DaveC
3/12/06 11:11PM |
I thought RISC OS 6 wouldn't work on Virtual RPC? Please which is it?
Anyone, Dave C. |
jms (+1.1)
4/12/06 8:47AM |
RPCEmu != Virtual RPC |
jymbob  (+1.1)
4/12/06 9:51AM |
In reply to jms:
but the article states "ROS 6 Preview was released last month for [...] VirtualAcorn's commercial emulator software VirtualRiscPC-SA", which I too thought was untrue. I believe a few people may have got it working by modding the !Boot in VRPC to softload the newer OS, but AAUI it's not currently working in the same Out-of-box manner as genuine RiscPCs. |
wuerthne (+3.1)
4/12/06 10:09AM |
In reply to jymbob:
What are you basing your statement on? As far as I am aware, RO6-preview runs fine on VRPC-SA as stated in the article, and it works in the same out-of-the-box manner as on other platforms. It does not yet run on VRPC-SE and VRPC-Adjust but that was not claimed above. |
druck (+0.1)
4/12/06 10:29AM |
RISC OS 6 and the mythical Select 4 probably aren't going to work on VRPC SE or Adjust, you'll have to upgrade to the SA version. I'm sure Aaron (wearing his Virtual Acorn rather than director of RISCOS Ltd hat), will be along in a minute to provide details of upgrade pricing. |
VirtualAcorn (+3.6)
4/12/06 12:44PM |
There seems to be some confusion here, with regard to VRPC, as the article correctly says, RISC OS 6 currently works on VRPC-SA and VirtualRPC-AdjustSA. It's not currently supported on VRPC-SE or VRPC-Adjust.
In reply to Druck:
Thanks for the plug  |
druck (-1.0)
4/12/06 1:38PM |
No worries Aaron. Any other conflicts of interest you'd like highlighted? |
DaveC (+2.0)
4/12/06 2:05PM |
Thanks for clearing that up druck and Aaron.
Yes I have VRPC-SE not the SA vesion - my mistake.
Cheers, Dave C. |
apdl (-0.1)
4/12/06 3:22PM |
In reply to druck:
I've been trying to work out what that remark means. Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us all since I expect I'm not alone in being unable to decipher it. |
scl4c0rn (+0.2)
4/12/06 10:34PM |
In reply to apdl:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest>
SCNR  |
rjek (+2.0)
5/12/06 12:42AM |
My understanding is that the RISC OS 6 Preview works just fine on earlier versions of VirtualRiscPC, just as long as you don't use the installer, and install it manually by decompressing the contents of the Zip files within it into the right place. I have not personally tested it, but I've heard of at least two others who have had success by doing this. |
apdl
5/12/06 10:37AM |
In reply to scl4c0rn:
I underastand the meaning of all the individual words, it's the meaning of the sentence that escapes me. |
VirtualAcorn (+5.2)
5/12/06 1:16PM |
In reply to rjek:
RISC OS 6 may work on some earlier versions of VRPC-SE and VRPC-Adjust, but it will only be some versions not all. As such it was decided to say that the preview version doesn't work on non StrongARM VirtualAcorns until the issue can be resolved. Note that the installer has nothing to do with it.
In reply to Druck:
What on earth are you blithering on about? |
highlandcattle (+1.0)
5/12/06 5:02PM |
I think that druck means that it is strange that the preview version doesn't work on earlier VRPC versions (while it does work on real ARM7 machines). So that people will have to upgrade to VRPC SA. |
apdl (+1.0)
5/12/06 6:00PM |
In reply to highlandcattle:
"So that people will have to upgrade to VRPC SA."
Well the only person who seems to have decided that is druck. When did Aaron say that people wiil have to upgrade to the SA versions of VRPC to get RO6 to work?
Conspiracy theories, don't you just love them |
wuerthne (+5.0)
5/12/06 7:47PM |
In reply to druck:
You definitely went over the top. Aaron had no idea that RO6-preview would not work on VRPC-Adjust until I was given a beta copy of RO6-preview to test and could not get it to boot. It was certainly not by design as you seem to imply.
Besides, as far as I know Aaron has never stated that users of earlier versions of VRPC would need to upgrade. Personally, I would either expect a fix for the affected versions of VRPC or for RO6 as soon as the reason for the incompatibility is known. |
arenaman
9/12/06 4:49PM |
What is wrong with Druck's statement? Seems reasonable enough to me. Aaron clearly has a conflict of interest. Whether it has any affect on his various business decisions is a separate matter. |
VirtualAcorn (-0.9)
12/12/06 11:14AM |
In reply to arenaman:
I'll tell you what's wrong with the Druckwits statement. He tries to imply "something", but doesn't actually have the bottle to really say anything. In the meantime upgrades for VirtualRPC-SE and VirtualRPC-Adjust that support RISC OS 6 are now available from the VirtualAcorn website. |
VirtualAcorn (+1.0)
12/12/06 7:50PM |
In reply to Druck:
Yes indeed job done. I feel that I ought to send out my thanks to the testers who have been running RISC OS 6 on VirtualRPC-SE and VirtualRPC-Adjust this over the last couple of weeks and apologise for the delay in fixing the shutdown problem that held up the release of these free upgrades (my fault and my fault alone). |
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