Re: [ARMini-support] Acorn Mode now on download site for testing

  • From: Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:48:11 +0100

In message <e8d421ab52.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following bytes were arranged on 4 Jul 2012 by A Rawnsley :

>> I've just uploaded an 11Mb zip to the website for you to download.  It
>> contains the first (test?) release of !AcornMode.  I'll leave it to
>> your imagination what it does, but several complete (unmodified)
>> Krisalis games are included for old times' sake.

> HostFS seems not to be usefully functional.  I can confirm that both
> *Create and *Access are broken, for example (the former returns a "Not
> found" error and the latter simply does nothing).  As *Create - or
> OS_File 7 - is run as part of the boot sequence (in !Scrap.!RunImage, to
> be precise), this means the emulator cannot boot.

!Boots here and runs OK

> I also couldn't get the "pressing both Windows keys" trick to work.  In
> fact, a bit of fiddling with OS_Byte 121 confirms that the left Windows
> key returns a value of 125, but the right one does nothing at all!  This
> is a Microsoft keyboard supplied by R-Comp with the ARMini, and the key
> I assume to be the right Windows key (next to the menu key) isn't
> actually marked with the Windows logo.  I don't have HID loaded.  Might
> want to think up a new shortcut before releasing this!

Again works OK here using a Logitech keyboard, I was able to get the 
options up and change and re entre the emulator.

Doug

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