Where Is My Tribe?

I have a collection of Raspberries Pi. Spanning generations. I still have a 1B+ and was delighted when I noticed it was still supported by RISC OS. Recently I've taken an interest in 80's computing, and RISC OS, while lesser known, fits into that category.

Coincidentally at the same time I stumbled across Decker by John Earnest. I never used HyperCard, but I am delighted by the idea it is the eptimoe of Simple-but-Powerful software design. “Elegant,” might be a word some choose. Or I might just reading between the lines something which is not actually there....

So I thought, let's install RISC OS and get Decker running on it. A Frankensteinian creation of 80's nostalgia.

Going into this, I am self-imposing at least one limiting factor: I don't want to use a monitor; I want RISC OS running headless.

I did 30 seconds of web searching to verfiy my project on the insanity scale: 1. VNC technically can run on RISC OS 1. SDL2 can technically run on RISC OS 1. C compilers, particularly GCC, seem to exist on RISC OS

So sure, off to the races.

• I imaged an SD Card with the RISC OS available using the official Rasberry Pi Imager on my Macbook Pro M1.
• I stuck that in a Raspberry Pi v1B+ and plugged it into a hardline ethernet connection
• I went over to my Router to see what new IP addresses had been assigned
• Remembered reading somewhere the word's “telnet” and “RISC OS” at least on the same webpage... so fired up telnet and tried to open a connection to the designated IP Address: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
• Googled a bit more and determined that trying to run RISC OS Headless, at least from the start, would likely not work...

So, now what...