Sendiri Store is open

Sendiri Store is open

Hello all! Sendiri is happy to report that its store is now open.

This is the new home of all Sendiri software products, both free and commercial, and you may find it at:

https://sendiri.co.uk/store

Currently available are the first releases of Geminus graphics acceleration layer for the ARMbook and the i.MX6 targets:

• i.MX6 WandBoard
• ARMX6
• CuBox
• mini.m

Very shortly we hope to be completing final testing of Geminus on the Raspberry Pi 4 and RiscPC targets and adding these to the store too.

About Geminus

Geminus offers a much faster, smoother desktop experience by accelerating graphics operations and remembering window contents so they can be redrawn much more quickly when you scroll windows or move them around.

It also offers faster on-the-fly JPEG decoding and rendering which will be extremely useful to anyone working with digital photographs.

Unique to Geminus also, is the ability to rotate and transform JPEG images.

Geminus will be familiar to many (former) IYONIX pc users but on modern machines where there is much more memory available to use for window cacheing, it really shines.

On the i.MX6 targets it exploits the GPU hardware for window movement, redrawing and scrolling, using it much more extensively than all earlier software. On the ARMbook the NEON multimedia coprocessor steps in to performance this work.

For more information visit the store and download a copy under a free Demonstration licence.

All Sendiri software is available under a time- or feature-limited Demo licence allowing you to evaluate it before you commit to a purchase. Purchasing a Full licence allows you to use the software in perpetuity, and entitles you to free updates to fix any issues that are discovered in future.

In time, we intend to offer more licensing options, but currently software is licensed to the Individual and permits simultaneous installation and use on up to four suitable machines all owned by the individual user.

Aemulor Updates

Also on the store you will find an updated version of Aemulor for all targets. Aemulor remains a Free product and will run unlicensed with all of its previously-released functionality. In future, some planned features may be released commercially to provide additional functionality or accelerated performance.

Version 2.54 addresses a couple of outstanding issues relating to the handling of 26-bit C programs such as Eureka which sometimes caused issues when Aemulor was stopped. Along with these fixes, some additional work has been done to increase isolation between the 26- and 32-bit worlds to avoid such problems in future as RISC OS is further developed.

Welcome!

https://sendiri.co.uk/store

Thank you,
Adrian,
Sendiri, 2022.

Nice :-)

Any Price’s?

I tried to register but did not receive the promised email. Can this be rectified please?

Register and order a trail version was not a problem for me.
Maybe a mail to support@ helps.

Is Aemulor 2.54 online without the need to login?

Looks like you have to login also for the free offered stuff.

Not strickly free then, if they are collecting IP and email addresses.

You have disposable email addresses, surely? ;-)

Anyhoo, it worked OK for me and emailed me an Aemulor 2.54 of the requested flavour.

As Milton Friedman said “There is no such thing as a free lunch!”

Looks like you have to login also for the free offered stuff.

Yes, it’s remarkably unfriendly, isn’t it?

if they are collecting IP and email addresses.

Plus the “check this box” is automatically ticked. It’s as if nobody bothered to read the GDPR…

You have disposable email addresses, surely? ;-)

Certainly, but one doesn’t expect to have to do that sort of thing around these parts.

You have disposable email addresses, surely? ;-)

Of course ….
….and disposable IP ddresses, as well, if needed.

As Milton Friedman said “There is no such thing as a free lunch!”

Then one shouldn’t be advertised.

In future, some planned features may be released commercially to provide additional functionality or accelerated performance.

Should give people some indication why a login is required. Seems fair to me.

I not see the real problem. The software is free to use. You have a Google or an Apple account and no problems with? If not, ROOL you have ;-)

Plus the “check this box” is automatically ticked. It’s as if nobody bothered to read the GDPR…

GDPR? The GDPR doesn’t care about check-boxes; it cares about what you do with the data collected from them. You may be thinking of the electronic communications and marketing rules, including “soft opt-in”.

Oh, and since the checkbox says “email announcements about product releases and updates”, the use of soft opt-in may be legit.

I not see the real problem.

Me neither… However, I’d like to join the chorus of people thanking Adrian for continuing to support and update the invaluable piece of free software that is Aemulor.

You have a Google or an Apple account and no problems with?

Uh, about that… ;)

Thankfully Google was so wanting to ram their ecosystem down everybody’s throat that my Google account email is a GMail that they offered.
That said, the rapacious bastards are sucking up an awful lot of data.

[ I wrote four paragraphs more but decided this wasn’t the place for a rant, so I’ll just point you in the direction of the slightly hysterical GNU: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html ]

If not, ROOL you have ;-)

True, but it’s a choice to either sign up an participate, or not.

Now, I can totally understand signing up to buy something. But to have to sign up just to look is beyond the pale. It’s like being expected to pay to enter a (real life) shop. A practice that, for most public places, died out long ago.
(though clearly not so long ago in France, many shops still say somewhere “Entrée Libre” which means you’re free to wander in and look around; you’d have thought that much would have been obvious…)

The GDPR doesn’t care about check-boxes;

Actually, it very much does. One of the main things from the end user side of the GDPR is “informed consent”.
Having any form of pre-ticked box fails that test.

Allow me to point you at:
https://gdpr.eu/Recital-32-Conditions-for-consent/
And furthermore at:
https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/

Furthermore, there’s no information provided regarding how the data collected will be used, who has access to it, etc etc.
All of which falls under the realm of the part you mention:

it cares about what you do with the data collected from them.

Additionally:

the use of soft opt-in may be legit.

Say it with me: Informed Consent. ;)

Note – don’t take this too seriously, we all know they don’t give a toss about this leftpondian ways (until France’s CNIL ruled that Google was breaking the law…again). I’m mostly pointing out the bizarreness of having to sign up to look. This ain’t Harrods!

thanking Adrian for continuing to support and update the invaluable piece of free software that is Aemulor.

That’s pretty much a given, though, isn’t it?
How many times has it won a RISC OS award? Given what it is and what it makes possible, clearly not enough!

There’s some information about the software at the following two URLs, although it needs a little updating now:

• https://sendiri.co.uk/geminus
• https://sendiri.co.uk/aemulor/userguide/manual.html

As a practical necessity, this being a background activity, the store itself is really focused upon order placement, tracking orders, software downloads and licence downloads. I’m afraid there really isn’t much to view beyond the product list and a brief overview description of each at present.

In order that future revisions can be made freely available to existing users, and that licences and software may be downloaded again in future, (eg. in the event of loss such as drive failure), an account ties all of that together.

Hopefully it isn’t necessary to say that Sendiri shall do nothing nefarious with the email addresses, which are for sending licence files, software and notifications of the availability of updates, if the user so requests/agrees to each. IP addresses are not tracked/recorded at all by Sendiri code, although I cannot speak for the underling ISP and webserver.

All suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. Necessity has dictated that many niceties and planned features be deferred until a later revision of the store,

A

That Geminus demo ¹ is pretty cool.

¹ Video near the bottom of the page.

Ironically, that’s one part that really should be updated. The acceleration is actually quite a lot faster than that now. On my i.MX6 board I typically have 256MiB-512MiB allocated to Geminus for cacheing (my screen size is about 16MiB) so it can remember a lot and I find the machines really quite irksome to use without Geminus. One thing that’s unusual about my software is that I have both Aemulor and Geminus running constantly; I think a lot of software out there would benefit from actually being used by its own developers.

I think a lot of software out there would benefit from actually being used by its own developers.

It would slow down my RISC OS computing quite a lot if CDVDBurn would write Blu-Rays all the time :-)

I think a lot of software out there would benefit from actually being used by its own developers.

Since I only write software I want for my own use, of course I actually use it. However, it’s generally obvious that some generalization of its functions might benefit others, so if they’re easy enough to do, I add those generalizations – and test them (a bit). But equally obviously (I hope) those generalizations don’t get as thorough a testing as the functions I needed for my own use. So please regard anything of mine as strictly beta. Report issues – and if it’s not too much trouble (or interesting enough, and you’re polite enough…), I’ll fix them.

But then, I don’t charge for any of my software (or my fiction). I’m grateful for any voluntary payments, but don’t expect them, and rarely get them.

Hopefully it isn’t necessary to say that Sendiri shall do nothing nefarious with the email addresses,

Unfortunately, Adrian, there are dislikable people out there that do misuse information like that, so you do need to state the purpose(s) that the information will be used for in order to comply with the GDPR.
Nothing OTT, mostly just a tick in the proverbial box. There is guidance online

Unfortunately, Adrian, there are dislikable people out there that do misuse information like that

Even the likable people who don’t misuse information like that need to take precautions to ensure that unlikable people don’t get access to the information they collect, and I suspect (but don’t actually know) that you have to take those precautions, and tell the regulator that you take them, in order to comply with the GDPR.