On 21-03-2014, at 3:40 AM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
>     Speaking of RISC OS, I'd appreciate some fresh and definitive
> pointers for best running it in emulation (e.g., [1] still leaves too
> much research to the reader). It's a bit of a muddle from what I can
> see, given that the project is so heavily forked and so much old -- er,
> "classic" -- hardware is involved. I have separate hardware that runs
> one of the forks (a Raspberry Pi), but I have all the other host
> platforms running on a single laptop. That has been qualitatively more
> productive.
> 

There’s VirtualAcorn and RPCEmu and I suppose ArcEm. Honetly, none of them are particularly easy to get on with. VirtualAcorn costs quite a bit. RPCEmu is at least under development still (latest version last october) but you have the ‘fun’ of finding a rom image - and then working out which version you want and what to do with it. The Pi route is far and away the easiest to handle. 
Obviously, there is the problem of is requiring a separate display; but I think there is a !VNC application that can help. The ‘good’ place to find out is the ROOL forums at https://www.riscosopen.org/content/ and specifically the RPCEmu forum for a non-Pi approach. I did actually get some version or other working on a iMac a year or so ago but it didn’t really work out for me. Since I have multiple monitors it’s easy enough to have the pi hooked up to one and wiggle the switch-source switch.


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