RISC OS London Show 2014
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
This year’s RISC OS London Show is on Saturday 25th October, open 11am-5pm, at its usual venue of the St Giles Hotel, Feltham, TW14 9AD. Entrance is £5 with under 16s free. http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/ The exhibitors list is still growing, but already has lots of regulars and new faces: http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/exhibitors.php We’ll have on display the biggest ever RISC OS desktop with a 3840×2160 resolution on a 40inch ultra-hidef 4K TV. Also a first chance to see an early port of RISC OS running on the ARM Cortex-A15 based IGEPv5 board. Plus for retro fans, there will be some new Beeb games to play big smile Then there are the usual suspects: - ROOL with RISC OS 5 running on a variety of hardware, including the new Raspberry Pi B+ There will also be a theatre programme of talks throughout the day. Keep an eye on the website for the latest news – http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/ Bryan. PS. There is also this news item about the show from the cunning linguists at ROOL :-) https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2014/09/29/risc-os-london-show-2014 |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
STOP PRESS With just two weeks to go ROUGOL have heard that a major new product that has been in development for a year will be announced at the show. However we are not allowed to say what it is yet! So get yourself along to the show and don’t miss out on the chance to be one of the first to see this exciting development in action :-) |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
I’m going on holiday on the day of the show, it’s almost worth cancelling the holiday….Well maybe not, but it’s a close one! [Update] Looks like it is other news, wow, this should be a nice show! Guess I’ll be following the show remotely :-( |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
It has not been on Twitter yet AFAIK – this is new news! |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
Only one week to go! Latest news: - Sine Nomine will have a new release of their RiscOSM mapping software, with support for postcodes and a wider range of countries. Don’t forget to bring along any spare RISC OS hardware or software to donate to the charity stand (no CRT monitors or x86 PCs). Then pick up some bargains yourself and help raise money for Combat Stress. |
mark stephens (181) 125 posts |
If mw-software attending this year? |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
I don’t think so – I believe Martin will be on holiday around the time of this year’s show. |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
Only two days to go… Latest news from Archive magazine: |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Here’s hoping it’s cutting edge. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
What’s cutting edge these days? A tablet? Hmmm, I think it’d take at least a year to figure out an API for the OS to deal with tablet style gestures! Hardware GPU support would be nice. It’s kind of depressing that I need to swap OS to watch videos on the Pi. Also nice would be merging the ROLtd sources into the ROOL sources, knocking out RISC OS 7, and finally unifying everything. Well, hey, I can dream. We know it isn’t Impression for that’s already been mentioned, unless there is some sort of mindscrew going on. Given the size of the RISC OS market, I have but two observations:
I guess there’s a better class of speculation going on in comp.sys.acorn.* – but I never sorted out newsgroup access since Orange France pulled the plug on usenet… never really felt a pressing need for it. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Not that I’ve seen. |
Peter Howkins (211) 236 posts |
Well, I think the big announcement involves Rcomp and some sort of Freescale i.MX based hardware. Given the rather cryptic clues; “i.am.coming”, “i.aM.near”, “i.am.needed”, “i.am.neXt” |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
I was working on a cryptic comment. Clearly too cryptic. Which, BTW, would make an easy to construct laptop, with the chocolate1 option making a better fit in a tablet. 1 OK, chocolate, caramel etc |
David Feugey (2125) 2709 posts |
Clever. |
Vince M Hudd (116) 534 posts |
Oh. I was wondering if I’d missed one, and it was something bearing the MSX brand of yesteryear. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Evening Vince. When I saw your name in the thread I was expecting it to be a reaction to the word chocolate :) 1 Free use of copyright idea by people who have allowed me to nick sweeties. Still think the mini case deserves a mini display unit when displayed on a show stand |
Bernard Boase (169) 208 posts |
Udoo for example? Just needs some packaging… |
Holger Palmroth (487) 115 posts |
The Udoo would be even nicer than the board with the cutting edge. Mainly because of the price and that the Udoo guys managed to put all ports on one side of the board. (Provided that I got the “cutting edge” clue right.) |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Looks like a thicker slice :)
Your speculation is probably matching my wish list, but I was thinking lighter1 – i.e. not @ 399 ukp 1 Or use modernistic USA style spelling |
Vince M Hudd (116) 534 posts |
Funnily enough, I did think this morning that a nice little promotion would be to plonk a Raspberry Pi in one of the cases so that a random customer ends up with a free Pi. However, I concluded that it’s not sensible to do it for the RiscPiC-mini cases (which is all I have for this show. (The latest prototype standard RiscPiC features a very noticable fault.) So that little wheeze will have to wait until I have standard cases available.
There will be sweets again. I’ve resisted buying them until tomorrow – so that I don’t eat them myself in the meantime.
Like this you mean? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
See? I told you it finishes things off nicely. |
Vince M Hudd (116) 534 posts |
That was taken at the Midlands Show – I took the RiscPiC over to CJE’s stand to pop it under one of their displays. (Clue: The display is showing RISC OS, but there’s no power lead going into the Pi in my RiscPiC!) |
Steffen Huber (91) 1949 posts |
One of the nicest i.MX6 gadgets is the CuBox. Also cool: the HummingBoard, which IIRC is size-and-port compatible with the RaspPi. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
That I recall – thought you’d invested. |
Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts |
Any new fast ARM hardware will be welcomed by the RISC OS community. I live in Australia, so cannot attend, but looking to find out about it very soon. |