Acorn Replay

I haven’t encountered RISC OS versions of the Escape 122/124/130 codecs for use with !ARMovie, but I would be interested to know if those existed or if it was originally Windows/Mac only.

We had the Eidos codecs (and the whole Escape video editor) running on RISC OS Java with impressive performance. I’m unaware of any codecs existing natively for RISC OS – at the time, Stephen Streater considered the future as Java.

Wow! Piers, I always wondered how well the RISC OS Java implementation worked – pretty well it seems in this instance !

and then looking at those Eidos archived Escape video editor pages and feel such a missed opportunity for back porting etc… but no point worrying about missed opportunities… this is RISC OS now and what it can do lately is pretty amazing for a hobby status OS.

It worked quite well. We had Word Perfect running, too.

Shame both projects disappeared.

Which WordPerfect? The full screen one (5.1) that was the reference word processor for DOS (excepting those who will die on the hill marked WordStar), or the lacklustre Windows remake that all but ended the firm’s dominance?

If yes there is a windows replay player can you tell me where to get from and what version of windows it is known to work on.

The player readme means NT or W95/98.
If I start the player in Win11, it tells me he need 16bit color depth. I can not change the settigs because is my business Computer administrated by the Organisation I work for.

Which WordPerfect? The full screen one (5.1) that was the reference word processor for DOS (excepting those who will die on the hill marked WordStar), or the lacklustre Windows remake that all but ended the firm’s dominance?

WordPerfect for Java. It never got a full release, but Acorn (presumably via Oracle) got given a preview to test with.

The full screen one (5.1) that was the reference word processor for DOS (excepting those who will die on the hill marked WordStar), or the lacklustre Windows remake that all but ended the firm’s dominance?

Oh, that
“Lacklustre” doesn’t cover it. We had a set of WP5.1 users that started upgrading and reverted after 5 or 6 installations.
Talking to several local suppliers of things IT, every customer they had either tested and refused to upgrade or reverted from an upgrade they had done.

Wordstar – file format was fairly simple, so knocking up a converter for Olivetti word processor to WS6 only took an evening (then two more converting it to GW BASIC)

WordPerfect for Java. It never got a full release, but Acorn (presumably via Oracle) got given a preview to test with.

I think it would have been Sun Java at the time, Oracle didn’t buy Sun until 2010.

Yes – but Oracle were heavily touting Java as the solution for a heterogeneous NC environment and presumably ISVs were trying to get their software, such as WP, into the NC ecosystem and were pushing it to Oracle to get NC vendors to test it.

I think it would have been Sun Java at the time, Oracle didn’t buy Sun until 2010.

Of course it was Sun Java – I didn’t say otherwise. I said Oracle (presumably) gave Acorn the preview of WordPerfect.

Sun had probably never heard of Acorn in 1997.

Sun had probably never heard of Acorn in 1997.

Acorn licenced various technologies from Sun for Risc iX if I recall correctly

Hey Raik – success !

I managed to create a replay file from Cineworks (imported some existing test replay files).
I then converted this replay file to MPEG using your updated/recompiled MakeMPEG program.

doubled clicked on the MPEG and it would not play …. but….
If I restarted the Pi and did not let the filer see the Mpeg / Replay apps (ie I moved the MPEG output to another folder) then KinoAMP would fire up and play the converted MPEG.

This was on a RPI4b 4GB with RO5.31H.

I then copied the MPEGs to my PC and played the files on VLC.

Did not test sound and but that may be the next experiment – happy with video at the moment.

Mmm.. might have to rebuild that RPC with 586 PC card and Windows 95 (maybe go for 98) so can fire up that old version of Microstation
and finally generate that 3D movie building flythrough I was trying to do all those years ago….
If I do get this done I may well post back on here in General/Aldershot… but don’t hold your breath
- RPC is in bits and the microstation install and files rely on the SCSI drive still to be working.. etc

Mmm.. might have to rebuild that RPC with 586 PC card and Windows 95 (maybe go for 98) so can fire up that old version of Microstation
and finally generate that 3D movie building flythrough I was trying to do all those years ago….
If I do get this done I may well post back on here in General/Aldershot… but don’t hold your breath
- RPC is in bits and the microstation install and files rely on the SCSI drive still to be working.. etcBut thanks for making it a possibility !

no sure why last 4 lines repeat – have tried to edit it but when editing it only shows it once

I have play around with Cineworks but Replay is not my main interest.
I need something vor mpeg, mp4…
Since a long time I work on my VideoED but it is a “never ending project”. A lot of ideas but my limitations in programming are to big. BatchFF, RiscFF, YTPlay are “sitesteps”.
The main things in VideoED are working but the details …

mmm… is VideoED in a shareable state? Do you intend to release it or is it for your own use?
The screengrab looks pretty good.

A bit of all ;-)
Is for my own use at first. Is a ffmpeg frontend and I try to support the things I need. I use it to cut my SAT recording stuff, for my youtube channel and my private stuff. But is not comparable with professional software.
If anyone it find useful, I can share… more or less. I should “clean up” any things before.