!Cretin

Can anyone update !Cretin to work on my PandaboardES? I would do it if I knew what to do. It ran OK on my Pi but I’ve moved on to the PB ES. !Cretin is here: http://jymbob.drobe.co.uk/cretin.html

I use LIRC with aemolor , works very good. But more often I use Nettle and a shell account running irc in a screen.
On ARMX6 and mystic new hardware.

We really need to get #riscos going . Would be extremely useful for me as a developer to be able to realtime chat with some people here.

I am “micken” or “mickenx” at ircnet/efnet/freenode.

I use LIRC without aemulor. Where should we all hang out on #riscos?

I guess ircnet is the classical place for #riscos and before #acorn

Ok looks like concensus on freenode!

so go ahead join #riscos on freenode.

Yes, I’d like to try Cretin, but, on my BBxM, it crashes immediately on startup, regardless of the state of alignment exception handling. Is that what you see on the Pandaboard?

The crash dump doesn’t contain much info and appears in a non-multi-tasking window, so I don’t know how to post or forward it short of writing it down and then copy-typing – that’s if anyone is interested.

chat.freenode.net – ports 6665, 6666, 8000.

Kicks me off using lIRC, tells me I need SASL to identify myself…

Have you tried irc.freenode.net port 6667 with your favourite client?

!Cretin fails instantly on my Pi Zero in the same way.
I tried building it from SVN, but the build freaked out about a lot of worrying things like BOOL and some various IRC functions.

I had another look, this time on PC. What’s causing build to fail for me now is a missing subdirectory called “clovur” which contained “Swi.h, String.h, WMisc.h”. Unfortunately I can find no mention anywhere. Swi.h doesn’t seem to be substituted too well with swis.h. The code also has string.h included so it must have different functionality. No idea about the last one.

e: They are in the zip. Still can’t get it to compile yet.

Does #riscos still exist? Or has ChatCube replaced this?

Does #riscos still exist? Or has ChatCube replaced this?

Just tried connecting to it with !Cretin. It’s still there on ircnet.

Yes #riscos still exists and right now should be ##riscos on freenode (note the double ##).

Also, just as a note, it works fine on GrapeVine which is also in offer on !Store, JFYI.

Ah, I tried connecting to #riscos on freenode earlier, I didn’t know it needed double ##

I’ve spent a few hours today trying to compile Cretin on a Pi400.
I’ve hit the same brick wall as @Tristin M.

Admittedly I’m not the most advanced c programmer, is anyone here up for a challenge?

I don’t mind spending a little time trying. Who’s got the nearest to a working set of files, or should I start from the drobe set?

Erm, OK, I can’t access anything from the original link.

Looks like the original site has gone.
I’ve uploaded the latest source archive that used to be on the site Here

There is another version on the riscos.info SVN server, but it’s missing some files. SVN or Direct Download

Right, I’m back-pedalling rapidly.

It turns out that I already had the source for 0.20b. I’ve just looked at the Makefile, and it references GCC, Desklib and Lua. So, no, sorry.

Thanks for taking a look Dave!

Anyone else up for it?

IRC is still a thing? I may have to dust off the Torque sources.

IRC is still a thing?

Certainly is! I use it daily with an IRC to Discord bridge.

Version 0.25b of Cretin can be downloaded from here.

If you set the server to irc.libera.chat:6667 you can join #riscos with /join #riscos.

Oh Wow! Thanks Chris!
I’ll try this out this afternoon.

Cor, it’s been a while – about 5800 days apparently.

Those svn files look fairly up to date with what I remember. Assuming the harddisc is still good, I should be able to spin up the Iyonix with my old build environment on it and check for the relevant files at some point in the next month. Don’t expect much – this was my first and only foray into Lua when I took over as maintainer.

I haven’t been around RISC OS for a good while, but very pleased to hear Cretin is still running!