Prophet on floppy, but no floppy drive..

Hi all,

I have a bought, boxed copy of Prophet from Apricote Studios. I believe it to be version 1.34 (or at least close to that) as that’s what’s featured on the manual.

I rather fancy giving it a whirl and investigating its usefulness for some business ideas. The problem I have is my RPC is long since sold and I now only have a RPi. What are my options in getting hold of copy that I can copy to my RPi? Would someone be willing to email me an archive if I send them clear proof of my ownership first of all?

Many thanks in advance

AIUI you need a much later version to work on an Iyonix or later. Whilst it is written in BASIC it is crunched and wrapped in a machine code loader that is not 32 bit compatible. Then there is a bit of copy protection which can be got round with difficulty… :-(

Wasn’t Aemulor the universal remedy to run older software on Raspberry Pi? Correct me please if I’m wrong.

I think the problem is that there is nowhere obvious to insert the floppy disc. With copy protection on the disc it is not simple to make an image of the disc for ADFFS or for a pen drive or CD (which the Pi could read and which would work under Aemulor). Probably you will need to purchase an update to the latest version but that depends on whether it is still available.

Updates have not been available for some years:-( We have a second hand but latest version in stock, which we can supply electronically, IIRC it is an unnamed copy so will install on to any media. But it isn’t cheap. http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/newprodpages/prodinfo.php?prodcode=APR-PROP3PMSH

I see we are still listing new copies and upgrades on our web site, I’ll get them removed.

Thank you the thoughts and advice. Might need to rethink the idea! With the RISC OS London show and its charity stall coming up, that might be a better destination for the software. Ah well!