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#riscos

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Mark Moxon

I've just released !EliteNet, my first #RISCOS application in 30 years.

It allows #Archimedes #Elite to transmit to an #Econet multiplayer scoreboard (see Yoda’s score in the second screenshot, for example).

I’ve loved every minute of this little side project!

Here's the repo: github.com/markmoxon/elite-ove

If you want to see this in action, we’ll be playing multiplayer Elite at the National Museum of Computing’s LAN Party on 7-8 June.

You can find more information about the party here, including ticket details: tnmoc.org/events/econet-lan-pa

See you there!

The !EliteNet application
The Elite scoreboard, showing a score from Yoda, who is playing on an Archimedes
#retrogaming#retrocomputing#tnmoc
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Mark Moxon

Sometimes it's the small projects that are the most enjoyable.

Case in point: this month I'm building !EliteNet, which connects the #Archimedes version of #Elite to the Econet multiplayer scoreboard, so ArcElite players can compete against #BBCMicro players.

I last wrote a RISC OS application in 1995. That's 30 years ago! Turns out that BBC BASIC V is still a great language to code in.

And I've never written a RISC OS relocatable module before, so even now, this old dog is learning new ARM-based tricks.

And… ArcElite! ❤️

I absolutely love this hobby.

Archimedes Elite
The Elite scoreboard
#retrogaming#retrocomputing#riscos
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Willard Goosey

Last RISC OS icon I created (I think ..)

This is for ungzip, which does just that. Gavin Wraith's drag-and-drop WIMP wrapper (stick) that runs a trivial perl script that calls the gzip binary.

This lets me uncompress gzip files from the GUI.

Stick does the magic of making drag-and-drop happen. The perl script converts a RISC OS filename (foo.bar/gz) into a unix style path (foo/bar.gz) and feeds the path to gzip.

RISC OS desktop showing several windows. One has the regular size icon, another has a zoomed version. The icon shows a big red balloon being pumped up with a blue tire pump. The balloon has UN GZIP written on it
#RiscOS#Icons#GZip
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Willard Goosey

This is the first RISC OS icon I made.

I was working with the last MINIX source release for the NE editor, trying to compile it under RISC OS. I got it to compile but it didn't have the binary blobs needed for RISC OS, like the icon...

At this point I was still confused about where NE sits in the Cambridge / IBM E editor's family tree, so I created an icon that mimics IBM's look.

#RiscOS#Icons
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Willard Goosey

RISC OS recreation of an icon I created and used under (Microware) OS-9 for the Tandy CoCo 3.

It's supposed to be a speaker, with a digital signal going in and sound waves coming out.

Sigh, I know, it looks like a flower.

But hey, I discovered how to set pixels to be transparent in !paint !

RISC OS desktop screen. Several windows are open. Relevant ones are a large window with a zoomed in icon and a small actual size icon. The icon is a electric speaker pointing towards the viewer. A red square wave is entering the speaker, and it is emitting sound waves. What it actually looks like is a big gray flower.
#RiscOS#Icons#Paint
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OSNews

The 32bit RISC OS needs to be ported to 64bit to survive, seeks help

RISC OS, the operating system from the United Kingdom originally designed to run on Acorn Computer's Archimedes computers - the first ARM computers - is still actively developed today. Especially since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi, new life was breathed into this ageing operating system, and it

osnews.com/story/142025/the-32

www.osnews.comThe 32bit RISC OS needs to be ported to 64bit to survive, seeks help – OSnews
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Willard Goosey

I never felt any need to design my own icons under Linux, when I never really used GUI file managers or launchers under X11. And there were already a dozen XPMs of any icon you could think of.

I think I've seen archives of extra icons for RISC OS but nothing on the scale of "30,000 SVG icons"

#RiscOS#Icon
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Willard Goosey

Bringing an old hobby to a new home: On the Tandy CoCo 3 I used to draw new icons for the GUI (multivue) for fun.

This is my first "for fun" icon for RISC OS. A manual typewriter. Maybe for a text editor or viewer?

I might try a version with a Selectric golfball or maybe even a daisy wheel...

One neat thing is that the RISC OS icons are the same size as multivue icons: 32*32. Having more than 4 colors is going to take some getting used to.... 😊

Risc OS screenshot. Editing a 256 color icon in the !paint app. Windows on screen include a color selector, tools, a view of the actual icon, and a 8 times zoomed image to actually edit. The icon shows a manual typewriter from the POV of a typer roll of paper held down by a bar, with a black and red ribbon held against it and a spider-like mess of type bars beneath it.
#RiscOS#Icons
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