“It’s a sight that will stun many users. To run RISC OS on a PDA is something we’ve been crying out for. Here, RISC OS can be seen running on a PocketPC PDA, with no Microsoft software in sight. The Pocket Loox computer even uses a 520MHz ARM-compatible XScale processor. However, the break through came about after Jan Rinze Peterzon ported the open source RiscPC emulator RPCemu to Windows CE. The screenshots show the standard RISC OS 3.7 desktop running in a 480×640 in 32,000 colour screen mode. Draw can be seen in action, drawing lines in a new document, on the Fujitsu Siemens hand-held device.”
This article should really be called “RISC OS *Emulator* Found on Pocket PC PDA”. It seems to be a trend now on OS-News to report an OS working on a platform, when really, an emulator has been ported to a platform… Any official reply on this matter? I keep getting my hopes up when I see article titles like this
Yes, what a shame – especially since it is being emulated on a system with an ARM compatible processor!
Oh well, it’s a start. Can’t be easy porting an OS if you don’t have the sources.
It’s to spark interest, of course. Titles ought to have something sparkling, and the title used by Drobe seemed to fit fairly well.
It’s fine to be optimistic but hell, it’s not an emulator running UNDER Windows CE?
There’s not Microsoft software in sight just because it doesn’t show up on the screen? So your PDA is Microsoft-free when your turn it off?
Wouldn’t it be more practical to develop/port using a Sharp Zaurus, which is already developer-friendly? I understand that the article is speaking of RiscOS emulated under WinCE, but I was under the impression that nowadays RiscOS is native to the ARM hardware platform.
I’m no developer so please correct me if I’m mistaken, but I just feel that developing on the target hardware itself would save a lot of wasted effort compared to developing in an emulator running on the exact hardware you are emulating, and doing so in a closed, proprietary host OS as well.
I agree with the guys above me. When you read it at first it seems like riscos is running native because there is no microsoft in sight.
Anyway, it’s always good to have new emulators. Although i’m not a fan myself of RiscOS, i can understand that some people would find it usefull.
I know it is illegal (intellectual rights and such BS) but, without a ROM, how useful is it? I am certainly NOT going to buy a RISC PC to extract the ROMs and run this on my PDA