RiscOS on latest Raspberry Pi

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Dec 8, 2020 10:12pm Allan Williams (2337) 47 posts	Will the latest Raspberry Pi allow an external USB Hard Drive to be used when running RiscOS 5.29? Will it also run as if it is a RiscPC only faster. I would like to retire my ageing Acorn RiscPC StrongArm, but at present, it is used to hold personal data, which can be accessed by Virtual Acorn via ShareFS and then saved back for safe storage away from the PC which has access the Internet so is not as secure as the RiscPC which is offline almost all the time. Does anyone have any answers?

Dec 8, 2020 10:30pm Kevin (224) 322 posts	Yes, you can get some premade machines http://www.armini.co.uk/4te.shtml https://www.pihard.co.uk/

Dec 8, 2020 11:14pm Bryan (8467) 468 posts	Will the latest Raspberry Pi allow an external USB Hard Drive to be used when running RiscOS 5.29? Yes. Will it also run as if it is a RiscPC only faster. Yes. Much faster. And ShareFS will work with Virtual Acorn and your RiscPC

Dec 9, 2020 8:19am Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts	However, some software you have on the RPC may not be 32 bit, some may have issues with other features of the new processors. The Software Compatibility List in the wiki is not comprehensive but it does cover many of the known applications.