The PRMs are gone

[Michael J. Kerpan]

I recently decided to take a look at the PRMs to try and get a better understanding of how RISC OS works under the hood but all the links were dead. It would seem that the new owners of ROL have taken huge parts of the site down and that seems to include all of the documentation. Is there anywhere else online where this stuff still exists or do we just have to wait and hope that it comes back?

Mike

[Martin Bazley]

The following bytes were arranged on 18 Mar 2013 by Michael J. Kerpan:

Well, there *was*...

http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=12026&page=3#122007

On a related note, does anyone know whence Acorn's Universal Boot may be
obtained? With absolutely terrible timing, I actually need a clean RISC
OS 3.7 !Boot for the first time ever.

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[Theo Markettos]

They're on the Raspberry Pi SD card image which you can download, as well as
DDE distributions. I'm making enquiries as to whether they can be
distributed separately.

Theo

[David Holden]

On 18-Mar-2013, Martin Bazley <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On a related note, does anyone know whence Acorn's Universal Boot
> may be obtained? With absolutely terrible timing, I actually need
> a
> clean RISC OS 3.7 !Boot for the first time ever.

Exactly where it always was: http://acorn.riscos.com/acornftp.htm

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[Martin Bazley]

The following bytes were arranged on 18 Mar 2013 by David Holden:

>
> On 18-Mar-2013, Martin Bazley <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On a related note, does anyone know whence Acorn's Universal Boot
> > may be obtained? With absolutely terrible timing, I actually need
> > a
> > clean RISC OS 3.7 !Boot for the first time ever.
>
> Exactly where it always was: http://acorn.riscos.com/acornftp.htm

You didn't actually click on this link, did you?

http://acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/

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[Alex Macfarlane Smith]

On 18/03/2013 14:41, Michael J. Kerpan wrote:
> I recently decided to take a look at the PRMs to try and get a better understanding of how RISC OS works under the hood but all the links were dead. It would seem that the new owners of ROL have taken huge parts of the site down and that seems to include all of the documentation. Is there anywhere else online where this stuff still exists or do we just have to wait and hope that it comes back?
>
> Mike
>

http://select.riscos.com/prm/ is still there, although this is just the
changes since Select.

Alex.

[Alex Macfarlane Smith]

On 18/03/2013 15:58, Martin Bazley wrote:
> The following bytes were arranged on 18 Mar 2013 by Michael J. Kerpan:
>
>> I recently decided to take a look at the PRMs to try and get a better
>> understanding of how RISC OS works under the hood but all the links
>> were dead. It would seem that the new owners of ROL have taken huge
>> parts of the site down and that seems to include all of the
>> documentation. Is there anywhere else online where this stuff still
>> exists or do we just have to wait and hope that it comes back?
>
> Well, there *was*...
>
> http://www.iconbar.com/forums/viewthread.php?threadid=12026&page=3#122007
>
> On a related note, does anyone know whence Acorn's Universal Boot may be
> obtained? With absolutely terrible timing, I actually need a clean RISC
> OS 3.7 !Boot for the first time ever.
>

You could try http://arcade.demon.co.uk/filepages/file63.htm -
unibootzip is possibly what you're looking for.

Alex.

[David Holden]

On 18-Mar-2013, Martin Bazley <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> The following bytes were arranged on 18 Mar 2013 by David Holden:
> >
> > On 18-Mar-2013, Martin Bazley <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On a related note, does anyone know whence Acorn's Universal
> > > Boot may be obtained? With absolutely terrible timing, I
> > > actually
> > > need a clean RISC OS 3.7 !Boot for the first time ever.
> >
> > Exactly where it always was: http://acorn.riscos.com/acornftp.htm
>
> You didn't actually click on this link, did you?
>
> http://acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/

Unfortunately a lot of stuff on the old riscos.com website was
something of a shambles and so the site is in the process of being
completely re-designed to make stuff much easier to find.

There was a problem with these links as they seem to point to folders
rather than files and so really need to be accessed as FTP, which
causes problem. However if anyone wants the Uniboot it's there at
<http://www.acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/uniboot.zip>

[Martin Bazley]

The following bytes were arranged on 19 Mar 2013 by David Holden:

> On 18-Mar-2013, Martin Bazley <martin...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > The following bytes were arranged on 18 Mar 2013 by David Holden:
> > >

> > > Exactly where it always was: http://acorn.riscos.com/acornftp.htm
> >
> > You didn't actually click on this link, did you?
> >
> > http://acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/
>

> There was a problem with these links as they seem to point to folders
> rather than files and so really need to be accessed as FTP, which
> causes problem. However if anyone wants the Uniboot it's there at
> <http://www.acorn.riscos.com/riscos/releases/UniBoot/uniboot.zip>

Thanks. I see Aaron's cleared this up on TIB as well.

I now have UniBoot. Good job the server wasn't configured to block
hotlinks as well...

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