!65Host

on modern HW for the retro feeling of BBC BASIC, as they are familiar with the BBC Micro, having something working like 65Host would be a greate aid.

Why not set RISC OS to boot up and directly enter BASIC (instead of the Desktop), and set it to start up in MODE 7? [edit: damn, Stuart got in just before me!]

*Configure Language to point to BASIC.
*Configure Mode 7
*Configure WimpMode 7
*Configure NoBoot

The two modes are because I think WimpMode and Mode are aliases of each other these days, but just in case…
And the noboot is to stop the machine automatically booting, landing you instead at something like:

RISC OS 5.2x 986MB

BCM2xxx processor

BASIC V with a billion bytes free

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And why not hobble yourself further by doing something like END=PAGE+16*1024 ? ;-)

Edit: I can edit that bit out !

END=PAGE+16*1024 ? ;-)

Dammit, that’s the second mouthful of tea. And in the same thread too!

:-) :-) :-)

Question: How much of the 16K do you need to fill with some sort of padding to simulate the real working RAM for a program?

The current End User version of FireFox refuses to load pages that are not “Secure”, that is on an encrypted https connection.

I’m using Firefox 85.0.2 on a Windows 10 laptop currently, and that will load pages from http-only sites quite happily.

Just speaking the truth. The current End User version of Firefox refuses to load pages that are not “Secure”, that is on an encrypted https connection.

No.
What current Firefox does is:

1. Opens an HTTP page as requested or
2. Opens an HTTPS page with a properly matching valid certificate

What current Firefox, with “HTTPS Only” enabled does is warn you when there is no valid HTTPS page and offer to take you to the HTTP page instead if you click the offered icon
That HTTPS Only option is not a default. I use it at home for diagnostic reasons¹ with very few instances of problems. At work, I also use it for diagnostic purposes and, since these are frequently medial supplier sites a clinician has experienced a problem with I get to see how sloppy supposedly profession web maintainers can be.

So, if you’re seeing a big yellow rimmed warning page then, locally, you can check the “Advanced” option and investigate the problem.
You could also put any public HTTPS URL into the SSL Labs scanner which will give you a full diagnosis of how good, bad or abysmal² the SSL/TLS setup of the site is.

¹ I’d really rather prefer that RO developers spend time developing than chasing niggly web problems that probably ought to be fixed by their ISP

You could also put any public HTTPS URL into the SSL Labs scanner which will give you a full diagnosis of how good, bad or abysmal2 the SSL/TLS setup of the site is.

Just as a quick example of bad practice in places you’d expect better https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=acaai.org

Yes, that’s SSL3 active…

This qualifies as a “bad”, I have a few notes on abysmal somewhere…