Acorn RISC iX software

New software for RISC iX

These are additional ports of software for RISC iX 1.2, I have not necessarily chosen the latest versions of them as often the older versions have better support for old UNIXs such as RISC iX.

To install:

  • Download the package and copy to the risc ix machine
  • Decompress the package uncompress packagename.tar.Z
  • Extract the package tar xvf packagename.tar
  • This will install the files to the relevant location on the machine, usually /usr/bin

Packages:

bash 1.14.7

bash is the 'bourne again' Shell. It features advancements such as command-history (use the up and down cursor keys). Cursor based line editing (use the left and right cursor) and automatic filename completion (use the tab key).

  • bash1.14.7.tar.Z (200 KB)
  • After installation, as root modify the file /etc/shells and add /usr/bin/bash to the list. Then use the user command chsh to change your shell to /usr/bin/bash and relog into your account. Do not change the shell of the 'root' account.
  • bash1.14.7-src.tar.Z (2.1 MB)

    • To compile

    • uncompress
    • cd bash-1.14.7
    • make
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Pico 4.10

Pico is a terminal text editor with a simple obvious interface, it is ideal for people that find vi hard work.

Arena beta 3b

Arena was the 'test bed' webbrowser of the W3C, it provides a very basic web browsing experience under RISC iX, but does support jpeg, png images http (no https), gopher, tables, some css1.

  • arena-beta-3b.tar.Z (338 KB)
  • arena-beta-3b-src.tar.Z (3.6 MB)

  • To compile

    • uncompress
    • cd WWW/Image/jpeg/Impementation
    • make
    • Do not worry about the .so version linking, as we will be using the .a version.
    • cd WWW/Image/libpng/Impementation
    • make
    • cp libpng.a WWW/Image/libpng/
    • cd WWW/Image/zlib/Impementation
    • make
    • cp libz.a WWW/Image/zlib/
    • cd WWW/Library/Impementation
    • make
    • mkdir WWW/Arena/Implementation/Library
    • cp libwww.a WWW/Arena/Implementation/Library/
    • cd WWW/Arena/Impementation
    • make -f CommonMakefile
    • If necessary rerun ranlib on the .a files to file linking issues.

gnuchess-4.0.pl80

gnuchess is a powerful chess engine with a command line interface for playing games.

xboard 3.6.2

xboard is a graphical front-end to the gnuchess program.

lua 5.3.3

lua is a simple interpretted programming language.

libXpm 3.4i

A development library needed to allow various programs to be compiled up with support for colour pixmaps in X Windows.

angband 2.7.9v6

Angband is a 'rogue-like' dungeon crawler game that uses ascii characters for graphics. This version is compiled up to work in the console and as an X Windows app.

Note: This version does not instll to the system /usr/bin and should be uncompressed and run from your user directory for example.

Micropolis 4.0

Micropolis is the open-source release of the classic simulation/strategy Sim City (with the name changed so EA could keep the trademark).

This version of Micropolis supports a limited number of screen colour modes, the one that overlaps with the RISC iX box's capabilities is the 1bpp black and white mode.

As such use RISC iX in the hi-res-mono mode, or use

startx -- -bw1

Note: This version does not instll to the system /usr/bin and should be uncompressed and run from your user directory for example.

  • micropolis-4.0.tar.Z (6.8 MB)

    • To play

    • uncompress
    • cd micropolis/
    • ./sim

    To compile

    • You will need the libxpm package installed to compilie Micropolis.
    • uncompress
    • cd micropolis/src/
    • make all

xv 3.10a

xv is an image viewer application, it can view gif, jpeg and tiff images. It can also be used to set the X Windows root window background.