ROOL Forum: Recent posts

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:46:23 +0000

Hopefully this isn’t a duplicate post as I did just post this topic and it simply didn’t appear.

If you look towards the top of the page when you submit posts you'll see a message saying that it's in the moderation queue. New users get moderation scrutiny on all posts because of bots - these days, almost all AI powered - rather ironic, in this case.

In a moment of double irony, the "human name" you've chosen significantly mismatches your e-mail address, and your enquiry is a rather generic one about attitudes to LLM coding and RISC OS. For me, that ticked every red box that it was just a bot post. Were it not for the fact that you didn't notice the message about your post being moderated and then re-post, with that last line about hoping it wasn't a duplicate, I would have actually assumed you were a bot and discarded the whole thing! So instead, I've discarded just the first one and kept this second post.

You may still see moderation delays for one or two posts/replies from here. Once we gain confidence we mark accounts as 'trusted'.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:43:27 +0000

Hi all. Long time on-off RISC OS user here. I do some programming at work, but sadly I am not a RISC OS programmer. This question therefore applies to both RISC OS coding and coding in general then, I suppose.

Anyway, I’ve noted there has been the use of LLMs on the part of one person to quite rapidly release RISC OS coding projects, whereas there are others who still do things by hand.

I’m not a master coder by any stretch of the imagination, but I have nonetheless made the choice to code by hand, using books and Stack Overflow to get help on things when needed, and no use LLMs. For it’s because I want to learn, I want to understand my code and I want to be able to optimise and update my code bases confidently, without having to hope the LLM know what to do.

I’d be very interested in any comments from programmers here on why they’ve made the choice they have, so I can understand this better. I detest the environmental damage and business practices that come with LLMs, but it’s the technical choices people here have made on this that I’m most interested in.

Hopefully this isn’t a duplicate post as I did just post this topic and it simply didn’t appear.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:57:56 +0000

Alex Waugh.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:52:20 +0000

Who is CP15?

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:11:04 +0000

And remember 5.31 is not a stable build — even numbers only.

In my experience it’s best to stick with stable ROOL builds when working with RPCEmu.

You might find that version 2.0 of RPCEmu does more than you need. There is also a version 1 series, currently at v. 1.2.0, which is still current and will probably do all that you’re looking for.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:59:49 +0000

From cp15

Originally written by Henrik Bjerregaard Pedersen, I am now maintaining it.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:33:48 +0000

Not sure but you might want to try HTTPServ from Thomas Milius
http://www.thomas-milius-stade.de:8080/indexE.htm

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:59:33 +0000

Is there a complete version of !WebJames available with all dependables?

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:29:07 +0000

You could try installing the MacOS version of RPCEmu extended. v2.0.0 can be downloaded from https://github.com/andrewtimmins/rpcemu-extended/relea….
It does everything that Kinetic Box does and more.

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:28:32 +0000

I think it’s also worth testing both !Find and !Locate with things liek ShareFS and LanManFS, I find it incredibly useful for example being able now to search on FTP, and Websites thanks to ShareFSServer via ShareFS and !Find (which works well) , and !Locate (which works, but seems to struggle at times and still gets many errors, and yes Steve F. I’ll report them as soon as I have a minuet to get back to that and the new !Locate release).

Any update on how I might go about reproducing this, given that I don't have ShareFSServer?

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:25:38 +0000

@Fred: Sorry, I have no examples currently as I am away from RISC OS. It did happen several times, I think on more than one file, but I will try to replicate when I get back.