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Surface Tablets with ARM Processors - The Future of RISC OS? |
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alasdair (13:12 19/6/2012)
nunfetishist (13:21 19/6/2012)
bhtooefr (20:35 19/6/2012)
nunfetishist (13:38 20/6/2012)
alasdair (10:39 21/6/2012)
monkeyson2 (14:56 19/6/2012)
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Alasdair Bailey |
Message #120638, posted by alasdair at 13:12, 19/6/2012 |
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Anyone care to speculate about how easy/difficult it would be to get one of these to run RISC OS?
I guess that in reality the only commonality with a regular Acorn-esque system is the processor. Presumably all of the rest of the chipset's core components like memory controller, graphics, sound etc are standard PC type components but worth a bit of investigation I guess...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18503772 |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #120639, posted by nunfetishist at 13:21, 19/6/2012, in reply to message #120638 |
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Are you a troll?  RISC OS is totally unsuitable for touch-screen devices, and only very unsuitable for battery-powered devices.
But in any case, my bet would be "incredibly difficult". Unlike PCs where Windows 8 requires chained signatures from BIOS to OS to be enabled by default but allows the user to disable it, no such provision is made for Windows RT. So unless you can get Microsoft to sign your binary (unlikely), you're shit out of luck.
Not to mention that there's absolutely no details what-so-ever about what the CPU and hardware are. |
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Phil Mellor |
Message #120640, posted by monkeyson2 at 14:56, 19/6/2012, in reply to message #120638 |
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You could slap Virtual Acorn on the Intel version. |
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Eric Rucker |
Message #120645, posted by bhtooefr at 20:35, 19/6/2012, in reply to message #120639 |
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Actually, Microsoft is allowing OS developers to use their signing key, IIRC for a $99 fee.
Still, that doesn't solve any of the other problems. |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #120651, posted by nunfetishist at 13:38, 20/6/2012, in reply to message #120645 |
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Actually, Microsoft is allowing OS developers to use their signing key, IIRC for a $99 fee. Only for x86 systems, AFAICT. |
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Alasdair Bailey |
Message #120654, posted by alasdair at 10:39, 21/6/2012, in reply to message #120639 |
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Are you a troll? RISC OS is totally unsuitable for touch-screen devices, and only very unsuitable for battery-powered devices.
But in any case, my bet would be "incredibly difficult". Unlike PCs where Windows 8 requires chained signatures from BIOS to OS to be enabled by default but allows the user to disable it, no such provision is made for Windows RT. So unless you can get Microsoft to sign your binary (unlikely), you're shit out of luck.
Not to mention that there's absolutely no details what-so-ever about what the CPU and hardware are. Troll, no, just prompting some debate
Have been using Virtual Acorn on and off on my PCs over the years since moving to the dark side.
In truth, I still have a little play with this from time to time - http://www.acornarcade.com/forums/viewthread.php?newsid=1017
Some guys approached me about the idea de-compiling and re-writing for Windows a few years back but heard nothing back from them since. The author died way back so the source is probably lost :-( |
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