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    From Dave@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 29 09:38:50 2021
    G'day folks,

    I was upgrading an old VRPC RISC OS 4.39 install to RISC OS 6.20, it all
    went okay as expected.

    Upon booting I was getting one instance of..
    "This application uses an obsolete executable file format which is no
    longer supported by RISC OS".

    It's such a long time ago I did this update from scratch, I only have a
    vague recollection of that obsolete executable problem.

    Anyway...
    With the help of Reporter (Obviously) I was able to identify the app in question and remove it from the boot sequence.

    Can some kind person remind me of the minutia of this change?

    Thanks
    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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  • From druck@21:1/5 to Dave on Tue Nov 30 13:20:03 2021
    On 29/11/2021 09:38, Dave wrote:
    I was upgrading an old VRPC RISC OS 4.39 install to RISC OS 6.20, it all
    went okay as expected.

    Upon booting I was getting one instance of..
    "This application uses an obsolete executable file format which is no
    longer supported by RISC OS".

    It's such a long time ago I did this update from scratch, I only have a
    vague recollection of that obsolete executable problem.

    Anyway...
    With the help of Reporter (Obviously) I was able to identify the app in question and remove it from the boot sequence.

    Can some kind person remind me of the minutia of this change?

    It's probably some ancient C program compiled with the APCS-A register bindings, which are no longer supported by the SHaredCLibrary

    http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/prm/procstd.html

    ---druck

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  • From Dave@21:1/5 to druck on Tue Nov 30 15:49:48 2021
    In article <so58e4$dd7$1@dont-email.me>,
    druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
    On 29/11/2021 09:38, Dave wrote:
    I was upgrading an old VRPC RISC OS 4.39 install to RISC OS 6.20, it all went okay as expected.

    Upon booting I was getting one instance of..
    "This application uses an obsolete executable file format which is no longer supported by RISC OS".

    It's such a long time ago I did this update from scratch, I only have a vague recollection of that obsolete executable problem.

    Anyway...
    With the help of Reporter (Obviously) I was able to identify the app in question and remove it from the boot sequence.

    Can some kind person remind me of the minutia of this change?

    It's probably some ancient C program compiled with the APCS-A register bindings, which are no longer supported by the SHaredCLibrary

    http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/prm/procstd.html

    ---druck

    Thanks for the thought, appreciated.

    The App was '!ROSpace' an old thing that enabled the user to add there own Sprite file to be used as a screen saver.

    It appears to be in Basic.

    After I'd removed it from the RISC OS 4.39 place where it was originally installed... "HostFS::HardDisc4.$.!Boot.RO420Hook.Res.Configure.ScrSavers.Topix.!ROSpace"
    I re-installed it using the !ROSpace Install from within it, the place of
    the install was in... HostFS::HardDisc4.$.!Boot.RO600Hook.Res.Configure.ScrSavers.Topix.!ROSpace"
    and that works okay without moaning.

    Dave

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    Dave Triffid

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