RPCEmu MackPop

Hi to all,

I’m about to buy a Linux laptop to and install the RISC OS 5 Emulation on it. But there are a few things I’d like to be certain of, before taking the plunge.

With my current Laptop, a MacBook Pro, I use MacPop to gain access to a memory stick. How does this work with the RISC OS-5 emulation? is there a ready-to-go icon to click on?

Steve RM

Not that I’m aware of, but as long as the stick’s mount point is accessible to your linux user, all you need to do (in my experience) is create a symlink to it in a directory inside the hostfs structure.
You’ll have to mount and unmount the stick on the linux side, though.

Thanks for replying Frank, I was hoping to have a some what more out-of-the-box solution. I’ll await some more reactions.

Steve RM

Here, MacPop 0.01 came with the Mac version of Virtual Acorn.

It was tried here on Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo laptop.

By way of creating a little false hope for use on RPCEmu RO5 at least it is 32bit.

The first harbinger of doom is an error to say HostFS2 is required. HostFS2 is a VRPC thing not present in RPCEmu. Commenting out the relevant line in !Run does get MacPop to the iconbar but clicking Select merely comes up with “MacPop is unable to scan for storage devices”.

Steve – just a quick reminder that last Monday at ROUGOL Zoom meeting, I demo-ed a new (native) RISC OS laptop that can dual-boot into Linux. Granted, Linux on Intel is likely to be a better experience than Linux on ARM, but conversely, native RISC OS is likely to be better than emulated. And USB stick pop-up works! :)

Hi Andrew,
I would prefer to buy at your shop, but there are a few technical boundaries I need to take in account. For instance I need to be able to run both, Linux and RISC OS simultaneously. If I understand correctly, with your system, you need to run the one or the other, but not at the same time. Or am I wrong? I also need to rely on two browsers for crypto purposes, FireFox and Chrome. To use them to host DeFi wallets plugins. I think this will not be possible with Linux on a ARM processor? Or am I wrong again?