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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-05-12 11:29:18
not a mac but i managed to aquire a acron risc pc
it will arrive wendsday
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-05-12 12:51:20
Cool. RISC OS is still being developed, I think.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-05-12 13:05:22
they are at version 5 or 6 now i think
but each new version has a new company behind it
right now il be glad if i can locate risc os 4 it has risc os 3.8
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Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-05-12 13:23:29
Super-deeee-duper!
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-05-12 13:28:19
right now il be glad if i can locate risc os 4 it has risc os 3.8 I think to upgrade these you need actual ROMs though, as opposed to just being able to find the OS online somewhere - I have RiscOS 4.39 ROM images for use with the Virtual Acorn emulator but as far as I know there's no way to flash them to the existing ROMs. Buying RiscOS 4 ROMs is quite an expensive business, not really worth it for a free machine 🙁 Do you know which model of RiscPC it is? They are cool machines; I found a RiscPC 700 with a PC card and a load of manuals/discs on Freecycle a while back.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-05-12 13:40:14
i know you need to remove the physical rom chips to upgrade a risc pc
it wasnt exactly free but not exactly expensive either ( 50 )
upgrading to 4 will mak thing easier but first i need to find somebody who sells them
its a risc pc 700 if i recall correctly
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-05-12 13:49:57
You can get them direct from RiscOS Ltd but they're extremely expensive. I saw a set on eBay once which is what I was thinking of when I said they're quite expensive, as I think they got bid quite high.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2007-05-12 17:30:38
Nice find. I haven't used my RISC PC in a while so I think it is time that I dig it out again!
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-05-12 18:33:26
Here are the RISC OS 6 pages
http://select.riscos.com/RISCOS6/index.html
And it is now downloadable, but you have to pay a subscription fee to help further development to get it.
You can also get an open source version of RISC OS 5 here
http://www.riscosopen.org/content/
Be prepared, though. It's like installing Linux used to be before more noob friendly versions like Ubuntu started appearing.
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