http://www.osnews.com/story/24865/Retro_RISC_OS_Games_Into_the_21st_Century Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 20:51:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?477919 http://www.osnews.com/thread?477919 I understand the game revival, but why the file system? The description pretty much warns people that its not very reliable ( no journaling) and likely has bugs so it shouldn't be used by anyone for anything important. Am I missing something? Or are people really looking for a high performance low reliable Risc OS file system ? Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?477934 http://www.osnews.com/thread?477934 My understanding is that journaling could be added. http://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/630?page=1#posts-70...
And the proposed TBAFS64 could give access to larger discs. http://www.tbasoftware.co.uk/2011/05/threading-and-tbafs64.html Edited 2011-06-21 08:37 UTC Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trevj) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?477976 http://www.osnews.com/thread?477976 I'm clearly missing something here. Hasn't Linux had ADFS support since forever? Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabjoe) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?477996 http://www.osnews.com/thread?477996 As for the file system, I can imagine two things:
First, it's useful for reading old disks and disk images.
Second, if you're trying to run RISC OS and associated applications on modern hardware, might it not be easier to work with a modernized version of something it already supports, instead of adding a new one? Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dnebdal) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?477998 http://www.osnews.com/thread?477998 Yeah, I guess if you're running RISC OS it makes sense. The interesting part of this article that makes sense to me is the porting of applications from RISC to other operating systems. For that task, its not very useful other operating systems already have their file systems and that doesn't sound like it would provide any non legacy disk reading benefit to porting over. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?478338 http://www.osnews.com/thread?478338 For info, TBA have said that VFP/NEON support in BASIC is their priority.
http://www.tbasoftware.co.uk/2011/06/basic-assembler-update.html Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trevj) Comments