Emulators on RISC OS
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| Developer | RISC OS Open Ltd (current) |
|---|---|
| Type | Computers |
| Earliest release | 1987 |
| Latest release | 2009 (6.20) 2020 (5.28) |
- Software in this article is should work on the latest release of this operating system
RISC OS was an operating system for Acorn's home computers. now supports non Acorn ARM devices.
- RISC OS history
- Arthur - RISC OS 2.0
RISC OS was originally named "Arthur" and designed for the Acorn Archimedes, First publicly released as Arthur 1.20 in 1987[1], for the 2.0 release Arthur was renamed to RISC OS 2.0 in 1989[2], RISC OS 2.01 was released to support the later Acorn Archimedes which used ARM3 instead of the previously used ARM2.
- RISC OS 3.0 - 3.71
RISC OS 3.0 was released with the earliest versions of the A5000 in 1991, RISC OS 3.1 was released and built into the A3010, A3020, A4000, A4 and later A5000 models. due to the buggy state of 3.0 RISC OS 3.1 also made replacement ROMs for A5000 and earlier Archimedes machines (this is the last RISC OS version suitable for those machines), there were three veriants released: RISC OS 3.10 (base version), RISC OS 3..1 (Which fixed some serial port issues) and RISC OS 3.19 (which was a German Translation).
RISC OS 3.50 was released with the first Risc PCs (1994), due to the vastly different hardware of the Risc PC (including a ARM6 processor) 3.50 was not made available for the older Acorn machines. RISC OS 3.60 was released in 1995, this version improved hard disk and networking support (TCP/IP, hardware support was imrpoved with support for the ARM7 proccessors (later Risc PCs and the A7000). RISC OS 3.70 released in 1996, the major change was support for the StrongARM proccesor (made available as a upgrade for the Risc PC), 3.71 was a small update released to support the A7000+ (ARM75000FE processor)
- RISC OS 4.0 - Six
RISC OS 4.0 updated the file system[3], a plugin based system configuration utility[4], a new screensaver api [5], an enchanced window manager[6]
In April 2009 the final release of Select 5 was shipped that included: [7] 64K colour screen modes, More responsive desktop, Improvements to !Paint and !Draw.
The final release of RISC OS from RISCOS Ltd was Select 6i1, shipped in December 2009, it includes;[8] Configurable Filer toolbars, Improved Task Manager, Improved Draw with new editing features, Configurable File Types menu, New Firewall configuration interface, Improvements to Pinboard configuration, Improvements to Configure itself.
- RISC OS 5
RISC OS 5 is a seperate branch of RISC OS to RISCOS Ltd, this branch is by Castle Technology Ltd RISC OS 5 was written to support Castle's acorn-compatible Iyonix PC.
RISC OS 5 is also the only version of RISC OS that has support for Raspberry Pi, Pandora, and much more[9]
Emulators[edit]
Consoles[edit]
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snes9x | 1.53-4 | Non-commercial | ✗ | ✗ |
Other[edit]
- Multi-System
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mednafen | 0.9.48-1 | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✗ | ! |
- Arcade
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAME | 0.145-2 | MAME license (Non-commercial) | ✗ | ! |
Computers[edit]
- Archimedes
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcEm | 1.50.2 | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✗ | ✗ |
- Turbo Grafx 16
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPCE | 0.21 | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✗ | ! |
- ZX Spectrum
| Name | Latest version | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuse | 1.6.0+dfsg1-1 | Proprietary | ✗ | ! |
- BBC Micro
| Name | Latest version | BBC Micro | BBC Master | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeebEM | 0.0.8 | B, B+, M128 | ✓ | Non-commercial | ✓ | ✓ |
| BeebIt | 0.65 0.72 | B, B+, M128 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✓ |
| BeebItJ | 1.03 | B, B+, M128 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ~ |
- x86 CPUs
| Name | Latest version | 8086*¹ | 286 | 386*² | 486*³ | Pentium*⁴ | Pentium II*⁵ | Celeron*⁶ | libretro | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOSBox | 0.74-3 SVN |
✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOSBox-X | 0.83.3-1 SVN |
✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✓ | ✓ |
Source ports[edit]
| Name | Version | Accuracy | License | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScummVM | 2.8.1 | Mid | GPLv2 (Copyleft) | ✓ | ✓ |
See also[edit]
| Emulators on other systems |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Acorn Archimedes 310". The Centre for Computing History.
- ↑ Acorn User. February 1989. p. 9
- ↑ "Acorn Computers — FileCore — Phase 1 Functional Specification". Marutan.net
- ↑ "Acorn Computers — Ursula !Configure Changes Functional Specification". Marutan.net
- ↑ "Acorn Computers — Ursula Screensaver Functional Specification". Marutan.net.
- ↑ "Acorn Computers — Ursula Window Manager Changes Functional Specification". Marutan.net.
- ↑ NEW FEATURES IN RISC OS Select 5i1
- ↑ Operating System: RISC OS 6.20 released
- ↑ RISC OS Supported Hardware en.wikipedia.org
