ROOL Forum: Recent Posts

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:47:44 -0000

It surely sounds interesting enough that it would be a shame to hide it in one magazine.

Time and effort is taken by the writers, myself, and the proofreaders, to make sure subscribers feel they are reading something of quality. It’s not easy being an old-fashioned printed RISC OS publication in 2024. I appreciate every single word that someone takes the time to write for Archive. On the flipside, I agree that the content doesn’t need to be, and shouldn’t be, locked away. It is nicety for any publication to have some sort of exclusivity for 2 or 3 months, but then I really think it’s a good thing to share the content on the writer’s website or some other online site, and I encourage that to happen. It’s a win-win for everyone.

On a related note, it’s my intention to “open source” old issues of Archive, starting from the first volume. There’s no point in keeping it locked away, and there is a huge amount of valuable content in there. I want to get to a point that when an issue reaches a certain age it is automatically freely available to all on the web.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:34:12 -0000

In a surprise turn of events, I just found out the following…the old RISC OS version is not the problem with the no-boot of the RODirect v2 image on new Pi4 revisions. It is the Pi firmware stuff.

Ah! Well, that’s good news. Now we know that, it should be possible, in Direct, to check the version of the firmware and advise the user accordingly if it’s not recent enough.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:38:07 -0000

In a surprise turn of events, I just found out the following…the old RISC OS version is not the problem with the no-boot of the RODirect v2 image on new Pi4 revisions. It is the Pi firmware stuff. Just replace it with something more modern, and RISC OS boots just fine, and you can continue to upgrade things to RO Direct 5.31 and enjoy Iris and Wifi.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:32:02 -0000

Allocations are from ROOL at e-mail allocate at riscosopen dot org using the App !Allocate that lives in Utilities.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:28:39 -0000

Version 3.02.1.24 gets a few instances of Selwyn characters wrong in a (sort of) predictable way but the majority are correct so when I export a directory of draw files, I run a utility to correct those, fortunately they are all characters &C0 to &C9 so I can find them and alter the font number from 5 to 14. PDF is supplied on !Store with PDFSuite but is out of date.

Many thanks for the information.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:16:30 -0000

Where do you get allocations from? I’m temporarily using 0×300-0×33f.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:26:22 -0000

No solution is going to make you rich! The Icon Bar would appreciate some content, too, I expect.

That said, supporting RO media is a good thing, too.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:16:54 -0000

Publish yourself on the Internet, and give explicit allowance for republishing (and possibly translation – thinking of GAG News atm), so publishers could just use it as they see fit? It surely sounds interesting enough that it would be a shame to hide it in one magazine.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:11:48 -0000

Go on then.

Since I am not sure if I would be allowed to distribute the resulting image, no. Surely not. Distributing a collection of software with such a variety of licenses and distribution allowances are a complete nightmare. Add to that the possible problem of usage of the “RISC OS Direct” name and logos – complete no-go area.

For me personally, I of course have such an image for my numerous Pis. That’s why I know it takes about 30min.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:43:43 -0000

thanks!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:40:39 -0000

Yes please go for it … it would take an experienced user quite a bit longer than some 30 mins if the only suitable Pi at hand is a Pi 4 on which the v2 image does not boot at all… so that the aforementioned detour using a ROOL image etc. is needed :-)