5.23 Pi Aemulor
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
Does Aemulor not work on 5.23? Getting some out of bounds errors. |
John Sandgrounder (1650) 574 posts |
I have Aemulor working very well on three Pi systems running 5.23. (one early Pi Model B, one B+ and one original Pi 2 – with old CPU). It may be your hardware if you have a P3 or one of the second generation Pi 2 boards with the new CPU. I have heard that there may be a problem with these new CPUs. Which board do you have? |
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
Pi 2B v1.1 now with an RTC via CJE |
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
However I also have 2 Pi 1s – I assume with RISC OS there’s no real need to run a Pi2/3 than a Pi1 given RISC OS barely uses the resources it has access to? |
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
Right I’ve stuck my SD card into a Pi1 along with the RTC module and it seems to be working much better now. Need to reregister Aemulor, but it seems to have solved the problem. I can now access ARM v5 mode in CPU as well. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3135 posts |
We don’t use the extra cores, but I for one use the extra memory. Whee! A Gigabyte of RAM to play with… |
Steffen Huber (91) 1945 posts |
While RISC OS does not use the additional three cores provided by Pi2/Pi3, it still runs a lot faster thanks to the one CPU core that is much faster (not only clocked faster, but faster per MHz). Pi3 more so than Pi2. Benchmarks suggest that the RAM got a lot faster, too. So if you want compatibility, use RPi1. If you want speed, use RPi3. If you want a little of both, use RPi2 :-) Things are now more complicated since the bastardised RPi2 with Cortex-A53 came to life… |
John Sandgrounder (1650) 574 posts |
Yes. A huge RAM disc can really speed up applications needing continual file accesses. Just save things to a regular disc at intervals. |
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
Still my physical RISC PC only has 50MB of RAM, and with a 15MB RAM disc I can do everything I need to. VirtualRiscPC-SAAdj only has a max of 64MB and I can do anything with that. Even with 6.20 softloaded on top! Have 500MB of RAM is just overkill for RISC OS! Although I’m using RISC OS more day to day since I rediscovered my Pi, I still use Windows 10 as my primary everything machine. For remote access to work, for Internet time wasting, games and as a media player (I have an 8TB NAS!) I’ve found 5.2x to be useless without Aemulor the past 24 hours. I can’t even get !OmniClient to work, although I have the 32bit version via ROOL the Access module is 26-bit only! I have spoken to Neil Spellings today and he is aware that the MAC Address utility will not extract from the version online. I used a version that Chris Evan’s hosts to get the ID change. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7955 posts |
Are you sure you haven’t imported a 26 bit version of OmniClient rather than just using the version in the ROM/HardDisc from ROOL? I can’t recall anyone having raised any issues with incompatible modules in the 5.xx builds never mind the more recent 5.2x |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3135 posts |
Nice for you. My RISC PCs had 66MB of RAM, which was amazing when I first had them, but by the end I was swapping stuff on and off hard disc like crazy. My original Pi had 256MB, which was a vast improvement; the Pi3 is wonderful… |
Sprow (202) 1120 posts |
I’ve found 5.2x to be useless without Aemulor the past 24 hours. I can’t even get !OmniClient to work, although I have the 32bit version via ROOL the Access module is 26-bit only! Omni’s Access protocol module was only re-added to the disc image in May so if Matt’s starting from a Pi RC15, which predates that, then there’s no OmniAccess in there, or if there is it’s not 32 bit compatible. |
Matt Price (2343) 71 posts |
I figured that out earlier today and got a copy of OmniAccess! I’ve gone back to 5.21 as I assume the high vector support is what has killed Aemulor. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7955 posts |
Yes, but if you have a recent Pi2 or a Pi3 the processor has a change that could also break things. |