nodoubt73
Member
Hi all,
I recently entered the wonderful world of Acorn Archimedes machines.
I actually own 2 Acorn A3010 units, and am on shopping for further
toys (RiscPC and A5000).
I still know few things about this nice OS, and am just learning with
manuals and online resources.
Ofcourse, to get it running, I am downloading some applications and/or
games from the net, and I am pretty happy there are a lot of online
resources around.
I usually download files in ZIP format, using a Windows machine,
then unzip the content into a floppy (the A3010 has no hardisk)
and try running the sw on the Acorn.
I've learned that this RiscOS has file types, and this is somekind of data that's stored on the file name itself (like win/dos files extensions).
I've already set the type of some applications or games, mostly like
guessing or taking, as reference, some acorn software I got on acorn
formatted disks.
I've understood about the Basic type, the Obey type, the Sprite type,
Module type and so on.
The problem is that on small applications (like a 5-10 files one) things are pretty simple, but when I start converting complex stuff (with a lot
of files inside the "!<appname>" folder) the problem start to be boring:
1) I have to manually set a lot of file types (boring)
2) Most of times I cannot guess the proper file type
Moreover, there is another strange trouble:
I got applications containing the file "!RunImage".
The acorn reads it as "!RunIm~1", so I rename as "!RunImage", but
all I get left is "!RunImag" (8 char file name). And this is a problem
when the original files inside my zips are like this:
combodata
combodata1
How to rename these so that they are DIFFERENT FILES actually?
And back to original problem:
how to unzip the applications to a floppy keeping the original file types??
Thanx ina advance.
Luca
I recently entered the wonderful world of Acorn Archimedes machines.
I actually own 2 Acorn A3010 units, and am on shopping for further
toys (RiscPC and A5000).
I still know few things about this nice OS, and am just learning with
manuals and online resources.
Ofcourse, to get it running, I am downloading some applications and/or
games from the net, and I am pretty happy there are a lot of online
resources around.
I usually download files in ZIP format, using a Windows machine,
then unzip the content into a floppy (the A3010 has no hardisk)
and try running the sw on the Acorn.
I've learned that this RiscOS has file types, and this is somekind of data that's stored on the file name itself (like win/dos files extensions).
I've already set the type of some applications or games, mostly like
guessing or taking, as reference, some acorn software I got on acorn
formatted disks.
I've understood about the Basic type, the Obey type, the Sprite type,
Module type and so on.
The problem is that on small applications (like a 5-10 files one) things are pretty simple, but when I start converting complex stuff (with a lot
of files inside the "!<appname>" folder) the problem start to be boring:
1) I have to manually set a lot of file types (boring)
2) Most of times I cannot guess the proper file type
Moreover, there is another strange trouble:
I got applications containing the file "!RunImage".
The acorn reads it as "!RunIm~1", so I rename as "!RunImage", but
all I get left is "!RunImag" (8 char file name). And this is a problem
when the original files inside my zips are like this:
combodata
combodata1
How to rename these so that they are DIFFERENT FILES actually?
And back to original problem:
how to unzip the applications to a floppy keeping the original file types??
Thanx ina advance.
Luca