Old RISC OS Open ROMs and HardDisc4 images

The collectors CD contains all the roms for each stable release, so you could buy any you’re missing from ROOL or CJE to complete your set

While yes I could buy it, I prefer finding specific builds for each release so…

Besides, I’m living in a third world country, searching could work but it’s a bit complicated.

Look at it from RISC OS Open’s point of view – if they maintained a publicly accessible archive of all builds for all platforms, bots would be along every few hours downloading it over and over and over again, costing ROOL £££ in wasted bandwidth.

Besides, I’m living in a third world country,

America? England? ;)

be along every few hours downloading it over and over and over again

nofollow? robots.txt? They already do that to block the old /viewer source repository and /tarballs.

Many robots don’t obey! Sometimes they need htaccess-rejecting.

True. Yandex seems a bit liberal with where it wants to go, and some of the random Chinese ones would probably only obey 机器人.txt ;)

Thankfully… https://www.johnlarge.co.uk/blocking-aggressive-chinese-crawlers-scrapers-bots/

For my own personal server, I simply do a quick lookup on the IPv4 address and anything RU or CN (plus some others like Belarus and Israel) get dropped like a hot potato.
Frankly, I fear upgrading to IPv6. How the hell can one block annoying countries in that case?
(since I’m an individual and not selling or supporting anything, I have no qualms with telling 1.5 billion people to go away; given that it’s really zero people and 1.5 billion bots)

It’s pretty pointless geo-blocking, plenty of crap coming out of the nearest TOR exit point, and you piss off any legitimate users who through no fault of their own have found themselves in one of the afore mentioned putain de trou de merde. Block by behaviour with fail2ban.

Block by behaviour with fail2ban.

And the RISC OS version of this is…?

RISC OS is not a server.

RISC OS is not a server.

Webjames, Smbserve, FTPs?

Nothing that you’d want to expose to the wild and wooly internet, I suppose.

http://heyrick.ddns.net/

Plenty of hack attempts ¹. All fail, because it’ll not an old unpatched LAMP, it’s something completely alien.

¹ One of these days I’ll get around to telling WebJames to drop the logfiles in null: or disable them completely.

Nothing that you’d want to expose to the wild and wooly internet, I suppose.

We have been round this before – Quite a few times.

Some of us have had RISC OS servers running for years decades.

My Home Automation Gateway (a rather posey name for a bit of BASIC I wrote) has been facing the internet for several years now. All the hack attempts fail.

Plenty of hack attempts 1. All fail, because it’ll not an old unpatched LAMP, it’s something completely alien.

I thought your server was quite often offline because of hackers called “the electric grid in rural France” and “thunderstorms” :-)

All the hack attempts fail.

All the hack attempts are scripts pinging sequential IP addresses looking for known vulnerabilities in stuff like connected webcams, doorbells, and toasters.

I’m not sure RISC OS is exactly breakable from the internet ¹. I know some types of malformed packets can cock up the stack, but would a router let such things through?

quite often offline

Depends upon the weather. Winter, usually okay. Spring, usually okay. Right now, okay because it’s wall to wall scorchio. Autumn, and when the heat breaks… not okay, because:

because of hackers called “the electric grid in rural France” and “thunderstorms” :-)

Nah, the grid is a victim too. The hack here is mama nature blithely pointing out that she can momentarily fart more joules than our biggest power stations can manage. And all the estimates of how much power is in a lightning bolt are likely wrong, because it’s only recently that we’ve discovered what happens on the other side of the cloud.

Oh, and “dark lightning” (or TGF ² to be precise) which is a mindscrewy way of having lighting in an entirely different part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

And as if that wasn’t enough, lightning has also been shown to cause photonuclear reactions which create (and destroy) antimatter.

So, yeah. A thunderstorm is forecast, I bloody well unplug!

¹ Note for the pedantic – talking here about the OS itself, not any issues with the server software running on it.

² Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash.

@Rick:

America? England? ;)

Somewhere in Southeast Asia, specifically Philippines. It might weird you out since most of the community was British people.

@Alexis Jhon Gaspar hello I was wondering did you ever get the old nightly builds of riscos open because I am trying to get hold of RISCOS 5.23 for my raspberry pi so I can use ADFFS for games I have tried the latest rom but having issues so want to go back to RISCOS 5.23 because it was working on that and I must have deleted the rom and the hard drive image so I cant restore back to it which is annoying

I have tried the latest rom but having issues

Raise the ADFFS issue over on the JASPP forum and I’ll investigate. Put as much detail as possible, ie the game name/package name, OS build/date and steps to reproduce.

@jon abbott thanks for the offer tried it again and its worked so dont know what that was all about but will post on the JASPP forum if I have any more issues thanks again