RPCEmu 0.9.4

For a good cause

The good cause

While the new version of RPCEmu is faster on x86 and x86_64 it’s about 10% slower on arm32 and arm64 compared to 0.9.3.

Sadly (for me) the emulator no longer works on XP. Oh well…

And Phoebe now starts up on 0.9.4.

Sadly (for me) the emulator no longer works on XP. Oh well…

Alas, time marches on, and Qt no longer supports XP.

You could run a Windows 7 client in VirtualBox (up to 5.2) on your XP host system and run RPCEmu in there, resources permitting… Have a freebie for “IE testing” at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

RPCemu seems to work better for me in Linux VMs than on Windows. I have a Linux VM with a RPCemu instance that I spin up for occasional testing on RO 4.39.

Annoyingly, I happened upon my RISC OS SIX CD a few days ago. Can I find it now? No chance :-(

Also is it still possible to build for DOS? I seem to remember that some of the early versions ran on DOS.

RPCEmu 0.7 was available as DOS port: http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/download.html

The library handling video and sound and input up to and including RPCEmu 0.8.15 was Allegro, which had a DOS version. Since RPCEmu 0.9.0, Qt is used, so porting RPCEmu to DOS would be quite a bit of work.