1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,565 Hello everybody! 2 00:00:01,569 --> 00:00:05,615 If you were good, and Santa was better, you might have a RaspberryPi in your possession right now. 3 00:00:05,829 --> 00:00:09,558 On this awesome little device, you may want to set up RISC OS. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:11,393 You can! It's easy, right? 5 00:00:11,856 --> 00:00:15,011 Just watch this video and you will have RISC OS running in no time! 6 00:00:18,597 --> 00:00:19,856 A brief bit of history for you: 7 00:00:20,072 --> 00:00:26,228 Back in the mid to late eighties, Acorn Computers wanted a successor to their popular BBC and Master series of computers. 8 00:00:26,429 --> 00:00:30,093 Finding nothing matched their vision, they set about designing one, from the ground up. 9 00:00:30,093 --> 00:00:32,951 I mean that literally, they started by designing their own processor. 10 00:00:33,811 --> 00:00:36,182 On this new hardware, an operating system. 11 00:00:36,612 --> 00:00:38,250 The RISC OS operating system. 12 00:00:38,899 --> 00:00:46,349 It is simple and lightweight compared to today's offerings, but it will offer arguably the friendliest and least-hassle way to begin using your Pi for your own projects. 13 00:00:46,864 --> 00:00:51,071 RISC OS is an operating system that doesn't make a habit of telling you what it thinks you want to you. 14 00:00:51,286 --> 00:00:53,114 It just lets you get on with the hacking. 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,438 There are a five pre-requisites. 16 00:00:55,938 --> 00:01:01,188 Firstly, a Windows computer. I use Windows as most people ought to be able to get access to one in some manner or other. 17 00:01:02,014 --> 00:01:04,139 Secondly, you will need the RISC OS image. 18 00:01:04,490 --> 00:01:06,412 This may be found on the RaspberryPi site. 19 00:01:07,383 --> 00:01:10,179 Click on Downloads, you will find RISC OS at the bottom of the page. 20 00:01:10,229 --> 00:01:12,767 It is available as a torrent or a direct download. 21 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,781 The third thing you will need... obviously enough... is a RaspberryPi. 22 00:01:18,850 --> 00:01:22,922 My Pi is a second version Model B. It has two hundred and fifty six megabytes on board. 23 00:01:23,299 --> 00:01:27,164 Unfortunately my Pi turned up just before the announcement of the half gigabyte as standard. 24 00:01:27,572 --> 00:01:32,785 Oh well, this might be a problem with Linux and media servers, but for RISC OS, 256 is PLENTY! 25 00:01:34,304 --> 00:01:39,405 The fourth thing you will need is Win32 Disk Imager. This may be found on SourceForge. 26 00:01:39,430 --> 00:01:46,672 It is a program that writes image files directly to removable media such as SD cards, and is exactly what is needed for making the RISC OS image. 27 00:01:48,265 --> 00:01:51,222 The final thing you will need is a 2 gigabyte SD card. 28 00:01:51,597 --> 00:01:54,968 These can be hard to find these days as people tend to want larger capacities. 29 00:01:55,194 --> 00:01:58,118 I am using the microSD [originally] supplied with my smartphone. 30 00:01:58,118 --> 00:02:02,771 Obviously this was too small for the animé and music collections, so I replaced it with something larger. 31 00:02:03,042 --> 00:02:06,532 And now, in an SD adaptor, it [the original card] is suitable for setting up RISC OS on a Pi. 32 00:02:07,481 --> 00:02:13,163 In order to make this video a little less boring, I have skipped a few steps. The files are downloaded and unpacked. 33 00:02:15,193 --> 00:02:20,737 The riscos-blah-blah-r-c-6 file is what you will download. At 98 megabytes, it shouldn't take too long. 34 00:02:21,115 --> 00:02:26,621 The larger file, one point eight three gigabytes, is the image file unpacked from the zip. 35 00:02:26,887 --> 00:02:29,645 That [the unpacking] may be a little slow depending on what software you use. 36 00:02:30,476 --> 00:02:33,601 Finally, Win32DiskImager that I have unpacked here. 37 00:02:34,401 --> 00:02:35,537 Let's go in there and run it. 38 00:02:40,561 --> 00:02:44,529 As you can see, I have selected the image file, to write to the SD card in drive E. 39 00:02:44,802 --> 00:02:49,902 What drive you choose depends upon your system - do NOT make a mistake here! Double-check everything. 40 00:02:51,738 --> 00:02:58,838 Click on "Write", and if you are absolutely certain you are writing to the correct device, you can click on "Yes". 41 00:03:02,211 --> 00:03:05,533 On my system, it writes at six to seven megabytes per second. 42 00:03:05,568 --> 00:03:09,423 It's not terribly quick, so now would be a good time to put the kettle on. 43 00:03:17,369 --> 00:03:19,640 One cup of tea later, the write is successful. 44 00:03:19,916 --> 00:03:21,095 We're not done yet. 45 00:03:21,368 --> 00:03:24,754 If you are using an analogue PAL television, there is something you need to do. 46 00:03:25,374 --> 00:03:27,672 Dismount the SD card safely... 47 00:03:30,625 --> 00:03:33,123 Eject it, and then pop it back in again. 48 00:03:34,376 --> 00:03:36,416 Here are the files on the SD card. 49 00:03:36,612 --> 00:03:42,185 Now, just to clarify, if you are using HDMI or analogue NTSC, you do NOT need to do this. 50 00:03:42,635 --> 00:03:47,790 If you're using a PAL television, double-click on config dot txt... 51 00:03:54,238 --> 00:03:56,409 At the top of the file, insert the following: 52 00:03:56,726 --> 00:04:05,067 s d t v underscore m o d e equals two 53 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:10,241 Save the updated file, dismount and eject the SD card. 54 00:04:13,012 --> 00:04:14,865 My Pi is sitting atop the Beagle board. 55 00:04:15,118 --> 00:04:19,816 Connected to the USB are a generic optical mouse, and a generic British layout keyboard. 56 00:04:20,359 --> 00:04:23,070 Video display is via the composite output. 57 00:04:26,254 --> 00:04:29,691 Trying not to knock the camera over, I'll insert the SD card. 58 00:04:29,919 --> 00:04:31,779 Remember it goes in upside down. 59 00:04:32,269 --> 00:04:35,196 Now the moment of truth - plug in the power! 60 00:04:48,260 --> 00:04:51,246 You'll find RISC OS to be astonishingly quick to start. 61 00:04:54,534 --> 00:04:56,820 If you have an HD monitor, then that's it. 62 00:04:56,820 --> 00:04:58,821 RISC OS will be right in front of you in full HD. 63 00:04:59,034 --> 00:05:01,261 If you have a television, you won't be able to read a thing. 64 00:05:01,261 --> 00:05:03,585 So I'll show you how to change to a suitable display mode. 65 00:05:03,941 --> 00:05:07,419 Wait for NetSurf to initialise itself, it won't take long. [it only needs to do this once] 66 00:05:07,999 --> 00:05:11,049 So let's zoom in on the bottom right part of the screen. 67 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:17,016 You will see three icons down there. Move the pointer over the middle icon and click the LEFT mouse button. 68 00:05:17,541 --> 00:05:19,658 On the right of this window are three little squares. 69 00:05:19,898 --> 00:05:22,934 Move the pointer to the middle one and click the LEFT button once. 70 00:05:25,825 --> 00:05:29,265 Highlight the second menu option, and click the LEFT button once. 71 00:05:32,315 --> 00:05:35,408 Finally, click on the button on the lower right of the window. 72 00:05:37,844 --> 00:05:42,222 If you see this name server message, it is simply because your Pi is not connected to a network. 73 00:05:42,597 --> 00:05:48,264 Move the mouse pointer to the SD icon on the far left. Click the LEFT mouse button, same for !Boot [but double-click it!] 74 00:05:48,624 --> 00:05:50,716 This is the system configuration panel. 75 00:05:50,951 --> 00:05:54,009 It is powerful but can be complex, so best not to meddle in here. 76 00:05:54,347 --> 00:05:57,378 Go to the Screen icon and click the LEFT mouse button. 77 00:05:57,639 --> 00:06:00,093 As there is no analogue video monitor, we'll borrow something. 78 00:06:00,093 --> 00:06:06,698 Click the LEFT button on the square thingy beside Monitor Type "Auto", then choose the "AKF50" monitor. 79 00:06:07,437 --> 00:06:11,852 Set up 16 million colours, and finally, eight hundred by six hundred resolution. 80 00:06:12,179 --> 00:06:15,285 LEFT click on Set to make the settings permanent. 81 00:06:17,512 --> 00:06:21,097 You have now configured a monitor so it will work well on a television. 82 00:06:21,306 --> 00:06:24,352 We can restart the machine to see this take effect. 83 00:06:34,506 --> 00:06:38,126 Now usable on a television, although composite video is inherently sucky; 84 00:06:38,126 --> 00:06:42,894 but all us forty-year-olds will remember the days of eight bit computers hooked to TVs through the aerial lead! 85 00:06:46,907 --> 00:06:47,672 There you go. 86 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:55,180 A brief look around, the Apps icon contains all of the things you may need quickly - alarm clock, character map, vector/bitmap drawing, web browser, editors, etc. 87 00:06:56,263 --> 00:06:58,940 The SD card icon ... it's like the C drive on a Windows machine. 88 00:06:59,555 --> 00:07:02,236 In here are folders containing a variety of things. 89 00:07:02,057 --> 00:07:07,611 Feel free to look around, there's a veritable plethora of information for those who're interested in programming their Pi with RISC OS... 90 00:07:12,679 --> 00:07:14,833 ...including a full description of the API. 91 00:07:16,764 --> 00:07:20,713 On the RISC OS Open website is something called NutPi which, at forty two pounds, 92 00:07:20,713 --> 00:07:22,984 offers plenty of things to enhance your use of the Pi - 93 00:07:22,984 --> 00:07:26,584 - photo editor, email, the complete official development environment and much more. 94 00:07:26,672 --> 00:07:28,596 Incredible value for money, go take a look! 95 00:07:32,158 --> 00:07:33,202 Thank you for watching. 96 00:07:33,202 --> 00:07:36,072 I hope RISC OS and your Pi bring you lots of enjoyment.