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==RPCEmu - Open Source RiscPC Emulator==
==RPCEmu - Open Source RiscPC Emulator==


RPCEmu is currently maintained and distributed via the [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon RPCEmu Spoon Edition] website. Please check there for documentation, binary downloads, source code downloads and developer information.
riscos.info maintains the source repository for RPCEmu, developed by Tom Walker. Peter Naulls did the port to Linux. Chris Williams did the Mac OS X PPC port. RPCEmu is an interpretative emulator of Acorn RiscPC-class hardware. It includes working emulation of ARM6, ARM7 and StrongARM cores, IDE and Floppy emulation, VIDC20 and IOMD chipset emulation, and other features.


==Documentation==
Present limitations:


* [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/manual/ Manual - All Platforms]
* No access to host drives - floppy or optical.
* [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/windowscompile.html Windows Platform Compile Information]
* No network access.
* [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/ro5.html Running RISC OS 5.15]


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A dynamic recompiler is being developed and an early version is in SVN. It presently only works on 32-bit x86 machines, emulating a StrongARM in RISC OS 3.7 only (RISC OS 4 has problems). It needs more testing, but can run RISC OS and the majority of applications at nearly twice the speed of the interpreter.
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|The following are largely deprecated, please be careful when mixing old documentation with newer releases
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* [[RPCEmu Linux Guide]] - Guide for installing the emulator on Linux and other documentation
* [[RPCEmu Mac Guide]] - Guide for patching and installing the emulator on Mac OS X Leopard.
* [[RPCEmu Windows Tips]] - Notes on the Windows version
* [http://www.riscos.info/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=rpcemu&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fdynarec.txt Dynamic recompiler technical documentation]


==Developer help wanted==
==Developer help wanted==


In case you are a developer and want to spend some time on RPCEmu project, this is a non-exhaustive list of ideas to get you inspired:
In case you are a developer and want to spend some time on RPCEmu project, feel free to get involved, all bug reports patches and suggestions are welcome. The best places to start are on the [http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ mailing list] and to check out the [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/#developers developer information] and [http://home.marutan.net/hg/rpcemu sourcecode repository].
*It would be a good thing to have Windows, Linux and Mac OS X ports unified.
*Address its emulation limitations (like host drive and network access)
Make sure you involve Tom Walker when doing development on RPCEmu.


==References==
==References==


* [http://www.marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/ RPCEmu Home Page]
* [[Source_repositories_overview#RPCEmu|Subversion repository for RPCEmu]]

* [http://home.marutan.net/hg/rpcemu RPCEmu Mercurial source repository]

* [http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ RPCEmu mailing list]


* [http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/ RPCEmu home page]
* [http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/ Historical (Up to version 0.7) RPCEmu home page]


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Latest revision as of 13:17, 26 May 2010

RPCEmu - Open Source RiscPC Emulator

RPCEmu is currently maintained and distributed via the RPCEmu Spoon Edition website. Please check there for documentation, binary downloads, source code downloads and developer information.

Documentation

The following are largely deprecated, please be careful when mixing old documentation with newer releases

Developer help wanted

In case you are a developer and want to spend some time on RPCEmu project, feel free to get involved, all bug reports patches and suggestions are welcome. The best places to start are on the mailing list and to check out the developer information and sourcecode repository.

References

Emulation of RISC OS
Emulators:
RPCEmu, QEMU, Arcem, VirtualAcorn, RedSquirrel, Arculator