RPCEmu 0.9.2 and RO5.27

Has anyone got it working?

As long as I comment out the monitor settings lines in PreDesk.Configure, I can boot into a black and white low res screen, but every time I try to boot directly into a coloured mode, I get the RISC OS Developments banner, as far as RI (from RISC OS 5) and then I get an message that is partially obscuring it, saying Error: Internal Err… (I assume it goes on to say Error)

Alt-Break doesn’t resolve it, and I’m stuck.

If I boot into black and white, I can use a Digimate MDF to get 1280×1024 16m colours mode, but it won’t survive a reboot.

I’ve tried this on two different machines with the same result. It does the same with 5.24 too.

Has anyone got it working?

Yes. It just worked, and just networked.

The only hazard being the way OS5 RPCEmu’s fall over with the “Bad PC” error on reset and may fail to write configuration changes. I had to manually set ‘nat’ as ‘network_type’ in rpc.cfg.

This is on Windows 10 Lenovo laptop.

I also have an OS4.39 RPCEmu 0.9.2.

A local build of RPCEmu 0.9.2, interpreter, and OS5.27 is now running and networking on a Catalina Mac.

See the RPCEmu mailing list for build details.

Works fine for me with RISC OS 5.24 and associated !Boot as well as RISC OS 4.02 with my long-standing highly-customized !Boot with some manual. Networking of NAT type also works on Windows 7 and 10 – but follow the instructions closely!

Well, did a fresh download of everything and now it “just works!” – how very odd. But that automatic networking is just marvellous!

New simple networking is amazing. It just works….

Networking of NAT type also works on Windows 7 and 10 – but follow the instructions closely!

Note1 If you go fo the NAT translation install, it’s simpler and works – even if you install on a wireless linked laptop.
Note2 The setup info here is redundant.

Essentially if you start from scratch with a 0.9.2 install unzipped at your preferred (non-system area) directory make sure it boots normally and then follow the instructions here then you will find the Configure utility complains about you not having set a host name – give it one to keep it happy.
Shutdown and EXIT.
Restart RPCEmu and “gethost ”http://www.google.com">www.google.com" will give you an IP in response (eventually – be patient)

If you update by pasting over the existing 0.9.1 install then you will copy over the rpc.cfg file and lose any previous settings with regard to screen refresh, memory size etc.

I think Nemo will be happy happier with the network support now.

Basically, we were promised simpler networking in RPCEmu and that’s exactly what we have.

As long as I comment out the monitor settings lines in PreDesk.Configure, I can boot into a black and white low res screen, but every time I try to boot directly into a coloured mode, I get the RISC OS Developments banner, as far as RI (from RISC OS 5) and then I get an message that is partially obscuring it, saying Error: Internal Err… (I assume it goes on to say Error)

Not exactly the same but I got stuck on the RISC OS 6 banner at first. Then I changed the settings to with what I used on the previous version: StrongArm, 64MB, sound and then it worked.

Basically, we were promised simpler networking in RPCEmu and that’s exactly what we have.

Indeed, no problem with Netsurf, nor with listening to MP3 radio streams from DigitalCD.

LOL. My role as resident bogeyman seems well established now. “Do it properly or nemo…”.

Simply fortuitous timing – the much improved networking got released from its testing state at the time a number of people were complaining it should work in the like VA.
Of course others miht not see it that way.

This isn’t seamless (not all protocols passed through) but it will be good enough for the average user.

Of course the wiki page needs an update, so I have a little session to do.

This isn’t seamless (not all protocols passed through) but it will be good enough for the average user.

The important limitation IMHO is “no ShareFS”, which might or might not be the deal breaker compared to VRPC. One of my typical use cases is using VRPC on a laptop as a ShareFS server for old machines on retro meetings. But of course a RPi can do that, too.

Don’t get me wrong, for a lot of my other use cases the new easy networking is great! And since its mouse sync is infinitely better than VRPC’s, the race is getting closer.

the race is getting closer.

Reduce CPU option is still broken.
And CallWin32 is missing.

Then it’ll be ready for the 1.0 release :)