New RPCEmu

I have just compiled the new version 0.8.13 on my Ubuntu desktop machine. It seems to be running fine. I always enjoy the October release, something nice before the clocks go back! :)

Becky.

I’ve put a test build of 0.8.13 for Mac at:
https://bitbucket.org/caliston/rpcemu-spoon-caliston/downloads

Comments appreciated.

Just tried the above on OS X El Capitan. Well, it ain’t pretty. Think El Capitan is too new and too soon for poor RPCEmu.

Incidentally, the USB stick I purchased from ROOL’s stand at the London show yesterday, has an empty folder in the Mac OS X folder. That was telling :-)

Windows and Linux folders have content however.

Did you remember to disable Retina for RPCEmu?

These notes may help in general
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/RPCEmu%20and%20RISC%20OS%205%20on%20Mac%20OS%20X

Hi Richard, those notes mention nothing about disabling Retina. The display issues did suggest that Retina was to blame (the screen only occupied half of the space within the RPCEmu window). I’ll find out more about that when I get near my home machine again.

I did find those notes, but I fudged it with the contents of the USB stick. I’ll have another go when I get the time. I did get it running on Windows 10 without issues. Running on Ubuntu 14.04 will be interesting. I’m still new to Linux you see.

Hi Richard, those notes mention nothing about disabling Retina. The display issues did suggest that Retina was to blame (the screen only occupied half of the space within the RPCEmu window). I’ll find out more about that when I get near my home machine again.

Perhaps someone using the latest Mac build could amend the wiki page.
I’m intending to run with 0.8.13 for a short while before updating the Windows install page but in general it should just be a case of amending the link details.

Rats! I thought I put Retina warnings in the doc! You need to Get Info on RPCEmu and tick the option to scale.

I’ve had a plan to try and update the Francis Devereux custom RPCEmu for some time, but of course there are a lot of problems; the source itself has changed dramatically so many of the patches are no longer applicable and, biggest of all, Allegro doesn’t build on newer Mac OS X versions so you have to go digging around to find existing pre-built binaries and hope those will work. Newer major Allegro versions are an entirely different API (geeze, thanks guys) and really shouldn’t even have had the same name as the previous library.

With all that in mind, what is it you’re going to get the Mac build working Theo? Just a straight Mac OS non-custom build on an old enough OS to be able to build Allegro too, or using a copied-in Allegro old version binary for linking?

Rats! I thought I put Retina warnings in the doc! You need to Get Info on RPCEmu and tick the option to scale.

On El Capitan, the option is entitled “Open in Low Reolsution”, which did the job perfectly.

Incidentally, I managed to build it from source on Ubuntu 14.04, those instructions were perfect.

Does anyone use RPCEmu on Windows10?

The menubar always appears on the screen even when in Full Screen Mode.
The result of this is that you cannot see the Titlebar of any window in the RISC OS desktop that is maximised or at the very top of the screen.

I see the same issue

Full screen is little erratic. Before the latest version, I always thought that Full screen crashed RPCEmu but when I did a test with the new version a a RISC OS 5 test setup it didn’t. It turns out it all depends on the resolution you use at the time you switch to full screen mode. Some work, some cause a crash and some have the menu issue.

I also noticed another problem once you exit full screen mode: the mouse vanishes when you hover within the RPCEmu window.

I always thought that Full screen crashed RPCEmu but when I did a test with the new version a a RISC OS 5 test setup it didn’t. It turns out it all depends on the resolution you use at the time you switch to full screen mode.

I use AnyMode and tweak the RPCEmu screen size / window to match the available screen estate minus the windows bar.

I’ve also come across a problem when deleting things – but I’m not sure if its a RISC OS bug or RPCEmu bug.

Occasionally it cannot delete a directory or such like; there may be only one file in the directory, but the filer continues to increment the file count informing me that it’s deleting x,xxx’s of files. Deleting the file manually does not help. So I reboot RISC OS and try it again and it works.

Any one else experience that?
I’m on RISC OS 5.23 from about 2 weeks ago.

Yes, I experience it a lot… especially when the file or directory is opened under Windows (Explorer or another software).

I’ve put a test build of 0.8.13 for Mac at:
https://bitbucket.org/caliston/rpcemu-spoon-caliston/downloads
Comments appreciated.

Thanks a lot for this. I’ve just downloaded and tried it out. On El Capitan the Menu and Adjust buttons don’t appear to function, making it fairly unusable. This affects previous builds too, AFAICT, which all worked fine on earlier OS X versions, so something looks to have changed at the Mac end of things. Any idea why this might be? Using a standard USB mouse, OS X El Capitan 10.11.1, RPCEmu 0.8.13-caliston-dev1 and RO5.23. I think this was also reported on the mailing list.

Just tried the above on OS X El Capitan.

Something is bugging me.

If you call your OS “El Capitan” (which is a really pretentious name, even for Apple), where do you go with the next version? El General? El Almirante? El Rey? El Dios? “El Mejor Sistema Operativo Maldita En El Todo Mundo!”?

Ya una vez, yo sabír más Español que Francés. Olvidado.

I like that last word. Olvidado. Oublie in French. It’s something I’m skilled at. :-/ Either that or I have a lot of bad sectors.

[I never did figure out what the heck this was about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zxSXfBdnxs&feature=player_detailpage#t=79 ]

If you call your OS “El Capitan” (which is a really pretentious name, even for Apple), where do you go with the next version? El General? El Almirante? El Rey? El Dios?

El Capitan is a mountain in Yosemite National Park. I guess you can pick other famous mountains for your next version, but once you get to Everest then you’ve left yourself nowhere further to go!

Places in California – because it’s so relevant to their world market. I’ll stick to the numeric versions – I can remember those. 10.11.1 – Yay! (I speak Apple-ese)

In keeping with the need to spur me to action, someone in RPCEmu world must have noticed I’d finally updated the RO5 on RPCEmu install page to mention 0.8.14 and promptly released 0.8.15.
Well, as Vince might say “yah, boo, …” and I’ve updated the page to reference the 0.8.15 release.

Well, as Vince might say “yah, boo, …”

Nah, not these days. I’m much more mature now – I usually link to a Youtube clip of Nelson Muntz pointing and saying “Haha!”