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Hi All, From what version(s) of RISC OS will Wimp_TextOp with R0=3 work? It's not mentioned in my PRMs, but the StrongHelp manuals say it should be from version 4.00 (which I take to include 5.00). However, I've just received a bug report which seems to indicate (Bad reason code) that it doesn't work on RISC OS 4.02 :-( Any ideas? Adam -- Adam Richardson Carpe Diem http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/

Hi.
The subject line pretty much says it all I'd like to be able to use the graphics accelerator in the Iyonix, and OpenGL seems to be a good way for that.
I've come across the IyonixMesa site (http://www.simonrules.com/iyonixmesa/); however, I haven't got any of the prebuilt example programs to run on my Iyonix (which has the nVidia FX5200 graphics card, shipped with newer Iyonixes), and I read in some thread I came accross that the library might need to be updated, to work .... read more

Hello.
I'm curious about the SK4 and SK5 connectors found on the A3000 motherboards.
The small one is Econet as it's stamped on the PCB, but what is the other long one about ? Where could I get some documentations and sources to know how I could send/receive datas through these sockets.
I'm still investigating how I could link a FPGA based 'all in one' computer to our machines to make use of its features from the ARM based machines side, without using the serial, parallel, or.... read more

I am getting reports that some users on Demon cannot see either the Show website or club site, yet others on Demon can.
Other other users on Other ISP's etc having this problem.
-- Chris Hughes

I'm attempting to get Quake online so I can play against others from my Risc OS machine. The IPX and IP options in the Multiplayer menu cannot be used, do I have to configure something or the Risc OS version does not enable those options? If all is successful, who wants a game online?

Is the GCC SDK mailing list off-line ? Posts are not getting through.
John Kortink -- Email : kortink@inter.nl.net Homepage : http://www.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink

R-Comp wrote: [snip] [snip] Why would you want UniPrint on VRPC? What does it do that vanilla VRPC doesn't? Adam

Just got a Pen drive for my Christmas, model Disgo Lite 250MB what will not work with MassFS as any one else had this problem with this type of storage. So I thought I would let the group no to put on there not work list.
Mick.
-- Mick Martin, to email me Remove, warez.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mmartin/fifepits/

Is there any docmentation on the contents of the Printers.Settings file available without charge? I can't see any reference to it in the RO3 PRM, and Google gives 1 hit which is no help.
Dave

I run InterGIF on Red Squirrel, RO 3.7 (amongst other setups). I'm sure it used to work but now when I use the 26 bit version I get a No main program error closely followed by Internal error: error variable not set when I try and save the converted GIF. Changing to the 32 bit version cures this but I'm interested as to what the difference is and any underlying problems I've uncovered. Posted to csa.programmer as I'm not sure how interesting the answer is going to be to user.... read more

Anyone else having trouble (on their RISC OS machines!) with old UKGateway addresses? Tiscali seems to continue to work.
John -- John Williams, Brittany, Northern France - no attachments to these addresses! Non-RISC OS posters change user to johnrwilliams or put 'risc' in subject! Who is John Williams? http://petit.four.free.fr/picindex/author/

Hi Guys, Another little query, I have the Igor Telnet Server but I was wondering if there was a way to make this run out of the desktop / another telnet server which doesn't need the Desktop to run? Also is there an FTP Server for RISC OS?# Cheers in advance!

Wakefield turned up a few surprises personally.
On arriving you were handed a free copy of Qercus and it has an article on interactive fiction. A series of other games articles are planned. Looks worthwhile a subscription if it holds up to this.
Cheque should be in the post I hope.
Also on SoftRock software I noticed a new text game called Quicksand.
It seemed quite colourful and had photographs for pictures. Did anybody ask Vince how he got them? What I think was Tube or M128 Elite was playing .... read more

Has anyone managed to run one of the latest versions of Netsurf on an Iyonix? It locks mine solid (reset needed) as is starts up and fills its stderr file with 3.5 Mb of assorted data from the HD.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=464312&aid=1170005&group_id=51719 There have been two further releases since I reported the problem so I wonder whether there is something special about my Iyonix or, perhaps the developers are using RiscPCs. Arthur -- .... read more

Now that - at least from Mozilla's POV - HTML 5 video means the Ogg Theora codec, what are the chances of getting support for the playback of Ogg Theora videos in RISC OS? If not from within a browser, then perhaps a separate app? -- | /| ark Fraser /mfraser@ukgateway.net | / | Somerset /Using Knode on Kubuntu 7.10 | |___________/You know what the sig means!

Often when plotting text into a box I use a transparent icon as a frame.
This enables me to get a quick R2-style border and also means I can just read the icon coords to get the bounding limits for the text.
This has never caused a problem until the other day, when I found that one icon out of four in a window appeared to be opaque to plotting.
Wimp_UpdateWindow always returned zero in R0 which suggested that redraw was disabled for that particular area of the window. I spent some time puzzling .... read more

As already discussed, we have an ionyx on the network running Messenger Pro with Hermes.
We are having some problems with timeouts when deleting emails after downloading them.
Here is the mailserver log of the transaction: 10:02:22-{821} START POP3 10:02:22-Requested POP3 connection from 81.104.195.141 [81.104.195.141], ID=821 10:02:22-(821) +OK ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP 10:02:22-(821) USER 10:02:22-(821) +OK Password required for 10:02:22-(821) PASS 10:02:23-(821) +OK Mailbox l.... read more

I wonder whether anyone can tell me whether StrongARM compatible versions of the following educational titles from 4mation were ever produced: A mouse in Holland Explore with Flossy the Frog Neither of these runs on our StrongARM Risc PC (RISC OS 4.02). We've tried also under Aemulor Pro on the Iyonix: Flossy the Frog works but A Mouse in Holland does not.
With both pieces of software an order form is enclosed for an enhanced version (with higher resolution graphics), so what we have is the.... read more

Updated the server with the latest changes to moriawip.zip & devtools.zip...
http://www.garethlock.com/acorn/moriawip.zip http://www.garethlock.com/acorn/devtools.zip Will probably zip up and stick the original C source and files here too before ROUGOL in 9 days time.

What I would like to know is whether it is possible to get music from tapes, old records, singing or playing instruments into the machine so that I can put it on to CDs. I have a SARPC and a CD writer.
I imagine it is possible but I find all that I read about MIDI, MP3, WAV, Real Audio etc assumes knowledge about these things which I do not have.
I have the means of creating the sound, fiddle, mandolin, bagpipes, accordion, harmonium, piano etc and can record onto tape. The question is what fo.... read more

I just want to receive an email, if I know the sender. This should be filtered directly by the pop-3-server. Means if the sender isn't known by the system, the email should be erased immidiatelly. Is there a way to do this under RISC OS? Alexander Ausserstorfer

Does anyone know of an application that will deal with these? Alternatively, can the filetype be changed to something standard (GIF, TIFF, JPEG etc) that can be handled by one of our graphics apps? Cheers George --

Right.
I've been out of the Acorn circuit about .. 10 years? (Unix took over..) But I was cleaning up and found that I still have 4 Acorns. One of them is an A4, but when I switch it on, it only gives me the Supervisor prompt (*).
Any idea what my next steps should be to see if I can bring some sort of life back into it? If nothing else, it will still occupy a space in the history of computing section with my BBC B, RiscPC and A3010..
Any help appreciated.
Cheers, Tor

Roger Darlington suggested elsewhere (Iyonix list) that there were problems of speed of transfer using the NSLU2 link. The instruction card makes it clear that its formatting is NOT compatible with Windows and you cannot swap USB hard disk drives between Windows systems and NSLs. If that's what Roger has done then the criticisms would appear to be invalid.
Much rushing yesterday meant that we attempted to use an improperly set-up LSLU2 to demonstrate some networking at RONWUG and had to reve.... read more

Does anyone know the correct contact email address for Qercus? info (at) finnybank.com is bouncing, saying that the quota has been exceeded - and the contact us link on the website gives a page not found error. :-( -- Paul Vigay __|//__ Life, (` o-o ') the Universe --- http://www.vigay.com --------ooO-(_)-Ooo---------- & Everything -------- Usenet replies: To email me visit domain in sig and use 'feedback.... read more

An issue was brought to my attention: An A9 user had removed these RMEnsure lines from SpamStamps !Run file: RMEnsure UtilityModule 5.00 RMEnsure CallASWI 0.03 n RMLoad System:Modules.CallASWI RMEnsure UtilityModule 5.00 RMEnsure CallASWI 0.03 n Error You need CallASWI 0.03 or later.
CallASWI did not work on the A9 and was, apparantly, not needed.
(Of course subsequently failing when this version was run on a RiscPC...) I investigated a bit, but could not really come to a conclusion.
I found 2.... read more

I have a collegue in a large company who wishes to connect his A7000+ (RO4.-something) to the company intranet, maybe 200-odd other computers on the net, all PCs running Win 2000 afaik.
He needs to exchange data with a couple of other computers and make some selected directories on his A7000+ visible to other users.
What sort of hardware/software would he need? Thanks, PS: We are already buying a number of copies of LanMan98 to install a little private network of A7000's into .... read more

I could try to justify why I have the current set-up but it's a long story. Suffice to say: My main working machine is an expanded RPCSA. This is connected through a BT line on a dial-up account with Demon which I've had for 8 years. SO long infact that when I once rang up to speak to demon about somnething I told them I didn't have a password. Oh, that's right, said the woman, they didn't have them when you joined. I keep this account for two reasons: 1. The computer seems t.... read more

DO NOT REFORMAT THIS POSTING A few days before Christmas my router, the commonly used 'PTI' model PAE-CE84 from DABS, stopped accessing the WAN via the ADSL connection, though the LAN, comprising 3 computers and a Wireless Access Point, was apparently not affected. Operation of all the indicator LEDs was normal.
I found I was unable to gain access to the internal web server to check the router's settings, even after manually resetting the router to the factory defaults, though the d.... read more

Although a total RISC OS fan and user of well over twenty years, (if you count BBC 'B's as well), I apologise straight away here, because my query is not RISC OS based. However, I thought some of you might enjoy assisting me - either to correct my own technical ignorance, or to help me get some sense out of my local council.
To explain: I am chairman of our local parish council, (and have persuaded our council to have its website hosted by Orpheus Internet naturally!). Each month my loca.... read more

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