If you are a MacOS user, you have probably heard of
MacPorts (unless you are a Howebrew fan).
RISC OS users have a similarly named website at
http://www.riscosports.co.uk This site has a good collection of software including lot of
Emulators for classic consoles and machines, Games, and a selection of
downloads.
There are also some programs compiled with
VFP support, including Quake, POVRay and MuView.
You will also find
Raspberry Pi specific items including Khronos.
Finally there are some fun little
OpenGL examples and some useful resources.
Some of the software is older release (ie Vice) but the site is still being update in 2018 and there is plenty of interest to download and try.
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levi (16:29 27/7/2018)
hubersn (16:13 28/7/2018)
levi (21:29 28/7/2018)
jimnagel (13:17 16/10/2018)
hubersn (15:42 16/10/2018)
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Levi Levinson |
Message #124314, posted by levi at 16:29, 27/7/2018 |
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This is a very good move. I remember when I first discovered Dave McEwan's emulator page was no more, and a lot of the old freeserve or demon TAM month pages have gone the same way.
It's also very good that all of the zip files are locally hosted (not sparkplug archives any more, but I guess zips are easier if you're unzipping from a PC or linux onto an SD card for your rPi - though I dunno how that would handle file types and so on).
The only slight downside is that any description beyond the link text and more significantly the original author of these programs are not listed. But at least the executable code is safe for now. |
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Steffen Huber |
Message #124315, posted by hubersn at 16:13, 28/7/2018, in reply to message #124314 |
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The only slight downside is that any description beyond the link text and more significantly the original author of these programs are not listed. But at least the executable code is safe for now.
The big downside however is that none of the downloadable archives I looked at actually contain the source code.
So whenever a new ARM CPU variant hits RISC OS, we are back to either binary patching or waiting for a recompile by the only developer who has the source. |
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Levi Levinson |
Message #124316, posted by levi at 21:29, 28/7/2018, in reply to message #124315 |
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True, but how common was that in app distributions these days? I'm no longer an active risc os user unfortunately (the last time I powered up my RiscPC was to check it all still worked after I removed the leaking CMOS battery), but back when it used to be my main computing system, source usually came in discrete archives, if available at all. |
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Jim Nagel |
Message #124344, posted by jimnagel at 13:17, 16/10/2018, in reply to message #124314 |
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Another mystery: who is the person who set up this very welcome site http://riscosports.co.uk ?
Its home page says "This website groups together some of the things I'm currently working on" but 'twould be good to know who "I" is, if only to thank her or him. |
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Steffen Huber |
Message #124345, posted by hubersn at 15:42, 16/10/2018, in reply to message #124344 |
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Another mystery: who is the person who set up this very welcome site http://riscosports.co.uk ?
Its home page says "This website groups together some of the things I'm currently working on" but 'twould be good to know who "I" is, if only to thank her or him. It's the same site than https://cgransden.co.uk/, so it was done by Chris Gransden, master of the thousand ports. |
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