VirtualRPC-SE or VirtualRPC-SA or VirtualRPC AdjustSA network card?
-Micky (10269) 143 posts |
Does anyone know. Has: VirtualRPC-SE or VirtualRPC-SA or VirtualRPC AdjustSA a real network card? I have VirtualRPC-DL. This has no one. Micky |
Steve Fryatt (216) 2105 posts |
No. As we’ve previously explained, all of the Virtual… products use a network shim on to the Windows stack. |
-Micky (10269) 143 posts |
Is it not possible to use a real network card? I think not, but eventually someone has a good idea how to manage this. Micky |
Stuart Swales (8827) 1357 posts |
Bear in mind the Virtual… products are not being developed. |
-Micky (10269) 143 posts |
Yes. The good man, I have hat email contact with him, and he was not so friendly. Micky |
David J. Ruck (33) 1636 posts |
After seeing this topic and your previous one on floppies, I suspect what you actually need to do is buy yourself a real Risc PC. Emulators do the barest minium to allow most software to work, they are not complete simulations of actual hardware. |
-Micky (10269) 143 posts |
Good, idea. I’m not really a fan of emulators. But did you see the prices for RiscOS PC’s? Except the Raspberry Pi. Micky |
Alan Adams (2486) 1149 posts |
To clear up some confusion here. A Risc PC is a specific model of RISC OS computer, the last one produced commercially by Acorn. A Raspberry pi is one of many computers that can run RISC OS. The Risc PC (usually abbreviated to RPC) had a case that could be expended upwards by adding slices, a built-in floppy drive and internal hard drive. The processor is a plug-in module, which could be ARM6, ARM7 or StrongARM. If you’re buying one, look for StrongARM. It had a podule connector which allowed one or two expension podules to be installed. {Podules are hardware boards that also contain ROMs for their drivers.) There isn’t a built-in ethernet connector, that’s on one of a range of podules. The additional slices could hold up to 2 additional storage devices, and provided space, with a backplane expander, for two additional podules. They were shipped initially with RO3 installed, later with RO4.02. There is a version of RO5 for them. VirtualRPC and RPCemu emulate the RPC operating environment. |
Frederick Bambrough (1372) 837 posts |
ROS 4.02 wasn’t an Acorn product and didn’t ship with Risc PCs. 3.7 was the last public release I think. |