[Virtualacorn-list] Enhancing the RISC OS experience

Paul Stewart paulstewart at phawfaux.co.uk
Sun Oct 19 15:59:56 BST 2008


In message <60e5bef04f.druck at druck.freeuk.net>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

>> 2) Would it be possible to write some modules using the host
>> instruction set and simply have the emulator pass parameters to the
>> module and receive the results? The modules given this treatment would
>> have to be such that a significant time saving would result.

> Yes, there is the Red Squirrel (VRPC's orginal name before it was
> commercialised) SDK, which allows you to write native DLL's which
> can easily communicate with RISC OS modules. RISC OS modules can also
> make direct calls in to host OS APIs. VRPC's HostFS and Networking
> code already employ this mechanism, as I assume does RO 6.10's VRPC
> video driver.

Although I am yet see the results of this:(

Regards
-- 
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