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Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS

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Welcome Johann, always good to see new programmers here, RISC OS certainly 
needs them!

In message <NJQlH.155821$2N6.108013@fx04.am4>
          Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote:

> What is a good way to get started with programming for RISC OS?  I used
> to have an emulator with RISC OS about a decade or more ago, and back
> then I played a bit with GCC, but never got really far, and I've pretty
> much forgot /everything/.

Steve Fryatt has lots of useful stuff on his site, including an excellent 
Wimp programming in C tutorial:

http://stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os

For an emulator, download RPCEmu here:

http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/easystart.html

As others have mentioned, most RISC OS developers hang out on the ROOL 
forum, and there's documentation on their wiki too:

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/HomePage

> For the record, I'm already proficient with C, C++, and other languages
> and operating systems, including Posix.  ARM and RISC OS are new to me.

RISC OS is very much NOT posix, so prepare to learn whole new ways of 
doing things!

> What do people /need/ for RISC OS?  Where would my programmming efforts
> be mostly helpful?  I know what /I/ want to do, which may be completely
> irrelevant to everyone else; so I make no promises on working on any-
> thing in particular.

You'll be much more productive on things you're insterested in, so just 
have fun tinkering and see where it leads you :-)

> What are people willing to /pay/ for?  If I can get my employer on board
> and sell some software, then we'd be discussing a lot less time to
> delivery than if I only work in my free time.

The market is very small, so you'll never get enough income for commercial 
programming rates, but might manage some beer money!

You could also contact the Cloverleaf project as they have plans to pay 
for some app development:

https://riscoscloverleaf.com/

Bryan.

-- 
RISC OS User Group Of London  -  http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/
RISC OS London Show           -  http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

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Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-27 16:18 +0800
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-10-27 12:40 +0100
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-27 20:14 +0800
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> - 2020-10-27 12:35 +0000
        Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-28 01:40 +0800
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-10-27 13:03 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-28 01:17 +0800
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-10-28 11:01 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Bryan Hogan <spam@nowhere.invalid> - 2020-10-30 04:25 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 22:34 +0000
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2021-01-20 01:19 +0000
        Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-20 15:35 +0000
          Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> - 2021-01-25 11:42 -0800
            Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-27 08:58 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-11-03 10:31 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 22:55 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-18 14:09 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2021-01-18 23:04 +0000
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 16:03 +0000

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