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One of the games I used to love back in the day was Lemmings. I would love
my grandson to get the chance to enjoy it, but, although I've been trying
on my old, now his RPC, I cannot get it to run; Even the copy that says
"Risc PC Version" doesn't want to run.

The RPC in question is running RO6, which generates error about a file
type no longer being supported, which is ridiculous, but even resorting to
RO 4.39 gets me nowhere. I see all sorts of comments on various forums
that the "Archimedes preservation project" have the rights to release, at
least one of the earlier versions as a free download. Try as I might, I
cannot actually find "the Archimedes preservation project" or any link to
the actual download.

Does anyone out there have a working link?
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In message <5cf667c5bfSpambin@argonet.co.uk>
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

One of the games I used to love back in the day was Lemmings. I would love
my grandson to get the chance to enjoy it, but, although I've been trying
on my old, now his RPC, I cannot get it to run; Even the copy that says
"Risc PC Version" doesn't want to run.

The RPC in question is running RO6, which generates error about a file
type no longer being supported, which is ridiculous, but even resorting to
RO 4.39 gets me nowhere. I see all sorts of comments on various forums
that the "Archimedes preservation project" have the rights to release, at least one of the earlier versions as a free download. Try as I might, I cannot actually find "the Archimedes preservation project" or any link to
the actual download.

Does anyone out there have a working link?

I am wondering if you would be better asking this question on the Stardot forums as they would probably know more about the issues.

On newer RISCOS computers you could use ADFFS and run Lemmings that way.

What is the file type that your computer says is no longer supported as I
am surprised by that.
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In message <5cf667c5bfSpambin@argonet.co.uk>
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

Try as I might, I cannot actually find "the Archimedes preservation
project" or any link toathe actual download.

Does anyone out there have a working link?

Hi Stuart,

You need to go to Jon Abbott's site:

https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/index.php

or use Packman and update the sources addresses to include where Jonathan released the games on.

Some games will now run native 32bit but others will need ADFFS to be installed as well to run and that can be downloaded from Jonathan's site
or via Packman.

Hope this helps.
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On 11 Jul, Chris Hughes wrote in message
<76ce9cf65c.chris@mytardis>:

What is the file type that your computer says is no longer supported as I
am surprised by that.

Didn't RISC OS 6 (or later versions of 4.x) tighten up on un-headered
absolute files?
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In article <mpro.ti0nuu00lvakp04z4.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

On 11 Jul, Chris Hughes wrote in message
<76ce9cf65c.chris@mytardis>:

What is the file type that your computer says is no longer supported
as I am surprised by that.

Didn't RISC OS 6 (or later versions of 4.x) tighten up on un-headered absolute files?

Yup!

In RISC OS 6.20 Configuration there's a Compatibility tool where you can
tick accept on various problematic things.

Dave
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In article <76ce9cf65c.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

What is the file type that your computer says is no longer supported as
I am surprised by that.

So was I.

It wasn't specific, just a general error box saying a file
type no longer being supported

Incidentally, the same error kept popping up when I was trying to copy
Python 3 onto the machine.

I've given up on RO6

My grandson is 12 years old, attends Aston Grammar, and is keen on
"coding".

At the moment he is doing "Block coding" but will, in time, move on to
Python apparently.

He has already been awarded a "best in school" certificate for completing
the Raspberry Pi foundation 2026 coding challenge, and another from the
2025 UK Bebras computational thinking challenge, (also from the Raspberry
Pi foundation)
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In article <0d17b5f65c.dougjwebb@btinternet.com>,
Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> wrote:

You need to go to Jon Abbott's site:

https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/index.php

Thank you Doug. That is a revelation.

I had come across some references to jspp when I was doing an initial
search using Duckduckgo on my PC, but they all seemed to give
404 errors
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In article <0d17b5f65c.dougjwebb@btinternet.com>,
Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> wrote:

or use Packman and update the sources addresses to include where
Jonathan released the games on.

Not sure where Packman puts the files as I've never used it before,
however I've added the given link to the sources and we'll see what happens

The direct link adffs288.zip

downloads ADFFS.file/php which is not helpfull

It's 23.10 and time to leave till tomorrow now.

Some games will now run native 32bit but others will need ADFFS to be installed as well to run and that can be downloaded from Jonathan's site
or via Packman.

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