[vlc] Re: OT: Booting a Pace DSL4000

[Tim O'Callaghan]

James Burns wrote:
> I'm trying to use NFS to load something to get it decoding MPEG. I
> don't have the Pace Baseline so I may be stuck, which would be
> unfortunate since they're unlikely to let me have it for a more than
> reasonable amount of money I'm guessing. I managed to get it to load
> the netbsd/acorn32 bootload and drop into BASIC from there, but that
> really doesn't get me too far. If what has been said about the binary
> MPEG driver being necessary, I may have just aquired a somewhat
> expensive paperweight. Oh well. I really would like to develop some
> applications with these things, but I'm not a large company or service
> provider and I don't have lots of cash, so that may not be happening.
> 
> -James
> 
If you're mounting from a Linux box, I'd go for samba or tftp rather 
than nfs.

As Dermot mentioned, developing apps for it needs a RISCOS development 
env, such as Virtual Acorn and the Castle C compiler or the RISCOS gcc. 
IIRC developing drivers or interrupt driven stuff required the Castle 
compiler as gcc didnt have the capability.

For fear of going way off topic, What do you want to do with these 
things? They are only just capable of playing MPEG properly....

Tim.

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