hope this clears some things up. Peter

Re: Config, redux

2006-02-07 Thread Peter Howkins
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:21:29AM +, Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:22 +0000, Peter Howkins wrote: > > In preperation for the config file work suggested by Rob, I've checked in > > some work towards storing the running config of the emulator in a single

Documentation

2006-02-06 Thread Peter Howkins
I've attempted to collate all the documentation and datasheets on as much ArcEm related info as possible. I've placed it all here http://www.home.marutan.net/arcemdocs/ If anyone else has any other docs could they please make them available too? Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL

Config, redux

2006-02-06 Thread Peter Howkins
ues in ArcemConfig_ParseCommandLine() 4) If ways of setting the config other than Command Line are implimented add code for parsing and setting values there too. ------- Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: January Release of ArcEm

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Howkins
o add 26-bit mode and move the hardware support to QEMU of course > - challenging, but hopefully no more than an engineering exercise. Oh long term plans, how theoretical 8) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net emai

Re: Getting files into the system, via hostfs or other means.

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Howkins
y nostalgic moment to see the old > RISCOS boot screen up after all these years. > If you compile up with Daniel Clarke's sound support it may even say 'foop' at you on startup in a very nostalgic way. :) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Generaly activity query

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Howkins
reply to your others. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or y

Re: Suggestion for config file stuff

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Howkins
impliment extra config file functions. Backwards compatible with current operation (due to the defaults being what we currently do) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges

Re: Generaly activity query

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Howkins
reply to your others. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or y

Arcem Display refactoring

2005-02-17 Thread Peter Howkins
result in. Sorry I messed the file up. Give the prog a quick run and make sure it's still giving a picture :) Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & cand

Filesystem abstraction layer and Extension Rom support

2005-01-30 Thread Peter Howkins
ctory enumeration and filesize lookups. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by ov

Re: Filing system for arcem

2005-01-15 Thread Peter Howkins
600 x 256colours. Plus lots more. Status Linux/X Complete Windows Just Started Mac OS XUntried RISC OS Untried Also whilst I'm hacking around in the display layer, I'll try and move common code from the platforms back to the arch directory. VIDC_PutVal is identical except fo