ROOL Forum: Recent Posts

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:07:00 -0000

Re-Building a Rpi4 based system at the moment and note that the 4B and the 400 both have dual micro HDMI outputs.

On W10 / Linux I use dual or triple monitor setups.

Don’t believe RISC OS generally supports dual head at present (outside of the Ti Machine or Iyonix versions).

Adrian was working on bringing dual head to Geminus for RPi but have not heard anything more since approx 2022.

Does anyone have more insight into the progression of dual head support for RISC OS on the RPis?

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:12:08 -0000

Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club

Meeting on Wednesday 1st May at 7.45pm

Gerph on Games

Charles Ferguson, aka Gerph, will talk about the games that he’s worked on – the Doom work that he did back when he was at university, that later became the enhanced version of Doom+, then Heretic and Hexen… and then jump to the current day and the recent work on the games that have been re-issued. He’ll mostly talk about some of the challenges in the games and some of the things he found fun.

There may be some demos, but the games get choppy whilst on video so we’ll see if that works.

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Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:32:47 -0000

And a slightly less comprehensive one in Archive 27-2, see below:

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:43:08 -0000

It’s on the riscos.com website here

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:39:41 -0000

I dared to install 5.30 on my CM4 manually.
!Boot etc. updated on SD from HardDisc4.
Downloaded 5.30. Installed.
No Ethernet anymore:
No Module EtherGENET or something like this.
I shall try to go back to 5.29 tomorrow.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:11:24 -0000

Years ago I saw a diagram of the Boot-sequence. It had the size of A3 and it showed the complete order of booting the machine.

Does anyone know where I can get that diagram?

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:57:40 -0000

Just needs 5.30 stable adding to the RPC (IOMD) downloads page and I think things are complete.
Bound to be a few niggles somewhere, there always are.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:29:11 -0000

Congratulations to all those involved.

Heartily seconded. That has to qualify as the easiest OS upgrade in my RISC OS experience over +/- 30 years. Starting with a latish (Feb ’24) 5.29 ROM and RC4 Boot sequence, I ran InSituBoot, copied the Loader files across including ROM, installed WiFi, all of which took about 2 minutes, and rebooted. All working perfectly so far. Download speeds here using WiFi are around 50% of wired speed (still very acceptable), upload speeds are around 80% of wired. 5.30 was well worth the wait IMHO.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:10:33 -0000

I use the ROD stack. Should I erm… remove it (if I knew how) and put the ROOL one instead (if I knew how)?

The ROD Installer also has the uninstaller.

However someone has reported that the ROOL WiFi can co-exist with the ROD stack.

ROD’s InetSetup 0.60a has been overwritten with ROOL’s 0.63 version at !Boot.Resources.Configure.!InetSetup.

The ROD version is in their installer at ROD_TCPIP_704a/zip.!Install.Boot.Resources.Configure.!InetSetup.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:06:32 -0000

Yes, I use the ROD stack. Should I erm… remove it (if I knew how) and put the ROOL one instead (if I knew how)?

So just rerun the ROD stack installer and choose the uninstall option from the menu.

If you are updating your boot sequence at anytime then I would suggest uninstalling the ROD stack and also Pinboard 2 as well before doing so and then reinstalling afterwards as things can get really messed up.

As always backup is your friend and saviour :-)

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:05:50 -0000

And thank you to the individual (was that you Sprow?) who got around the show and posted a heap of photos on the Iconbar site.

Yup, that was me, if any shots are a bit blurred it was because I was running.

Only improvement there would be a caption for each photo summarising what/who is in the photo but that is being a bit greedy.

I’ll see if I can get those added to the Iconbar article.

I must apologise to Chris from the Drag N Drop stand who I think was on a bio break when I went round – it would have been a bit odd to take a photo of an empty chair. Close your eyes and imagine copies of the latest edition of the digital magazine and some very nifty graphics tablets on show.