Re: acorn emulation


Lee wrote:
> Am I right it saying that booting with just the roms is a very basic system
> and the boot folder and all the others are what give it all the other
> apps/tools?

That's right, though 3.10 had Edit, Paint, Draw, Configure, Help, Calc
in ROM. Extra apps (printer drivers etc) came on the support floppies.

>
> An pointers as to how to unzip from with in the emulator.

Get the self-extracting version of Sparkplug from Archiology, and copy
it into the HostFS folder in windows; boot the emulator, set the
filetype to "basic" and you should get an app called !Sparkplug -
shift-dbl-click to open it, shift-dbl-click on !Run and comment out (by
putting a | at the start) the line:
"If <system$path>="" Then Error System Resources could not be found"
(you have adequate resources in ROM already!)

You now have a RISC OS unzipper with which to handle the other stuff
you can download. You can set up a HostFS "drive" pointing to the
download folder, to save copying everything into HostFS before
unzipping.

You'll also need to open a taskwindow (ctrl-F12) and "*configure boot";
in the options there is a tick-box to make the HostFS link bootable.

> I have looked at the VirtualAcorn but im not going to use it enough to make
> it worth buying so will stick with this :)
>
Good luck!

Andrew

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