Running RPCEmu from flash memory

I bought one of the USB stick RPCEmu packages. I installed it on my Toshiba Portege with XP and it runs at quite an acceptable speed from disc. It does not run in full-screen, despite defining a new mode to match the 1280×800 size, but that is not really a problem.

I thought, from various comments, that it should run from a flash stick, and indeed it does, but the speed is really unacceptably slow. I have tried a variety of sticks and there is some noticeable variation, but the only real difference was running it from an SD card, but that was still too slow for me. It runs OK from an external USB harddrive.

Can someone recommend a USB flash stick that is known to be fast and suitable for RPCEmu?

“Can someone recommend a USB flash stick that is known to be fast and suitable for RPCEmu?”
In the case of USB sticks, one pattern emerging is that (Sandisk for one) dont advertise a speed for the cheaper ones. They do for the dearer ones, but then you can’t make a comparison to see what you are getting for the extra money.
I think the dearer ones become as expensive as the high end CF/SD cards.
One review, praised the Sandisk ‘backup’ model as being a good performer in the budget range.
The only reason I can think of for the speed/price differences, is that they use old technology machines to make the cheap ones, and only the newer machines can make high speed stuff. I guess the obselete machinery could also fall into the hands of counterfeiters as well.

For ‘fast’ USB sticks, often you want low latency rather than MB/s especially if you’re accessing lots of small files (eg RISC OS Boot sequence). I recommend picking a stick that says it supports ReadyBoost, because that means the access time is <1ms. But watch the MB/s speed too – sometimes ReadyBoost sticks still have poor read/write speeds.

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It seems an interesting program, perhaps you could publish details of the RISC OS version.

Or do we have to email sales@xflip.com to find this out?

perhaps you could publish details of the RISC OS version.

You’ll be lucky…

Or do we have to email sales@xflip.com to find this out?

I say we all (those of us with spamtrap email addresses) do exactly this. I’m game if you are… ;-)

I say we all (those of us with spamtrap email addresses) do exactly this. I’m game if you are… ;-)

You think I haven’t already? Done before I posted here. :)

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Oh FFS, can someone ban the spammer?

Why not charge them an advertising fee?

I’ve been on forums that did that.

End result, the whole forum turns into a spammy mess, because the advertisers feel like they have special rights due to paying to advertise.

I was thinking along the lines off this spam has been on here for x number of days, so much per day before it was deleted.

Probably a case of nulla poena sine lege

I’ve been on forums that did that.
End result, the whole forum turns into a spammy mess, because the advertisers feel like they have special rights due to paying to advertise.

10,000 ukp per message? :)
With 10 messages a week that could fund quite a bit of development, and some new server space for forums. Replicated to here of course.

What happened to the moderators that were recruited a while back? It still says that the forums are unmoderated.

This spammer posted a while back and (I’m guessing) was banned, presumably by deleting their account. Surely it wouldn’t take too much to ban their IP and the user name (which is IIRC the same one that they used before).

What happened to the moderators that were recruited a while back? It still says that the forums are unmoderated.

The question needs modification:
“What happened to the offers of forum members to be moderators?” is the proper (correct) question.

The original implies no action on the part of existing moderators.

I know a number of people offered to act as moderators, but I don’t recall any response from ROOL. They were very busy getting the RISC OS on Raspberry Pi launched. They also have been fighting with the less than brilliant Forum software and website, oh and dealing with a significant spurt of Orders to the shop. So no surprise that some issues haven’t been addressed yet. These things all take time, which is in short supply!

There was no response from ROOL because our webmaster has just moved to New Zealand so he’s got a little bit of other stuff on his hands, besides changing the forum software to allow us to have a group of nominated external moderators. We’d love to add this at some point, but don’t hold your breath (for anything relating to our web site).

our webmaster has just moved to New Zealand

Isn’t that a bit extreme? Moderation in all things ;-)

Isn’t that a bit extreme?

Could have been worse, could have gone to Liverp<cough>other places… At least New Zealand has funny accents, the odd earthquake, and astonishing scenery. Plus, they speak English. And given the Dotcom mess, they might even remember that American law doesn’t necessarily apply in their country. ;-)

Could have been worse, could have gone to Liverp<cough>other places…

The last person who tried that joke in my presence eventually woke up and now looks much like he used to from most angles.

Do try to stop being such an arse.

The last person who tried that joke in my presence eventually woke up and now looks much like he used to from most angles.

Guess I touched a nerve, huh? Though, is the suggestion of violence a way to make any point at all?

Do try to stop being such an arse.

I do try, every day. Not sure I’m successful, though. :-)

BTW: Feel free to say what you like about Aldershot. Unless it has radically changed in the last decade, I knew the place for some 20 years and it just kept going downhill… I’m trying to think of positive attributes and all I can come up with is this weird shop that sold second-hand electrical stuff opposite the Burger King and down the road (towards Guildford) a ways. I bought a copy of the Arthur PRMs there. That’s not exactly a highlight of a town though, is it? Aldershot sure ain’t Farnham! I really don’t get why they built that big extension onto the mini-mall, given the difficulty of finding anybody to go into it; at least the new mall in Fleet sort of had some shops in it!
[ of course, this ramble probably only makes sense to somebody familiar with the area ]

Aldershot. Unless it has radically changed in the last decade, I knew the place for some 20 years and it just kept going downhill…

How?

How?

Possibly a topic for an “off-topic” section? Are you local to the area then?
Suffice to say that I think Aldershot suffered as part of a wider picture; namely in late ‘80s there were shops with names and brands that were known – Woolies and Peacocks for instance; both now memories. There was also a fairly impressive range of smaller shops that I remember, I never did figure out exactly what a “haberdashery” was, but it’s a cool word. Ironmongers. The sorts of places that couldn’t survive the slightly-out-of-town supermarket complexes. These became charity shops, which became “poundland” type shops, which became empty “to let” properties. But let me not pick just on Aldershot here, around the same timeframe I saw a similar story unfolding in Bridgwater; and when I left the UK I think Budgens, Vale Furnishers, and a Chinese takeaway were pretty much the only things keeping the centre of Ash going (though some called it Ash Vale (that’s up the road towards Mychett) and some called it Ash Green (that’s over the railway lines towards Aldershot)). That said, Aldershot the last time I saw it just looked tatty, like somebody needed to fire up a Kärcher and blast off two decades worth of grime. It seems strange that so much effort went into the revision of the shopping centre, but rather less into the outside parts.
Is Wilco still in the shopping centre? Argos? Boots? WHS? Used to go there on the train for Acorn User (WHS), a sandwich (Boots), and a lattè in the shopping centre. Sometimes I’d look for second-hand DVDs in the games shop on the ground floor (but they were expensive) and then walk around the Chinese shop looking at all the “unusual stuff”. If it was a nice day, I’d walk home (Ash). I once walked Ash→Aldershot→Fleet in a long afternoon, took the train back not quite realising that Fleet to Aldershot was a slightly tortuous route. But then, I once worked out a route to go through “Bramley” because it is a sort of apple I like. I think I ended up somewhere odd like Maidstone. Hehe, imagine the fun I could have with a GPS phone and Google Maps! On the other hand, these were the days when you could go all sorts of places for a reasonable price, and it always made sense to get a return ticket as it cost like 20p extra but kept your options open. I believe rail travel is a tad pricier these days. Though on the other hand, I bet you’d have to look hard to find one of those amusing trains with the doors only at each end of the carriage and the added quirk of having to open the window to use the handle that existed only on the outside of the door…

Okay, I’ll go listen to some ’80s music and complete the nostalgia kick. :-)

Don’t say I never give you people anything.

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