Raspberry Pi 3

Draw and BASIC appear to work perfectly well, and NetSurf for some sites. But I’d like to have a go sometime with ZeroPain to see if it cures NetSurf’s pernicketiness, and FontEd’s. I’ve not yet found a description of what to do with ZeroPain though. It’s there okay on some zip file or other that I downloaded, but I haven’t a clue what to do with it.

I’ve not yet found a description of what to do with ZeroPain though. It’s there okay on some zip file or other that I downloaded, but I haven’t a clue what to do with it.

ZeroPain is included in the Beta Pi ROM download. The ReadMe in the ZeroPain directory has the installation instructions.

Cheers – will take a look. Sorry to be so higorant as not to have even looked in the directory (…yet…that’s my story anyway…)

Sorry to be so higorant

Don’t beat yourself up. There’s always someone out there who knows a lot more than I do – thank God.

Regarding updating the Pi RC for Pi 3/ARMv8 compatibility (and ARMv8 compatibility in general), it looks like in the near future the Pi 2 is going to be replaced with a “Pi 2+”, which will basically be the same as a Pi 2 but with an (undeclocked) BCM2837, i.e. the same chip as the Pi 3 uses. This is due to running out of cheap access to the BCM2836 (because most people are buying the Pi 3 instead of the Pi 2).

So new users who were hoping to avoid compatibility issues by buying the Pi 2 will soon be out of luck.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=160578

A timely warning.

Does this mean that ROOL will be pursuing an update to the RC14 SD card image (that would involve updating Netsurf, Omni, Packman, Ghostscript, PHP, PDF [and possibly Fat32fs]) suitable for the model 3 with more urgency now?

There are 413 !Boot and !Run files in RC14 of which the following contain 'Unix' as below:
.Apps.!NetSurf.!Run
.Apps.!Omni.!Boot [!Omni only sets filetype FE6]
.Apps.!PackMan.!Run
.Sources.PackMan-0_8_3beta/zip.!PackMan.!Run

Netsurf contains     003EDE08  „\.ï : EF055C84 : SWI     SharedUnixLibrary_Initialise
Ghostscript contains 00240BC8  „\.ï : EF055C84 : SWI     SharedUnixLibrary_Initialise
!Php.php contains    0000ADB4  „\.ï : EF075C84 : SWI     XSharedUnixLibrary_Initialise
!PDF contains        002197BC  „\.ï : EF055C84 : SWI     SharedUnixLibrary_Initialise

Hope this is helpful.

Well, gee, there’s an announcement to push prices up. Had a look on Amazon and the Pi2 is now ~€58 (nearly twice the price of the Pi3!).
Add it turns out, The Pi Hut is flogging them off for £20 in clearance sale – https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/clearance-raspberry-pi-2-model-b

I wanted one as it has more than a original Pi, but didn’t want to jump straight to a Pi3 for the obvious reasons. Kind of sucks that they will be making a 2B+ using a nobbled Pi3 chip instead of just saying “gonna be retiring this model”.

Still, order placed a little sooner than I had planned, but better sometime than never!

Kind of sucks that they will be making a 2B+ using a nobbled Pi3 chip instead of just saying “gonna be retiring this model”.

and the elapsed time to a hack that ups the clock on a pi2+ is likely to be what exactly?
If it is physically possible it will happen.

Hey Rick! You live in France :)
http://www.kubii.fr/507-raspberry-pi2-modele-b-1gb-640522710515.html

Still the same price.

That baston of customer service , Currys, is also doing a Pi2 starter kit clearance at £34.99 and that includes extras like a case, PSU, HDMI lead, Ethernet Lead and MicroSD if you need a complete kit but only for collections. So UK only for that price and depends how far from a store, including Carphone Warehouse ones, you are.

Amazon and Maplins are still charging full prices at the moment.

There’s a RPi 3 compatible version of !Webjames and !PHP available here. The zip file contains a replacement !RunImage and PHP executable. The PHP version is now 5.3.29. (Upgraded from 5.2.17).

Both phpbb3 3.0.14 and the latest version of tcpdf seem to work reliably with this version.

Thank you Chris.